Building a new budget rig using a few old parts

gamer2321 · Mar 11, 2014

Components;
PSU : Bestec ATX 300 12Z
Processor : Intel Pentium G870
Motherboard : ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3
RAM : Crucial Ballistix Sport VLP 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Hard Disk : 160GB Western Digital SATA
GPU : 8600GT DDR2 512MB

Are all these components compatible?

Kingpin007 · Mar 11, 2014

Really Just buy a new PC This will not support The latest Games and they will not run like Crysis 3 and Titanfall and COD Ghosts and BF4 and the list goes on..

fields224 · Mar 11, 2014

no this really isnt ok for even low setting gaming, i very much doubt you will reach even 20fps with that setup, depending on resolution perhaps.

personally if on an extreme budget i would take the ram, psu, and hard disk, and get out of there.

pair the ram psu and hard disk with a new cheap motherboard and cheap amd cpu + gpu. such as:

cpu - 3.6ghz quad core - amd a8 5600k
http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-Edition-3-6GHZ-HD6570-Socket/dp/B0095VPAVE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1394548286&sr=8-4&keywords=amd+3ghz

motherboard - MSI FM2-A55M-E33
http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-FM2-A55M-E33-AMD-Micro-Motherboard/dp/B009LT4F3E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394548345&sr=8-1&keywords=socket+fm2

graphics - r7 250
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-Radeon-GDDR5-Graphics-Boost/dp/B00FL8H08Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394548399&sr=8-1&keywords=r7+250

if you have extra budget get a r7 260x, if not the parts above will allow low fps gaming on new games etc.

gamer2321 · Mar 11, 2014

Okay forget the gaming then how about compatibility?

Nikola Aslanov-1338074 · Mar 11, 2014

The parts are compatible and better than the core2duo setup. But about the gaming I'm not sure.
The main problem here is the video - it is quite old.
If you find a way to add a new relatively video like 7750 DDR5 the machine will 100% be able to play even modern games @ 768p with lowered details.
Here is a very similar build but with the 7750 as video: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mini-itx-do-it-yourself-game-console,3531.html
Performance as quite good for the price.

sora · Mar 12, 2014

The gaming would handle a few games such as GTA:SA/SAMP on lower settings and maybe some emulators and flash games.

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