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[PiKiTiN_23]

If I bought a dell optiplex 7010 i5 3470 and added a 750 ti low profile will the power supply be enough or should I buy a new one

[PiKiTiN_23]

2 minutes ago, PiKiTiN_23 said:

If I bought a dell optiplex 7010 i5 3470 and added a 750 ti low profile will the power supply be enough or should I buy a new one

The sff model

[Meowster]

What is the wattage of the PSU?

[RTX 3090]

PSU is 240w according to google,

you are very close on the margin, my advice is to upgrade

[PiKiTiN_23]

5 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

We have no way of knowing if the PSU will be enough if you don't tell us what it is. I mean honestly

I dont know

[Meowster]

Just now, PiKiTiN_23 said:

I dont know

Can you open the case and look? It usually says. But I reccomend upgrading the PSU anyway

[PiKiTiN_23]

1 minute ago, Meowster said:

Can you open the case and look? It usually says. But I reccomend upgrading the PSU anyway

I dont own it thinking of buying 

[Meowster]

1 minute ago, PiKiTiN_23 said:

I dont own it thinking of buying 

Oh ok, I would recommend maybe building your own PC as its more fun but I understand if you have a budget. But a PSU upgrade would be a good thing to do

[zeusthemoose]

Even if it is enough wattage, I would replace it. The psus that are in those prebuilts are absolute trash.

[PiKiTiN_23]

Just now, zeusthemoose said:

Even if it is enough wattage, I would replace it. The psus that are in those prebuilts are absolute trash.

Ok

[WereCatf]

17 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

We have no way of knowing if the PSU will be enough if you don't tell us what it is. I mean honestly

What, are you saying you're not an oracle? God damn it, why am I surrounded by such sub-humans!

[PiKiTiN_23]

5 minutes ago, Meowster said:

Oh ok, I would recommend maybe building your own PC as its more fun but I understand if you have a budget. But a PSU upgrade would be a good thing to do

I want to but I'm on a super tight budget and I need a pc my laptop cant even handle a drawing program

[PiKiTiN_23]

1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

What, are you saying you're not an oracle? God damn it, why am I surrounded by such sub-humans!

Fax

[RTX 3090]

16 minutes ago, PiKiTiN_23 said:

I want to but I'm on a super tight budget and I need a pc my laptop cant even handle a drawing program

How much is the 7010 costing you. Might be worth getting a lower specked model and upgrading to a Core i7 later, from a core i3.

[PiKiTiN_23]

6 hours ago, Anonymous015 said:

How much is the 7010 costing you. Might be worth getting a lower specked model and upgrading to a Core i7 later, from a core i3.

Around 70 to 80 depending on the day

[Guest]

6 hours ago, PiKiTiN_23 said:

If I bought a dell optiplex 7010 i5 3470 and added a 750 ti low profile will the power supply be enough or should I buy a new one

Don't.

 

If you want a PC you can upgrade, don't buy a Dell, HP or Lenovo.

 

[PiKiTiN_23]

Just now, jonnyGURU said:

Don't.

 

If you want a PC you can upgrade, don't buy a Dell, HP or Lenovo.

 

Why? All cheap builds say I should what's your input 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, PiKiTiN_23 said:

Why? All cheap builds say I should what's your input 

All cheap builds say you should?

 

I don't even know what that means.

 

In most cases, with those pre-builds, you end up with proprietary motherboards, case, power supply.

 

When you buy one and attempt to upgrade it, you end up spending more money trying to upgrade one than you do building one from scratch.

 

Many Dell, HP and Lenovo systems are INTENTIONALLY built to not be upgraded so you have to throw it out and buy another.  It's called planned obsolescence.

 

 

 

 

[artuc]

Yep to expand on what @jonnyGURU has stated.

 

The PSU is usually specced for exactly what the system needs with no allowance for upgrade to more power hungry parts. Often they don't have extra PSU connectors for say going from a slot powered GPU to PCIe connector powered card, even things like they may not have an extra SATA connector for another HDD.

 

The boards often do not have wide compatibility of parts and do not have the customisation and tweaking of a retail motherboard.

 

Some GPUs are flat out incompatible or need a BIOS update.

 

RAM can be not compatible.

 

It only gets worse over time as they won't bother releasing updates and fixes for long obsolete parts and it becomes harder to find the parts that are compatible.

 

The less drastic a change the more likely it is to be possible, but they just don't have the flexibility and upgradeability of a custom build.

 

 

[Guest]

Basically: If you can get the pre-build for less than the cost of the RAM, drives (SSDs or HDDs, whatever they may be) and the CPU, you're good.  

 

If it costs even one penny more than what you can buy those parts for, it's not a good value because you're not going to want the case, motherboard and power supply moving forward.  And if you do, you'll have a money pit because you'll have to walk backwards through mud trying to get certain things to work.