trash it or save it

[MatiiPol]

Hey guys, first post, newb here. i've recently got a pc from a friend who was throwing it away and it's really old but i intend to use it as the structure for a build and i wanna know what should i keep or not, and what is usefull and what it isn't

Spects are:

Intel DG41TY Motherboard

 

With intel core 2 Quad 2.6Ghz cpu

 

Coolmaster 600 Power supply

 

Sapphire Vapor-x Radeonhd 5770 gpu

 

and a beautiful 2 gigs of ram which i'll obviously upgrade cause it has a really hardtime browing on chrome, which is a ram eat, but still.


anyways, thanks for reading, have a nice day/night/afternoon everyone!

[RS2007GOD]

Q6600? 

[alexhelvetica]

Upgarde the RAM to 8GB if you want to be able to use it at all.

If you want to game on it , up the motherboard to an overclockable one and and OC the CPU to 3.5GHz, and possibly the GPU to a HD 6870.

[MatiiPol]

5 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Q6600? 

i do believe so, i'd have to check tho

[VAkena]

9 minutes ago, MatiiPol said:

Hey guys, first post, newb here. i've recently got a pc from a friend who was throwing it away and it's really old but i intend to use it as the structure for a build and i wanna know what should i keep or not, and what is usefull and what it isn't
 

Turn it into a NAS?

[MatiiPol]

1 minute ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Upgarde the RAM to 8GB if you want to be able to use it at all.

If you want to game on it , up the motherboard to an overclockable one and and OC the CPU to 3.5GHz, and possibly the GPU to a HD 6870.

yeah, i thought so too, the mother board is crap and the gpu cant even run csgo... and man, i mean... csgo needs nothing to run hahahaha

[MatiiPol]

1 minute ago, VAkena said:

Turn it into a NAS?

not really, i mean, it has 2 250Gb harddrives, not gonna be the storage queen i was thinking of turning it into an entrylevel, n00b friendly pc while i build a better one and then hand it down to one of my little siblings or sommit lol

 

[alexhelvetica]

5 minutes ago, MatiiPol said:

yeah, i thought so too, the mother board is crap and the gpu cant even run csgo... and man, i mean... csgo needs nothing to run hahahaha

I wouldn't bash the Mid-tier 2009 GPU before you look at what it can do 1st, it should handle CS:GO quite well actually.

 

 

[MatiiPol]

2 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

I wouldn't bash the Mid-tier 2009 GPU before you look at what it can do 1st, it should handle CS:GO quite well actually.

 

 

it didn't dont know why, i mean, could it need some kind of software?

 

[RS2007GOD]

Maybe more ram needed?

[MatiiPol]

Just now, RS2007GOD said:

Maybe more ram needed?

hahaha yeah, definetly more ram IS needed 

[RS2007GOD]

Just now, MatiiPol said:

hahaha yeah, definetly more ram IS needed 

To get better fps in csgo i mean  since he says it shud run it fine 

[MatiiPol]

52 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Maybe more ram needed?

about the cpu that u asked earlier it is actually a Q9400

[RS2007GOD]

Nice. Throw some cheap ram in there an give csgo a whirl. Im interested if it makes it playable with that gpu

[MatiiPol]

7 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Nice. Throw some cheap ram in there an give csgo a whirl. Im interested if it makes it playable with that gpu

so am i, i'm trying to make the gpu work but i'm kind of useless on pc, born and raised on the simple and overpriced mac side of the road

[dragoon20005]

yes you can throw a mid range GPU like the HD7850 or R9 270 and you can play CS:GO

 

4GB is the minimum but if you are lucky, you can go up to 8GB of DDR2

 

 

[RS2007GOD]

Well you got a pretty cool one to learn with 

[RS2007GOD]

My pc i got now started life as a athlon 64 @3ghz with a 8600gt 256mb gpu lol thing was a decent machine in 06 but wouldnt run league last year when i got it.

[MatiiPol]

3 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

My pc i got now started life as a athlon 64 @3ghz with a 8600gt 256mb gpu lol thing was a decent machine in 06 but wouldnt run league last year when i got it.

hahhaha awesome, i'm not really sure if this card is gonna pull it tho, i'm kinda giving up hopes haha but i read up there in the replies that if i upgraded the motherboard the gpu would do gr8 so i'm guessin with a new board a couple of ram sticks and maybe a Radeon 480? it would run like a decent computer on a budget hahaha after all it was a gift

[RS2007GOD]

3 minutes ago, MatiiPol said:

hahhaha awesome, i'm not really sure if this card is gonna pull it tho, i'm kinda giving up hopes haha but i read up there in the replies that if i upgraded the motherboard the gpu would do gr8 so i'm guessin with a new board a couple of ram sticks and maybe a Radeon 480? it would run like a decent computer on a budget hahaha after all it was a gift

By radeon 480 you mean rx480? Id say that would bittleneck the fridge outa your cpu. I cant really suggest any amd cards as never owned any but a cheap 750 ti would match pretty nicely. Also whats the windows install like? Fresh install would prolly help too

[MatiiPol]

2 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

By radeon 480 you mean rx480? Id say that would bittleneck the fridge outa your cpu. I cant really suggest any amd cards as never owned any but a cheap 750 ti would match pretty nicely. Also whats the windows install like? Fresh install would prolly help too

so a new mid range gpu would actually do more harm than good? good to know, it came with a fresh installed win 10, but the previous owner formated the shine out of it so... yeah... if i have to buy windows, like, man... 99 us dollars is a LOT of money here in argentina, i'd rather spend it on something more important hahahaha

[GEHORC]

If there was once a windows 10  installed on this computer, you don't have to buy a new one.

The license is tied to the computers hardware.

Just install the correct version of Windows 10 and connect to the Internet.

You don't need a code.

Ask your friend which version of Windows 10 it was, Home or Pro (32 or 64 bit doesn't matter i believe).

For the rare case it was a N-version, i think you also need a N-version this time but i'm not sure with that.

[MatiiPol]

Just now, GEHORC said:

If there was once a windows 10  installed on this computer, you don't have to buy a new one.

The license is tied to the computers hardware.

Just install the correct Version of Windows 10 and connect to the Internet.

You don't need a code.

Ask your friend which Version of Windows 10 it was, Home or Pro (32 or 64 bit doesn't matter i believe).

ok, i'll do that then he gave it to me with a pro one i'll ask which one he used before, thanks

[KemoKa]

Old Core 2 systems are far more competent than people give them credit for. A 1.6GHz Core 2 Xeon can be got for about $5. Pair that with a decent motherboard and overclock it to 3.0GHz and you've got a cheap but perfectly useable LAN rig. I paired an e5450 with a 7770 and that thing ran like a champ.

[RS2007GOD]

35 minutes ago, MatiiPol said:

so a new mid range gpu would actually do more harm than good? good to know, it came with a fresh installed win 10, but the previous owner formated the shine out of it so... yeah... if i have to buy windows, like, man... 99 us dollars is a LOT of money here in argentina, i'd rather spend it on something more important hahahaha

I wouldnt say more harm just wasted performance. do some research on your cpu and find out if its overclockable then get a mobo to do it. Cheap ram, cheap ssd for the os, mid range gpu and youll have a solid lil pc!