What type of games will this laptop/video card play?

My sons wants the game when it comes out December but I'm not sure his HP laptop will play it

Also, what about other upcoming games like Watch Dogs?


HP dv6
AMD A-8-3520M Radeon Graphics 1.60 GHz
6 GB RAM
AMD Radeon 6620g graphic card

 

no idea on how good that spec is but heres the system requirements for watch dogs http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...-watch-dogs-pc-system-reqs-next-gen-here.html

 

That laptop will not play Watch Dogs. You would be lucky to run any game from the last few years acceptably on it.

 

Thanks


So the Southpark game coming this fall is a no intake it.

 

Never heard of it. What I meant to say in the last post is your laptop will not be able to play AAA titles like Watch Dogs, even ones from the last few years, because these usually have bleeding-edge visuals and relatively high system requirements to boot. Not say that laptop won't suit you fine in non-demanding games like Farmville or Minecraft.

 

If this list of system requirements can be believed, that laptop should do just fine since the Southpark game does not appear to be a graphics powerhouse.

Watch dog is a little out of reach I'm afraid

 

Thanks fellas

So let me ask this, I've built a few desktops in my day but not up on graphics card specs but whats the least $$ I can use to build a desktop to play games with no problems for 2-3 years?

 

To play on the highest settings possible, it won't be cheap.

For a desktop? Hmm... Playing the latest games for three years, I'd say around $2,000, maybe $2,500...for a decent desktop build. The GTX 680 is still able to play the latest games, but it won't on max settings for three more years. That's a decent card, though.

This is a notebook forum, so, a notebook to play the latest games for three years will be at least $3,000, and can easily go up to $4,000 or more. Just to give you an idea: my Alienware 17 with the GTX 780M can barely handle BF4 on Ultra. It plays at about 40 FPS most of the time (40+). I'll probably be upgrading to the 880M next year.

EDIT: Get the new Xbox One and a nice TV and you'll be able to play the latest games for years while remaining around a $1,000 budget.

 

Thank you

Anything over $900 is too much so an XBOX or PS4 might be best

 

Nah J.Dre completely overstated what kind of money you need to build a gaming desktop that will last for several years. $2-2.5K will get you a desktop that can run the newest games at max settings and 4K/multi-monitor for the next few years, which is overkill and way more than most people need. Even spending that kind of money on a gaming notebook, which are much lower on price-to-performance ratio, can get you something that will be fine for several years as long as you're fine with turning down some of the settings after a while. For $900 I could build a machine with an i5-4670K and GTX 770 or upcoming Radeon R9 290 as long as I go cheap on some of the other components. That'll let you enjoy the newest games at high and max settings at 1080p or maybe even 1440p/1600p for the next 2-3 years at least. Way better performance, experience, and long-term value proposition than getting a so-called "next-gen" console which will be several generations behind PC hardware at launch.

 

Depending on the components, $2,000 is definitely a reasonable estimation to give. And I would never buy an i5 processor for a gaming computer. I built a couple systems online and they were all within a few hundred dollars of $2,000, give or take up to $500 depending on memory, the motherboard, GPU, and SSD or HDD.

My guesstimate is not overstated, it's just broad enough for a decent gaming rig. Anything below $1,500 will not last three years playing the latest games on the highest settings possible, at 60+ FPS. It may play them on High, but not Ultra (maxed), and that is what I was referring to.

 

OK so where did he say he needs to play all the most bleeding-edge games of the next few years maxed out on a 30" 1600p monitor? No offense but OP doesn't come off as a super-hardcore PC gamer type of person anyway. Read his post again, this is all he says:

I'm not too high on your suggestions because not only are you turning him off of PC gaming in the first place by scaring him with those over-the-top price estimates but you don't really know what you're talking about either. I would never buy anything but an i5 for a gaming PC because games don't use Hyper-Threading and an i5 is just an i7 without HT and $100 left over. It overclocks just as well and there is absolutely no difference in gaming performance:



In the rare event that you need more CPU power to prevent a bottleneck and more PCIe lanes, which is not likely in his case given that you would need at least something on the level of three Titans or quad-SLI GTX 690/quad-fire 7990 to reach that point, I would completely skip over the i7-4770K and go LGA2011 and hexa-core with the i7-4930K.

Also, with the next generation of Radeon cards coming out the first-generation GCN cards are being cut like crazy. I can easily get a couple of 7950's for <$400 or a couple of 7970's for <$600 right now. That's simply a steal and those GPU's should have no problem driving the most demanding games of the next few years at greater-than-1080p resolutions and max settings with all that compute power, memory bandwidth, and the 3GB frame buffer. Add an i5-4670K, cheap MSI Z87 mobo, and 8GB-16GB of RAM along with all the other trimmings, maybe even an SSD if budget allows, and you're looking at $900-$1200 depending on specs for something that will be futureproof in the near term and absolutely blow away the next-gen consoles for the entirety of their lifespan.