Ultra Cheap Server gaming rig

[ht4114]

Hello, I'm looking for an ultra cheap gaming pc. After seeing Linus's build on this topic, I thought to make a mock build. My budget is around 175-250 usd.

• Intel p/n CPU-S5000SL (A) Dual Xeon CPU LGA771 Server Motherboard E11025-302 ($25)

• (2x) Intel Xeon E5420 2.5 GHz 12MB 1333MHz SLBBL LGA771 CPU ($25)
• EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 ($85)
• Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB ($25)

• 8GB (2X4GB) DDR2 MEMORY RAM PC2-5300 ECC FULLY BUFFERED FBDIMM DIMM($15)

• (2x) Rosewill RCX-Z300 ($35)
• LOGISYS Computer PS550ABK ($25)

How well will this pc perfrom in current games and future games? Also, are all of these components compatible?

[iiNNeX]

at that point i'd just buy a console lol

[Hero7750]

It will run pretty bad with current and future games.

[HPWebcamAble]

I'd imagine your GPU will the the bottleneck in games.

 

I'd expect 30-60 FPS at medium to low settings in modern AAA games at 1080p

Based on this page: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-580/performance

[aeroencychris]

3 minutes ago, ht4114 said:

Hello, I'm looking for an ultra cheap gaming pc. After seeing Linus's build on this topic, I thought to make a mock build. My budget is around 175-250 usd.

• Intel p/n CPU-S5000SL (A) Dual Xeon CPU LGA771 Server Motherboard E11025-302 ($25)

• (2x) Intel Xeon E5420 2.5 GHz 12MB 1333MHz SLBBL LGA771 CPU ($25)
• EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 ($85)
• Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB ($25)

• 8GB (2X4GB) DDR2 MEMORY RAM PC2-5300 ECC FULLY BUFFERED FBDIMM DIMM($15)

• (2x) Rosewill RCX-Z300 ($35)
• LOGISYS Computer PS550ABK ($25)

How well will this pc perfrom in current games and future games? Also, are all of these components compatible?

Start with PCPartPicker so it's a bit more organized please.

Not terrible, although quite honestly I wouldn't bother unless you're doing this as a hobby project or something. No way this could be used in a real world scenario. Save up a bit more ($500?)

[The Flying Sloth]

Personally, my current rig (cost me 170 AUD) is 3 dual opteron 2218 servers, daisychained each with 14 gb ram. I use a radeon 6950 in each one and I get well above 80 fps on high on most next gen games

If you can do something like that it will cost you about $130 USD using secondhand parts. I would suggest that if you have the know-how, go for it

[Streetguru]

50 minutes ago, ht4114 said:

 

So what's your budget and country?

The used server stuff is nice for like a fun secondary build, but eh. Also just get a 360 for like $100