Would this run well?

[piegodsemail]

I'm building a pc for my friend out of some old parts I have. I found a couple old computers and tore them down and ended up finding an ati radeon hd 2400 xt. The cpu is either going to be a Intel pentium dual core (2.6ghz) or a Intel pentium 4 (2.0hgz) With the dual core its running ddr2 ram which I have extra of but only reaches 3.5gbs... And I'm pretty sure 1 of the sticks are dead (Haven't tested the actual pc yet) If I use the Pentium 4 I won't be able to put the graphics card in due to the motherboard. What should I do?

p.s: This isn't his permanent build. He plans on building a new pc with a 1050 this summer, but to start him off in pc gaming is this good?

 

[nobspls]

If the thing works, it will be good for old games circa 2006. But for any games popular now, or current it will be massively frustrating.

 

[captaincharisma]

the GPU and both of those CPU's are too old. it would be hard to play any newer games with that build even at the lowest settings.

 

[piegodsemail]

the GPU and both of those CPU's are too old. it would be hard to play any newer games with that build even at the lowest settings.

He mostly wants to play csgo and maybe some other stuff... He's new to pc gaming so he's not going straight into any aaa titles.

 

[piegodsemail]

If the thing works, it will be good for old games circa 2006. But for any games popular now, or current it will be massively frustrating.

Do you think csgo would run at 60? I know that the older cpu by itself runs it at about 30 on lowest.. So I think the graphics card would be able to run it pretty well.. Or atleast better

 

[King_V]

If the thing works, it will be good for old games circa 2006. But for any games popular now, or current it will be massively frustrating.

Do you think csgo would run at 60? I know that the older cpu by itself runs it at about 30 on lowest.. So I think the graphics card would be able to run it pretty well.. Or atleast better

I am very surprised it does so. Maybe at 640x480 resolution. Do you mean the Pentium 4, or the Dual Core?

 

[nobspls]

The HD2400XT should be adequate considering this what steam specs:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_Global_Offensive/
OS: Windows® 7/Vista/XP
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 15 GB available space

I suspect it might be able to 45+ fps at 720p resolutions even with medium settings. But I've not dealt with that era of hardware or games for more than 10 years now.