Dell T5500 upgrade

[JK Tech]

Hey I'm on a limited budget of about 150 USD and was wondering if I should buy an old Dell T5500 with a Xeon x5680 for $90

and was wondering if it would be a good idea to purchase it and throw in possibly a RX 460 or some other low power card.

here is the eBay link

http://m.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T5500-One-Six-Core-Intel-Xeon-X5680-3-33ghz-16gb-RAM-1TB-HD-/142153173590?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20150519202348%26meid%3D864c1528cf3848b6973cd8c88e449756%26pid%3D100408%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D25%26sd%3D142153745145&_trksid=p2056116.c100408.m2460

[Geoffrey]

That actually not a bad system for that price. 

What games are you going to run?

A SSD would be nice on this system tho but i assume you will need the money for a better graphics card.

[SLAYR]

For $90 the x5680 alone is worth over that about $100 used.

 

Usually the older dell precisions have an option for a 800W psu, it should already have at least one pcie power connector, so it will run even gpu like the rx 480, or gtx 1060.

[JK Tech]

I think is still a good price but now it is 150 dollars but I would run unturned, a little Battlefield, other FPS games also some racing and flying sims like project cars. I would also use Photoshop and Hitfilm 4 and adobe elements.