Gaming on old hardware?

[TheTechWarrior]

First of i'm new here, my pc i built earlier this year and the specs are as follows :

 

ATI Radeon HD 4870 (two of them) DirectX 10.1 900MHz Overclock

AMD athlon II X2 270 Dual core 3.4GHz (stock speeds)

Standard corsair 4GB ram 1333MHz (DDR3)

ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 (also stock)

500W psu (dodgy company - Evo Labs)

Samsung SSD 840 120GB

Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit

Arctic Cooling alpine pro 64 R2.0

 

All inside the not healthy case from hell

- No air flow at all

- Top mounted power supply

- 4 5.25in Bays

- 2 Floppy drive bays (yes floppy )

 

Beacuse of the lack of air flow I have to leave the side panel off and three of four empty.

 

My build soon (sadly not though)

 

Corsair C70 Arctic white

Swiftech H220-X

Saphire R9 290X

Kingston hyperX fury white 16GB

AMD FX 6350 (Hexcore)

800W Corsair power supply (Hopefully modular)

No idea for a board yet

ALL THE SSD's!

- Samsung Evo 840 120GB - Boot only

- Intel SSD (rapid storage for after effects)

Corsair K70 RGB

Red coolant

Red led strips - Probably bitfenix

Noctua fans (NF F12) Redux series

 

With my current GPU I get around 120 - 200fps in Garry's mod (according to fraps)

About 200 - 300fps in Minecraft (Yes Minecraft )

As my internet is soooo bad I don't play online games as much as offline or games on steam (Grid 2, Garry's mod etc.)

120fps in Skyrim elder scrolls V (according to fraps) only on high settings as if I put the game into 'Ultra settings' at the start of the game where you are in a carriage going to a village the cart froze and the horses and the wheels on the cart glitched out and flew to the right. I have no idea what the issue is but it fixes if the graphics settings are set to high.

 

So all aside my Friend has the following in his Build:

Asrock 990fx extreme 3

Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT (two different brands - Inno3D and gigabyte silentcell supposedly in SLI)

650W psu TaurusX

Patriot ram 2GB no idea what model though

Maxtor 120GB harddrive from 2006-2007 I think it maybe sata II

AMD Phenom II 555 BE 3.5GHz

Coolermaster Seidon 120v water cooler Fractal fan on this

Inside an un-branded case that is pretty old

 

He apparently gets around the same fps as me and has two cards running but I only have one at the moment

 

Anyone else on here got or had a HD4870?

 

-TheTechWarrior

[vlkn´]

Nvidia rules >:-O

Nvidia 9600GT 512mb ftw #fanboywar

 

comeatmebro, u wnn fght m8?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRpTjr4L4T4

[Sharif]

I did/do have the Powercolor 4870 HD

[MazeFrame]

Sounds good!

[SuperPug]

pls dont get that cpu with the r9 290x...

[FizzyFantom]

pls dont get that cpu with the r9 290x...

I agree, you shouldn't be buying a 6 core FX chip with an R9 290X.

If you want the CPU for conent creation I would recommend an FX 8 core over a 6 core. The 6 weak(er) cores of an FX 6000 chips will be beaten by an Intel Haswell quad core, which you could certainly fit in your budget. An 8 core FX presents much better value for money for a content creation use than their 6 core counterparts.

[TheTechWarrior]

I agree, you shouldn't be buying a 6 core FX chip with an R9 290X.

If you want the CPU for conent creation I would recommend an FX 8 core over a 6 core. The 6 weak(er) cores of an FX 6000 chips will be beaten by an Intel Haswell quad core, which you could certainly fit in your budget. An 8 core FX presents much better value for money for a content creation use than their 6 core counterparts.

as my board at the moment can only support 45w cpu I dont want it to blow the rear out of my board.

the cpu is to put in my current build and is also going in my new build

[SImoHayha]

as my board at the moment can only support 45w cpu I dont want it to blow the rear out of my board.

the cpu is to put in my current build and is also going in my new build

how much of a budget do you have if you were to purchase a whole new computer I could probably help we all could

[MattLantis]

#4870 master race

[TheTechWarrior]

my budget is around £300 - £400

[TheTechWarrior]

how much of a budget do you have if you were to purchase a whole new computer I could probably help we all could

my budget is £300 - £400

 

 

Derp forgot to quote

[TwOne]

If you're upgrading to FX-6350, you can keep the motherboard, since it will be compatible anyway.

 

If you look at the board's CPU support list:

http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_LE_R20/HelpDesk_CPU/

 

The FX-6350 is in the list, but you might need to flash the BIOS before installing.

 

Also, you definitely don't NEED a 290X for what you're doing. You could choose to go with a R9 280X or R9 290, which will take care of your stuff nicely.

[TheTechWarrior]

If you're upgrading to FX-6350, you can keep the motherboard, since it will be compatible anyway.

 

If you look at the board's CPU support list:

http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_LE_R20/HelpDesk_CPU/

 

The FX-6350 is in the list, but you might need to flash the BIOS before installing.

 

Also, you definitely don't NEED a 290X for what you're doing. You could choose to go with a R9 280X or R9 290, which will take care of your stuff nicely.

I'm video rendering / graphics creating so i kinda need the extra horsepower but ill have a look