As the title says and as you can see in my signature I have an i5 2300 system still (Sandy Bridge I believe). It's 5 years old and I built it mostly with parts bought here at the FS/FT forum. What a great experience by the way! This system has served me well over the last 6 years.
I've just ordered a Samsung 850 Evo SSD for it, I'm thinking some more ram may be in order too, I also want to install a new graphics card, I was thinking perhaps a 1050 would fit the bill? Do you guys think that would bring me up to snuff enough to play some modern games? I certainly would settle for playing at 720P.
Should I go for an even cheaper GPU? I'm really not sure what makes sense given the possible limitations of the rest of my hardware.
I hope I'm not insane to think that this is a viable plan to be able to play Forza 7 or at least Horizon 3.
I've just ordered a Samsung 850 Evo SSD for it, I'm thinking some more ram may be in order too, I also want to install a new graphics card, I was thinking perhaps a 1050 would fit the bill? Do you guys think that would bring me up to snuff enough to play some modern games? I certainly would settle for playing at 720P.
Should I go for an even cheaper GPU? I'm really not sure what makes sense given the possible limitations of the rest of my hardware.
I hope I'm not insane to think that this is a viable plan to be able to play Forza 7 or at least Horizon 3.
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