What to do with an old I5 650 CPU?

Erickjmz

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Hello, my sister got an old prebuild PC from her job(Thinkcentre from lenovo). It has a I5 650, a Lenovo motherboard with 4 DDR3 ports, a 250 gb HDD, a DVD, and that's all. So I was thinking about doing something with It like making it a worth pc for light gaming, or an HTPC. What do you think would be a good use of this PC?
 
personally i wouldn't invest in a prebuilt, first gen intel, old build like that one. it will be a money pit since you will most likely need a new power supply to support a graphics card and 250gb will fill up fast for gaming. you may very well run into bottlenecks.
 

What about adding a GDDR3? GPU?
 

Thanks, I was thinking about adding a GDDR3 GPU, those GPUs are really cheap, and may aswell be enough for what you need on a HTPC.