This is going to be a nice gaming machine.

"Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord." (ningaboss) 04/21/2016 at 23:08 • Filed to: None

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Slap in a gtx 950 and install windows 7 total cost: $240

CB > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:10

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I had one of these with the Core 2 Duo. It was a computer.

Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. > CB 04/21/2016 at 23:11

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The core 2 quad and an ssd will revive this thing don’t ya think?

Flavien Vidal > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:11

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Well the Core2Quad will most certainly struggle with processor intensive games like Far Cry 4, GTA5 or iRacing...

V6 or Bust > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:12

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I had that same motherboard, a Foxconn. I think it was the Foxconn Aloe. (The rear pinout on this one is the same as on my old one.) It failed. But, for $100, it’s hard to go wrong.

Nibby > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:12

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eh I wouldn’t really use a C2Q for modern gaming

CB > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:12

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Personally, I think it should be killed, but that’s just me.

Nibby > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:12

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For that money you could’ve gotten an HP Z400 workstation with a much more powerful quad core Xeon :)

JGrabowMSt > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:14

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A Q6600? They’re a bit of a stretch at this point compared to an i5, even with an SSD. They were good for their time, but I think it would be fine today. Not something I would want to play any games on though.

not for canada - australian in disguise > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:15

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The HP Pavilion: The Camry of computers.

Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. > Nibby 04/21/2016 at 23:16

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They are not really that bad. Extremely similar concept

Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/21/2016 at 23:17

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lol

MUSASHI66 > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:18

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It will be great, as long as you have a collection of pre-2010 games

Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. > Nibby 04/21/2016 at 23:19

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I haven’t had much experience with Xeons before, aren’t they basically server cpus?

Nibby > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:20

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Workstation and server class CPUs. Used ones are super cheap and are a great way for power on a budget.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:32

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I plan on making a sleeper rig out of one of these. ‘cause why not?

Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 04/21/2016 at 23:37

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seriously why not? This guy made a awesome build from an old inspiron.

Flavien Vidal > Nibby 04/21/2016 at 23:38

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Xeon of this age usually require ECC and often don’t have PCi-express slots... He will often struggle finding a powerful enough PSU for a good powerfull graphic card and make it fit/change it...

Nibby > Flavien Vidal 04/21/2016 at 23:40

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The Z400 I mentioned has all of those things taken care of... DDR3 ECC RAM is cheaper than regular RAM and easy to find online... 475W or 600W 90% efficieny and 80+ rated PSU... and it has several PCIe slots.

pjhusa > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/21/2016 at 23:49

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Meh processor, maybe add more RAM... still cheap in the end.

facw > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/22/2016 at 00:05

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Whatever, I still mourn the Presario...

facw > JGrabowMSt 04/22/2016 at 00:07

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The Q6600 is good chip, and still serviceable if paired with a good video card. I’d want to be able to overclock it though, which seems unlikely to be an option an HP. Still for $100, it’s a computer.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/22/2016 at 00:21

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It’s pretty astonishing, for gaming at least, how CPUs have been so far ahead of the curve for so long that they’re not a bottleneck really, at all.

I’m still running an i7 870 which is like 7 years old and it’s still holding up nicely. That and my GTX970 and I still have a bit of a beast.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 04/22/2016 at 00:39

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I’m biased against HP. They’ve made a lot of crap over the past 15+ years... ever since they bought/ruined Compaq and DEC.

And you may want to check the specs of the power supply before installing that GTX 950.

Personally I’d rather build my own custom system with an SSD, 8-16GB ram and an OEM version of Windows 10.

JGrabowMSt > facw 04/22/2016 at 08:30

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I used to run a repair shop, now I work at a new shop that does small businesses. The Q6600 isnt bad, but I would look for a newer CPU. The Q6600 was the first consumer quad core. A newer one will be way more flexible. An i5 750 wouldnt be a bad choice if you can find one in your budget. As you also mentioned, the fact that its an HP will affect you more.