Is it any good for gaming

[Cracon]

I upgrades the cpu to an I5-4570 currently has 8 gb of memory was going to upgrade the memory to 16gb and the hard drive to a ssd.....but before I do this I would like to know when I do upgrade the machine that it would run current games?

[NonSequitur777 · Accepted solution]

@Cracon,

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

Unfortunately your AIO is not suitable for gaming.  There is no discrete graphics card support, and the integrated HD 4600 graphics performs very poorly for gaming purposes.

Consider, for example, the comparison between a mid-range graphics card (RX 580) with HD 4600 integrated graphics: https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-HD-4600-Desktop-125-GHz-vs-AMD-RX-580/2168vs3923.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Cracon]

Thanks for the advice

[JessewalterJR]

It's very good, I had way lower specs and managed to run CSGO at 40-60 FPS at 720P, but it depends on what you are going to play, and that SSD won't boost performance, just the startup time of games and boot time. For a lot of modern games, you're going to run them well.

[NonSequitur777]

@Cracon,

"Very good"? -Look, HD 4600 is pretty decent as far as integrated graphics is concerned, but I maintain it is far from ideal for playing games. Often you would be forced to lower the resolution to 720p, you will be running at medium graphics settings (at best) with perhaps 40 fps on a good day. If you played on low settings you may get 60 fps or a little more. Yes, there may be some games where you can run 1080p at reasonably fair framerates, but in general you should expect mediocre resolution and subpar quality.

In short, HD 4600 was only designed for casual tasks such as surfing the internet and watching Netflix. Integrated graphics are basically not recommended for gaming. Plus the driver support from Intel does limit its performance even more.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777