Used PC Gaming rig

[davandy]

Dell Precision Gaming PC
Windows 11
Intel i7 6700 CPU
128 GB SSD + 512GB SSD (New drives)
16GB DDR4 2400 ram (Dual channel)
Nvidia GTX 1050ti
Keyboard, mouse and WiFi dongle included.
Will this system run newer games at 1080?

[ᶻ𝗓𐰁]

It won't run the newest games but it might run RDR2 at 30fps and I think that is about the limit.

[Illusion of Progress]

I wouldn't bother with buying anything older than the 8th generation on Intel's side at this point. Different story if you already have something older than that and it is working for your current uses, but when buying hardware, you should take into account that it needs to last longer so that you don't have to turn around and make changes/purchases again so soon. Stuff that is already scraping by and about to be unsupported in the Windows ecosystem therefore wouldn't make for a good purchase in my mind.

Even if we ignore the Windows point, that would struggle with a number of modern games anyway because the CPU is lacking in both per core performance and core/thread count if we're looking at the modern gaming landscape. Shader compilation and other things are making some games heavy even on 6 and 8 core CPUs. You really want a hex core minimum, or ideally an octo core, now. Games targeting current console hardware are being made for an ecosystem that has 8 core/16 thread CPUs, and while not all games will need that many, quad cores (and slower ones, at that) are going to be a poor fit a lot of the time.

The Pascal, and the entry level one, isn't helping either.

That hardware still has its use, but purchasing it today to last for modern games now and going forward isn't it.

[davandy]

Thanks so much for that detailed answer: I'll keep looking for a better system now that I know
what to look for thanks to your expertise!
By the way..what do you think of these new Mini PC's for gaming?

[_I_]

6th i7 gen is a quad with ht
and the first gen to use ddr4, which could not hit high speeds
1050it, is ok ish for 1080p60 at lower/mixed settings on games around its release 2016

its far from a good gaming pc now

[HIVEmind]

slap two network cards and turn it into a gateway firewall

[HIVEmind]

ipfire.org this is what I am using

[Midnight Aurais]

the mini pc's are good seriously if you look at the price of many of the minipc's with the 700-800m chipsets compared to building one yourself it literally is like 200-250 euro cheaper i know i build a 8700g system just keep in mind to get a 32 gb ram one so you can allocate up to 16 gb to the chipset

that said from experience not everything can run 1080p but i am enjoying tom clancy breakpoint at 56-70 fps with near max settings no problem at 1080p on top i have to say i am on bazzite not windows

this one has a 780m the newer ones are slightly faster but here is the kicker many have a port that allows you to connect a pci 5.0/4.0 x8 gpu dock so you can get a proper videocard later the whole setup for minipc's is kinda cool as alot of them can also be powered of a power bank that said it would limit the performance but non the less it could be a laptop replacement

i paired my 8700g with a 200 euro touchscreen 15.6 inch i could have attached the minipc to the screen if again i did not went full build

[smokerob79]

cheapest budget option right now would be to buy a AM4 motherboard, find something like a AMD 5500 for 82 bucks new and get a used 3060....done right you could be in at 400 to 500 bucks for a really solid PC.....amazon has the 5500 CPU for 82 dollars US

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[HIVEmind]

dell or hp pcs are good. take the time to choose. follow advise as best you can. use money to narrow down your choices.

[HIVEmind]

sorry I posted in the wrong thread. my bad.

[_I_]

Originally posted by HIVEmind:

dell or hp pcs are good. take the time to choose. follow advise as best you can. use money to narrow down your choices.

no
those are e-waste
impossible to upgrade, since the mobo is cheap and tied to the case and psu
all you can really add is storage and ram
but with the tied down bios, you cant use higher speed ram at its xmp profiles
and adding a good gpu would need a better psu, which means throwing the pc away