Recycle a old pc as gaming pc adding a new gpu to save money

[Nhirlathothep]

I want to build a secondary Gaming pc for 4k/60hz gaming.
(my main gaming setup is complete and i m not going to upgrade it)




i already have nvidia GPU (titanx) and a old ws (2011 i think)

to save money can i use the old ws (nehalem) socket 1366 dual cpu as "gaming pc" ?




1) in 4k 60hz with a single card i m not going need a super cpu (gpu bottleneck) so this old cpu can be enough


2) the config is a dual X5675 (esacore) (12 core 24 thread) and i can maintain it at costant 3.5 GHz, (max turbo core freq)

it has 96gb ram and pci express 2.0 (probably bottleneck)

 

[Davva2004]

Mate, there are top end rigs rocking 6 core 12 thread overclocked CPUs and dual GPUs that can't hit a rock solid 60hz at 4K in every top title. I think you need to rethink your plans and go for 1440p instead.

 

[WYP]

Are your plans to run games at 4K on a TV? A living room gaming PC?

What parts do you have ATM? Do you have the spare parts to build it externally and test some games at 4K?

 

[Nhirlathothep]

Mate, there are top end rigs rocking 6 core 12 thread overclocked CPUs and dual GPUs that can't hit a rock solid 60hz at 4K in every top title. I think you need to rethink your plans and go for 1440p instead.

Are your plans to run games at 4K on a TV? A living room gaming PC?

What parts do you have ATM? Do you have the spare parts to build it externally and test some games at 4K?

hello!

it s a secondary gaming pc, i m not hoping to play in 4k 60 fps min.

i want to build a 4k gaming pc using a titanx (the old gpu of my main gaming pc)

so i m thinking:


instead of buying a new rig spending money, can i use my old ws with the titanx at zero cost?
(it s in the garage form years)
is it too old ?

- i m not going to use my tv with a gaming pc, i only use monitors with pc.
- the only part to buy it s the monitor, but not today

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

hello!

it s a secondary gaming pc, i m not hoping to play in 4k 60 fps min.

i want to build a 4k gaming pc using a titanx (the old gpu of my main gaming pc)

so i m thinking:


instead of buying a new rig spending money, can i use my old ws with the titanx at zero cost?
(it s in the garage form years)
is it too old ?

- i m not going to use my tv with a gaming pc, i only use monitors with pc.
- the only part to buy it s the monitor, but not today

You should be fine. PCIe 2.0 should be able to serve the titanX no problem and the dual cpus as well! That machine will be good for computational tasks for sure as well for gaming

 

[WYP]

You should be fine playing most games, especially modern games that can use a lot of CPU cores. Just don't expect to max out most games at 4K.

 

[shambles1980]

dont think pcie 2.0 will be a noticeable bottle neck if its even one at all.

But I also dont think you will be able to play every game 60fps at 4k.

 

[Nhirlathothep]

You should be fine. PCIe 2.0 should be able to serve the titanX no problem and the dual cpus as well! That machine will be good for computational tasks for sure as well for gaming

You should be fine playing most games, especially modern games that can use a lot of CPU cores. Just don't expect to max out most games at 4K.

dont think pcie 2.0 will be a noticeable bottle neck if its even one at all.

But I also dont think you will be able to play every game 60fps at 4k.

tnx

do you think that modern games are able to use the second cpu?

old games (i tested em in 2011) ignored the second cpu

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

tnx

do you think that modern games are able to use the second cpu?

old games (i tested em in 2011) ignored the second cpu

Not really. I don't know if later DX12 games will be able to do so -they should be able to use multiple cores of a cpu-

 

[shambles1980]

windows seems to work alot better these days at offloading workloads to free cpu cores. windows 10 and windows 8.1 come to mind. but thats not to say Games will utilize all the cores. but the chances of work getting que'd up on a occupied thread when there is a free one available is really low now.
Amd struggled with bulldozer a lot because of how windows allocated work loads, and after a bit of work by Microsoft it was better.. Still most games really arent aiming at multiple cores and usually prefer less but faster cores.

Having just said all that..
I dont see any issues with the cpu's in terms of gaming regardless of whether the game uses all cores or not.
in all honesty one of those cpu's is probably enough cpu for gaming.

If i look at the cpu's i would say it is basically an i5 2320 / 2400 with no on chip hd gpu. and no avx. But more everything else.
So i dont see how that wouldnt be good enough for gaming even if you only had 1..

I dont see an issue with using it for gaming even if games only utilize a few cores. as long as those cores arent also trying to do other work "which they shouldnt under a modern windows" then it will be good..
the 2nd gen i5's are still perfectly fine for gaming and dont let any one tell you they arent. and that is basically what one of those cpu's are just with more cores and HT.
You could say then its an i7.. but there arent that many 2nd and 3rd gen i7's to compare it too. so the single core performances and stuff looks vastly superior on the i7's (because they are clocked faster for 1 thing) and you cant compare multi threaded performance because that's unfair in the other direction, So a lowly i5 is the best comparison as we are only really worried about single core performance possibly up to a max of 8, and more likely 4 cores. Any subsiquent cores could always be attributed within windows on boot to take care of other workloads. and provided windows works as it should you shouldnt ever see your gpu bottle neck due to a game being cpu heavy "i:e the gpu cant hit 100% load because the cpu cannot feed it the data".