r/lowspecgamer

A brand new life!

I just upgraded my pc from a intel i5 4570s, with its integrated gpu I can barely play anything, to a i5 14400f, rx 6600, now I can enjoy the games that I dreamed about playing while watching others.

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u/Fine_Requirement578 — 2 days ago

Hit my wall mentally earned a break

Got a heavy bash crash when trying to inject a layer into r3 cores but turns out I may have been wrong fucked up that ddr5 mobo gave out as well but it is what is I just terminated specific math orders that should of been left alone on the 9120x concept not the end but gonna take break for awhile it’s been a long 2 months

u/Im840 — 3 days ago

For all of those tight on money this can do some games.

https://www.vinted.it/items/9301326694-pc-hp-295-g8

I got one, if you are in Europe, this can do a lot.
Throw in some low power card and you can play a lot.
Got mine for 70€, got a hated RX6500XT for 45€ and it can play lots.

This way you could move from very low spec gamer to an average low spec gamer.
Very low 180W PSU, but can do for the GPU I threw in.
I am not the seller, I just got one.

Cheers!

u/aargent88 — 4 days ago
▲ 13 r/lowspecgamer+2 crossposts

Sharing something I found while shopping for a used P104-100 that might help others here.

I tested two different P104-100 units (same model, same seller's test rig: i3-9100T, 16GB RAM, driver 531.41) on Unigine Superposition 1080p Medium:

Unit A: OCCT VRAM test showed 337 WHEA errors within 2 min 28 sec. Superposition score: 3837 (avg 28.7 FPS)

Unit B: OCCT VRAM test showed 0 errors over a full 15 min run. Superposition score: 11641 (avg 87 FPS)

Same GPU model, same test system, same driver. The only difference was VRAM health, and it caused a 3x difference in score. For reference, a GTX 1070 with a mild OC scores around 13683 on the same test, so a healthy P104-100 lands surprisingly close to that.

My takeaway: if you're buying one of these off Marketplace/FB, always ask the seller to run OCCT (GPU > VRAM > 90% dataset > 15 min) before you commit. The visual/physical condition tells you nothing about VRAM health, and the performance gap between a healthy and degraded unit is massive.

Happy to answer questions if anyone's going through the same buying process.

u/Advanced-Art-5173 — 6 days ago

PC Optimization Question for Marathon (2026 game)

For starters, GPU is a 3080, and CPU is an I7-11700KF, and 32 GB of RAM.

Not sure what I’m missing, I don’t have issues running many games and don’t know why I can’t hold 120 FPS in here. Not very knowledgable when it comes to computer parts, but I feel like my solution isn’t just lock it to 60 FPS. Maybe the tech is finally just outdated.

TYIA for any suggestions or what y’all have your settings set at!

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u/EhrmActual — 6 days ago
▲ 271 r/lowspecgamer+1 crossposts

GTX 1070 Ti back in action.

My GF’s 11 year old nephew is desperate for a gaming PC for his birthday but money is tight for his folks at the moment so I dug out some old parts I had lying around.

GTX 1070 TI - sat on my shelf
Samsung SSD - as above
600w Be Quiet PSU - ditto
Ryzen 2600 - £22 on ebay
16GB DDR4 - £40 on ebay
A320 Asrock mobo - £29 on ebay (unused)
added an Ionz case and Assassin X and the full build came to around £140. Hope he enjoys it.

u/Halon5 — 12 days ago

Was depressed so I needed to distract myself tuned a hp stream 14 on linux

u/Im840 — 8 days ago

16+16gb ram or 32gm ram upgrade for gaming laptop?

Hi! What’s better? Getting 16+16 or 32? I wanted to upgrade my laptop ram for better performance but still undecided. Pls help

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u/Ok_Click326 — 8 days ago

Monster Hunter World crash on startup

Got a strong craving to play MHWorld, so I downloaded the game and created a new character as one does.

However, after 15 hours of gameplay, the game has SUDDENLY started crashing on startup! I’ve tried a few things, but to no avail:

- Uninstalling mods and running unmodded
- Reinstalling windows, steam and the game
- Updating gpu drivers and directX
- Adding the game to antivirus exceptions
- Wiping the save data

I still believe there could be a reasonably easy fix because:

a) It ran for around 15h on my current system
b) the system can run plenty of games from the same era reasonably well

Specs:

- Intel core i5 3.2GHZ
- 16gb ram
- AMD Radeon R9 M380

I’ve made a similar post in the game’s subreddit as well, but I’ve figured there’s a decent chance someone from this sub will have a better solution

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u/Accidental_ — 7 days ago
▲ 4 r/lowspecgamer+1 crossposts

Is the NVIDIA P104-100 still worth it for gaming in 2026?

Hi everyone,

In my country, the price difference between a used GTX 1070 and a P104-100 is quite large. I can get a P104-100 for much cheaper, sometimes almost half the price of a GTX 1070.

I know the P104 is a mining card and doesn't have display outputs, but performance-wise it seems very similar to a GTX 1070.

For those who have used one recently:

  • How is the gaming experience in 2026?
  • Are there any driver issues with newer games?
  • Does the PCIe x4 interface cause noticeable performance loss?
  • Is reliability a concern since most of these cards were previously used for mining?
  • Would you still recommend a P104 over a GTX 1060 6GB or GTX 970 at a similar price?

My goal is mostly 1080p gaming on a budget.

Thanks!

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u/Advanced-Art-5173 — 11 days ago

Hey oh

Thanks to a mini-program combining GameScope and Vkbasalt, I get an average of 25 fps in the open world, 40 in shrines, and 60 in menus. Breath of the wild is pretty optimized 🙃🥲

u/Jinhappy — 9 days ago

Is it good that my laptop struggles by dropping from 50-60 fps to 10 fps on a Roblox game called jujutsu shenanigas

Warning, my english isn't perfect American or British English and I'm writing this at around 2 am and on a phone so ask for help in the comments if you don't understand my writing.

Laptop is an Asus gaming laptop

Now for context, my laptop is around six years old I got it as a Christmas present in 2020 if I remember correctly. I think that the air intake has been cleaned since it got repaired (if they cleaned it), that might be part of the issue. Another reason I think that it might be struggling is that last time I checked from the taskbar manager thing while Roblox was running it was on 80 percent usage (it has like 7-9 gigs of DDR 4). This only happens in jujutsu shenanigans, but not in blox fruits or in other games like Finnish cottage simulator or dark souls 2. Yes it's 6 years old and that might be part of the reason.

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u/bober_blade_of_kebab — 8 days ago