I have bought a cheap optiplex 790 intend to use as a budget gaming pc (its my first attempt at a decently capable...

You will very, very likely need to get a low profile one. It should be plug and play with one of those.

I dont have the sff one I have the dt one.

I can live with the side panel open, but will the rest of the case be in the way?

Go ahead and reread OP's post, you dunderheaded queef.

Just get a low-profile GPU and don't make stupid compromises on airflow and dust.

Get a low profile 1050ti. But if possible, take a picture of the case with the side panel off so we can take a look inside.

You wouldnt want to have a regular GPU has it will likely hang out with no support, and they can get quite heavy so its just asking for trouble.

You might be able to get away with some regular desktop cards in the DT case. Try to get a GPU with a blower cooler in it instead of an open air cooler.

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and if you can't find a place to have an exhaust fan or put one of these things in there.

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Yeah blower style might be the best for those types of cases. If it can support standard height and not half height.

just lay the case on its side.

Also make sure you don't get a low-profile card with only a high-profile bracket. I made the mistake of buying a low-profile NIC with a normal bracket for mine when I turned it into a router and had to wait another month for the low-profile bracket to arrive.

>Then it would be in your interest to purchase a small fan to mount over the rear vent
There is no space left to mount the rear fan, it just looks like there is because the CPU cooler is missing on your pic.

I believe you are looking at photos of the SFF case. The DT has room.

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and yeah, the height of the slots on this case is 2.75" so you need a low profile card + bracket.

Received a Dell computer years ago once and was thinking of upgrading it over time, but I found out that they welded a lot of the things in or at least build it in such a way that you couldn't easily take it apart without breaking the entire thing open.

is it possible to squeeze two 3,5" drives into a DT optiplex?

I'd like to use a 9010 DT optiplex as a media NAS using freenas and plex

A 1050ti will work in a 790 / 990 sff without issue. I've been using this combo for over a year...

easily done by removing the optical drive and replacing with a hard drive tray (or just drilling holes in the existing optical drive bracket and ghetto rigging it).

Ehh not sure how the PSU will fare with a 1050Ti, I mean it should work, but it'll be borderline on power limit, and that's not safe for the system. They don't really live a lot of extra headroom in these systems, and AFAIK not all standard ATX PSUs will work with those as the mobo has some wonky non-standard amperage requirements for standby voltage. You may consider a 1050 or something.

Yeah, I forgot that the DT existed so I assumed OP has an SFF because the DT looks pretty similar.

Just shove an extra one into the 5.25" bay with a caddy. The 790 only has one SATA III port, the rest are SATA II, but it shouldn't matter for a hard drive.

I have the sff version. Got 3 for 30 bucks because I work at the warehouse (stay mad). I got 2 with gt710 LP cards and a 1050ti like I play skyrim, fallout, ect. On medium with stead frames. I have a USB BT dongle for controller's, wireless keyboard for browsing, USB 3.0 card from another Dell, an SSD and 2tb HDD. I firmly believe that the 790 is THE living room PC.

I have all i72600 versions with 8gb ddr3
(the DVI out also supports hdmi audio via DP++ pass through, if you have a surround system with hdmi)

nice, thx
now I only have to research if a i5-3470 is good enough to transcode 1080p of all sorts while also serving owncloud and general nas duties

i did this with a 9010 MT. i replaced the PSU with an older one i had laying around and had to bash the harddrive cage out of the way with a hammer to fit a gtx 760 in there, but it works
s low profile 1050 would be fine

Get a low profile one, powered from pcie directly not from the six pin connector. You can also get a pcie riser and use full size gpu but you will have to use it with the case constantly open and gpu outside.

Hmm, OP might have a problem.
clascsg.uconn.edu/download/specs/O790.pdf

Standard PCI-E is rated for 75 watts. Spec sheet here says don't go over 35.

I say fuck it, do it anyway. Optiplex is Dell's hardier line-up of business and academic computers, they are made of good stuff and the 35 watts limit is probably more of a suggestion than an actual limitation. The PSU is a 250 watt unit, with probably room to go to at least 275.

Worst case scenario it'll auto-shutdown or kill the PSU over a year or two.

