What are my gpu options

[CustomComputerMan]

Long story short... At home I am running a ryzen 5 1600 12nm and a rx 580 8gb.  I have a small youtube channel so I edit 1080p footage (uses cpu, not gpu) and play a game here or there at 1080p.  I am starting my sophomore year at college soon and I wanted a cheap, small, yet powerful enough computer to do my light editing and gaming in my dorm.  I ended up getting a really good deal on a dell optiplex 9020 with a i7 4790k.  My question is this.  The pci-e 16x slot on that mobo is right above the power supply, so therefore even if I was to find a low profile gpu it could only be a single slot.  I have already decided that I am going to have to get a pci-e riser and  fabricate a new side panel to accommodate a slightly bigger gpu.  So what gpu would you guys go with (trying to only draw power from pci-e slot) with this config?  I have used some 1050ti's in the past and I think that would be plenty for what I do, but rx 560's and rx 460's are cheap.  And how much better is the new 1650?  Just looking to see what everyone else's thoughts are.

 

P.S. if anyone has a link to a good quality pci-e 16x riser that would be greatly appreciated

[Jurrunio]

tbh the best way will be to get an AM4 ITX board and move your current stuff over. You cant go more wrong than prebuilts since Dell and HP put 25w PCIe x16 slots on their machines sometimes (edit: Dell SFF models) (let alone the worse CPU you already bought it with)

 

8 minutes ago, CustomComputerMan said:

So what gpu would you guys go with (trying to only draw power from pci-e slot) with this config?  I have used some 1050ti's in the past and I think that would be plenty for what I do, but rx 560's and rx 460's are cheap.  And how much better is the new 1650?  Just looking to see what everyone else's thoughts ar

1650 is not much faster than 1050ti, but costs a lot more. RX 560 doesnt match to 1050ti either so unless 1650 is really cheap or 1050ti is really expensive, get 1050ti.

Edited July 15, 2020 by Jurrunio

[Escapenz]

so a 1050ti would be better than a rx560/460 but if  you can i would go for a 1650 (super if they have one that will work)

[Jurrunio]

Just now, BlueScope819 said:

30 watt PCIe 16x slots? I've put a lot of graphics cards in prebuilts, and I haven't had problems.

Ok it's actually 25w on Dell SFF models. I dunno if the OP one got counts as SFF however.

[Moonzy]

4 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

You can make a basic mount out of cardboard, zip ties, and double sided tape.

i really dont recommend putting anything flammable near your computer tbh

[CustomComputerMan]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

tbh the best way will be to get an AM4 ITX board and move your current stuff over. You cant go more wrong than prebuilts since Dell and HP put 30w PCIe x16 slots on their machines sometimes (let alone the worse CPU you already bought it with)

 

1650 is not much faster than 1050ti, but costs a lot more. RX 560 doesnt match to 1050ti either so unless 1650 is really cheap or 1050ti is really expensive, get 1050ti.

I used to 1050ti's and 10603gb in dell pre-builts all the time, I probably sold 10 dell optiplex's with an i7 3770 and a 1050ti, always passed my testing and I never had one person complain to me after they bought it.  

[Moonzy]

Just now, BlueScope819 said:

Well it's what linus did in their upgraded 69$ gaming computer

Spoiler

 

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, BlueScope819 said:

Yeah I haven't had that problem before is that just in the new prebuilts because I haven't had problems in stuff like i5 2400 systems

1 hour ago, CustomComputerMan said:

I used to 1050ti's and 10603gb in dell pre-builts all the time, I probably sold 10 dell optiplex's with an i7 3770 and a 1050ti, always passed my testing and I never had one person complain to me after they bought it.  

I have seen machines refuse to work with any 1050 but boots with 1030, that's what I'm talking about.