Noob question: nVidia GeForce 8400M G ?

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#1 Always-Honest
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what games can i play with a what games could be played on nVidia GeForce 8400M G graphics card.

i just got a Laptop from work.... and i wondered if it's any good for gaming.

thanx ahead, i'm a noob when it comes to pc stuff (always worked on Macs as a graphic designer)

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#2 CheeChee_Macko
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You can play most new games but at mostly low settings.
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#3 drgoth2006
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thats no excuse! lol

macs use mostly similar hardware to PCs, its just the OS that's different

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#4 Always-Honest
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thats no excuse! lol

macs use mostly similar hardware to PCs, its just the OS that's different

drgoth2006

there are far less games for Mac.. and the architecture is way different...

You can play most new games but at mostly low settings.CheeChee_Macko

okay, thanx.. won't play Crysis with it though....

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#5 stephant_6
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Crysis won't run at all on that,other recent games will run at low.
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#6 vash47
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Crysis should run on everything at low.

I have a 8500 and it's a really crappy one, so you can run a lot of games, just make sure of lowering the resolution, and turning down shaders and postproccessing, etc.

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#7 polarwrath11
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The 8400M G only has 8 stream processors - you don't even have the 8400M GS (which has 16)! Sorry mate, but thats low spec. Yr best bet is to just try some games and see what happens.
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#8 AnotherKill
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You could play Orange Box :P
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#9 Zaeryn
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Nah man, you got to upgrade that to an 8600 at least.
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#10 Kiwi_1
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This topic is strictly HARDWARE, and doesn't belong here.

The OP here has asked about a LAPTOP, and he's getting comments about upgrades. Well, in the case of at least 99 % of all laptops, a video upgrade simply isn't possible, so it's not worth writing about!

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#11 linkthewindow
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New games with low settings, but it was not made for a gamer, so get a better card.
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#12 sumoman25
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Im getting an hp dv6700z with a NVIDIA GeForce 8400M card, i heard it plays CoD4 really good, someone also said it will play crysis on low settings, i want to play half life 2 aswell

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#13 fireandcloud
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you can play a lot of older games with that laptop. i recommend the orange box and no one lives forever 1 & 2.
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#14 biggest_loser
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Hardware forum please. yawn.
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#15 BlackAlpha666
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8400 is almost the same as a Geforce 6 or maybe even 5 series. It sucks... donkey balls.
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#16 RK-Mara
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Nah man, you got to upgrade that to an 8600 at least.Zaeryn

It's a work laptop, how is he going to do that?