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Upgrades for an old machine.

JJauclair

Budget (including currency): under 750

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Siege, Call of Duty, Farming Simulator and War Thunder.

 

So last night I found my moms old PC from the 2000s. It is an HP Pavilion that has an AMD Athlon 64 2X 4400+ CPU, a Nvidia GeForce 6150 and 4gb of DDR3 ram. This machine is very slow and runs windows vista. It hasn’t been used in years and still has a 320gb hard drive. I’m am looking to see if I can upgrade this thing a little under 750 dollars to get it to perform better and switch to windows 10. I want to keep the original integrity of the system and stuff like that. I’m just trying to get a starter machine to play games on... Thank you!

 

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You can get an entire sytem for 750 bucks. You wont go anywhere with that motherboard from HP. DDR3 is literal cancer and that cpu probably has a special socket

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I don’t really want to buy another system unless I’m going all out with a budget of 3000... I just want to see what I could do to this machine for cheap.

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3 minutes ago, RyZen3200G said:

You can get an entire sytem for 750 bucks. You wont go anywhere with that motherboard from HP. DDR3 is literal cancer and that cpu probably has a special socket

I don’t really want to buy another system unless I’m going all out with a budget of 3000... I just want to see what I could do to this machine for cheap.

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3 minutes ago, JJauclair said:

 

I don’t really want to buy another system unless I’m going all out with a budget of 3000... I just want to see what I could do to this machine for cheap.

this machine cant do anything. Sorry mate. Athlon cpus are extinct and this cpu has a manufacturer custom socket. You cant find it anywhere. Its a pavillion meaning the chip is probably soldered to the mobo.

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1 minute ago, RyZen3200G said:

this machine cant do anything. Sorry mate. Athlon cpus are extinct and this cpu has a manufacturer custom socket. You cant find it anywhere. Its a pavillion meaning the chip is probably soldered to the mobo.

Alright. Thank you for the help. Have a good night.

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