I've got an I4000 with a p3 650 and it will run black and white, but not well enough to make it worth playing. It'll run quake 3 well enough at 800x600, and halflife/counterstrike runs nicely (40fps+) at 1024x768. Generally, newer games will run, but only just, although any 2d game should run just fine. For opengl 3d games your system will be a bit better than mine, but for d3d games its the ati chipset that's doing the damage, so they'll be hardly any difference.
I can run Black and white which is a very demanding game but it does get very choppy at times though definately playable.
Even though the 4000 had decent video capabilities when it was released there are better choices out there now if game playing is your concern.
John..
Inspiron 4000
Celeron 600
128 Ram
Windows ME
ATI 128 Mobility Video 8MB
10G Toshiba HD (Ultra quiet)
El Cheapo network card
Logitech Optical mouse
Play in Lid latch problem
Toshiba Satellite 1625CDT
AMD K6 2+ 475 (upgraded CPU)
64MB ram
Windows ME
ATI Rage pro LT video
10GB IBM Travelstar HD (Borrowed from Dell laptop)
El cheapo Network card
Logitech Optical mouse
caboosemoose
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August 12th, 2001 22:00
I've got an I4000 with a p3 650 and it will run black and white, but not well enough to make it worth playing. It'll run quake 3 well enough at 800x600, and halflife/counterstrike runs nicely (40fps+) at 1024x768. Generally, newer games will run, but only just, although any 2d game should run just fine. For opengl 3d games your system will be a bit better than mine, but for d3d games its the ati chipset that's doing the damage, so they'll be hardly any difference.
kgrat
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August 13th, 2001 02:00
Even though the 4000 had decent video capabilities when it was released there are better choices out there now if game playing is your concern.
John..
Inspiron 4000
Celeron 600
128 Ram
Windows ME
ATI 128 Mobility Video 8MB
10G Toshiba HD (Ultra quiet)
El Cheapo network card
Logitech Optical mouse
Play in Lid latch problem
Toshiba Satellite 1625CDT
AMD K6 2+ 475 (upgraded CPU)
64MB ram
Windows ME
ATI Rage pro LT video
10GB IBM Travelstar HD (Borrowed from Dell laptop)
El cheapo Network card
Logitech Optical mouse
Samiea
1 Message
0
March 24th, 2003 10:00
Hi
Does anyone know if you can upgrade the 8mb graphics card on Dell inspiron 4000 to G-Force 4 64Mb DDR card
caboosemoose
240 Posts
0
March 24th, 2003 11:00
WolfensteinAR
35 Posts
0
March 24th, 2003 14:00
lwren16
4 Posts
0
April 29th, 2004 03:00
Message Edited by lwren16 on 04-28-2004 11:15 PM