- Nov 6, 2011
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Hi!
The little brother of my best friend wants a PC for playing some simple games.
(He stole my friend's rig until now, but he got tired of having his games and everything messed up all the time so it's time to get the little guy his first own one
)
I've found some random old hardware at home, and realized I only need storage, cooling and a case for it to be a complete PC.
It's fairly weak and very old, but I think it could be fine for the use case - the little guy's only 10.
What he wants to play:
-World of tanks
-StarCraft II (he actually plays quite well)
-LoL
-Some older games (older NFS games)
The most demanding game he wants to play is Cities: Skylines, and maybe The Sims 4.
So this is what I have:
-Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L (rev. 1.0) - OFF, maybe useful for anyone wanting to install Win10 on this board in the future: you need the F9 BIOS update for it to run Win10 64bit, then it's fine
-Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
-4x2GB 800MHz DDR2
-Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 400W PSU (fairly new, never really used)
-300GB WD VelociRaptor HDD (yep, the old one that does 10k rpm) 100% according to hdsentinel
-VTX Radeon HD6850 GPU
And this is what I'd get:
-120GB SSD
-CPU cooler (like the Cooler Master Hyper T20)
-Any cheap ATX computer case
All of these would cost around $30-$40 where I live.
We'd pair a basic 1080p display to it, but I don't think he would really mind if some games ran at 720p.
Would this configuration work for these games? Again, we're not talking high demands here. Just for them to run and be enjoyable.
I'm looking for anyone who has experience with a build like this + modern games. I realize the card does not support DX12 but we don't need it for now anyway. This used to be my second gaming machine back around 2010 I believe, I remember even back then it struggled to run some AAA games like GTA IV.
The little brother of my best friend wants a PC for playing some simple games.
(He stole my friend's rig until now, but he got tired of having his games and everything messed up all the time so it's time to get the little guy his first own one
)I've found some random old hardware at home, and realized I only need storage, cooling and a case for it to be a complete PC.
It's fairly weak and very old, but I think it could be fine for the use case - the little guy's only 10.
What he wants to play:
-World of tanks
-StarCraft II (he actually plays quite well)
-LoL
-Some older games (older NFS games)
The most demanding game he wants to play is Cities: Skylines, and maybe The Sims 4.
So this is what I have:
-Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L (rev. 1.0) - OFF, maybe useful for anyone wanting to install Win10 on this board in the future: you need the F9 BIOS update for it to run Win10 64bit, then it's fine
-Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
-4x2GB 800MHz DDR2
-Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 400W PSU (fairly new, never really used)
-300GB WD VelociRaptor HDD (yep, the old one that does 10k rpm) 100% according to hdsentinel
-VTX Radeon HD6850 GPU
And this is what I'd get:
-120GB SSD
-CPU cooler (like the Cooler Master Hyper T20)
-Any cheap ATX computer case
All of these would cost around $30-$40 where I live.
We'd pair a basic 1080p display to it, but I don't think he would really mind if some games ran at 720p.
Would this configuration work for these games? Again, we're not talking high demands here. Just for them to run and be enjoyable.
I'm looking for anyone who has experience with a build like this + modern games. I realize the card does not support DX12 but we don't need it for now anyway. This used to be my second gaming machine back around 2010 I believe, I remember even back then it struggled to run some AAA games like GTA IV.
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