Many months back I acquired a Dell optiplex 9020 high tower for gaming purposes. It came with an AMD graphics card 2MB. While this card is fair for normal games, it was stuttering to high heavens with simulators.
I got hold of an ASUS 750GTX graphics card and quickly opened up the dell, slotted in the massive OC’d card and then lo and behold, we needed a 12v power source for the card, none came with the Dell PSU!
I purchased an aftermarket ATX PSU and replaced the Dells PSU. lo and behold, the main board connector on the ATX turned out to be 24pin, while that on the Dell curcuit board was 6pin.
I wont bog you down with the rest, I aquired a cable adapter that worked perfectly. If anyone needs this modification I have a spare adaptor I am willing to sell…
Thats why its advisable to build your own custom gaming pc from scratch to avoid such complication. kwanza you should never buy a dell pc for gaming because those are the worst when it comes to compatibility and upgradability.
Mariachi, the ASUS was not very expensive, I think it was about 22,000/=
@vercetti19, agreed, I learnt that lesson too late. I am thinking of building a bigger overclocked one, just need to get someone who know comps well. It will need to be 4770 speed minimum, may be overclocked and Nvidia card (we could recover the ASUS I already have)
well, I am an experienced system builder, having built my own gaming PC and also for several of my friends. I also had a dell optiplex 755 that I had maxed out in terms of possible upgrades until I hit a wall. The damn thing just couldn’t cut it any more given the nature of today’s demanding games. Currently I am a very happy gamer with my current machine.
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here are the full specs:
AMD FX 6300 6 core CPU overclocked to 4.52 Ghz
AMD R9 270X 2gb
Hyper X 8GB RAM Stick runnig at 1600mhz
Asus mobo
cosair 600 watts Bronze certified PSU
cosair spec 03 chassis
cooler master hyper 212 cpu cooler
2.5 TB Storage
build yourself a customized gaming rid, cpu intel/amd , ram 16-32 gb, high end graphics card amd/nvidia
could be expensive but the thrill is worth it :rolleyes::rolleyes:
That looks beautiful. Stay put, I will budget. The only thing I would ask to be changed is the AMD graphics card, those dont work well with MS flight simulator.
We will change that to NVIDIA. I will contact you soon.
with such kind of pple we can have a builders paradise one day in kenya… Kenya has been formated in a way to belive that braded desktops are the best in terms of performance which is a pure lie and they overprice their shit…
No. The back exhaust fan can only be 120mm. However, in the front intake you can have two 140mm or two 120mm fans. Its a nice mid tower case as you can fit gpus of any length or tall cpu coolers of up to 168mm.