NO. HP computers suck. They are not reliable and lag less than 5 months of use.It depends what kind of games...if you are talking about a small filed game such as Simcity 4 deluxe then yes it will work perfectly...large filed games such as spore or Runescape will lag unbelievably; you will not be able to play larger filed online games or download games...it's best if you bought a laptop designed for gaming, Alienware seems to be the only one that I can think of which supports gaming files on a laptop.Conclusion: Any laptop less than 6GB memory, 2.6GHz and 500GB hard drive will not be reliableMy recommendation is to buy an "all-in-one" computer, they can most certainly handle large game files, if nothing else big in file is downloaded, they are much cheaper than the traditional desktop comp