Upgrade old system?

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stevenz

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#102538 16-May-2012 17:34

I've found an old system laying around that I could chuck an AMD 64 X2 3800+ (2Ghz dualcore) into as well as a ~$200ish PCIe card and potentially get a low-end gaming rig up and running.

Even worth bothering you reckon or is the GPU going to be unable to compensate for the CPU?

I can stuff 4GB of DDR400 RAM and a big SATA HDD into it from bits laying around, but again, probably not much point.

I don't have a spare $1500 to build a _proper_ new gaming rig unfortunately.

@KnightNZ

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#626374 16-May-2012 18:26

I had an x2 3800+ with an 8800gs which I played bad company 2, The Witcher, Fallout 3 etc on with medium settings for most things, the resolution of the screen I was driving was 1680x1050.
Couldn't tell you whether I was gpu or cpu limited first as the motherboard died and I rebuilt with a sandy bridge i5 and radeon 6850.
You could likely make an excellent htpc out of it but for modern gaming it would struggle. Older titles far less so.

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Snowflake

#626419 16-May-2012 19:38

considering you can pickup a new pc with cpu, mobo, hdd and case and most likely better performance from the likes of pbtech for $450, its probably not worth spending that money on an old system....

http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=WKSPB1406&name=PB-1406-UG-Box-AMD-New-A4-3300-Dual-Core-with-Inte

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stevenz

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#627416 18-May-2012 16:47

Wow, that is cheap.

I haven't build a system for about 3 years, should I still stick with Intel (i5 probably) or are some of the AMD's better value for money?

@KnightNZ