PC specs paired with Internet

[BaggetMan]

If I pair the Radeon r9 270, with the Amd fx 6300 3.5ghZ(4.1 turbo), and 2x4 gb Ram should i be able to experience good gaming on modern games even with a 1.5 Mbps internet speed

 

[Saberus]

You can have the best rig on Earth and it won't make a dinky 1.5Mbps connection any faster.

 

[Nextg_Rival]

Honestly? I think you can. We had online games back in 2003-2005. I think it should work. It will be slow, but it will work. However, I'd strongly recommend getting a good connection, optimally a 15 MBPS, since that's pretty quick and sufficient for most tasks.

 

[USAFRet]

Honestly? I think you can. We had online games back in 2003-2005.

We had online games long before that.
Quake I, 1996.

 

[Saberus]

I'm saying a high end machine can't make your internet connection faster than it is, and if a modern game needs more than 1.5Mbps for online play, it will lag/stall/cutout without question.

 

[USAFRet]

If I pair the Radeon r9 270, with the Amd fx 6300 3.5ghZ(4.1 turbo), and 2x4 gb Ram should i be able to experience good gaming on modern games even with a 1.5 Mbps internet speed

Good PC, bad PC...1.5Mbps is still 1.5Mbps.

 

[Nextg_Rival]

Honestly? I think you can. We had online games back in 2003-2005.

We had online games long before that.
Quake I, 1996.

Yeah of course, but I mean, I had 1,5 MBPS internet or maybe even slower back in 2003-2005 and I was playing online games just fine, so I thought I'd make a comparison. One of my personal favourites is StarCraft 1 which goes back as far as 1994.

 

[i7Baby]

If you can get all that 1.5Mbs then you should be OK. It's when you have to share it that you really notice lags. I just upgrade from 1.5 to 4.5 with my son. It's made a huge difference. But then again after 1.5 maybe I've got low expectations.

 

[Nextg_Rival]

I'm saying a high end machine can't make your internet connection faster than it is, and if a modern game needs more than 1.5Mbps for online play, it will lag/stall/cutout without question.

That's very true, but OP's question was whether he'd be able to run games well, not whether or not building a faster PC will compensate for his slow internet.

 

[Nextg_Rival]

If you can get all that 1.5Mbs then you should be OK. It's when you have to share it that you really notice lags. I just upgrade from 1.5 to 4.5 with my son. It's made a huge difference. But then again after 1.5 maybe I've got low expectations.

You've been managing on 1.5 MBPS until now? You've got my respect man. There's a massive difference when increasing internet speed in the range of 1 - 15 MBPS, however past that, there's not really much you can do to challenge the connection, or so I've noticed.

 

[i7Baby]

If manage means yelling at my son a lot then yeah I managed lol.