Well, it's the usual story, my old computer isn't enough to play the up-to-date games out today, and now I'm looking for a new inexpensive computer mainly for computer gaming purposes. I've been looking around and I've found some good candidates, but I just want to make sure that they would be enough for my specifications before I went out to attempt to buy one. I've posted the specs for each computer below, and would appreciate it if anyone would tell me whether these computers would be good enough for a gaming computer.
If it helps any, the largest game I'm planning to put on the new computer probably would be Oblivion, so I'm mainly looking for a computer on which that game would run well on. I'm pretty sure I'm safe in the memory and hard drive areas on each computer, since I understand those areas well on a computer, but my main concerns are the sound and graphics cards and especially the processor, since I don't understand those areas that much. Again, any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.
Comp #1 HP Pavilion a1510y
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista(TM) Home Basic
Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) D 356 (3.33GHz, 533MHz FSB)
Memory 1GB DDR-533MHz SDRAM (1x1024)
Hard Drive 250GB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive 16x max. DVD-ROM
Front Productivity Ports 2 USB, front audio ports
Graphics Card Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
Sound Card Integrated 5.1 Capable Sound w/ front audio ports
Comp #2 HP Pavilion Slimline s3000e
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista(TM) Home Basic
Processor AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3800+ (2.4GHz / 512KB L2 cache)
Memory 1GB DDR2-533MHz SDRAM (2x512)
Hard Drive 250GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive LightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
Front Productivity Ports 15-in-1 memory card reader, USB
Graphics Card Integrated NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE
Sound Card Integrated 7.1 channel sound w/front audio ports
Comp #3 HP Pavilion Slimline s3000y
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista(TM) Home Basic
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 641 w/ HT Technology, 3.2GHz
Memory 1GB DDR2-533MHz SDRAM (2x512)
Hard Drive 250GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive LightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
Front Productivity Ports 15-in-1 memory card reader, USB
Graphics Card Integrated Intel(R) 950
Sound Card Integrated 7.1 channel sound w/front audio ports
If it helps any, the largest game I'm planning to put on the new computer probably would be Oblivion, so I'm mainly looking for a computer on which that game would run well on. I'm pretty sure I'm safe in the memory and hard drive areas on each computer, since I understand those areas well on a computer, but my main concerns are the sound and graphics cards and especially the processor, since I don't understand those areas that much. Again, any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.
Comp #1 HP Pavilion a1510y
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista(TM) Home Basic
Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) D 356 (3.33GHz, 533MHz FSB)
Memory 1GB DDR-533MHz SDRAM (1x1024)
Hard Drive 250GB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive 16x max. DVD-ROM
Front Productivity Ports 2 USB, front audio ports
Graphics Card Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
Sound Card Integrated 5.1 Capable Sound w/ front audio ports
Comp #2 HP Pavilion Slimline s3000e
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista(TM) Home Basic
Processor AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3800+ (2.4GHz / 512KB L2 cache)
Memory 1GB DDR2-533MHz SDRAM (2x512)
Hard Drive 250GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive LightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
Front Productivity Ports 15-in-1 memory card reader, USB
Graphics Card Integrated NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE
Sound Card Integrated 7.1 channel sound w/front audio ports
Comp #3 HP Pavilion Slimline s3000y
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista(TM) Home Basic
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 641 w/ HT Technology, 3.2GHz
Memory 1GB DDR2-533MHz SDRAM (2x512)
Hard Drive 250GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive LightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
Front Productivity Ports 15-in-1 memory card reader, USB
Graphics Card Integrated Intel(R) 950
Sound Card Integrated 7.1 channel sound w/front audio ports