Tricking out a business box
My roommate's workplace has been clearing out its old stuff for a venue change, so he was able to net me an old computer to start my build. To my surprise it's actually in fine working order, and I'm wondering if I might be able to just stretch its capabilities and have something worthwhile for £100-ish. Pics:
So working with this saves me on motherboard, case, 260Gb hard drive, and operating system. It's a Dell Vostro 260, the model with the Pentium G620 socket LGA 1155 and two 1GB DDR3 PC3 10600U ram sticks. I have no idea what the motherboard is or whether this will torpedo my efforts. One port which I'm currently filling with an old Radeon HD 6450 I had lying around. Power supply rated for 300W, don't know if there's much in the way of cabling there for anything interesting.
I'm hoping to get into Dark Souls 1 - Witcher 3 territory lol. Just some kind of idea of what I can work with here
Posted May 6, 2017, 12:40 AM UTC
I wouldn't bother with it, and also, the onboard graphics are probably faster than your 6450 lol
I would see if you could drop in a i5-2500, 8gb DDR3, and a GTX 1050 ti. See if Dell has information on their website about which CPUs and RAM size is compatible.
Edit: Meant to reply to OP, but I'll leave it.
Yeah, get that if you can find it cheap, OP
You might not, but this is the only PC I have right now