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I am purchasing a very reduced Dell Latitude e6520 from a friend and was wondering what kinds of games I could play on it and what resolutions. I'm not buying it for gaming purposes, but I am curious. The specs are as follows:

  • Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM (2.20GHz, 6M cache) with Turbo BoostTechnology 2.0

  • nVidia® NVS™ 4200M 512MB DDR3 Discrete Graphics for Quad Core

upon further research, the CPU requires this graphic card.

  • 4.0GB, DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM

  • 500GB 7200rpm Hard Drive

I may upgrade to 8GB memory, depending if I am bogged down, what do you guys think?

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Unfortunately, shopping questions are off topic as per the Super User FAQ. Feel free to drop by our chat and talk about it though! chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118/root-access – Simon Sheehan Dec 1 '11 at 1:02
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If you aren't a passionate gamer the box will do. Maybe you have to lower some video card settings but the most important thing is the gameplay and not the graphics. I also suggest to pay attention for a good cooling and clean the box from dust because gameing will produce a lot of heat and that must be moved out of the case somehow. My laptop makes so much heat when I play that I need a laptop cooler and additional tweaks to the heatsink and case. It reaches 100 degree in some minutes. My laptop is 3+ years old and I can play the most recent games like BF3, COD MW3, LOTR-War of the North, Rage and Starcraft 2. 3 years is a lot in this industry and additionally a laptop video card is a generation behind a desktop so my laptop is 4+ years behind a current middle class pc like you have. But I'm playing most of the games in single player modus and maybe my answer isn't too helpful because now I wish I didn't bought it.

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100 degrees is insane. Your laptop shouldn't be functioning – Simon Sheehan Dec 1 '11 at 3:03
@SimonSheehan: In winter it's nice to have but maybe I can apply for a competition? I wish I didn't bought it. – David Dec 1 '11 at 3:16
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