8400 GS 128mb (HP DV9500) for Gaming?

I'm thinking of getting a HP Pavilion laptop (DV9500) with these specs:

Vista
AMD Turion64 X2 TL60
2ghz
2gb Ram
17"
1440 x 900
GeForce 8400 GS 128 MB
320GB Hard Drive

...I know that an 8400 GS is about the least powerful GPU you can get before integrated, but I've seen it play things like Crysis and Call of Duty 4. Would this be enough to play most games around at the minute on minimum settings or not?



Call of Duty 4:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C51-25Lfk4g

Crysis:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EqLhznFs02k




Here's the GPU spec if it's relevant;

Pipelines 16 - unified
Core Speed - 400 MHz
Shader Speed - 800 MHz
Memory Speed - 600 MHz
Memory Bus Width - 64 Bit
Memory Type - GDDR2
Memory - 128MB
Shared Memory - No
DirectX10, Shader 4.0
Current Consumption 11 Watt
Transistors 210 Million




Not sure what most of that means, but No Shared Memory doesn't sound very good. Please just say if there's anything else I should mention...

Thanks,

Kolroc =)

 

it will play cod4 but not crysis

 

This card is on the lower end performance wise. Yes it will run COD4, "run" is the key word. And maybe just maybe, it will "run" Crysis as well. Don't expect anything much in terms of performance from this card.

It should however perform well with older games, anything from 2005 on down will run in high settings with this card. HL2, Doom 3 etc...

 

it will run cod4 fine. I play it with mine, thought overclocked

 

Call of Duty 4: Low - Medium settings @ 1024 x 768, 30 frames(might dip into 20's with explosions etc.
Crysis: Low settings @ 1024 x 768 DX9 25+ fps.

If you have a decent core 2 duo processor (1.8GHz+) you can turn physics up to medium in crysis with little to no performance hit. Turn shaders up to medium aswell in the less demanding levels if you don't mind a few hiccups.