Will it work?

[modern_officer]

I bought a dell Optiplex 5050 

core i3 7th gen

16 gigs of ram

windows 10 home

and 250 ssd

idk much about it but i know the motherboard model is a dell Oem i just want to know if i can install any type of gpu iam thinking of a evga nvidia geforce gtx 1060 6gb but iam not sure and plss tell me if i could upgrade anything but keep in mind iam on a budget 

[Eigenvektor]

Any reasonably modern motherboard can accept any reasonably modern PCIe GPU.

 

Issue with prebuilts is more commonly the powersupply and lack of cables.

 

4 minutes ago, modern_officer said:

but keep in mind iam on a budget 

And that budget would be?

[modern_officer]

Just now, Eigenvektor said:

Any reasonably modern motherboard can accept any reasonably modern PCIe GPU.

 

Issue with prebuilts is more commonly the powersupply and lack of cables.

 

And that budget would be?

idk just looking for a gpu under $500

[PDifolco]

4 minutes ago, modern_officer said:

I bought a dell Optiplex 5050 

core i3 7th gen

16 gigs of ram

windows 10 home

and 250 ssd

idk much about it but i know the motherboard model is a dell Oem i just want to know if i can install any type of gpu iam thinking of a evga nvidia geforce gtx 1060 6gb but iam not sure and plss tell me if i could upgrade anything but keep in mind iam on a budget 

Another guy falling in the Dell Optitrap...

Look at the PSU, 240W or so, there should not be any Pcie cable  to plug in a GPU, so you can  only use  crappy  GPU that only needs PCie slot power  : 3050,  1650,  6400XT...

 

 

[jaslion]

5 minutes ago, modern_officer said:

idk just looking for a gpu under $500

Genuinly just buy a used gaming desktop.

 

500$ is plenty good to get a GOOD gaming pc used.

 

This optiplex is going to be TERRIBLE as it has a super slow old i3 its never going to be good for gaming eith that and the replacement i7's for that gen are stupud expensive for something that gets its ass handed to it by todays low end cpu's.

 

Return this box or sell it and make a build your own post

 

This is a moneysink that will cost you more to get a crappy pc than just start over.

[modern_officer]

8 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Genuinly just buy a used gaming desktop.

 

500$ is plenty good to get a GOOD gaming pc used.

 

This optiplex is going to be TERRIBLE as it has a super slow old i3 its never going to be good for gaming eith that and the replacement i7's for that gen are stupud expensive for something that gets its ass handed to it by todays low end cpu's.

 

Return this box or sell it and make a build your own post

 

This is a moneysink that will cost you more to get a crappy pc than just start over.

its not for gaming iam using more for work and some adobe editers

[MadAnt250]

1 hour ago, modern_officer said:

its not for gaming iam using more for work and some adobe editers

I hope you got that system for super cheap, because a 2 core i3 is weak by today's standards.

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, modern_officer said:

its not for gaming iam using more for work and some adobe editers

It's bad for everything, you can get a better rig for $500

[jaslion]

11 hours ago, modern_officer said:

its not for gaming iam using more for work and some adobe editers

Oh geez this pc is gonna be even worse then.

 

Hope this was the 50$ it was worth because that i3 is just not gonna cut it for photoshop and the like. It will be slow.

 

Adding a gpu won't do much if anything here.

 

I recommend you put the 500$ to a whole different pc because this is not the one for you