Upgrading an Old Workstation

[Ciscoolego]

A few day ago I picked up and old Dell Precision 670 workstation at a scrapyard. It has 2 dual core Xeon 7030s (PPGA604) so I was hoping to use it as a cheap nas/gaming rig. It boots fine which is a miracle but the the processors are really slow and run hot. I’ve been looking on eBay for better CPUs with the same socket and have found a couple of quad core options for about 10-30 USD. Will an upgrading to something like a Xeon X7350 2.93GHz Quad-Core be a worthwhile investment or just a waste of money. I have 16 gb of ECC ram at 400mhz and some cheap old PCIe GPU that I plan on upgrading to something like a 1050ti.

 

Thx 

[Lean18]

if you dont have a low-mid range PC right now, it might do, but if you have, its not worth it.. People even told me to not get a FM2+ board which is ALOT newer than that.

[Ciscoolego]

10 minutes ago, DxMoose said:

if you dont have a low-mid range PC right now, it might do, but if you have, its not worth it.. People even told me to not get a FM2+ board which is ALOT newer than that.

As of right now this is the only pc I have. So I’m banking on this becoming a half decent system for my purposes.

 

[Jurrunio]

nah, dont bother. It's even slower than a G4560, which means it is pretty much useless when it comes to games and will bottleneck even a 1050ti.