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**Barney [CA]** · (This post was last modified: 2019-01-13 23:15 by Barney.)

Yay. Oldschool. My system is/was roughly the the same. Same cpu on an Asus p5q pro and a sapphire radeon 3850, all roughly 12 years old too. Still good enough for 100fps in lfs...
couple of years ago i „updated“ it aswell... just put another 2x2GB ram for a total of 8 in(10-20 euro or so?!), got a geforce 560 ti from a friend, got a intel q6600(4x2,4 ghz) for 11 bucks running smoothly at 3ghz and a 120gb ssd for windows 7 and programs/games. That combined with a clean system is good enough for lfs, rocket league and even gta v. For a minimum of expenses a rather good update. Everything else didn’t make sense to me.
If you are willing to spend more you‘d need to upgrade the mainboard too and go for an i5 or i7 and, with new ram, be at much higher costs.

€: oh well, if you r not really into hardware, overclocking probably isn’t an option. Apart from a little more ram, a ssd and a clean install theres not really much to update i think. But it’s something at least.

€2: the „faster“ quadcores don’t really make sense, as they are still slower than your current cpu, cost more and are not so good for overclocking. You‘d have an advantage when running more programs at once, but singlecore tasks as lfs run even slower... you will definitely feel the updated ram and ssd though.