Lightweight HTPC

[Rofty]

Hey guys. First post!

 

I had a old pc from 2009 in the garage. Its nothing special. Thought i'd try to upgrade and use as HTPC? Specs:

 

AMD Athlon 2 X4 630 @ 2.8

Asus M5A78L-M LX

4gb DDR3 1333

HD 5850 Power Color 

500w Huntkey PSU

500gb HDD

 

I blew out lots of dust, switched it on and all seems to be working fine on Win 7. Want to to upgrade to RX 460, one 8gb 1600 ram stick, Crucial MX 300 275GB & D-Link wireless adapter. Also install Win 10. Will the CPU/Mobo still hold up for light gaming and steam link to my main PC? Will the CPU maybe bottleneck the RX 460? Thanks for reading!

[oskarha]

2 minutes ago, Rofty said:

Hey guys. First post!

 

I had a old pc from 2009 in the garage. Its nothing special. Thought i'd try to upgrade and use as HTPC? Specs:

 

AMD Athlon 2 X4 630 @ 2.8

Asus M5A78L-M LX

4gb DDR3 1333

HD 5850 Power Color 

500w Huntkey PSU

500gb HDD

 

I blew out lots of dust, switched it on and all seems to be working fine on Win 7. Want to to upgrade to RX 460, one 8gb 1600 ram stick, Crucial MX 300 275GB & D-Link wireless adapter. Also install Win 10. Will the CPU/Mobo still hold up for light gaming and steam link to my main PC? Will the CPU maybe bottleneck the RX 460? Thanks for reading!

That should work out to be quite a nice htpc.

I would try to get just another stick of 4gb ddr3 1333MHz instead of that 8gb 1600Mhz stick.

I have a similar-ish hp prebuilt which is really picky with ram

[Rofty]

6 minutes ago, oskarha said:

That should work out to be quite a nice htpc.

I would try to get just another stick of 4gb ddr3 1333MHz instead of that 8gb 1600Mhz stick.

I have a similar-ish hp prebuilt which is really picky with ram

Thank you. Yea its actually 2 x 2gb RAM chips.. The MB only have two slots. Do you think the CPU will be OK pairing with RX 460? 

[oskarha]

1 hour ago, Rofty said:

Thank you. Yea its actually 2 x 2gb RAM chips.. The MB only have two slots. Do you think the CPU will be OK pairing with RX 460? 

It might bottleneck in cpu intencive titles, but it should be fine.

Try to get 2x4gb sticks if the board only has two slots

[Rofty]

26 minutes ago, oskarha said:

It might bottleneck in cpu intencive titles, but it should be fine.

Try to get 2x4gb sticks if the board only has two slots

Thank you, kind sir! Will do that. Its a bit more expensive though. 

 

Hopefully the cpu holds up. Actually really impressed this thing still works. Going to order the parts now. 

 

Will try to update with some pics when done..  

[Quaker]

After the upgrade, the CPU will be the main bottleneck, but you can always upgrade the CPU later.