What is the weakest gaming PC you've encountered before?
What is the weakest gaming PC you've encountered before?
what is the weakest gaming pc you've ever encountered? I (not by choice) attempted to run Fortnite on an old laptop with an intel celeron n3350, hd 500 graphics and 4gb of ddr3. The game had to be installed on a flash drive since the laptop only offered 64gb of storage. Fortnite was running at 18 fps at 800x600 resolution. Not just the low framerate, but even if it had been smooth, everything appeared as a blurry color so I couldn't distinguish anything.
FX 6000 around, GT 710, roughly 16 GB memory. Attempted to play BeamNG.
A friend of mine tried Fallout 3 on an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with an HD 6450. Most of the preinstalled software was typical, like an i7-8700 and a GT 730 on a H310 board with 8 GB DDR4-2133. Or more accurately, a 3 GHz Pentium 4, a Geforce 6200, and 1 GB DDR2-533. The system had a fast processor and enough RAM, but the graphics card was extremely outdated.
Q9500 with just 4GB DDR3 RAM. I still use this PC for fun. It works for retro games because it's the only one in the house that can boot Windows 7.
0:00 to 0:19 demonstrates the PC has a Q9500 and 4GB RAM
Street Fighter starts at 1:33
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2jMHaJggG4
Yes, I need to stick to single channel and the slowest officially supported speed. The CPU is unlocked on a non-oc board. It's impressive how much performance boosts with dual channel, even with a weak GPU. The GT 710 isn't something to pair with "gaming" at the same time. The 730 might be fine for very basic 2014 gaming. At least the GDDR5 version will handle Skyrim and Rocket League smoothly, maintaining stable 70+ fps in 720p. That's not too bad if the GPU is decent. For that chip, a GTX 960 or R9 280 would work well, especially with overclocking. I own an Xeon X5460 (3.16 GHz Core 2 Quad equivalent) running at 4.1 GHz, which comfortably supports the GTX 660 Ti it's paired with. Even faster cards would still perform okay. (Doom 2016 runs with the GPU limited even in the lowest settings at 800x450.) It remains a decent quad-core processor, and with good overclocking, it could rival Ryzen 1200 or i3-9100 chips—just manage your expectations.
If you watch the video from 0:00 to 0:19, the PC features an ASUS GTX 1650 GDDR6. Before that, it only had a GT 1030. Switching to the 1650 improved playability for several games, though there are still some bottlenecks and occasional lag. The 1650 is significantly better than the 1030. The 1030 is now in the box, marked as "reserve."
The PC also previously had a Core 2 Duo e8400. The Q9500 was an upgrade I installed. My initial plan was to upgrade to a Xeon, but I found the Q9500 first—it's affordable and has never caused issues.
I won't forget the times my brothers attempted to play Roblox on an i5-2400 with Intel HD 2000. It seemed they never exceeded 30 fps, matching the performance of my older laptop. They believed their i5 2400 was superior to my previous i5 6500 and RX 550 PC, a claim I quickly refuted by displaying the actual frame rates.