Hello, dark practitioners of computercrafts.
I am here to seek your peerless wisdom regarding the following matter:
I have an old computer that has served me well over the years and it still continues to do so. It functions completely fine for my work in Microsoft Office and for general Internet usage and Youtube. The thing is, I like to play an occasional game on it. Vast majority of things I like to play on it works just fine.
However, there are some more modern (though, certainly not the latest) games I would like to enjoy. I am also away from home for most of the year and use my laptop for my work and Internet access and don't really game except for an odd DOS title here and there to pass the free time.
For a while now, I have been thinking of upgrading my old computer back home so that I could unwind when in my natural habitat. I have been thinking about buying a new computer but it just doesn't make sense for me since it won't be really used much of the time and I am perennially behind the times anyway, meaning that playing something modernish such as Fallout 4 for example at 720p without any stutter is fine by me. And I also don't want to retire my old machine, especially since it works fine otherwise.
Now with my motivations out of the way, I would like your opinion on whether buying a ten year old Phenom II X6 1055T 2,8 Ghz 95w version to replace my venerable Athlon II X2 250 3Ghz is a good move that will yield some palpable performance increase or is it completely unintelligent to even consider it. I am aware that AM3 socket and the associated processors are obsolete.
Phenom II X6 is still holding some value though, at least where I live, and I was able to find the above mentioned example for a price equivalent to around $60. Is this to much to pay?
Here are the rest of my specifications:
MSI 400W Power supply unit
M4N68T LE V2
Athlon II X2 250 3.0 Ghz
8 Gigabytes of RAM DDR3
ASUS R7 250 1GB GDDR5
Thank you for any and all advice you can spare for this brutish heathen who stumbled upon your hallowed digital ground.
I am here to seek your peerless wisdom regarding the following matter:
I have an old computer that has served me well over the years and it still continues to do so. It functions completely fine for my work in Microsoft Office and for general Internet usage and Youtube. The thing is, I like to play an occasional game on it. Vast majority of things I like to play on it works just fine.
However, there are some more modern (though, certainly not the latest) games I would like to enjoy. I am also away from home for most of the year and use my laptop for my work and Internet access and don't really game except for an odd DOS title here and there to pass the free time.
For a while now, I have been thinking of upgrading my old computer back home so that I could unwind when in my natural habitat. I have been thinking about buying a new computer but it just doesn't make sense for me since it won't be really used much of the time and I am perennially behind the times anyway, meaning that playing something modernish such as Fallout 4 for example at 720p without any stutter is fine by me. And I also don't want to retire my old machine, especially since it works fine otherwise.
Now with my motivations out of the way, I would like your opinion on whether buying a ten year old Phenom II X6 1055T 2,8 Ghz 95w version to replace my venerable Athlon II X2 250 3Ghz is a good move that will yield some palpable performance increase or is it completely unintelligent to even consider it. I am aware that AM3 socket and the associated processors are obsolete.
Phenom II X6 is still holding some value though, at least where I live, and I was able to find the above mentioned example for a price equivalent to around $60. Is this to much to pay?
Here are the rest of my specifications:
MSI 400W Power supply unit
M4N68T LE V2
Athlon II X2 250 3.0 Ghz
8 Gigabytes of RAM DDR3
ASUS R7 250 1GB GDDR5
Thank you for any and all advice you can spare for this brutish heathen who stumbled upon your hallowed digital ground.