Integrated GPU for strategy games?

[Donorian]

Hi guys

I am looking to buy a new PC, and have found a desktop replacement that perfectly suits my needs. The only thing I am wondering about is whether or not the GPU is good enough gaming-wise. I occasionally play strategy games like Civ, Endless Legend, Age of Wonders and the like, and will be playing future releases in the genre. I never play other types of games. The details are:

Intel® Core™ i5-5200U processor (5. generation; 3 MB cache, 2,70 GHz)
8 GB 2 DIMM (2x4 GB) DDR3L 1.600 MHz

The i5 should definately be enough CPU-wise, but what is your opinion about the integrated GPU for these kinds of games?

Thank's a bunch!

 

[stavrosmast]

You cant run endless legend with this onboard gpu but you can run the others check the system requirements of the games you are going to play to see if you will be able to run them 😉

 

[yeskay]

Hi guys

I am looking to buy a new PC, and have found a desktop replacement that perfectly suits my needs. The only thing I am wondering about is whether or not the GPU is good enough gaming-wise. I occasionally play strategy games like Civ, Endless Legend, Age of Wonders and the like, and will be playing future releases in the genre. I never play other types of games. The details are:

Intel® Core™ i5-5200U processor (5. generation; 3 MB cache, 2,70 GHz)
8 GB 2 DIMM (2x4 GB) DDR3L 1.600 MHz

The i5 should definately be enough CPU-wise, but what is your opinion about the integrated GPU for these kinds of games?

Thank's a bunch!

Yes, you should be above to play those games with decent frames, using Intel's fifth gen integrated graphics HD 5500, as long as you keep the graphical fidelity to medium @720/1080p resolutions.

Minimum System Requirements:

Civilization V: Brave New World

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows XP SP3/ Windows Vista SP2/ Windows 7
Video Card: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 8 GB

Endless Legend

CPU: 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 or equivalent
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1
Video Card: 1 GB NVidia Geforce GT 640 or equivalent, 500 MB ATI Radeon HD 4850 or equivalent [Since there is no mention about integrated graphics. You've to try and see for yourself for this game. You may still be able to play this game with low/medium graphical fidelity @720p with Intel HD 5500. Give it a try]
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 3 GB

Age of Wonder III

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ @2.6 Ghz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800 / ATi Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB or Laptop integrated Intel HD 3000 with 3GB system ram
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 10 GB

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Cheers!

 

[Donorian]

You cant run endless legend with this onboard gpu but you can run the others check the system requirements of the games you are going to play to see if you will be able to run them 😉

Hi guys

I am looking to buy a new PC, and have found a desktop replacement that perfectly suits my needs. The only thing I am wondering about is whether or not the GPU is good enough gaming-wise. I occasionally play strategy games like Civ, Endless Legend, Age of Wonders and the like, and will be playing future releases in the genre. I never play other types of games. The details are:

Intel® Core™ i5-5200U processor (5. generation; 3 MB cache, 2,70 GHz)
8 GB 2 DIMM (2x4 GB) DDR3L 1.600 MHz

The i5 should definately be enough CPU-wise, but what is your opinion about the integrated GPU for these kinds of games?

Thank's a bunch!

Yes, you should be above to play those games with decent frames, using Intel's fifth gen integrated graphics HD 5500, as long as you keep the graphical fidelity to medium @720/1080p resolutions.

Minimum System Requirements:

Civilization V: Brave New World

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows XP SP3/ Windows Vista SP2/ Windows 7
Video Card: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 8 GB

Endless Legend

CPU: 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 or equivalent
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1
Video Card: 1 GB NVidia Geforce GT 640 or equivalent, 500 MB ATI Radeon HD 4850 or equivalent [Since there is no mention about integrated graphics. You've to try and see for yourself for this game. You may still be able to play this game with low/medium graphical fidelity @720p with Intel HD 5500. Give it a try]
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 3 GB

Age of Wonder III

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ @2.6 Ghz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800 / ATi Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB or Laptop integrated Intel HD 3000 with 3GB system ram
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 10 GB

Thank's yeskay! I'm not too comfortable buying a new pc that might just make it on a 2015 game. What about 2 years from now? Will have to consider maybe a desktop, that I can also upgrade when the time comes, instead of it being simply obsoleted by progress.
Are there any GPU's that you can recommend that work decentenly, but not necessarily suberb, and will continue to do so in the near fututre, as far as we can tell now?