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So, one of my buddies is using a craptop to play minecraft. E300 HP laptop, 4GB RAM. Ew. He says he loves PC gaming and unfortunately decided to be dumb and bought a PS3 and Xbox 360. He wants to go back to PC gaming but upon moving to this apartment his parents got his old desktop. I have some spare parts laying around, you think this'll make a minecraft worthy PC?

Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5ghz

Geforce 7950 GT

4GB (4x1GB) DDR2-800

2x500GB Drives in RAID

Win7 or Win8.1 his choice.

 

 

What do you think? Minecraft worthy?

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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Yea. It should. Minecraft is more CPU reliant. 
So the Core 2 Quad should do the trick.

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The ram would hit the game hard, in a bad way. The CPU is probably enough.

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Yea. It should. Minecraft is more CPU reliant. 

So the Core 2 Quad should do the trick.

He'd need a motherboard and case. Can you point me in the right direction? Budget for both should be ~$140

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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The ram would hit the game hard, in a bad way. The CPU is probably enough.

Best put win8.1 pro on there then. Less memory intensive than win7. 

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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Best put win8.1 pro on there then. Less memory intensive than win7. 

Or Linux...

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Or Linux...

I could, but he wants windows. ^3^

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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I could, but he wants windows. ^3^

Did he actually say he doesn't want to use Linux?  People often forget about it as an option for slower computers  

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Did he actually say he doesn't want to use Linux?  People often forget about it as an option for slower computers  

I asked him if he knew about ubuntu, and he literally said

"My college courses use a windows only thing so I gotta go with windows on this one."

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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If anyone can find an LGA 775 board that supports yorkdale and has 4 DDR2 ports that'd be hella sick.

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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Minecraft is a horrific game to base benchmarks on ect. It's written in Java and loves eating up CPU cycles and ram. My GPU hovering around 50%> utilization. 

 

 

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Minecraft is a horrific game to base benchmarks on ect. It's written in Java and loves eating up CPU cycles and ram. My GPU hovering around 50%> utilization. 

But he's using it on an e300...

could surely use a better GPU and CPU

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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