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Originally Posted by XBrianX So while browsing around i found my 2008 PC and i was thinking of using it for gaming because to be honest i'm just sick of my laptop, it's not because it has bad preformance it's the fact that it's unupgradable and games are getting bigger and bigger. PC specs: Intel pentium 5200 @ 2.50 GHZ (stock 2 cores) 4gb ddr2 ram (3gb usable) an old NVidia GeForce 7100 / NVidia GeForce 630i 250mb vram If it's worth it i can get a 1gb gpu if the processor is okay because i saw videos of people overclocking it to 3.50/4.0 ghz and i saw plenty of people playing gta online with it so i'm not sure.

Just because there are videos of people overclocking it doesn't mean it's a good idea. Don't keep the processor just because you CAN overclock it. If you're planning to; it's probably a better idea to buy a new CPU as a whole. If you overclock a CPU, you have to make sure you have enough cooling, enough available watt and need to be certain your CPU is actually able to overclock without issues.

4 GB ram is enough but you'll be noticing quirks when you play any game that is remotely similar to Skyrim. Those newer games have a tendency of running out of RAM rather quickly. Also any program that doesn't release their memory properly will cause your PC to stutter heavily.

Get the GPU with most vram. When you're looking at low usage GPU's, it really doesn't matter whether one GPU is better on paper than another when they have less vram because they'll just keep on running out of ram when you're playing a more recent game so you won't notice a big difference in performance.

Also, a detail most people always forget: make sure there's enough cooling and enough power to support all your parts