OptiPlex 990MT

[CruxYo]

My friend wants to get into the pc scene and we usually go to a gaming cafe to play pc games. We saw that their builds are just optiplex computers with a good graphics card. He wants to go ahead and do the same. We're going for nice and cheap, he doesn't want to go overkill/ I saw an optiplex for a reasonably good price. It has a 2nd gen i7, I was wondering if it's good idea going through and buying this. How well has the i7 2600 aged? Any other OptiPlex models that are good as well? 
 

[Herman Mcpootis]

the i7 2600 is still fine for gaming with a 1060 or 580, though you'll need a tower style optiplex to fit either. doesn't need to be an optiplex or even dell, any prebuilt with a normal Pci-e 16x slot and enough space will work fine.

[CruxYo]

14 minutes ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

the i7 2600 is still fine for gaming with a 1060 or 580, though you'll need a tower style optiplex to fit either. doesn't need to be an optiplex or even dell, any prebuilt with a normal Pci-e 16x slot and enough space will work fine.

Yea, this is not the one with the slim case so we are good on that.