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Buying a new PC - yoosergio - 2011-06-17
So, I need a new PC, my laptop is pretty bad and old now, and I want a Desktop. I found this computer: [URL="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/mx/es/ho/WF06b/12454-12454-3329740-64546-64546-5035348-5053479.html]HP Pavilion p6730la[/URL] (yeah, it's in Spanish, try google translate). I think it's pretty cool and everything, but then I saw: "Intel HD Graphics".
Crap. My laptop uses an integrated Intel graphics card, and it's the main reason I want a new PC.
I want to know if this card is good enough for gaming. I don't exactly need Crysis 2 running on the maximum settings, but I'd like to run games like Alice: Madness Returns, Portal 2, Duke Nukem Forever (yeah, I'd like to try that game
), and (I really don't need this one as I already have it on PS3, but it's as a good example) Grand Theft Auto 4. I'd like to run them at least on medium settings, but as long as I can play them, it's okay.Can someone tell me if I can run them well? Also, which versions of Vertex Shader, Pixel Shader, and DirectX does the graphics card support?
If I cannot run this games smoothly, can I buy another graphics card and install it? Which one do you recommend?