Will my future PC be good for gaming?

Hikaru I

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Hello! I wanted to get this PC in the near future:

It's a Windows 8 Asus 2in1 13.3 Inch Touch-Screen Laptop, specs are below.

13.3 Inch Screen with a 1366x768 Resolution
4th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-4210U processor
1.7GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz.
Intel® HD Graphics 4400 GPU
8GB RAM
500GB Hard Drive

And I really want to know if I will be able to run certain games at acceptable frames (30-40 fps or higher) with medium to low graphical settings:

Borderlands 1/2/Pre-Sequel
Civilization V
Total War: Rome II
PAYDAY 2
Fallout 3/New Vegas
Rust
Far Cry 4
Insurgency
Bioshock 1/2/Infinite

Just to name a few, Thanks!



 
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Onboard graphics have gotten better, but in general, that laptop will be all but unusable for anything but Minecraft (and even then, maybe not even at full resolution). I would look for a laptop with discrete graphics (either an Nvidia or Radeon mobile GPU) - those can actually do a pretty good job these days, all while consuming very little power.
You won't get good frames in games with that computer on most games. From your list - Borderlands 2/pre-sequel, Far Cry 4, and Bioshock infinite will struggle. You should be able to play the others on low.

If the computer had a higher resolution, you would have to lower it but it seems quite low already for a modern laptop.
 


If you lower the resolution a bit, yes. Hopefully the laptop has good cooling. If it doesn't, throttling could make it even worse.
 
Onboard graphics have gotten better, but in general, that laptop will be all but unusable for anything but Minecraft (and even then, maybe not even at full resolution). I would look for a laptop with discrete graphics (either an Nvidia or Radeon mobile GPU) - those can actually do a pretty good job these days, all while consuming very little power.
 
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