RTX Graphics Card in a 15 Year Old Family PC...

Hello everyone and Welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at a 15 Year Old Family PC, but this time we're going to having a deep dive into what happens when you add an RTX Graphics Card with a C2Q from a 15 Year Old Family PC...Only one way to find out...

Intro - 0:00
The PC - 0:12
Installing it and PSU Concerns - 0:48
The PC Specs - 2:16
The Benchmarks! - 3:40
Comparison to Stock Specs - 10:11
Conclusion - 11:00

Music
Simcity 2013 OST
Simcity 3000 - Building
MGS Hidden Jazz

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Specs:
CPU: C2Q Q6600
GPU: RTX3050 8GB
RAM: 8GB DDR2 800Mhz

[luh]

This man has as much RAM as VRAM. What a legend

[MrRoko]

The fact that 15 years old CPU can even start modern games is quite remarkable if you ask me 🙂

[dailenth]

I once tried playing warframe with a GTX 650 Ti on a q6600, the framerate was insufferable. All that changed when I replaced the whole rig with a Ryzen 5 1600 build. Aside from tweaking a few settings, it runed great. Next I tried my vega 56 on a q6600, even unigine failed to start LOL

[oliwek]

It's more 12 years old 😉
I have used a Core2quad with DDR2 until 6 months ago. Its motherboard (P5Q-E) was from 2009. I had maxed out the RAM with 4x2GB. USB was still USB2 on the board, so I had to bring USB 3.0 with an addon card. Still, it has served us well for 12 years as the primary family PC (the last years with a modded xenon CPU) !

[DyoKasparov]

BBO living in opposite reality, where GPU are the cheapest PC component while everything else is expensive af

[steph_on_yt]

Glad to see you back to uploading semi-regularly!

[TheSpotify]

Well, I am surprised with this result. It's amazing that you managed to get some of these games working at all.
Personally, I'd just use the system as it was meant to be, leaving the 8GB DDR2 installed, and just using it for more retro games and operating systems.

[patpatboy]

I've got an old Dell Vostro (business version of the PC you featured) that I upgraded over the years. I used it for gaming as late as 2016 thanks to a Q9550, 8 GB of RAM, and a GTX 560 SC. That little PC kept me gaming for almost a decade, so I'd say the platform actually aged surprisingly well.

[skywaytech]

I still think no one should be running a core 2 quad in this day and age for gaming purposes, but I am interested to see your core 2 quad video to see how it fairs in 2022. A lot of channels have labeled it as a dead cpu for gaming wise.

[hardrivethrutown]

Love the vids as usual!
I thought 11:35 "thirst fought" was pretty funny

[lovesmangina]

I love this type of content, keep up the good work!

[leoademayyyne]

Have you tried doing it with the pin covered in order to make the CPU go from 2.4GHz to 3GHz ? I don't think it would change much, but still, if you weren't already doing it, I think you might get slightly higher results

[JfLSpawny]

This takes me back to being a teenager and the family computer was terrible, it had the worst gfx card they could get away with putting in and telling my dad it was a gaming pc, i then took on a few jobs and saved every penny i could and eventually got a midrange for the time gfx card, then i learned that the cpu was weak... and the ram was slow.... and the list went on ahhh memories lol, im so pleased time pc went out of business

[MrSonic]

Can’t wait my grandpa gave me the same pc and I want to make a sleeper build in his honor, He owned a antique business as well as a fisherman, sadly passed away 2020, Before he passed he gave me a computer tool kit, I went to tech school and never went through with it, And gave me the story of the tools 2 days before he passed away this is inspiring.Thank you

[DJSekuHusky]

If I had an RTX card, I'd want to put it in my top-tier X58 platform, just for lulz. That triple-channel chipset configuration was no joke.

My Rampage III Formula board had a SATA 3 controller as well, so running an SSD vastly benefited performance over SATA 2.

It's an i7 990X-powered system with 24GB DDR3 (Mushkin RedLine 2133MHz kit) that I ran for ten solid years before upgrading to a(n) Z390/i7 9700K setup and 128GB DDR4 (G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3200MHz kit).

I feel like X58 was the bare minimum for decent semi-modern gaming; I had a Q6600 and a Phenom II 1100T system before my brief stint in 990FX and ultimate transition to X58. I was so sad when they could no longer seem to keep up (or keep cool trying).

I now have two Z390 systems and one X58. All GTX-powered: ROG Poseidon 1080Ti ($550), ROG Poseidon 980Ti ($350), EVGA 980Ti SC2 ($150). People used to joke about how I never sold my old graphics cards and had so many lying around; now that the GPU market is what it is, I'm finally having a laugh.

I'm also building a Ryzen 7 5800x system on a budget right now, and the 980Ti SC2 will be going in that; the X58 will be getting its original Strix R9 380-OC back, now that the die-temps are no longer giving off "Chernobyl fuel-rod surface-temp." readings after receiving a full teardown and service.


This was fun to watch, tho. I kinda wanted to do an old Core 2 build for nostalgia' sake and this totally reminded me why that was a bad idea. Thanks for posting!

[makotovrc]

(Among the first ones). Pretty impressive at how GPUs now save that aging beast from being e-waste.

[no_one_gaming]

My ryzen processor died when I am waiting for my replacement processor to arrive I paired a gtx 960 with a q6600 gta 5 occasional stutter but its playable with lower settings and to my surprise the dx11 perform less stutter than the other dx version the fps is about 50 with 1080p low I found an 8gb ddr3 paired with g41 and locked 50 hz and disabled some settings in documents I managed to play and got a decent experience those days, After ryzen arrives it's a new experience .

[JustAFriendlyFrenchDude]

Hey ! I just noticed I have the same TV as you
Aside from that, that is a great video, as always ! Keep it up !

[Space_Reptile]

what i always found odd is how hyped the C2Q 6600 is, when there is a cheaper, faster and more modern variant for the same socket called the C2Q 8400
it still overclocks just as good too, so really no reason to get a 6600 instead of the 8400
not to mention the 8400 has newer SSE instructions, making more stuff work on it

[Ricelord]

When I upgraded my old AMD FX-4100 computer with an NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti, I quickly realized that the CPU was the bottleneck. Ooh boy, that was fun. But I was able to play Doom 2016 on medium or high settings in 1080p with playable framerate back in the day, so I can't complain. I bet the 1050 Ti can still be useful as I wait out the GPU apocalypse with a better CPU, mobo, SSD, and RAM.