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TouchSmarts for Gaming??

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JOSHSKORN

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This is my second posting of this topic. It didn't seem to get any attention so I reposted it here. The original post is here.

OK I'm seriously behind in 'new' technology. I really only care about Desktops but recently, my mom bought this "HP TouchSmart" off one of those TV shopping networks. Not sure which one. My first thought was that I liked how contained it was, no computer on the desk (or floor in my case), and it works with any keyboard/mouse. Plus, it COULD be mounted on a wall, which defeats the purpose of a touch screen, because it'd be out of reach. Also, it looks like there's a way to hook it up to a cable box, although I'll have to look into that a bit better.

After checking its WEI score (which I know doesn't help all that much, just more for bragging rights), it said it's a 4.2, with the graphics being the bottleneck. My Desktop is a 5.5. It isn't strong enough to play Crysis in Hi-resolution but it will do nicely in low resolution. I only play Halo and occasionally, CoD.

My question is, do they make these machines (yet) to play games like Crysis or MW2 in hi-res?
 
Danny Bui said:
Depends on whether or not you want low, medium , or high settings. The answer to the medium and high is No. For low, kind of:
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Well, I sort of already knew this much, but thanks. I saw a YouTube video of a guy playing a game called "Son of Sam" (I think) with the settings on low resolution.

I guess if THIS is the best that touch screens can do for now, I'll have to wait, but wow, the potential is so awesome. I really want something the size of the HP TouchSmart 600 to be hardcore gaming quality. Again, it looks like something that can be easily turned into a TV that you can hook up to a cable box. The size of the screen is right. It's HD, and in 1080p if I'm not mistaken. Or if you have a small room and you want to hook it up to your PS3 or XBOX 360, I bet it'll work for that, too.
 
JOSHSKORN said:
Well, I sort of already knew this much, but thanks. I saw a YouTube video of a guy playing a game called "Son of Sam" (I think) with the settings on low resolution.

I guess if THIS is the best that touch screens can do for now, I'll have to wait, but wow, the potential is so awesome. I really want something the size of the HP TouchSmart 600 to be hardcore gaming quality. Again, it looks like something that can be easily turned into a TV that you can hook up to a cable box. The size of the screen is right. It's HD, and in 1080p if I'm not mistaken. Or if you have a small room and you want to hook it up to your PS3 or XBOX 360, I bet it'll work for that, too.
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He was probably playing Serious Sam.

The main issue is gonna price: Those touchscreens are generally using laptop GPUs. And those are pretty expensive as well as nowhere near some of their higher-end desktop brothers. In addition, not many people are getting these touchscreens for gaming. Anyone serious about gaming isn't gonna get one of those all in ones.
 
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