Well since the Pavillion G6's I find differ a bit in the hardware compartment we really need to know more about the GFX card. However, I can tell you that with a 850$ laptop you are most likely gonna see lag and fps drops in newer'ish games from time to time, not that it's gonna happen constantly but under hard conditions it will lag. I dont game much though. Though I think a laptop like that is pretty darn good for a 8 year old.