What to do?

[tozey]

My PC which I’ve had for some time now is finally surplus to requirements. My 2 sons who have made some use of it now have their own rigs so my old faithful is now sitting doing nothing. It’s a shame as it’s served me well for years but I just don’t know what to do with it?

Is there any point upgrading for some casual gaming? Are their any decent options for this?

if I was to move it on, is there a market for this?

I guess I’m looking for some inspo really on keeping it alive, not quite sure why I have this weird attachment to an electronic system

Spec is

Motherboard Gigabyte System Model: P67A-UD3
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Memory: Corsair CML16GX3M2A1600C10B Vengeance LP Blue 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz
Card name: Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1050 WF2 GDDR5 OC 2GB PCI-E
SSD: INTEL SSDSC2CT120A3 ATA Device 120gb (OS)
HDD: WDC WD20EZRX-00DC0B0 ATA Device 2TB
HDD: SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device 1TB
Power: Antec Truepower 650

Thanks if anyone has any advice, appreciated.

 

[Tetras]

The old quad cores can play any game released during the Intel stagnation era pretty well (i.e. 1st gen Core to 1st gen Ryzen) and with a newer graphics card (like RX 6600/RTX 2060) it could handle a lot of newer games too, though a CPU with 8 threads would help.

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