Need Help!!

[schnuckss]

Hey everyone so i have been given a free computer from my neighbor.  It was built in 2011 and its pretty old here are its specs

cpu: amd athlon II adx445wfk32gm

motherboard: Asus M4N68T-M V2

Ram: 8gb DDR3 1800MHZ (2X4)

wd Green 1tb hd

stock cooler

stock fans

 

i have a 24" dell 1080p 60 hz monitor for it.

 

 

1. what do you think are the possibilities of the computer?

2. could i upgrade to a ssd and throw in a cheap graphics card?

3. will it play any new games at decent settings?

4. Also the psu only has 1 4 pin power connector left will that be enough for a graphics card of will i need a new psu?

5. or could this be my streaming pc?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Also i live in US and budget would be about 200-250 USD

[mikedrewsmy]

7 minutes ago, schnuckss said:

Hey everyone so i have been given a free computer from my neighbor.  It was built in 2011 and its pretty old here are its specs

cpu: amd athlon II adx445wfk32gm

motherboard: Asus M4N68T-M V2

Ram: 8gb DDR3 1800MHZ (2X4)

wd Green 1tb hd

stock cooler

stock fans

 

i have a 24" dell 1080p 60 hz monitor for it.

 

 

1. what do you think are the possibilities of the computer?

2. could i upgrade to a ssd and throw in a cheap graphics card?

3. will it play any new games at decent settings?

4. Also the psu only has 1 4 pin power connector left will that be enough for a graphics card of will i need a new psu?

5. or could this be my streaming pc?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Also i live in US and budget would be about 200-250 USD

That cpu is so old and slow, using modern graphics will certainly bottleneck so badly.

[Adarsh Singh]

Install linux and use it as a web-browsing PC.
That's all you can do with it.

[Spotty]

36 minutes ago, schnuckss said:

1. what do you think are the possibilities of the computer?

2. could i upgrade to a ssd and throw in a cheap graphics card?

3. will it play any new games at decent settings?

4. Also the psu only has 1 4 pin power connector left will that be enough for a graphics card of will i need a new psu?

5. or could this be my streaming pc?

1. I don't think highly of it
2. You could, but don't waste your money.
3. No.
4. Given the age of the build and the parts in it, it's probably a shit power supply and if you were going to spend money on new parts like modern graphics cards then you should probably be buying a new PSU anyway
5. The CPU is too weak to be useful for reasonable encoding tasks, and you would also need additional hardware such as capture cards

 

Really its only redeeming features are that it has gigabit LAN and 8GB of RAM, so you should be able to run FreeNAS off it. Grab a 16GB USB flash drive and install FreeNAS on the machine and install the plex plugin along with it. Add in a few HDDs and you can use it as a storage and media server. Copy your movies and TV shows on to the NAS and you can then play it off any computer attached to the network or your network connected TV.
CPU is pretty weak so you won't be able to encode videos on it through plex, but native playback would be fine.

 

 

EDIT: Do you have another computer you use as your own personal computer, or is this computer you were gifted the only computer you have?
If this is your only computer, install a light Linux distro on it and use it for browsing the internet while you save up ~$500 to build a much better Ryzen 2200G budget system.

Edited September 15, 2018 by Spotty

[m0n4rchy]

3 hours ago, schnuckss said:

Hey everyone so i have been given a free computer from my neighbor.  It was built in 2011 and its pretty old here are its specs

cpu: amd athlon II adx445wfk32gm

motherboard: Asus M4N68T-M V2

Ram: 8gb DDR3 1800MHZ (2X4)

wd Green 1tb hd

stock cooler

stock fans

 

i have a 24" dell 1080p 60 hz monitor for it.

 

 

1. what do you think are the possibilities of the computer?

2. could i upgrade to a ssd and throw in a cheap graphics card?

3. will it play any new games at decent settings?

4. Also the psu only has 1 4 pin power connector left will that be enough for a graphics card of will i need a new psu?

5. or could this be my streaming pc?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Also i live in US and budget would be about 200-250 USD

1. An Athlon II? In 2018? Pretty much no matter what GPU you throw at it, it's going to struggle.

2. A 120GB SSD typically goes for around $30, I believe. The boot times don't lie; it's a good investment.

3. In its current state? No.

4. That's not even enough for a GTX 1060, let alone something more powerful than that. Your best bet in its current state is a 1050 TI.

5. See below.

 

If you want this to be your primary PC, your best bet is either get a 1050 TI (that doesn't require cables to be plugged in, they exist) and get by with the bottlenecking, go used and get something potentially better, or if you're going new, get a 2200G, power supply, motherboard, and memory.

 

I really don't know what to tell you. Your neighbor is nice, but this thing will struggle with modern games.

[schnuckss]

Hey thank you all for the wisdom im going to salvage the hd and thats about it case is a little bent so can't even use that. ill just keep saving for a gaming computer!!