How bad would the AMD Athlon II X4 640 be for gaming?

[RexTheNoob]

Hello everyone,

I know this made be a weird question but I have a store-bought pc ( http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02628380) that is collecting dust ever since I built my first gaming rig (had loads of fun learning)

Since it is collecting dust, I thought about making it a portable gaming/ home theater pc. Since I already have the cpu, motherboard, RAM, and Windows 7 would it be smart to add a hard drive (took the hardrive from that to use in my gaming rig), gpu (thinking of the r7 250), and a slim case?

Think I could get at least 40 FPS with medium to high settings on games such as Spintires, America's Armyroving Grounds, BeamNG.drive, and Rocket League at 720p?

Thanks

 

[CTurbo]

Yeah it would do well for what you're asking. I would still get something better than a 250.
260, 260x, 265, 360, 750ti, etc...

 

[RexTheNoob]

Yeah it would do well for what you're asking. I would still get something better than a 250.
260, 260x, 265, 360, 750ti, etc...

Thanks for the answer

 

[naturesninja]

Sounds feasible. It's weak point is floating point performance, and although it is an older CPU, it can handle the R7 250 and gaming at 720p/medium-high settings at or above 30FPS. You could probably get away okay with up to a GTX 750Ti if you wanted to hit the mark. Spintires is kind of CPU heavy though, so you will need to turn down some of the environment settings likely. I would say go for it.

 

[RexTheNoob]

Sounds feasible. It's weak point is floating point performance, and although it is an older CPU, it can handle the R7 250 and gaming at 720p/medium-high settings at or above 30FPS. You could probably get away okay with up to a GTX 750Ti if you wanted to hit the mark. Spintires is kind of CPU heavy though, so you will need to turn down some of the environment settings likely. I would say go for it.

Awesome. Thanks for the feedback!

 

[theonerm2]

That cpu is terrible for gaming as it is old and it also has no L3 cache but it will do great for the games you listed. I agree with CTurbo's post. Get something better than an R7 250.

 

[proticket]

ok heres games i played with gts 250 and that cpu
GTA V 720p 30fps not stable but playable
LoL maxed 150fps 1680x1050 resolution
DIRT 3 maxed out 16x Anti Aliasing 60fps constant
Spintires maxed 40fps or even more some times ,like most of the time 50fps 1680x1050
Farcry 3 medium all 1680x1050 with nvidias FXAA 25-40 fps very playable ...