can you game on a 2008 imac?

[Speeder]

will a 2008 imac be able to run games like portal 2, cs:go, and other games at over 30 fps?

The Specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 duo 2.4 GHz
CPU: ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro
RAM: 4GB

Will this mac be able to run games from the xbox 360/PS3 era at good fps?

Note: I do not own this IMac, asking this for a friend.

[JP.]

No, it won't. No dedicated graphics card and outdated dual core CPU.

[Speeder]

Originally posted by JP.:

No, it won't. No dedicated graphics card and outdated dual core CPU.

what about older games, like portal 2 and Half life 2?

[Sapph]

Originally posted by Speeder752:

Originally posted by JP.:

No, it won't. No dedicated graphics card and outdated dual core CPU.

what about older games, like portal 2 and Half life 2?

It can't, too old and weak for even those.

[Speeder]

Originally posted by Sapph:

Originally posted by Speeder752:

what about older games, like portal 2 and Half life 2?

It can't, too old and weak for even those.

so even a intel hd stick is more powerful than a Imac from 2008?, since a intel hd stick can run half life 2 at low settings 720p at 60fps.

[Sapph]

Originally posted by Speeder752:

Originally posted by Sapph:

It can't, too old and weak for even those.

so even a intel hd stick is more powerful than a Imac from 2008?, since a intel hd stick can run half life 2 at low settings 720p at 60fps.

Pretty much, simply due to it being much newer tech.

[Speeder]

wow, thats honestly quite cool, how a usb computer now has more power than one of the most powerful computers from 10 years ago. quite astonishing, really.

[Sapph]

Originally posted by Speeder752:

wow, thats honestly quite cool, how a usb computer now has more power than one of the most powerful computers from 10 years ago. quite astonishing, really.

It never was one of the most powerful ones lol. Core2Duo was entry-level cpu.
Same as the Radeon HD 2600 Pro.

Core2Duo was 100-140$ entry to mid-range cpu
Radeon HD 2600 Pro was a 90-100$ entry to mid-range level gpu.

[Speeder]

Originally posted by Sapph:

Originally posted by Speeder752:

wow, thats honestly quite cool, how a usb computer now has more power than one of the most powerful computers from 10 years ago. quite astonishing, really.

It never was one of the most powerful ones lol. Core2Duo was entry-level cpu.

yeah, however in 2009 my family bought a windows 7 pc with a intel core 2 duo, it ran quite well, although the only games we had on the pc was roblox and the sims 3 and most of the time I played flash games and club penguin.

[mtono]

i guess you could try half-life 1, halfe- life opposing force and half-life blue shift...or quake 1 or counterstrike 1.6 or counterstrike condition zero(with bots).
these games must be working imo!?
kind regards

[Speeder]

Originally posted by professor pilz:

i guess you could try half-life 1, halfe- life opposing force and half-life blue shift...or quake 1 or counterstrike 1.6 or counterstrike condition zero(with bots).
these games must be working imo!?
kind regards

yeah, but im wondering why the guy before is saying even half life 2 cannot run on it.

[mtono]

you can try, but i do not believe it is fun. you can just buy and try, because you could use the game on a better computer later. it is a good game.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/212/radeon-hd-2600-pro
FP32 (float) performance
144.0 GFLOPS

I don't know if the CPU is the E6600 and can boost like it but that's 2.4 GHz base clock too:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-E6600-vs-AMD-Phenom-9850/m988vsm2967
There it is compared to my Phenom X4 9850 which I don't feel can handle CS:GO any longer but it has been able to before when CS:GO was less demanding.
From those numbers I'd feel it's too weak for CS:GO and weaker than that CPU but memory latency may be lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_specifications#Graphics_processing_unit
Xbox GPU 240 gflops, CPU triple core PPC with emphasizes on floating point performance capable of 115 gflops.

So it would seem like the HD 2600 Pro which _IS_ a dedicated GPU not integrated graphics on the processor chip and the dual-core Intel chip and the memory solution is less capable than an Xbox 360 for games together.

So I'd assume that no; it can't run games at the capacity level of the Xbox 360.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_technical_specifications
192 gflops which is also higher than the HD 2600 Pro.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/620/Portal_2/
Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
Minne: 2 GB RAM
Grafik: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000

https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/
OS: Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or higher
Minne: 1 GB RAM
Grafik: Nvidia GeForce8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, Intel HD 3000 or higher

So good enough for Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 if the OS version is new enough. Which I guess it would be. But not good enough for CS and Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 era games.

Also I guess the demands for Portal 2 is at low rather than best quality so there's that too.
Why buy it? If he already own it just try. Some stuff will of course work. Warcraft III will run =P

[Speeder]

Originally posted by Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/212/radeon-hd-2600-pro
FP32 (float) performance
144.0 GFLOPS

I don't know if the CPU is the E6600 and can boost like it but that's 2.4 GHz base clock too:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-E6600-vs-AMD-Phenom-9850/m988vsm2967
There it is compared to my Phenom X4 9850 which I don't feel can handle CS:GO any longer but it has been able to before when CS:GO was less demanding.
From those numbers I'd feel it's too weak for CS:GO and weaker than that CPU but memory latency may be lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_specifications#Graphics_processing_unit
Xbox GPU 240 gflops, CPU triple core PPC with emphasizes on floating point performance capable of 115 gflops.

So it would seem like the HD 2600 Pro which _IS_ a dedicated GPU not integrated graphics on the processor chip and the dual-core Intel chip and the memory solution is less capable than an Xbox 360 for games together.

So I'd assume that no; it can't run games at the capacity level of the Xbox 360.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_technical_specifications
192 gflops which is also higher than the HD 2600 Pro.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/620/Portal_2/
Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
Minne: 2 GB RAM
Grafik: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000

https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/
OS: Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or higher
Minne: 1 GB RAM
Grafik: Nvidia GeForce8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, Intel HD 3000 or higher

So good enough for Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 if the OS version is new enough. Which I guess it would be. But not good enough for CS and Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 era games.

Also I guess the demands for Portal 2 is at low rather than best quality so there's that too.
Why buy it? If he already own it just try. Some stuff will of course work. Warcraft III will run =P

well my friend already owns it, he mainly bought it to see how much upgrading he can do with it.

also i think some modern games might run, he has a 2009 macbook pro, which is probably lower spec than the imac, and it can run the sims 4 just fine.

[Harry Gumdropzap]

lol the sims

[Double Deez Nuts]

gaming on 4GB ram is awful, let alone a processor that can barely manage 2.0Ghz. even worse than my toaster. this probably wont even run gmod