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I am wandering if my pc will be good enough to run games. I am new to building pc's l. I have a AMD phenom ii x6 3.2 ghz 1090t black edition processors. 16gb Ddr3 ram. Not sure of make. And a 1060 6gb gpu. With a 550w psu. 

Many thanks guys.

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That CPU is from 2010, so I wouldn't count on it running the latest games in very high settings. It closely matches the FX6300 for reference. 

PC Specs - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D - MSI B550M Mortar - 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3600 @ CL16 - ASRock RX7800XT - 660p 1TBGB & Crucial P5 1TB - Fractal Define Mini C - CM V750v2 - Windows 11 Pro

 

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I guarantee you that 1060 will never run at 100% usage.

 

What games are you playing though? Although more than likely there will be lots of stuttering. That CPUs just too old and underpowered.

 

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Inside some old case I found lying around.

 

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1 minute ago, Aaron_F said:

What cpu would you recommend on a tight budget? 

How tight?

You could look at used 3rd-4th gen i5's

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Inside some old case I found lying around.

 

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Just now, bleedblue said:

I guarantee you that 1060 will never run at 100% usage.

 

What games are you playing though? Although more than likely there will be lots of stuttering. That CPUs just too old and underpowered.

 

What cpu would you recommend on a tight budget? Also I am not playing any games atm as I am waiting for the 1060 to arrive

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Should have invested in a new CPU/Mobo

Elemental 

Spoiler

Intel i5 6500 @3.8ghz - 8GB HyperX - 600w Apex PSU - GTX 1060 G1 GIGABYTE 6GB - s340 Black - 240gb Toshiba Q300 - Cooler master TX3i - MSI z170-A PRO.

Old Build (sold for 290€)

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Intel i3 540 @ 3.9ghz (On stock cooler, Hits 80c max) - 8gb ram - 500w power supply - P7H55-M LE  120gb SSD - Talius Drakko case

Project Frug 50$ Water loop

 

Laptops

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13" Macbook Air - Alienware m14x r2 -  2009 15" Macbook Pro (I was give all of these and would never buy them myself)

 

 

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What would your budget be if you wanted to upgrade? Because you can get some cheap refurbished pre-build from Newegg with 4 to 7 gen i5 or even i7 in it with 8GB of ram and Windows 10.
Newegg Canada

Newegg US

After that if the case isn't a full size ATX case, you should be able to transfer the motherboard and all that from the prebuilt to your existing case and reuse your GPU (and probably the PSU)

 

The advantage of buying a refurb desktop :
-You know it will work, it was tested
-It's relatively cheap compared to just buying the parts out right

-Less of a headache and you get a store warranty with it

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x / GPU: Asus Radeon RX 6750XT OC 12GB / RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x16GB DDR4-3200
MOBO: MSI B450m Gaming Plus / NVME: Corsair MP510 240GB / Case: TT Core v21 / PSU: Seasonic 750W / OS: Bazzite

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