How will the following games run on an HP Pavillion gaming laptop with the following specs?

Those games should run well on this laptop, but not necessarily at all high settings. I don't have these particular games, but...

• I believe Minecraft is a fairly cpu intensive game.
• Fortnite probably also could do with a bit more grunt at the higher settings, as while it is cartoon like some of the lighting

and shadow effects may require more processing power than expected.

• i3 is a dual core cpu with Hyper-threading which adds two pseudo cores. Some games don't like Hyper-threading.
• i5 is a proper quad core cpu and a good option for games, however 2.3GHz is a bit on the low end for many games.

If at all possible see if Santa can offer a cpu closer to 3.0GHz.

• However the 1050ti is a good graphics card and will compensate a bit for the relatively slow 2.3GHz cpu.
• 8GB system RAM is more than enough. particularly relative to the cpu and gpu processing power.

The only way you would use even 8GB is if you heavily multi-task (have heaps of stuff open in the background while gaming).

• Don't worry about the AMD Athlon 64 or Pentium D. Those are older model cpu's (over 10 years old) and are less

capable even if the speed is a bit higher.

"1 TB SATA hard drive instead of SSD (don't know if this matters)"

Win10 runs a bit snappier on an SSD, but games don't benefit baring a slightly faster loading time.

Problem is, even if the SSD is 256GB it could fill up surprisingly fast, so I would go with the 1TB HDD, even though that

is perhaps a bit large if you don't already have a big game collection.

• Note that no laptop, even with a 'Gaming' tag is as good as an equivalent desktop machine for gaming. Laptops all have

a problem keeping the heat down during long gaming sessions.

Using an external fan pad can help, but they still run hot.

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