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    Will This Dell Vostro 1400 work fro older pc games?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Halo360Fan, May 29, 2008.

  1. Halo360Fan

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    Ok This is the final laptop i'm getting but I jst want to make sure it will run older pc games. Agian i'm not going to play any new high requirment pc game. I just want Halo, Halo 2, WOW, and Couter Strike S to work atleast on medium settings. So will this laptop do it? Here is the my Dell Vostro

    PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5670 (1.8GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)

    OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic, Service Pack 1

    WARRANTY & SERVICE 1 Year Basic Limited Warranty plus 1 Year Mail-in Service

    PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE Microsoft® Works Plus 2008 - Works + Word 2003


    LCD PANEL 14.1 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display with TrueLife™

    MEMORY 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM

    OPTICAL DRIVE 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive, with Roxio Creator

    VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS

    HARD DRIVE 160GB 5400RPM Hard Drive

    WI-FI WIRELESS CARD Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Wi-Fi Internal Card

    WEBCAM No Camera

    SOUND OPTION Integrated High Definition Audio edit
    Service
     
    Halo360Fan, May 29, 2008
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  2. Konenavi

    Konenavi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Probably unless you want 300 fps. I get about 120 maxed in source games with my 8600m GT so you should be fine. Halo and Halo 2 aren't very demanding at all.
     
    Konenavi, May 29, 2008
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  3. Jeff

    Jeff Notebook Retard

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    yep, you'll comfortably run them on medium.
     
    Jeff, May 29, 2008
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