better for gaming

I just bough an Asus Notebook - Intel Pentium 4GB RAM 500GB HD X550CA-DB91 notebook,
four-cell lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, and user manual
1.8GHz Intel Pentium 2117U processor
15.6" diagonal LED-backlit active-matrix TFT color LCD display with 1366x768 resolution
4GB DDR3 SDRAM
500GB 5400 RPM SATA hard drive
DVD+/-RW optical drive with dual-layer support
802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD graphics

I want to use it for gaming (secondlife, wow) any ideas what i can add to this to make it more of a gaming lap top?

 

First thing this will not help with gaming that is graphics intensive...

Upgrade the processor to a duo2core at least. Pent is old news and not good at processing power.
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Sounds good but they aren't the best to be using for graphics intensive games even if it's second life. You need to have at least a dedicated GPU to improve game play.

 

if you just bought it then send it back.
sorry to be blunt but that is quite a low spec lappy and not really for gaming and as mentioned you need a dedicated graphics card.

ive never played either of those games but looking at second life this is the minimum spec you will need to play the game System Requirements | Second Life

 

Actually that CPU is much better than the Core 2 Duo, it's just a dual core with no hyperthreading, and it's Ivy Bridge. They brought back the Pentium moniker for many ULV CPU's. This will likely be OK for Second Life and WoW but at lowest settings and maybe even have to drop to 1024x600 resolution, but it may work fine at 1366x768. Scenese with lots of action in them though will likely result in stuttering and low FPS.

This CPU or faster with a decent dedicated GPU would be more ideal. Even a current HD 4600 in the Haswell CPU's would perform very well for these types of games.

 

You can't really add anything to that laptop to make it game any better than it does right now (not too good, but it should barely be okay for Second-Life and WoW at bare minimum graphics settings...).

I you want anything better than that, you'll have to to sell that laptop and buy something better. No other way around it.