20gb enough for gaming??

Question

I'm looking to buy a cheap refurbished laptop for general use. I have the Sims 2 and many of the expansion packs. Is a 20gb hard drive enough to run these programs? (I don't want to spend more than around £230).

Answer 1

If you just play one game then it it perfectly fine but if your going to do other gaming then you need to get way more than 20gb. Instead of buying a laptop for gaming just a desktop computer you will get a much better working PC with much more than just 20gb.

Answer 2

The size of the hard drive has little to do with the performance of games. The drive stores the information necessary to run the game. The speed of the drive at your price range is negligible to other options that can be improved upon.

First, for a great gaming experience, you want the largest amount of RAM that you can afford. For a casual gaming experience, 1Gigabyte of RAM will work. You may need more if you wish to play a more memory intensive game.

Second is the processor. You want the fastest that money will buy. This lets you use that RAM that you just installed in the most efficient manner.

Third, is the graphics processor. This is necessary for seemless graphics, in conjunction with your processor.

You may want to invest in a higher power desktop rather than shoddy laptop. Laptops are built for portability at that price range, not performance. I highly doubt you will be able to find a suitable, legally acquired (not stolen) laptop on your budget.

Answer 3

If its for 1 game probably yes but for gaming and other stuff NO Way. I have a 320GB Hard Drive

Answer 4

well 20 gig is definetly a lot for one game.  But u might want to add up all those expansion packs and the game space requirements.  u can find em on the box somewhere or u can definetly find it online.  

Answer 5

that's not alot, but pretty good for a refurbished one, maybe a bit more, your gonna get a bad computer for that much money, but it really depends on how much RAM you have, when you are looking at computers, make sure the RAM is pretty good, maybe 1-2 gigs of ram

Answer 6

Well it's not the hard drive space that will give you trouble-it's your video card and RAM.

20GB of hard drive -OK not much but for normal use OK.

You didn't say anything about your video card-so really I can't help you.

Question on others that answered.Have you ever seen a game that uses 20GB ? If a game is on a regular DVD it will be MAX 4.6 GB-not 20.