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A 1050ti will be fine. I have this one with no issues on the dell system monitor

m.newegg.com/products/N82E16814125952?ignorebbr=true&source=region&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-Mobile&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-Mobile-_-pla-_-Video Card - Nvidia

Can confirm. The cards don't have 4 pin connectors so you have to try and not melt the PCI slot

That's good, though as I said it should work, but it still might be in a gray area for system longevity. To be safe OP should keep external backups of any important data in case of a catastrophic power failure.

How fast does the gpu fan run under load in that case?

It's about the same sound as when my AC kicks on. You can definitely hear it but it's not like a dedicated system where it sounds like it's getting ready for takeoff.

So there is a chance the 1050ti can hurt the motherboard after awhile?

At the very least you probably shouldn't think of overclocking it.

Probably not, but if you have any issues with the system, it's probably going to be related to the slot. I have one and I play GAYUMS on it for extended periods. It gets slightly warm under load, can't even call it hot.

I did the similar thing with HP SFF with 1030 low profile works better than anything I ever had.

Did you check the manual? You probably already have space for two disks.

What do you play on it? How much ram you got? what kind of fps/graphics settings are working good and on what games? What CPU

If it fits you have like a 35-60w tpd max.
You could always calculate the tpd, and the Radeon he 6350 that comes stock is only a 19w card.

PSU is proprietary

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just buy a ps4 pro already

1050 4gb ti lp works fine atleast on SFF HP elitedesk with stock psu and 16gb ram

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I tried The Witcher 3 and GTA V, fps never went under 60.

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Why did you get the SFF one and not the mini tower? Do some basic research next time.

Maybe because of the price difference?

>does this mean i will have to shell out the extra cash for the low profile card
Just to clarify, the bracket on a regular desktop card has one length and the bracket of a low-profile card is shorter. You will need a low-profile bracket on the card you'd like to use. That doesn't (need to) mean you have to pay extra, the low profile bracket is either included or it's not. Just make sure the one you buy clearly states that one's included. It'll depend on the card, some designs make it impossible to swap and on other cards it's trivial.

This looks like it could potentially be a problem.. 35W is less than the specs so most GPUs will assume drawing 75W is safe.

I doubt it will hurt the motherboard. It might work fine or you will have problems like it not working or the PSU shutting down after a while. I am assuming you're just going to have the one PCIe card in there, filling them all with devices trying to draw 75W would be a problem but it's not like you're going to want to run no SLI in there anyway.

Are you normally this much of a faggot or is this some kind of special occasion for you?

SFF. What a retard.

>fps never went under 60
At 720p with low settings I believe you.

Here's my old Dell workstation build. It's got a Sandy Bridge Xeon. I upgraded the PSU and put a discrete GPU in it. I'm not sure why everyone's not doing this. For $400 you can have a pretty good gaming machine.

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Are you normally this much of a total samefaggot or is this some kind of special shill?

>$400 for sandy bridge
my build was $100 and thats with a gpu

I had an emachines SFF that had a PCI-E slot rated at 50W, I tried a 60W card in it and it refused to boot flat out, but getting a 50W card and OC'ing the piss out of it seemed to work fine.

I spent less than 100 on my Optiplex 790 and 1050ti. It's second hand hardware but it definitely does the job. Not at max, but looks better than console.

OP can buy a optiplex xe2 on ebay, they were one of the few, if only, optiplex mini towers/sff pcs that came with either a 315W or 365W power supply. Or you can look up on ebay Dell Optiplex 960 PSU/XE2 PSU to find a small form factor psu that will offer more wattage than the 790 has stock.

Just make sure it has the right connections.

user a 1050ti is $170 on sale. Nobody believes you.

I fit a full size hdd in my usff optiplex 780 without the side panel on. If you have the slots for it you should be fine, even if it doesn't fit you can always move the entire thing into a new case

There is no fucking way you got a 1050ti for less than 100 dollars, let alone that and a used PC.

Wait do these even have pcie? I thought they only had pci. My brother uas an optiblex with an i5 and i am giving hik a 970 but i didnt think he could every hook it up because no pci e

But if it did could we just use a pci extendor and a seperate psu for the 970?

970s are gping for 120 on ebay and kuch more ppwerful than a 1050ti