scavenging Found a 4th gen i7 neglected pc in the e-waste today

[Jam Joy ??]

So .. today a friend and icwent to our local ewaste to find another friend a minecraft gaming rig. We pulled out this beast with an i7 4th gen and a 700 watt psu the only problem being the state it was in ( rat piss, rust, disgusting! etc ) .... So we spent the rest of the day cleaning it and it somehow booted?? Yeh idk how it survived myself, but anyways what im wwondering is what the the risks of useing something like this desktop for light minecraft gaming is ?? 

[WhitetailAni]

Step 1:
Replace the GPU cooler

[Jam Joy ??]

2 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Nice!

 

If I found that I would be over the moon. All that needs is a GPU (and probably a new PSU) and you have a very solid gaming rig

I know I'm so excited and my friends gonna be ecstatic! 

[Jam Joy ??]

2 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Step 1:
Replace the GPU cooler

Gpu  what gpu XD ?? 

 

[Gazereths]

Cool! The 4770 is still an awesome CPU and goes for decent money (although overpriced for what it is) but for free that's awesome!

[Jam Joy ??]

1 minute ago, Gazereths said:

Cool! The 4770 is still an awesome CPU and goes for decent money (although overpriced for what it is) but for free that's awesome!

Can it play  minecraft tho ???? 

 

 

 

(jk)

[nbrowser]

Just sent a surplus 4770 to my uncle a month or so ago to replace his i3...he reported the system screams now, nice find!

[Jam Joy ??]

1 minute ago, nbrowser said:

Just sent a surplus 4770 to my uncle a month or so ago to replace his i3...he reported the system screams now, nice find!

Are they that good ??

[Gazereths]

9 minutes ago, Jam Joy ?? said:

Can it play  minecraft tho ???? 

 

 

 

(jk)

Nah.....maybe minesweeper

 

Seriously though a 4th gen i7 is still a very decent chip, will play most games easily with the right gpu. Drop a mid range GPU in there and it'll be a kickass system for cheap. Anything upto a RTX 2060 should be fine. Probably best suited to the RX 570/80/ GTX 1660/ti though.

[nbrowser]

2 minutes ago, Jam Joy ?? said:

Are they that good ??

Definitely not "new tech" but certainly capable still, the system you found..throw a new PSU into it for peace of mind and maybe try to find a decent GPU for it...it's got good bones.

[Jam Joy ??]

2 minutes ago, nbrowser said:

Definitely not "new tech" but certainly capable still, the system you found..throw a new PSU into it for peace of mind and maybe try to find a decent GPU for it...it's got good bones.

I'm thinking if giving it to a friend so he can play minecraft ? You think it'll probably run that?

[nbrowser]

3 minutes ago, Jam Joy ?? said:

I'm thinking if giving it to a friend so he can play minecraft ? You think it'll probably run that?

Oh easy.

[Jam Joy ??]

8 minutes ago, Gazereths said:

Nah.....maybe minesweeper

 

Seriously though a 4th gen i7 is still a very decent chip, will play most games easily with the right gpu. Drop a mid range GPU in there and it'll be a kickass system for cheap. Anything upto a RTX 2060 should be fine. Probably best suited to the RX 570/80/ GTX 1660/ti though.

Ok, I can probably get my hands on an 1660 I guess 

[Jam Joy ??]

1 minute ago, nbrowser said:

Oh easy.

Nice ! It's all I care about lol 

[Gazereths]

1 minute ago, Jam Joy ?? said:

Ok, I can probably get my hands on an 1660 I guess 

If you can get a good deal on that sure, maybe a 1070 or 980ti would be good also...Just depends on the right deal really.

[Jam Joy ??]

Just now, Gazereths said:

If you can get a good deal on that sure, maybe a 1070 or 980ti would be good also...Just depends on the right deal really.

True, i think 1660 titi'swhers going cheaply near me 

[Gazereths]

2 minutes ago, Jam Joy ?? said:

True, i think 1660 titi'swhers going cheaply near me 

Sweet, will be a good system with one of those inside. Drop 16GB DDR3 and a cheap SSD and it'll be a nice system.

 

PSU looks a bit sketchy though.

