What games can my friend play?

JustANewUser · Mar 21, 2014

So my friend has bought some days ago a new custom PC. Instead of going for an AMD CPU and a GPU, he went for an Intel i5 and an integrated GPU... Nevermind, nothing can be done now. I wonder what can he play. He's 4GB RAM, Intel i5 CPU (he doesn't remember which one), integrated Intel graphics, Windows 8...

Thanks.

Spectre694 · Mar 21, 2014

It matters which CPU he has. Depending on which generation he has he could have a couple different iGPU's.

tiny voices · Mar 21, 2014

What is his screen resolution? To be honest, most modern games will struggle to run at lowest settings without a GPU. Many games will not be playable at all.

daswilhelm · Mar 21, 2014

there is something that can be done, he can buy a gpu. until then, web based games is about all he's going to play.

JustANewUser · Mar 21, 2014

He doesn't even remember which i5 he's picked, but I'd think of a 3rd generation and not 4th.

Yeah, I guess he can buy a GPU, the problem is that he's not going to do that now that he's bought the PC... No idea if he's thinking on that in the future.

His resolution is 1080p I believe, or perhaps 1600x900. Anyways he says that the monitor is a bit old and it looks blurred, so he's going to get a new one soon.

daswilhelm · Mar 21, 2014

if it looks blurred, he's probably running his monitor in the wrong resolution.

did he buy this pc to play games on? if so, it wont take him that long to realize nothing runs on it, and then he'll go purchase a decent card.

JustANewUser · Mar 21, 2014

He bought the PC because his old one wasn't working properly and to play games too. But he gave more preference to the CPU than the GPU.

Spectre694 · Mar 21, 2014

Well third gen is either HD 2500 or 4000. If he has 2500 he is SOL. If he got the 4000 he might be able to play a few on low. At the very least a 750Ti at like $150 would let him actually play his games.

JustANewUser · Mar 21, 2014

I knew he wouldn't be able to play actual games with that GPU (well, integrated GPU), but how about three-five years old games?

tiny voices · Mar 21, 2014

Yeah, without a GPU he will not really be playing any games at all. He more than likely has hd2500 graphics. I'm 99% sure of this. Unless he has a 3570k he will have hd2500. He won't really be able to play modern games at 1080p at all. Not even at lowest settings.

Which games are you talking about? Things like Half-life with no mods, TF2, Age of empires? Things like that will run alright. There are plenty of 3 year old games he will not be able to play at all though, like crysis and stuff like that.

Spectre694 · Mar 21, 2014

JustANewUser :

Depends on which one he has. Nicely put HD 2500 is crap. HD 4000 should play a decent chuck of older games at least on low though. It is really the 4th gen 4600 and Iris pro (5200) that are worth anything.

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