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I have ran many old computers and ran old games reasonably well on them. Some new games too with frugal settings.
Your old motherboard can take CPU's like the E8500/E8600 dual cores and Q9550/Q9650 quad cores, and they are usually available cheap and can get you by, but the motherboards 4gb memory limitation may be felt in some applications.
One of my sons still runs an old LGA775 system, went from an E6300 and 4gb of xms 800 to an E8500 with 4gb Dominator GT memory to a Q9550 with 8gb of Corsair XMS 1066 due to some minor issues with a lack of memory, even using an old Sapphire HD4780 Toxic he plays a fair few old games. With one of my old HD7950 GPU's he was still able to enjoy games like Crysis, Biohazard, Battlefield 4, with reasonable settings.
Has a Samsung Evo SSD, Bequiet PSU and CPU cooler, and reasonable case.
I would suggets as above say, get some pictures up of exactly what you have, and work out what you expect from it and what you want to spend on that versus a new system.
You may find you can buy a few second hand parts from somewhere, and a few new parts, and slowly get yourself a new PC using the old system as a crutch.
Your old motherboard can take CPU's like the E8500/E8600 dual cores and Q9550/Q9650 quad cores, and they are usually available cheap and can get you by, but the motherboards 4gb memory limitation may be felt in some applications.
One of my sons still runs an old LGA775 system, went from an E6300 and 4gb of xms 800 to an E8500 with 4gb Dominator GT memory to a Q9550 with 8gb of Corsair XMS 1066 due to some minor issues with a lack of memory, even using an old Sapphire HD4780 Toxic he plays a fair few old games. With one of my old HD7950 GPU's he was still able to enjoy games like Crysis, Biohazard, Battlefield 4, with reasonable settings.
Has a Samsung Evo SSD, Bequiet PSU and CPU cooler, and reasonable case.
I would suggets as above say, get some pictures up of exactly what you have, and work out what you expect from it and what you want to spend on that versus a new system.
You may find you can buy a few second hand parts from somewhere, and a few new parts, and slowly get yourself a new PC using the old system as a crutch.
