Bought "new" netbook, what can an i3-3227U/HD4000 actually run?

[Mr. Plow]

Since my laptop (A10-4600m) has a faulty fan for the second time I went on eBay and bought the top model Thinkpad X131e. It'll be here in a bout a week or so. They're going for $95 these days and seemed like a solid compact laptop. I've never owned a mobile "i" variant CPU before. I have a Windows 10 tablet with a Z3735f/2GB/32GB, but that clearly doesn't compare to this PC. Specs are as follows.
Intel Core i3-3227U @ 1.9GHz
Intel HD 4000
4GB of RAM (have an 8GB kit)
320GB HDD (have a 120GB Crucial SATA3 SSD)
11.6" 1366x768 LCD
Windows 10 Pro

I usually play Day of Defeat Source (as demanding as CS:S), Rocket League, Golf With Your Friends, DiRT Rally, Starcraft 1/2, and similar. Does it sound like most of these will run on low settings?

I'm excited to use a Thinkpad keyboard again since I had a T61P about a decade ago. There's a bunch of X131e models that use a celeron or slower AMD APU, and also chromebook versions for about the same price. For coding, media and general use this seems like an extremely good fit, but I'm wondering how it'll play games.

[Arya]

I doubt many of those games will even run. The CPU is extremely underpowered, as is the iGPU. There's also a shortage of RAM.

It'll be fine for office work, but it's completely and totally unsuited to gaming.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Intel HD 2000/3000/4000 series = NO; most Games will refuse to run on those.
Intel 500/600 series = Yes

You purchased something that is already MANY years old. I'd return it.
Look for something with Intel 6th or 7th Gen inside.

[Mr. Plow]

I looked at all of the games mentioned and Intel HD 4000 or worse is listed as the minimum (even rocket league, linux minimum). Have you guys tried it?

Gaming on this is a plus, just seeing if someone has experience with this CPU/GFX solution. I'd have to spend 3-5x as much to get something more powerful in the form factor. It'll be upgraded to 8GB ram and an SSD, so all the potential slowdown falls on the CPU/GFX.

[Sabertoothproton]

Originally posted by NavyET:

I looked at all of the games mentioned and Intel HD 4000 or worse is listed as the minimum (even rocket league, linux minimum). Have you guys tried it?

Gaming on this is a plus, just seeing if someone has experience with this CPU/GFX solution. I'd have to spend 3-5x as much to get something more powerful in the form factor. It'll be upgraded to 8GB ram and an SSD, so all the potential slowdown falls on the CPU/GFX.

I used to have a laptop with an Intel HD 4000. It died about 6 months ago (and it's not worth fixing) but I could run things like Civ 5 and 6 and xcom EW just fine. That said you don't need good fps for games like those and they looked like crap. Also this was some model I7(don't remember the actual one)

Save your money and buy something decent if you want to game.

[vadim]

A10-4600m had better integrated graphics than your new CPU.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Netbooks are not meant for playing games, but for browsing/chatting etc

But games such as Terraria and the like should be ok

[Arya]

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

Netbooks are not meant for any games, but for browsing/chatting etc

But games such as Terraria and the like should be ok

Terraria can actually be quite demanding. Established servers often have large structures which can apply massive CPU load when loading the level. I've played a lot of demanding games on my 6700K, but Terraria is the only one to date that's caused any serious CPU lag.

[[☥] - CJ -]

It'll be fine with it


The only problem would be the monitor resolution.

[Arya]

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

The only problem would be the monitor resolution.

Now that wouldn't be a problem. Aside from PVP, having a relatively low resolution is no problem at all. The issues happen from 1440P onwards - you need a lot of UI just to make the screen legible.

[[☥] - CJ -]

The problem im talking about is the amount of content shown on such a small screen

You may not have used a netbook for anything before, but the screen size itself can be a problem.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Honestly OP; get a different PC

That thing is too old and too low specs for Games

[aVeryLonePepe]

Like everyone said, this is an office netbook, don't buy them they are mostly overpriced (before I decided to buy my Gaming laptop, they tried to give me an ultra book with the exact same card for 1200 Dollars, like WTF is that)

If you want to play games on it, well, you will run Minecraft on 30 fps

Nuff said

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by NavyET:

I looked at all of the games mentioned and Intel HD 4000 or worse is listed as the minimum (even rocket league, linux minimum). Have you guys tried it?

Gaming on this is a plus, just seeing if someone has experience with this CPU/GFX solution. I'd have to spend 3-5x as much to get something more powerful in the form factor. It'll be upgraded to 8GB ram and an SSD, so all the potential slowdown falls on the CPU/GFX.

Rocket League's min asks for a Geforce 260, which is about 3 times more powerful than Intel HD 4000.

[Cathulhu]

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-260-vs-Intel-HD-4000-Desktop-115-GHz/3160vs2169
Actually, there isn't that big of a difference.
Not even with the mobile Intel HD 4000:
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-260-vs-Intel-HD-4000-Mobile-125-GHz/3160vsm7653

The GTX 260 is still about twice as fast. But not three times.

[Mr. Plow]

I finally got it. Rocket League plays from 65-90fps in 1v1, 50-65fps in 2v2. All low, native resolution. CS:S/DOD:S are 60fps+ on low native res all throughout, Starcraft 2 doesn't run as well as I'd have hoped but it's playable. TF2 runs better on this i3-3227u than the A10-4600m, at 40-90fps. Good enough for every class but sniper. DiRT runs great on low.

The PC snobs in this thread... hilarious. I have a high end desktop but these i3+ are capable at low settings, which is what I asked about.