I'm pretty set on buying a HP m800e series, but I want to make sure I will be able to play games on it. I have been a console person all my life and know practically nothing about PC gaming. It has Vista, an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor, and a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce graphics card. Just wondering if this is good enough...
Tons of people will yell at you and say it, but before paying X amount of dollars, I suggest you at least consider the idea of building one. My 2k PC can max anything pretty much with like good FPS, but it would have costed 4-5k from dell or those big companies, and still saved a bit from those cheap companies. It's really worth the difference in price to put that small amount of headaches and effort to build it yourself, and it's not a huge challenge, and there's millions of sites that explain exactly what to do (and your motherboard book should explain it pretty good).
And I'm too lazy to look for that PC, link us to it! We'll click and make negative comments!
I know that would be the best option, but I'm not looking for a fantastic gaming computer plus I do not have the time to build one anyway. I just want to know if a Vista computer can run older games such as Half-life 2 and with the graphics card and processor that I listed above, will the games look decent and have a playable frame rate.
It really doesn't take long to build one once you decide what parts you want to use. But, if I had to suggest a PC company to buy from I would suggest Dell. From my recollection of years past, HP was never a real solid computer. Their peripherals may be well made, but I've heard a lot of horror stories from HP. Just my 2 cents...
Edi: I hope you realize you are getting a CRT not an LCD with that. Most other companies, like Dell, include an LCD these days. Other than that the specs don't look too bad. Pretty on-par with what Dell offers. That CRT would be the deal breaker for me.
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