I am attempting to build/upgrade a computer so old that google is having a hard time finding it. I have an IBM 6350-kfu desktop. The "new" parts I am upgrading it with are lower end if not the lowest. The "new" parts going into it are: ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 Motherboard Kingston ValueRam Memory Intel Celeron Dual Core E1600 Processor XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (PVT80FSHD9) I am basically looking at this as a practice run for when I decide to build an awesomer computer. My question is will these parts work together? What problems do you think I will run into?
why don't you start with a raspberry pi? i'm looking to do a project with my 6 and 4 year old. might be right up your alley? if you're just looking to practice?
I forgot to mention that I would eventually like to upgrade the computer with an even better motherboard, cpu and gpu later on if I can. Also I already spent the money. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing.
What do you want to do with it? Just browsing and tax forms? Games? Also, how much ram do you want. Now personally, I'd save my money and get the decent stuff in one go (or part by part). Spending money on parts you're going to swap out annyhow is a waste and eventually gets you a lot less. Edit: sorry, didnt read that right also
You call that old/low end? The SGI Octane I'm posting this from has a different idea of old. And there is lower end stuff on the market then that right now, doesn't make it a good idea to buy. Without model numbers/product links I cannot say if the stuff will work together. What kind of RAM does the motherboard support (DDR2, DDR3, or DDR4)? Is your RAM the same type (Kingtson Value RAM is the name of their cheap RAM, going back to at least the DDR1 days). Is the CPU socket the same as the motherboard? Voltage? Also, I've always found Celerons to be a waste of money, all the one's I've worked with not only sucked but didn't support power saving features, so the CPU burned more power then their higher end counterparts (be it a Pentium 3 or an i5). I also think that video card is pretty darn old. It might not last.
iirc those 8800 are stil okay performancewise though the ram amounts might be a bit lower. But tge biggest issue would be ancient shader possibilities, a lot of things would not ask for much performance but will just refuse to run because of lacking shader support. For games atleast, but if theres no intrest there why go for anything but onboard video?
That GTX 8800 is going to be a power monger in comparison to anything recent. And I agree - if it's not going to be powering games (if it is get something newer...), then I wouldn't use that card. It's too old to be useful for OpenCL purposes (which I use a lot of cards for).
