Question Need help replacing GT 730 in an Optiplex 990 SFF

[Auran]

This is admittedly a heavy ask, I've struggled to find any cards that fit what I'm looking for, but hopefully someone here will be able to help me.
My current computer is a Dell Optiplex 990 with a GT 730 GPU shoved in it I got for about USD$220. While it does for the most part sort of do the job, the insane bottleneck is hard to put up with. Not to mention, with me being a Linux user, Wayland support (and support in general) on the legacy proprietary driver is painful to say the very least.

I'm in no real rush to get a card but the sooner the later. I'm also admittedly on a tight budget, so anything that I can get for $200 or less would be good. The most GPU-demanding things I do on my computer is some gaming (mainly GZDoom, Minecraft and Team Fortress 2) and the occasional video rendering. I'd rather not overclock given the challenge of cooling such a tight case. I'd prefer AMD over NVIDIA (goes back to me using Linux). My current PSU is the stock 240W PSU (if I were to upgrade it that'd also have to fit within the tight budget), and everything else on the system is also to my knowledge a standard i7 Optiplex 990 with 16GB of RAM.

Any recommendations? Pretty much anything would be better than what I have now.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

How about getting the GT 1030 ? This is heaps faster than your current GPU. But PSU might require a slight upgrade since minimum 300 Watts power supply is recommended by Nvidia. Usually pre-built PCs don't have a very powerful PSU, be it Dell, HP or Lenovo.

But since you have a SFF Small Form Factor PC, a standard ATX PSU might not easily fit.

GeForce GT 1030 | Specifications | GeForce

Check out the latest NVIDIA GeForce technology specifications, system requirements, and more.

www.nvidia.com

 

[white.a.drew]

This is admittedly a heavy ask, I've struggled to find any cards that fit what I'm looking for, but hopefully someone here will be able to help me.
My current computer is a Dell Optiplex 990 with a GT 730 GPU shoved in it I got for about USD$220. While it does for the most part sort of do the job, the insane bottleneck is hard to put up with. Not to mention, with me being a Linux user, Wayland support (and support in general) on the legacy proprietary driver is painful to say the very least.

I'm in no real rush to get a card but the sooner the later. I'm also admittedly on a tight budget, so anything that I can get for $200 or less would be good. The most GPU-demanding things I do on my computer is some gaming (mainly GZDoom, Minecraft and Team Fortress 2) and the occasional video rendering. I'd rather not overclock given the challenge of cooling such a tight case. I'd prefer AMD over NVIDIA (goes back to me using Linux). My current PSU is the stock 240W PSU (if I were to upgrade it that'd also have to fit within the tight budget), and everything else on the system is also to my knowledge a standard i7 Optiplex 990 with 16GB of RAM.

Any recommendations? Pretty much anything would be better than what I have now.

You can also go with an rx 560

 

[beyondlogic]

This is admittedly a heavy ask, I've struggled to find any cards that fit what I'm looking for, but hopefully someone here will be able to help me.
My current computer is a Dell Optiplex 990 with a GT 730 GPU shoved in it I got for about USD$220. While it does for the most part sort of do the job, the insane bottleneck is hard to put up with. Not to mention, with me being a Linux user, Wayland support (and support in general) on the legacy proprietary driver is painful to say the very least.

I'm in no real rush to get a card but the sooner the later. I'm also admittedly on a tight budget, so anything that I can get for $200 or less would be good. The most GPU-demanding things I do on my computer is some gaming (mainly GZDoom, Minecraft and Team Fortress 2) and the occasional video rendering. I'd rather not overclock given the challenge of cooling such a tight case. I'd prefer AMD over NVIDIA (goes back to me using Linux). My current PSU is the stock 240W PSU (if I were to upgrade it that'd also have to fit within the tight budget), and everything else on the system is also to my knowledge a standard i7 Optiplex 990 with 16GB of RAM.

Any recommendations? Pretty much anything would be better than what I have now.

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if the psu is stock 240w then it would be a sff

https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/optiplex-990-spec-sheet.pdf

so if you want to upgrade your system youll have to rid yourself of that case

i can help but depends if you wanna keep that form factor.

going to a bigger case can work even with that board. though it will have to be a tower or similar case design

i can help pick out the parts just depends on what case design and will try to keep the budget in the

250 usd range or lower if i can