Is this PC enought to play new games?
Hi, I’m about to buy a new PC, I wonder if it can handle new games on highest settings. I’m talking about 2007-2009 games. Because my PC got 6150 LE and it sucks. I play Team Fortress 2 with a command -dxlevel 81 on high. The graphics sucks, but its the only way I can play it smooth. So, I wonder if this PC is good enough to handle Valve games and new games. BTW I only play FPS on PC. ( I WANT TO PLAY GAMES ON HIGH, CUZ IF I PLAY LOW/MEDIUM I GET CONFUESED 
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specs:
Processors
Type II Processor AMD Athlon X2
No. 215
Speed (GHz) 2.80
CPU Cache 2MB
Chipset Narra6
Memory
RAM – Type DDR3
RAM (MB) 4096
RAM – Maximum Upgrade (MB) 4096
RAM – Speed (MHz) 1333
RAM – Ports (Total) 2
RAM – Ports (available) 0
Hard Drives
Number 1 turntable
Capacity (GB) 1000
Hard Drive – Speed (RPM) 5400
Interface (Interface) SATA 3G
Sound & Graphics
Sound Card – type high-definition 5.1 audio
Speakers
Subwoofer
Graphics card – ATI 4350 HD type
Dedicated graphics memory (MB) 512
Shared video memory (MB) 2303
Connections
TV Out
TV Tuner
USB 2.0 6
FireWire (IEEE 1394)
Esat
LAN Card – Type 10/100
Wireless Interface
Port of memory
Supports the following Memory Card 6in1
Other DVI (VGA / HDMI via adapter)
Expansion Ports
PCI (Total) 1
PCI (available) 1
PCI-Express 16x (Total) 3
PCI-Express 16x (Available) 2
CD / DVD
Type CD / DVD
Optical Drive CD / DVD + / – RW DL
Other
Operating system Windows 7 Home Premium
Software Cyberlink DVDsuite
You have listed an ATI 4350 as your graphics card, and that is not going to be able to play the latest games at the highest settings. If you want high settings, then the graphics card is a crucial component. You could do it with an ATI HD5870, or a 5850 might be able to play most games at close enough to max settings. Or a nvidia GTX285.
4gb of ddr3 ram is fine, but the second most important factor is the processor. An Athlon X2 will be fine for most games, but the latest ones run much better with a quad-core processor. An AMD Phenom processor, or any of the intel quad cores would be preferable. (remember that your motherboard will determine what brand of processor you can use, and vice versa).
The setup you have described will handle nearly all 2007-2009 games fine, but only at medium settings (team fortress 2 should be ok at high settings though, as long as you’re not boosting the resolution up to 1900×1200 or higher). For example, you definitely couldn’t max out GTA4, or Oblivion, or Crysis, or games of similar complexity.
PC gaming is an expensive business, especially with regard to the latest games with the highest graphics. The software and hardware companies collaborate to release new game titles, processors and video cards with specific timing, to encourage people to spend more money on the latest products, at inflated prices. I’m usually not interested in a game until it is at least a year old – that way the requirements are not so out of reach, the prices are more realistic, and the bugs have been mostly sorted out with patches.
yes definitely all you have to look at is your graphics card and ram space