but it is a perfect match for saints row 4 and halo MCC for sure

Good news for me

So maybe I can upgrade it for its original purpose after all

Yep, even in somewhat modern triple a games it works in most of them, just gotta drop the res and settings

And for older games/ esports it does amazingly well

The biggest one I can think of that I may end up wanting is Halo 5.. How does it handle there?

Is Halo 5 Forge the same thing?

Seems like its some kind of gamemode for it

I think they did add its own component on PC at some point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4cBzLhuxvM

starts at 3:10

But I'm just referring to everything in the base game on its own

seems pretty decent at 1080 low

if it can run forge i would assume it works good in other modes too

One can hope. I'll confirm what cpu I have later, and go from there

If its a 7020 its a extremely high chances its an i5/i7 either is fine

you can do Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open task manager and check

go to performance tab and it should say what cpu

i7

Yusssssssss

Thats very good!

and you probably got plenty of ram as well

I think it's 8 rn. I wanted to upgrade to at least 16 if/when I made it a gaming PC

8 works, but 16 should help reduce stutters, especialy if you multitask at all

Exactly why I planned on 16

So 16 gb RAM, I guess GT 1030 for graphics, and I'll have to find a hard drive with decent storage

Or I may go further and take the RAM to 32 gb

32gb is way overkill except for a few specific things

1. cities skylines 2. minecraft with tons and tons of mods 3. video editing or other workstation tasks

But if you can get it cheap it will make your system more responsive, and you never need to close applications XD

I mean I do enjoy modding Minecraft

But it takes so many to make 32 gb useful

i can barely use 32 with running a 5-10 player server, 1,12,2 with over 300 mods while playing at the same time

+ internet tabs etc

Only gets to around 28GB but thats an insane case, if you don;t host servers 16gb works great

if you dont use it all, it just caches programs and makes them open faster, not bad but thats up to you if its worth it

I'll think about it. I want performance above all else.. No hiccups, crashes, etc.

fair enough, but i would upgrade to the gt 1030 first, before any ram or anything like that

since then you would acually be able to start playing the games 😄

O boi is this revelation exciting.

At the same time though, I'm not sure how often I'll play them. The vast majority of my game library is SNES and earlier