OLD SCHOOL in PC Years anyways..

SoundwaveG1 · Feb 1, 2017

Current Custum PC is old but upgraded. Still running strong.

AMD PHENOM II X4 920 @ 2.8ghz
8GB DDR2
AMD R7 260X 2gb PCI-E
Windows 10 Pro
Asus AM2+ motherboard

I play mostly Perfect World Games on this PC like Star Trek online, Blacklight Retribution, etc. No ISSUES at all. Except in Star Trek with the new lighting 2.0 turned on it occasionally has a weird tear or black streak or crazy long shadow following character. Turning 2.0 off fix's this.

I built this pc myself and is the last pc I have built in years. It recently had a RAM failure, would not boot, black screen only. Two out of 4 DDR2 chips died. Lucky I had some spare 2 gig chips.. Don't know if that should be a warning sign or not. I have heard of chips dying.

Anyone playing Star Wars Battlefront or other demanding games on an older system?
Or will my Phenom 2 choke? I have compared it performance wise to some AMD A10, and intel i5 systems and don't see much of a reason to spend money on a new PC.

I'm a tad out of touch, since my job yanks me out of town for most of each year last 5 or so. So Planning my next AMD rig with some forum advice.

Want to spend, as Little as possible, but have a PC that will last as long as my current custom build has so far.

Maybe I should wait for Ryzen powered APU?

Thanks for your time.

James Mason · Feb 1, 2017

Upgrading it won't help a ton, best to just save as much as possible for a new custom PC in the $700~ range.

olin9 · Feb 1, 2017

If you want a PC for gaming. Then get a intel CPU. i5 is the middle of the intel power and it will be much faster than any AMD CPU.

SoundwaveG1 · Feb 1, 2017

I stick with AMD. As my experience with intel has been mixed at best. Speed isn't as useful to me as longevity.
Don't know if its just been bad luck with intel, but they die faster than my AMD rigs.

My Athlon XP 2800+ 2 1.8ghz cpu and Gygabyte Mobo still work. AGP ATI 9800 pro as a retro gamer. With winXP

The Pentium 4 machines have either all died, or run very slow...
All the PC's my friends and family bring to me when they croak are intel.
So from that experience starting since K6-2 days I just build around AMD CPUs.

Again probably just bad luck.

James Mason · Feb 1, 2017

Well, the P4 is REALLY really old, so it could die for any number of reasons, not necessarily the CPU being the cause, far more likely just a dead hard drive. Or they never cleaned them out and they got caked in dust and baked.

Since you have the time, you should start researching what hardware is good and why.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-cpus,3986.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html

King_V · Feb 1, 2017

I suspect that you've got some time. RAM chips failing is hopefully what it appears to be, and not caused by some other issue (fingers crossed).

I do believe it's worthwhile to wait for Ryzen to come out, and see what that does to the marketplace in terms of price/performance.

Research what's there now, of course, but as Ryzen is coming out in about a month, take your time in making a final decision. I agree with James, in that I don't think there's a need to rush.

(side note - I still have a running AMD K6-2+ system, slightly overclocked and slightly undervolted, though I haven't used it in at least a year)

SoundwaveG1 · Feb 1, 2017

Yeah I know the P4 is old.. very old. But just what I had in comparison to my Athlon XP 2800+ rig.

I am considering the below as my next rig for minimal $$$

AMD A10 APU 7890k
16GB DDR3
ASUS or GYGABYTE mobo.
An SSD Drive for a Clean install of Win10
And popping my old SATA HDD's as additional storage.
May have to buy a different power supply if the connectors for power to board/cpu have changed???

SoundwaveG1 · Feb 1, 2017

Will the R7 250 PCI-E Card work in Dual graphics mode with the A10 7890? or should I scale back to a slightly older A10 to match R7 card? Although the A10 seems to work fine by itself on some of the videos on YouTube.

SoundwaveG1 · Feb 1, 2017

(side note - I still have a running AMD K6-2+ system, slightly overclocked and slightly undervolted, though I haven't used it in at least a year)[/quotemsg]

nice. I still have some K6-2 chips. My board died years ago.

I have a working 3dfx Voodoo 5 64mb agp card.. with a testy Pentium 3 600 slot1 board.. I have to wiggle the cpu or mem chips to get it to boot.. heh

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