Can it run doom?

[michmechx5]

Im building a pc for my sibling, its an old pc that i got from a school, its got Lga socket so the max cpu i could put there is intel 2 quad Q9650, and its really outdated, its got a ddr2 only ram, the max is 8gb and finding ram for it hard (im probably gonna stay witg 4gb for now), so I went here to ask if its possible to run doom 2016 on this ancient desktop not even meeting the bare minimum for cpu and 8gb of ram.

[smallen7]

The short answer is "no". You need at least 8 gigs of DDR4 ram. You also need a faster CPU and a GPU that can handle the highly detailed and fast graphics of the game. There are several sites where you can get great deals on PC components. I don't think it's allowed to post these sites here.

[michmechx5]

Originally posted by smallen7:

The short answer is "no". You need at least 8 gigs of DDR4 ram. You also need a faster CPU and a GPU that can handle the highly detailed and fast graphics of the game. There are several sites where you can get great deals on PC components. I don't think it's allowed to post these sites here.

Thanks, but what about the lowest graphics, would the cpu fry and the game wouldnt even allow me to run?

[smallen7]

You could buy Doom, run it and refund it if it won't play.

[SeTa]

Back in 2016 i've played this on q6600 oc to 3.2ghz, 8gb ddr2 and Amd r9 285, with 720p resolution everything on low and vulkan api, this will be enough for some 40-80 fps in multiplayer if you are interested and also playable campaign.

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doom 2016 has excellent optimization, if you optimize your device and the game to the maximum (that includes playing at lower resolutions) MAYBE you can run doom at decent FPS

[X-Vector]

The graphics card is important; my current PC was bought in 2011 and consists of an i7 2600K with 8GB DDR3 1600 RAM.
The original GPU in this system was a Radeon HD6950 2GB, which allowed me to play the demo at 1280x960 resolution with low graphics settings.
I believe the frame rate was somewhere between 50 and 70.
Some six to seven years ago I replaced that card with a second-hand Radeon R9 380 4GB which made a vast difference.
I could now virtually max out the settings and would still get a higher and more consistent frame rate, averaging around 70 FPS if I recall correctly.
When I switched the API to Vulkan I noted another huge performance increase; at the smelter level the FPS would change from 75 to 125 and generally the minimum frame rate is around 90.

[Death Approaches]

this is why people and schools give away their trash... I mean museum relics... I mean old computers. upgrading must occur to stay current, and you want to rebuild a nearly-20 year old thing and make it run semi-modern games on a current OS, with those dismal specs and low RAM... it's an exercise in patience and futility, I think. might make a good MAME machine, or abandonware machine, or old warez CD games back when machines had CD drives in them, whatever... cause who cares if it's laden with viruses, you're using it for one thing. not sure I'd try to bring it current, though.

if you got all the parts, slap it together and see, maybe XP/Vista maybe 7, might be a fun/funny experience. but if you don't have said CPU RAM or at least a dedicated 2GB GPU (your wording said "the max cpu i could put there is intel 2 quad Q9650" which sounds like you intend to find / buy a used one?) just don't bother - surrender it's guts to the landfill. it's not worth $10. the case may be nice, but who knows if the mb standoffs will even align unless it's a standard form factor like mini-ATX... cause who buys full-size ATX boards anymore? I mean ~17-20 years ago, it's probably solid steel. :-) some of those old PC tower cases from the 80s weighed 20# w/o a power supply and you could sit on them like a stool. try that with a modern thin aluminum and plastic LED case!

sorry sibling. if it ran at all it would run terribly.