E5200 GPU?

[Paralectic]

So a friend of mine has an outdated PC with a Dual Core E5200 and 2GB Ram and he wants to be able to play League of Legends and Company Of Heroes 2 on normal frame rates and such.

 

So I will upgrade the RAM to 4GB or 8GB but what about the GPU?

The CPU is so outdated I think even a GTX 750 Ti would be bottlenecked by the processor, how should I upgrade his rig and why?

[SAV1OUR]

it should be able to run a 750ti and 8gb ram

[Paralectic]

it should be able to run a 750ti and 8gb ram

Won't the Dual Core E5200 bottleneck it?

[WoodenMarker]

Won't the Dual Core E5200 bottleneck it?

Depends on the game. Unless you have a chunk of money to blow for everything, there isn't really a better upgrade for gaming.

[Nineshadow]

Just get a 750Ti.

My 560 was very bottlenecked by my old Athlon 64 X2 5000+ @ 2.6Ghz and I would still get over 90 fps in LoL if I disabled VSync.

It will bottleneck,but it's good enough.

[Menzenski]

Coming from someone who gamed with an e5300 (it did 4.0GHz tho hehehehehe) for a good while, I'd say a 750ti is a good fit.  I'd limit to 4gb of ram though, honestly it's not worth the hassle of trying to find an 8gb kit of ddr2.

[SAV1OUR]

Won't the Dual Core E5200 bottleneck it?

this maybe be wrong but if ausitn made a budget video anand a i3 duel core and a 750ti it will be fine. however these a slight chance that the architecture of the cores may effect it

[Konasumi]

I have a Pentium E5300, and it has the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100. I have a GTX 750 Ti coming my way pretty soon, and I don't think there will be that much of a bottleneck. There will be a little, but it won't be too terrible.

 

The Intel 3100 can run Minecraft and Live for Speed at their lowest settings at over 30 FPS.

[Menzenski]

Won't the Dual Core E5200 bottleneck it?

 

I'd definitely try to clock it a little higher (~3.0 GHz), but it should be just fine.

[Anthony_95]

My 560 ti bottlenecked an intel e5800 cpu playing portal 2. And you can only fit 4 Gb ram inside !

[lani100]

Get atleast 4gb ram in that thing and get a 750ti

You can also get a sencondhand quadcore for 50 euro .

 

You are dutch so have a look on tweakers.net vraag/aanbod you can find cheap quadcores there.

[Menzenski]

Get atleast 4gb ram in that thing and get a 750ti

You can also get a sencondhand quadcore for 50 euro .

 

You are dutch so have a look on tweakers.net vraag/aanbod you can find cheap quadcores there.

 

 

Honestly I'd recommend staying with the e5200 over a Core2Quad if the intention is purely gaming (OP).  In my experience, unless you can find a good deal on something like a Q9650 (if the board in question even supports it), it'd be better to just buy a cheap tower cooler and clock the pentium a little higher.

 

I switched my second rig from a 4 GHz e5300 to an overclocked Q8200, and gaming performance went down noticeably.

[lani100]

 

 

Honestly I'd recommend staying with the e5200 over a Core2Quad if the intention is purely gaming (OP).  In my experience, unless you can find a good deal on something like a Q9650 (if the board in question even supports it), it'd be better to just buy a cheap tower cooler and clock the pentium a little higher.

 

I switched my second rig from a 4 GHz e5300 to an overclocked Q8200, and gaming performance went down noticeably.

 

Here you can get q9300 for 40 bucks used so that isn 't bad

But yes that's true the higher end dualcors are faster then the Q8200-Q8300

[Paralectic]

Get atleast 4gb ram in that thing and get a 750ti

You can also get a sencondhand quadcore for 50 euro .

 

You are dutch so have a look on tweakers.net vraag/aanbod you can find cheap quadcores there.

I don't think I want to upgrade the motherboard so I might get 4GB RAM in total with a 750Ti.

[lani100]

I don't think I want to upgrade the motherboard so I might get 4GB RAM in total with a 750Ti.

fyi I have a spare 775 board and ram laying around.

[Menzenski]

Here you can get q9300 for 40 bucks used so that isn 't bad

But yes that's true the higher end dualcors are faster then the Q8200-Q8300

 

Well prices are certainly very different for you  :blink:

At that price that would definitely be an option to consider.

[Paralectic]

fyi I have a spare 775 board and ram laying around.

I don't even know the socket of the E5200 and IDK if it's DDR2 or DDR3

 

Haven't opened up his PC yet.

[lani100]

I don't even know the socket of the E5200 and IDK if it's DDR2 or DDR3

 

Haven't opened up his PC yet.

That will be socket 775 but you need to look at the chipset if it supports core2quads this socket usually is DDR2 but the newer/higher end boards support DDR3

[Paralectic]

That will be socket 775 but you need to look at the chipset if it supports core2quads this socket usually is DDR2 but the newer/higher end boards support DDR3

I could use some DDR2 RAM probably, 4GB 2x2?

[lani100]

I could use some DDR2 RAM probably, 4GB 2x2?

I may have some laying around but need to look for that tonight I also have a spare board that supports max 8gb and core 2 quads.

[Paralectic]

I may have some laying around but need to look for that tonight I also have a spare board that supports max 8gb and core 2 quads.

Not sure, I'm not really knowledges about older motherboards and Core 2 Quads CPUs etc.

[lani100]

Not sure, I'm not really knowledges about older motherboards and Core 2 Quads CPUs etc.

Ah, well i have the knowledge if you need any help or need parts DM me.

[Paralectic]

Ah, well i have the knowledge if you need any help or need parts DM me.

I could use some RAM yes, but don't want a new mobo/cpu yet for the rig.