Upgrade path maybe?

[S0daGag]

So I recently came across a dell otiplex 9020 small form factor at good will for 35 dollars.

It's a i5-4570

8gb of ddr3 no posted speed

No current you but I happen to have a r9 360 I believe it's a 2gb GPU with no external power

500gb hard drive

 

So I am wondering what you think about putting that GPU in and adding enough ram to make 16 so 2x8 so I give more ram for use. So is the ram upgrade worth it is there enough power supply room.to even do the upgrade with the GPU from what I can tell they ship with a 255 Watt psu but I am not allowed to open it to double check.

[SpecTre12345]

Do 32GB of the cheapest, most reliable memory you can find, and a Radeon RX 6400. 

 

Don't forget to add a Crucial MX500 as an SSD.

 

That will enhance the computer greatly.

[Starelementpoke]

7 hours ago, S0daGag said:

So I recently came across a dell otiplex 9020 small form factor at good will for 35 dollars.

It's a i5-4570

8gb of ddr3 no posted speed

No current you but I happen to have a r9 360 I believe it's a 2gb GPU with no external power

500gb hard drive

 

So I am wondering what you think about putting that GPU in and adding enough ram to make 16 so 2x8 so I give more ram for use. So is the ram upgrade worth it is there enough power supply room.to even do the upgrade with the GPU from what I can tell they ship with a 255 Watt psu but I am not allowed to open it to double check.

I mean I would ask what's your end goal with the computer? Especially with a Dell they tend to be loaded with a crap load of proprietary shit inside to prevent people from being able to reuse or upgrade much of their computer's guts. 

[podkall]

8 hours ago, S0daGag said:

So I am wondering what you think about putting that GPU in and adding enough ram to make 16 so 2x8 so I give more ram for use. So is the ram upgrade worth it is there enough power supply room.to even do the upgrade with the GPU from what I can tell they ship with a 255 Watt psu but I am not allowed to open it to double check.

 

8 hours ago, S0daGag said:

r9 360

if this, doesn't use any additional power connectors, it might work,

 

0 power connector GPUs draw max of about 75W from the PCIe connector in the motherboard.

 

 

My only question is, why would you buy this PC if you have a 10400 Intel CPU? For fun? To upsell it later?

 

There is no high upgradeability of this PC, or value,

 

old 4th gen CPU, on a DDR3 RAM, that's quite slow, on average.

 

The best you could get from this, is not high demand games,

 

4th gen CPU can't have the game be too strong on CPU, HDD will make everything slow if it's an OS drive, RAM needs that second stick so that the system can be at least somewhat smooth, the GPU is 2GB decent for low demand games aswell, and PSU is low power.

 

No upgrade path here, you are stuck on old hardware, with low power PSU, upgrading this would mean replacing anything that isn't SSD, if you drop in SSD, the only thing you'd keep in a significant upgrade, is only that SSD.

[S0daGag]

I was looking to get my parents just something cheap to browse the web and light gaming since my little brother games.