 

Another option is to sell the CPU/MOBO combo and buy into a Ryzen system. Might be able to get a 4 core / 8 thread Ryzen and mobo combo for the price of the 4770 and mobo....Again depends on the deals though. 4770 is pretty much the dead end of that platform. Could go to the 4790k but not worth it really.

[SkilledRebuilds]

I maxed out a 1070 with a 4790K with ALL but the latest games when chasing HighHertz and Higher Details (Drawcalls I guess) in the most demanding games, it's expected it'll perform a little worse than average, still plenty capable of many good things.
With some outliers. (Anthem CPU usage, CBP2077 CPU usage, Horizon Zero Dawn in earlier days tying to HOLD 60FPS at Higher details) to name a few extreme cases of bad ports needing brute force and being a little lacking to do so.

Almost all games run super well to drive 60FPS-75FPS+++, and a whole lot of them around 90-120FPS+, really depends what you play..
 

I've kinda taken my 4thGen as far as it can go.. (4.7+cacheOC+2400MhzRam at 2600Mhz, NVME/SSDs) had a GTX1070 now a 2080Ti (until my upgrade in two months)
Framepacing is the biggest thing in modern titles... Doom Eternal says its 120+FPS but many times at demanding sections, it FELT like microshuddered gameplay randomly came in and out while having the 120fps+ experience on the stats it felt like 50-60fps at times.

Pick a GPU according to the CPU weaknesses, aka 2080Super or less (3060Ti) or less. maybe the 3070 at a stretch.
 

[Gazereths]

40 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

I maxed out a 1070 with a 4790K with ALL but the latest games when chasing HighHertz and Higher Details (Drawcalls I guess) in the most demanding games, it's expected it'll perform a little worse than average, still plenty capable of many good things.
With some outliers. (Anthem CPU usage, CBP2077 CPU usage, Horizon Zero Dawn in earlier days tying to HOLD 60FPS at Higher details) to name a few extreme cases of bad ports needing brute force and being a little lacking to do so.

Almost all games run super well to drive 60FPS-75FPS+++, and a whole lot of them around 90-120FPS+, really depends what you play..
 

I've kinda taken my 4thGen as far as it can go.. (4.7+cacheOC+2400MhzRam at 2600Mhz, NVME/SSDs) had a GTX1070 now a 2080Ti (until my upgrade in two months)
Framepacing is the biggest thing in modern titles... Doom Eternal says its 120+FPS but many times at demanding sections, it FELT like microshuddered gameplay randomly came in and out while having the 120fps+ experience on the stats it felt like 50-60fps at times.

Pick a GPU according to the CPU weaknesses, aka 2080Super or less (3060Ti) or less. maybe the 3070 at a stretch.
 

A fully overclocked 4790k performs quite different fom a 4770, I got my 4790k to 4.9Ghz all cores and compared to a 4770 @ max 3.9Ghz it could handle a 1070/980ti/2060 quite well where the stock 4790k would struggle a little. I did run with a 1080ti and 2080ti for a while but noticed some performance left on the table @ 1080p and 1440p, though not too much. I think a 2080ti/3060ti/2080 super is just a little overkill even for the fully OC'd 4790k so the 4770 will struggle to get the max out of those GPU's at 1080p or 1440p.

 

Anyway this is an awsome free PC, get whatever good deal you can on a GPU and it will be awesome! Good luck getting anything decent for MSRP at the moment though Hunt those used deals on facebook marketplace or gumtree etc.  Even a good priced 970 would be a good match. (skip the 980 non ti unless it's a really good deal though) they are closer to a 970 than a 980ti in performance, yet sellers thinik the oppsite so tend to be overpriced.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Yeah I should have expanded on that,..
What an awesome free PC though,.. a GTX1080/RTX2060 Super even, would be a great fit for the Higher end GPU I'd go with for a 3.9Ghz based 4th i7.

[PeachGr]

I ve had the i7 4790, it was an awesome cpu for gaming. I ve had thousands of hours of game on that one. I swapped after 5 years of use. A GPU will improve the pc greatly. You even have an ssd (!). 

[unsorted]

Congrats on the find. I have found some awesome discarded components myself. One of the few perks of living in the Landfill Economy of colossal waste.

[piratemonkey]

@CircleTech would be proud