Ok I know its a year later to be answering this "what games can u run with the intel hd graphics?" Question but ill answer it anyway since I know someone will ask this question again someday. My laptop perfomance(I bought it 2011) is as follows; intel i5 (2.30 ghz) cpu, Intel HD 3000 (Sandy Bridge as u may call it...) And 8 (4x2) of RAM. So far the games I've played with my laptop are: NFS Carbon,NFS Undercover,NFS Shift(haven't tried shift 2 though),NFS Hot Pursuit (latest),NFS Most Wanted (1&2),NFS Rivals,F1 2012,Fifa (8,10,12,13) AC 1&2,Grid,Split Second,G-Force,Splinter Cell (1,Pandora,Chaos Theory & Conviction),Price Of Persia (All),Battlefield (All,although 4 lags there n there),Medal Of Honour,COD (2 and Black Ops),Sims (2&3),Prototype (all),Mafia (all),GTA (3,vice city,San Andreas n 4),LA Noire (its a bit laggy though),Hitman (2&Absolution),The Saboteur,Batman Arkharm City and Harry Potter and the deathly hallows, those are games I played so far with intel HD graphics. I know that intel HD aint the best card for gaming, but to those of who who underustimate it u got to admit those r quite a lot of games indeed.