Old computer with Windows 10

[bacalhaucnatas99]

Hi everyone

I own an HP desktop with at least 6 years old. It's aG5250 model and have the following details:
- Motherboard HG-iG41-uATX
- Intel E5500 2.8 GHZ (dual core? )
- 4 Gb Ram
- Power supply 300w replaced with 600 W
- Ge Force GT 9300 GE replaced by Asus Geforce GT 1030
- 500 Gb HDD replaced by SDD 120 gb + HDD 1 TB

With Windows 7 SP1 it work perfectly. Very stable, quick, 10 seconds boot.

Recently i installed Windows 10 64 bit. I was crazy to play Unreal Tournament 2018 (play UT since 2004) and it was not compatible with Windows 7. Now i don't have a smooth operation, sometimes computer seems to frooze like half second randomly like with HDD problems but not the case.

In Intel website it looks like processor is not compatible with Windows 10 but it is compatible with windows 8.

So what the expert here suggest me to do? Format and install Win 10 x86, Win 8.1 X86 or Win 8.1 x64?

Many thanks is advance and best regards

 

[Eximo]

A tad older then 6 years old unless you bought it well after it was released. Well, you can't really go backwards from Windows 10 if you upgraded, just back to what you had within a month or so.

Have you looked into each component in the system and looked for drivers? Could be something simple causing the stuttering, go through the BIOS and disable hardware you aren't using. Sound drivers are usually an issue with odd system behavior, maybe get a headset that runs through USB and disable the onboard sound (you can try disabling the sound as a test)

Do you have any budget to spend? You can get used business PCs for pretty reasonable sums that are much newer than an e5500. Think like $200 for an i5-4570 and 8GB of memory. (Less if you don't mind experimenting with mixing your old DDR3 into it, though chances there are poor)

The new UT is pretty darn good if you ask me, so it might be worth it to get something compatible. Reminds me a lot of the original UT and UT3. I honestly didn't care much for 2k3 or 2k4. A little too much was copied from popular games of the time rather than keeping their own style.

 

[bacalhaucnatas99]

Many thanks for your fast reply.

Sound had been an issue. Per example just running OpenTransportTycoonDeluxe is terrible, with some breaks and sound almost impossible to hear.

Instead of usb headset i found some usb sound systems very cheap, per example Sound Blaster Play!3 (i thought Sound Blaster was out of bussiness).

But i will try this:
- find and install windows 8 x64 drivers for my sound chip
- or disable it in Bios and O.S. and try all system
- if work buy a sound card internal or usb
- or format and downgrade to windows 8.1

Many thanks for your suggestion, i'll try it.

Best regards

 

[Eximo]

Sounds like a good plan.

I have my old Athlon X2 running Windows 7, all default drivers, nothing to be had from the motherboard manufacturer. Works flawlessly though.

Creative Labs is still around, though not exactly the most profitable company. They are the patent and license holders for a lot of tech though and license it out to various manufacturers. Pretty sure their sound products are in name only, all the chips are made by others. Basically Realtek, C-Media, and one other I can't think of make sound chipsets for pretty much everyone.