Me and a friend are building a dedicated beam ng pc using parts i already have (which range from 2005 to 2008). It will run mods (various ones with mods totaling around 2 gb). I have the following parts: Intel Socket 775 motherboard from 2008 (can overclock as needed) 4 GB ddr2 ram for it (max the board takes) core 2 duo e6750 pentium e6600 AMD radeon hd 5770 1 gb AMD socket AM3 motherboard from 2012 Some AMD sempron 6 gb ddr3 ram for it (board has 2 ram slots only) My plan is to use the intel motherboard with a core 2 quad q8400 (which im getting for free and will oc when i get a better cooler) with 4 gb of some nice corsair ddr2-800 ram and the hd 5770, but will it be enough to run beam ng? This probably is in the wrong thread so my bad if it is.
i remember one guy on the steam forum said he used a core 2 quad and a gtx 670 overclocked and he is getting 100 fps in that game
lol a spare 1080ti and ryzen threadripper with 128 gb of ram would be nice, but im trying to do this with old hardware. i put a 750ti in a core 2 quad system one time and called it a vr machine
You can mod a LGA771 Xeon CPU of that time to fit into LGA775 boards. Why? Those Xeon CPUs + moddingparts are very cheap compared to those Core2Duo Extreme Editions but still have same the performance. I had an Intel Xeon X5450 for ~30€ + 6€ modpart. The equivalent Core2duo would have cost me >130€ on ebay.
I’ll get one soon, but I’m iffy on doing it because it involves cutting off 2 tabs in the socket and I gotta get the right one. I got a Intel g31 motherboard and according to the supported cpu’s the highest possible cpu is a core 2 extreme qx9650 but according to Delidded.com, these Xeons have been tested and supported in my board (screenshot below)
I have a crappy computer and I still can play Beam on 1024 x 768, lowest settings at 30-40 FPS. (Intel i5-4200U, GT 720M, 4GB)