Intel® Core™ i3 4170 Processor good for gaming?

[maahela]

hi Im looking for a pc to buy and i found one for a reasonable price. But the thing is , Im not sure if it can play games like battlefield 3 , call of duty w m 3 and nfs games and some video editing.
The seller said it has a cpu speed of 3.7 Ghz. and in the description it says 2GB
vga . it also has a 8gb ram
should i buy the pc or not?

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

It can play those game you mentioned, but with a good enough GPU. You would need to know exactly what GPU it has before you know if the system will play games.

 

[chemmajorp53]

It's kind of ok, not going to be great for brand new games. Would be better to have a real quad core. 2GB VGA means literally nothing, there are tons of graphics cards that have 2GB of VRAM so the model name is required here. Also, it would be nice to have a link to the post or at minimum a price if you want any advice on whether it's a decent deal or not.

 

[maahela]

It can play those game you mentioned, but with a good enough GPU. You would need to know exactly what GPU it has before you know if the system will play games.

 

[maahela]

thanks guys

 

[maahela]

It can play those game you mentioned, but with a good enough GPU. You would need to know exactly what GPU it has before you know if the system will play games.

 

[maahela]

its

VGA Card 2Gb
hd 4400

mentioned in the description

 

[chemmajorp53]

That's the integrated graphics, which isn't good enough to play those games. Chances are the PSU is subpar if it doesn't have a graphics card already, so you'd have to replace that too. I would avoid buying this type of computer if you plan on gaming. Upgrading it will end up costing more than just buying a used gaming PC that's ready to go.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

If it has 2GB VGA card then it must be a discrete GPU, but if it's not mentioned by name then it's probably not very good.

 

[maahela]

That's the integrated graphics, which isn't good enough to play those games. Chances are the PSU is subpar if it doesn't have a graphics card already, so you'd have to replace that too. I would avoid buying this type of computer if you plan on gaming. Upgrading it will end up costing more than just buying a used gaming PC that's ready to go.

 

[maahela]

okay thanks