Will nVidia GT 1030 work with an ancient Core 2 Duo CPU?

[ic1male]

I've got an ancient HP system from 2009 as it's still going and does me fine for computing purposes. I'm thinking about getting back into PC gaming so before I go and spend a grand on a new setup, I thought I'd try fitting a basic GPU to this computer to see if I can get on with PC gaming after a decade away.

The cheapest GPU out there is the GT 1030 with 2GB and no power requirements but I don't know whether the CPU will bottleneck things.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-19b-gi.html

 

[ic1male]

LOL, it's not really about playing Battlefield 1 or anything. I'll be pottering about with games such as Doom 3, Half Life 2, etc. but I just want to try things out. I did try a 640 card in this computer many moons ago but it didn't seem to recognise that so I sort of gave up but that may have been a dodgy card.

I do have an alternative PC which has a Gigabyte GA-935 (or something) motherboard from 2005? which is happily running on a Radeon 9800XT card but that is a problem with most titles as it doesn't have Shader Model 3.0. I can move the same DDR2 4GB memory from this HP computer to that one as it works there.

Yes, I think I'll give it a whirl.