Practicality of Upgrading Refurbished Desktop

[tangledupinblue16]

How practical is the following scenario for playing games at normal settings.
Buying a computer similar to this one: HP ProDesk 600 G2 - SFF - Core i5 6500 3.2 GHz - 8 GB - 500 GB, and pairing it with a GTX 760. The graphics card is free, and the computer would be between $300-$350.
I understand that I'd probably have to upgrade the PSU, as well as add more RAM if the model I selected had less than 8 GB.
Would be fine with playing games at 1080, or even graphically intense games at 720. I definitely understand that I'd get nowhere near top performance. Not really a gamer, just looking for a way to stay in touch/play with a few pc gamer friends of mine now that we've all moved away.

 

[sps02121985]

A quality 600W PSU. i5, 8gigs is fine for 1080P gaming. The GTX 760 will be your weak link.

 

[Calvin7]

GeForce GTX 760 requires a 450 watt power supply.

HP ProDesk 600 G2 - SFF - has a 200 watt or 240 watt power supply. Upgrading the PSU may be difficult to find something that actually fits that case.

 

[simon12]

You will need a new case to fit a decent PSU and likely just to fit the GPU in, you may find (like my brother did with a dell SFF years ago) that thing like the power button connectors are non standard and you have to do some mods. At the $300-350 when your only keeping the CPU, board & drives you should look at what you can buy/afford without it.

 

[The Paladin]

you biggest issue with your system is the Slim Factor case it comes in... the power supply is BTX, so impossible to replace with standard ATX unless you migrate everything to a new case. then need new CPU, more ram, ec, might as well just buy case, cpu and motherboard and ram, used on eBay for the same system for less, unless the refurnb is like 150$