DELL OPTIPLEX 580 Graphics Card Question

[Zack_6]

Hello.

I'm planning on buying a Dell Optiplex 580 with the 8gb ram. Here's a link to that. http://thinkgreenpc.com/dell-optiplex-580-amd-athlon-ii-x2-b22-2-8ghz-4gb-ddr3-ram-250gb-hard-drive-dvd-windows-7.html

Now I want to add this to the Optiplex. Here's this. http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=490-BCEP#Overview

My question is, how good could it run games? One in particular would be Dark souls ll. What would be the fps, possibly? Thanks.

 

[Mrcrazed]

It would be a tight squeeze fitting the card in that tiny case, but if you manage to do it, it could probably run games at medium to low settings.

 

[k1114]

You could find better than that for $100. For that price you can find a core 2 quad or phenom II x4. You don't need to buy the gpu from dell which is overpriced. A 730 is half the price, uses less power and is better performance.

 

[william p]

If there's a hard drive holder in the way of a graphics card you could run either an SSD, or laptop HDD in the floppy drive bay to make room there. There are brackets for this. GTX750 (Ti and O/C models included) is a good performing card that doesn't usually need a power cable (easy to avoid ones that do) so no PSU replacement is usually required. Low profile and single slot versions exist. Kisianik is the Dell AMD expert including overclocking. Look up some of his posts.

 

[Zack_6]

Thank you, but I have one more question.

Would this graphics card be compatible with this desktop?

Graphic card http://www.bestbuy.com/site/xfx-core-edition-radeon-r7-240-2gb-ddr3-pci-express-graphics-card-black/2517024.p?id=1219073744750&skuId=2517024

Desktop http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-inspiron-desktop-intel-pentium-4gb-memory-500gb-hard-drive-black/2153018.p?id=1219530046281&skuId=2153018

Thanks.

 

[Mrcrazed]

Thank you, but I have one more question.

Would this graphics card be compatible with this desktop?

Graphic card http://www.bestbuy.com/site/xfx-core-edition-radeon-r7-240-2gb-ddr3-pci-express-graphics-card-black/2517024.p?id=1219073744750&skuId=2517024

Desktop http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-inspiron-desktop-intel-pentium-4gb-memory-500gb-hard-drive-black/2153018.p?id=1219530046281&skuId=2153018

Thanks.

As long as it has a pci-e port, yes.

 

[william p]

Looking at that card, it's calling for a 450W PSU, and it has DDR3. The GTX750 series can be found on sale for about $10 more with DDR5. Two benefits are it won't require buying a bigger PSU which is hard to find for an SFF computer. DDR5 will give MUCH better frame rates. Two slots wide looks OK but check the owners manual online and see if both video card slots are PCIe16x. Sometimes they wire the second slot up as 8x, or even 4x speed. This will tell you if a 2 slot wide card is good for you. You need 16x at the slot the card is going into. At Newegg you can filter the search engine for GTX750Ti, DDR5, and low profile, and even single slot if you need to. Look on the GPU Heirarchy Chart and you will see that video card is about 8 tiers down from a GTX750Ti. It's always cheaper to do it right the first time.