Is my laptop good for gaming or not?

Pjclcs

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My dad bought me a laptop. Acer Aspire V11 Touch. Same as Acer Aspire V3-112P-P994
Processor: Intel Pentium n3540 2.16GHz
Ram: 4GB
64-bit Windows 8.1
500 GB HDD
Video card: Intel(R) HD Graphics
i know this is not a gaming laptop but i dont have any choice because my dad bought it from the other country and I just want to ask if I can change my processor and my video card, some people said it can be change, some said it is already permanent. I watched a video on how to change integrated video card but idk if it will work on my laptop.
 
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The CPU is soldered into the motherboard, it cannot be upgraded. The graphics core is integrated in the CPU itself. There is no way to install a graphics card. Only specific models of gaming laptops that cost $1,400+ will give you the ability to upgrade the mobile graphics card which are quite expensive... more expensive than your laptop.

It should be fine as an "everyday laptop" for surfing the web watching videos and doing homework. For games... not really since it is the lowest performing "Intel HD" graphics core since Intel started to integrate the graphics core inside the CPU back in 2011.
The CPU is soldered into the motherboard, it cannot be upgraded. The graphics core is integrated in the CPU itself. There is no way to install a graphics card. Only specific models of gaming laptops that cost $1,400+ will give you the ability to upgrade the mobile graphics card which are quite expensive... more expensive than your laptop.

It should be fine as an "everyday laptop" for surfing the web watching videos and doing homework. For games... not really since it is the lowest performing "Intel HD" graphics core since Intel started to integrate the graphics core inside the CPU back in 2011.
 
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huss987

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You should be able to play some low end games with some tinkering in the settings. Minecraft should run pretty stable, maybe with optifine. CS GO might run if you turn down resolution and all the settings
 

Gaurav790

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see therez a way to install a extermal GPu on ur laptop but the laptops base will need to be opened and it will be needed to connected to A Gpu.If u want i had a video on that and i can give u the useful links as well for installing an external Gpu on ur laptop.The only thing is that u need to be careful and also u will need to open the base of the laptop