HP ZE2308WM (Wal-Mart Black Friday Deal) Laptop, Is it good enough to run WoW?

[CrackRabbit]

At a little over $400 OTD it seems like an excelent deal, with a memory upgrade would it be good enough to run WoW and maybe some BF1942 and UT2004?
I can't seem to find much on the Radeon X200 chipset that it comes with other than it is fully DX9 Functional.

Thanks,

CrackRabbit

 

[andrewbabcock]

 

[Hacp]

BF1942 and UT 2004 are old games Should run those two games pretty well.

 

[wanderica]

ATi Site
AT's review

You are talking about the Xpress 200 right? Anyway, for what it's worth, I play WoW all the time on my Go 5200. Not the best performance, but it gets the job done quite nicely IMO.

 

[cheesehead]

At 256 mb of RAM, I'd be surprised if it ran at all. However, another 50$ will get you a 512mb stick of DDR for your laptop; this should increase performance noticeably. The included graphics and Sempron 2600+ should let you run pretty well at low resolution; however, you'd likely have a low framerate and have to forego most of the graphics options.
UT2004 should run fine on 800x600. BF1942 should run pretty well, as well.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Thanks Wanderica, I had totaly forgoten about the AT review of the integrated graphics.
Looks like it should run anything I want it to without too much trouble.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Put in 1GB RAM for better performance. Can be had for ~$100