So, I have been gaming on an old HP Pavilion p7-1254 running on a AMD A6-3620 4 core for about 10 years now. I really do enjoy some PC gaming, which leads me to pumping games into the system that definitely should not be there (they really aren't intended to run on a system this old). Some actually run pretty well; props to the Elite Dangerous team for optimizing that game to look that great on a system that old. Some are abysmal. It is not bare bones and has had some tweaks over the years. Running a 2t SSD to get it to boot faster and years ago I bought a radeon R7 200 series.
Long story short, as a married man with a house, car, land, etc to spend my money on, dropping a thousand dollars or more on a gaming pc is not feasible (which I would gladly do, but would probably land me in divorce court shortly after).
So, I have been recently handed down a HP Pavilion elite e9280t. I am trying to clean the beast up, but from everything I can read it is a step up from my current system. It's got an Intel i7, 18 GB ram as opposed to my 8, and a load more storage space (it's previous owner was a disaster recovery systems admin so there are backups for the backups as you could imagine).
I am wondering if it is worth migrating some things to the new PC to make a Frankenstein amalgamation of HP parts and maybe a spending a couple hundred on a new GPU to get the beast purring again or if I should just stick with my current PC. Again, I've been able to bleed my current beast dry on processing power to run current games so I completely understand that this isn't going to be a bleeding edge gamer rig, but as a cheap bastard, I'd love to coax every last bit of juice out of these babys as I can.
Long story short, as a married man with a house, car, land, etc to spend my money on, dropping a thousand dollars or more on a gaming pc is not feasible (which I would gladly do, but would probably land me in divorce court shortly after).
So, I have been recently handed down a HP Pavilion elite e9280t. I am trying to clean the beast up, but from everything I can read it is a step up from my current system. It's got an Intel i7, 18 GB ram as opposed to my 8, and a load more storage space (it's previous owner was a disaster recovery systems admin so there are backups for the backups as you could imagine).
I am wondering if it is worth migrating some things to the new PC to make a Frankenstein amalgamation of HP parts and maybe a spending a couple hundred on a new GPU to get the beast purring again or if I should just stick with my current PC. Again, I've been able to bleed my current beast dry on processing power to run current games so I completely understand that this isn't going to be a bleeding edge gamer rig, but as a cheap bastard, I'd love to coax every last bit of juice out of these babys as I can.