Is this a good gaming computer?

Question

Is this a good gaming computer?

Answer 1

$200? Triple that and come back, then we can help you.





I'm sorry, but that's not possible. OS is $100 and that's already half your budget. Not possible.



Oh and that computer is not ready for gaming. Its a slim tower, hard to upgrade, and isnt worth that price.

Answer 2

The guy above is right, you can't buy it less than $200, even on Black Friday Deals week.



http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pavilion+14%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+4GB+Memory+-+500GB+Hard+Drive+-+Sparkling+Black/6892224.p?id=1218810957932&skuId=6892224&st=hp%20pavilion%2014&cp=1&lp=2



this will be a very good computer for all mmorpgs, since it has an ADM A6 series

the processor is pretty good too

Answer 3

absolutely not. you're not going to find a gaming computer less than $200 :/

Answer 4

Short answer: ABSOLUTELY NOT.





For one Best Buy overcharges and is on their way out. Yes Best Buy has been handed their hat. This means ANY warranty is only going to be lip serrvice on their part. Secondly on top of their already bloated prices that computer is sold and shipped by Joy systems so you are paying Joy AND Best Buy. 3rdly it only has 2GB of RAM that is ARCHAIC(that means very old) which isn't going to support too much other than XP. Standard amount of RAM these days installe dby gamers? 8GB. Average RAM installed in regular computers these days? 4-6GB and sometimes like 10GB or something ridiculous. The system will be inefficient. It also has XP on it which isn't going to be supported by Microsoft for too much longer and XP's mainstream life-cycle already came to an end back in 2009. Yes XP is THE gamer's operating system but unfortunately support for things like drivers and patches is really aimed at Windows 7. The RAM issue is compounded by the fact that it's DDR2 memory. Havent seen that old RAM for a while now. Systems these days employ DDR3 RAM. But wait there's more. It doesn't have a GFX card and even if it did it would be a piece of junk low-profile lower power gfx card. Notice how the tower is slim? I mean you're not a computer guy but that much should be obvious. Slim of course isn't bad all by itself but in respect to towers yes it is very bad. Try and install a card like the EVGA 570 Classified or even a cheap XFX Radeon 5770 and it WILL NOT FIT because of the tower's "slim" design. The computer depends on the equally old and dead Intel 3100 GMA(graphics media accelerator) which will not be able to handle Wow and to be frank the POS CPU in there would probably struggle with Minecraft even though that game isn't a resource hog. That brings up another point. The motherboard integrated GMA doesn't have any RAM.Wild guess what it uses? Yep system RAM. Nor you have much less than 2GB because the GPU borrows system RAM to display the graphics. A dedicated gfx card like the EVGA 570 Classified has RAM on the card itself. It doesn't need to borrow any RAM from the system. The T4400(the CPU aka cental processing unit) could handle the game just fine but your GPU(graphics processing unit) would just be renamed LAG. I mean I could write out the entire laundry list but suffice to say is that computer is JUNK being sold by a junk company. You would be in a better position saving more money and searching Craigslist's computers by owner or something.