How well will my new computer handle Current Gen Games?

[TheCandyWalrus]

My laptop is a M15x by Alienware and its stats are as follows

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 840QM Quad Core Processor, 1.86GHz (3.20GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache)

Graphics Card: 1.5GB GDDR5 65W NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M

Memory: 8GB Dual Channel Memory (2x 4GB DDR3)

Hard Drive: 128GB Solid State Drive

Batteryrimary - 9-cell (85Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery (My question for this is how long will I be able to play Unplugged do you think?)

My definition of current games are L4D 2, Crysis, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 3, Elder Scrolls Oblivion, etc. etc. Thanks for the help guys !

P.S. Any Suggestions for a few games to put on it?

 

[CurseTheSky]

It should handle everything with ease. You shouldn't start feeling slowdowns until about 1-2 years from now, or whenever the next gen consoles come out.

 

[Bateluer]

It should handle everything with ease. You shouldn't start feeling slowdowns until about 1-2 years from now, or whenever the next gen consoles come out.

This. Once the next gen consoles come out, we suddenly see a revolution in visual quality. Might actually get to use the 5870 to its potential.

OP's system should be fine for a quite some time. The games you've listed shouldn't make the system break a sweat.

 

[TheCandyWalrus]

Thanks man! Glad to hear I'll have a good 1 or 2 years to build up the money to buy new parts! Anyone still have any suggestions as of games?

 

[BudAshes]

Playing games sucks your battery life, especially with those energy intensive components. It will run everything just don't expect to play for more than an hour or so unplugged.

 

[Smartazz]

You should look into Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Call of Duty Black Ops. There's also Crysis 2 early next year. Nice laptop btw.

 

[TheCandyWalrus]

Thanks Bud and Smart for the info! Yeah I have black ops on my PS3 but BFBC:2 I will definately look at for my PC I saw Vietnam was coming soon and loved Battlefield 2!

 

[Arkaign]

It should do great. If it's anything like the Dell notebook I recently checked out with that same CPU, it's gonna be a little noisy while gaming (fans ramp up with clocks!), it was quite loud really for a notebook. Not the end of the world, particularly if you have some good headphones.

 

[exar333]

That SSD might fill-up mighty quick with a lot of large game installs, beware.

 

[Soccerman06]

If your hoping for a new console before 2014, your out of your mind.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Yeah, Microsoft has already said the 360 is only halfway through it's lifecycle. So i doubt we will even get a preview of the next Xbox until 2013, and a release late 2014. Ridiculous but money talks and consoles make money.

It kinda makes me sick that we will be seeing DX9 games in 2014.

 

[zerocool84]

Thanks man! Glad to hear I'll have a good 1 or 2 years to build up the money to buy new parts! Anyone still have any suggestions as of games?

Well that depends on what rez you play at and if you're ok with turing down things. Laptops gfx are always slower than destop graphics. You should be able to run everything in your list fine except Crysis as it still kills high-end systems at any decent rez with AA. All those other games are based on really old engines so they don't take a lot of juice to run them.

 

[TheCandyWalrus]

Yeah I thought the SSD would fill up rather fast so i bought a spare external if the horrible event of it filling up were to happen. Glad to hear oblivion will run great because I LOVE modding that game and useing other peoples mods so cheers thanks for the input guys . And yeah Zero I heard Crysis was a comp killer so that was the one i was mainly worried about either way though I'm happy to hear the overall input. Oh and BTW got it yesterday It ran Oblivion beautifully, praticly flawless, at nearly max settings which I was blown away by lol.

 

[Bill Brasky]

It kinda makes me sick that we will be seeing DX9 games in 2014.

This x100000000. Damn consoles.