Need some Guidance for a Really Cheap system.

[Edgerunner]

My sister has a seriously old system and I happen to have a bunch of old core components just laying around. She wants to stream HD and her son wants to do some Gaming.

Her system.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
MOBO M017G
DDR2 3gbs

What I have laying around:
Logisys 330watt PSU
MCP61PM2MA-RS2H mobo with a Athlon 64 X2 5200+ cpu

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 but no CPU for it
2x 2gb DDR3 1600
Gigabyte R9 270
Lots of cables, cases, HDDs and Disk Drives.

I know the Gigabyte Mobo and GPU is the way to go but I don't want to spend more than $25 on a CPU that I'm just going to give away. Yea, this may make me a Bad Brother but money is tight.

Any suggestions would be Greatly appreciated.

 

[greens]

Your best bet is to find a Phenom II x4 used.
The Phenom II x4 965 BE is a legendary CPU that was the go to gaming CPU for a very long time.
It still performs well enough to saturate high end video cards. I don't know about $25, but definitely should be able to find one for around $50. You can also look at Phenom II x6 - you might find a good deal one one and it would perform well too.

 

[Barty1884]

I wouldn't recommend limiting your spending to $25.

I certainly would never recommend using a Logisys PSU, full stop. Let alone for a card that can pull up to 150W on it's own (at absolute max).

For any worthwhile CPU to drop onto that board (new), you're looking in the region of $90-$100 (FX-6300), at a stretch an FX-4300 would do, but that's still a ~$80 chip. Finding a used FX or Phenom is the best bet, and even that is likely to be tough at $25.

So, at that point you need a CPU + PSU, looking at maybe ~$110-$140 (new) as a minimum investment, or maybe $50+$30 for a used CPU + new PSU.

I'm not sure what to tell you unfortunately. $25 isn't going to cut it for any reasonable CPU, let alone a CPU and the new PSU that is desperately needed.