mojunikey7 Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) So a friend gave me some of his old computer for free today, he just bought an i7 and a LGA2011 board for it. He said he thinks the CPU on the old board is decent and might work for the HTPC ive been talking about building, so I say sure. I open it up to see 4gb of OCZ reaper, an Intel QX6850 cpu, and two 9800GT's on a XFX nForce 680i sli series Mobo. Now what? I feel like it has some potential, I know it's not a 2600k or anything, but I want to do something with it, considering I dunno if it is even worth selling. Any thoughts? Is it HTPC worthy? Edited March 10, 2012 by mojunikey7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 THat was a pretty nice system in its day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojunikey7 Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Oh and it is all packed into a Coolermaster Cosmos case (silver) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Fold! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercman Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 not a bad system at all. would still be able to play almost everything out today given it would not be at max graphics settings. i like the case Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedway Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Heck of a score, especially for free! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Overkill for HTPC IMO. QX6850 used to be ~$900 (forgot the price). A $900 processor is totally waste for HTPC. And it may be even faster that your 965BE. So, use it as a secondary PC. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Or join Folding@home team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munkypoo7 Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Two 9800GTs? Fold baby fold! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 give a fresh install and play with it... should do pretty good Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojunikey7 Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Basically I'm going to do one of three thing with this. I'm either going to make a decently overpowered (and probably overheating) HTPC for my living room, turn it into a school computer for my wife (which she really won't need once I go on deployment anyhow) or try to sell it on the cheap and purchase parts for a phenom HTPC build with on board video Any ideas? I don't fold or anything like that, but if I can scrounge up the extra cash to make a second computer I might do that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCRO Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) Sell it! Buy some GPU's or something with the money. Screw folding, it does nothing but run up you electricity bill. Edited March 10, 2012 by MJCRO 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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