High end GPU on a old pc

[fasavard]

Budget (including currency): 600 cad

Country: Camada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Running Switch emulator 

Other details i7 2600, 16 gig ram

Hi, I got a pretty old computer, an i7 2600. It's an old cpu but the clock speed is decent (3.4ghz)

I'm planning on upgrading it but i was wondering before i upgrade the pc, could i put an rtx 3060 in it to play some game like on a Nintendo switch emulator. My thinking was instead of buying a switch, i could upgrade the video card while I'm waiting  to buy a decent full upgrade

Would it work ? at what kind of bottleneck im i looking at ?

 

[Biomecanoid]

8 minutes ago, fasavard said:

Budget (including currency): 600 cad

Country: Camada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Running Switch emulator 

Other details i7 2600, 16 gig ram

Hi, I got a pretty old computer, an i7 2600. It's an old cpu but the clock speed is decent (3.4ghz)

I'm planning on upgrading it but i was wondering before i upgrade the pc, could i put an rtx 3060 in it to play some game like on a Nintendo switch emulator. My thinking was instead of buying a switch, i could upgrade the video card while I'm waiting  to buy a decent full upgrade

Would it work ? at what kind of bottleneck im i looking at ?

 

Your PC is fine there is still room for upgrades. Get the 3060 and then upgrade to the best CPU your motherboard supports. You can also do RAID that most people neglect doing.

[ProjectBox153]

I'm actually replying from a machine with an i7-2600 in it right now. A 3060 would be fine, especially if you're looking to upgrade the rest of your machine later on. When I purchased my Radeon RX 570 I put it into a machine with a Core 2 Duo for a while. 

[fasavard]

12 hours ago, Biomecanoid said:

Your PC is fine there is still room for upgrades. Get the 3060 and then upgrade to the best CPU your motherboard supports. You can also do RAID that most people neglect doing.

Hi, 
So great to hear, 

What about Raid ? If i got a SSD the performance would be already at max 

Or are you talking abouting making a raid of ssd ?

[fasavard]

11 hours ago, ProjectBox153 said:

I'm actually replying from a machine with an i7-2600 in it right now. A 3060 would be fine, especially if you're looking to upgrade the rest of your machine later on. When I purchased my Radeon RX 570 I put it into a machine with a Core 2 Duo for a while. 

Thanks for the answer friend !

[fasavard]

I just realise that I'm at pci 2 gen.

I'll need to see if it even worth if for a 6-9 month period to run on the card before my upgrade

[fasavard]

12 hours ago, fasavard said:

Thanks for the answer friend !

Wich pci version are you running ?

[fasavard]

Found an pc3 motherbord laying around, yaye !!