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dreamcast4599
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i have a dell optiplex 3040 small form factor pc with a core i3 6th gen cpu in it and 16 gigs of ddr3 ram. im looking for a recommendation for a decent low profile graphics card im not fond of the i3 iGPU im looking to play some much older titles like star trek from 2013 doom 3 and some other pre 2013 titles not expecting maxed out settings would like at least 2-4 gigs of vram on the gpu im not against buying used if it saves me money psu is 180 watts pic below of the system i have gpu must be low profile

 

Dell Optiplex 3040-SFF, Core i5-6500 3.2GHz, 16GB RAM, 128GB Solid State Drive, 1TB HDD DVDRW, Windows 10

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4 minutes ago, dreamcast4599 said:

i have a dell optiplex 3040 small form factor pc with a core i3 6th gen cpu in it and 16 gigs of ddr3 ram. im looking for a recommendation for a decent low profile graphics card im not fond of the i3 iGPU im looking to play some much older titles like star trek from 2013 doom 3 and some other pre 2013 titles not expecting maxed out settings would like at least 2-4 gigs of vram on the gpu im not against buying used if it saves me money psu is 180 watts pic below of the system i have gpu must be low profile

 

Dell Optiplex 3040-SFF, Core i5-6500 3.2GHz, 16GB RAM, 128GB Solid State Drive, 1TB HDD DVDRW, Windows 10

A 4060 low profile would be the best but it'll probs be bottlenecked so get a gtx 1650 low profile 

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16 minutes ago, filpo said:

A 4060 low profile would be the best but it'll probs be bottlenecked so get a gtx 1650 low profile 

I mean a 1050 ti would work too right? (correct me if i'm wrong) they play games from before 2013 so it wouldn't really need a 1650

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