10 years ago I had an i7-920, 12GB DDR3 and a GTX 660 DC2 OC. It could still run most games that I play these days I did stay on the X58 platform until late 2023 with the final specs being: CPU: Intel Xeon X5670 6c/12t @ 4.4GHz (got it for 60-70€ in 2016) Cooler: Thermalright Silver Arrow Case: Fractal Design Define R5 RAM: 24GB DDR3 1600MHz in triple channel (always wanted to upgrade it to 48GB but 8GB DDR3 sticks are quite expensive here in Finland) Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 1080 Strix Advanced SSD: 500GB Samsung 870 EVO (Win10), 250GB Samsung 750 EVO (Win7) and 120GB Kingston A400 (for pagefile) HDD: 10TB Seagate Exos 7E10, 4TB HGST Ultrastar 7K6 and a 4TB WD Red Plus PSU: Seasonic 620W M12II-620 Evo Sound card: Asus Xonar DGX 5.1