A few day ago I picked up and old Dell Precision 670 workstation at a scrapyard. It has 2 dual core Xeon 7030s (PPGA604) so I was hoping to use it as a cheap nas/gaming rig. It boots fine which is a miracle but the the processors are really slow and run hot. I’ve been looking on eBay for better CPUs with the same socket and have found a couple of quad core options for about 10-30 USD. Will an upgrading to something like a Xeon X7350 2.93GHz Quad-Core be a worthwhile investment or just a waste of money. I have 16 gb of ECC ram at 400mhz and some cheap old PCIe GPU that I plan on upgrading to something like a 1050ti.
Thx