GPU Mining ETH with Dell Optiplex 790?

[ethminer]

Can you run more than one GTX 1050 with the Optiplex 790? Has anyone tried this?

 

[Lutfij]

Are we dealing with the DT, MT, SFF or uSFF form factor of the Dell OptiPlex 790? With the MT and DT versions, you can add an aftermarket PSU to power higher end GPU's but my secondary concern apart from PSU and height restrictions would be if your BIOS will prevent you from working with a GTX1000 series card. Prebuilts like them have incompatible UEFI BIOS which in almost all cases end up having you with a black screen in spite of the system booting into GUI.

 

[william p]

The 1050 series cards are OK,Dell was UEFI since the Opti 780, and many of the 1050s are legacy anyway. But my advice would be see if you can step up to a Precision T5500 workstation with 4-16x PCie slots.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-OptiPlex-790/3864