I have a Dell Inspiron 3650 with specs below.
Core i3-6100 3.7ghz
8gb DDR3 1600
1TB 7200 RPM HDD
I want to do a little upgrade to it to do some light gaming but I have many questions.
1. Being a dell mini tower, it has a propriety system meaning it doesn't use the regular atx power supply and only has a 240w dell PSU I believe. I think I can replace it with a regular atx PSU but will need some adapter for the mobo but I don't want to do so if not required (too tedious). Do you think I can try the GTX 1050 ti without replacing the psu or will I have to go down to the 1030?
2. Am also planning to upgrade the CPU but I cannot find anywhere what's the power limit of this dell mobo. Seing how the included i3-6100 is a 51W and some Inspiron 3650 has a i5-6400 65W, I think it is save to upgrade to the i7-6700 65W. But will this mobo support an i7-6700k 95W?
3. Also, I know that the new Kaby Lake uses the same chip as the Skylake CPUs so can I actually just upgrade to the i7-7700k 95W if the mobo support higher W cpu? If not, then will the i7-7700 65W will do?
4. Am wondering if they also use some sort of proprietary CPU cooler or can I use some other aftermarket coolers? Can someone recommend a good small cpu cooler that will fit inside?
5. Whats the max ram will this mobo support? Also, if this mobo supports Kaby Lake, does that mean I can use the faster DDR4 ram?
6. I think this shouldn't be a problem but am also thinking about upgrading the HDD to SSD or at least a Hybrid HDD
Core i3-6100 3.7ghz
8gb DDR3 1600
1TB 7200 RPM HDD
I want to do a little upgrade to it to do some light gaming but I have many questions.
1. Being a dell mini tower, it has a propriety system meaning it doesn't use the regular atx power supply and only has a 240w dell PSU I believe. I think I can replace it with a regular atx PSU but will need some adapter for the mobo but I don't want to do so if not required (too tedious). Do you think I can try the GTX 1050 ti without replacing the psu or will I have to go down to the 1030?
2. Am also planning to upgrade the CPU but I cannot find anywhere what's the power limit of this dell mobo. Seing how the included i3-6100 is a 51W and some Inspiron 3650 has a i5-6400 65W, I think it is save to upgrade to the i7-6700 65W. But will this mobo support an i7-6700k 95W?
3. Also, I know that the new Kaby Lake uses the same chip as the Skylake CPUs so can I actually just upgrade to the i7-7700k 95W if the mobo support higher W cpu? If not, then will the i7-7700 65W will do?
4. Am wondering if they also use some sort of proprietary CPU cooler or can I use some other aftermarket coolers? Can someone recommend a good small cpu cooler that will fit inside?
5. Whats the max ram will this mobo support? Also, if this mobo supports Kaby Lake, does that mean I can use the faster DDR4 ram?
6. I think this shouldn't be a problem but am also thinking about upgrading the HDD to SSD or at least a Hybrid HDD