What graphics card will fit

[kalvinkataria]

I have a dell optiplex 745
I wish to upgrade the graphics card so I can game on it. The games I want to play are gta san andreas and league of legends and minecraft. My budget is 30 pounds. You can find a manual online saying specs but I believe the ram is 1.5gb.
I want a graphics card that will fit in the dell and work on the psu. Budget 30 pounds and I want to be able to game on it not jigh settings but low with good fps. Also it is a mini tower.

EDIT: 16/08/14
CPU :intel core 2 cpu 6300 1.8ghz
RAM: 1.49GB OF RAM
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
PSU: 305W or 300W
GPU: I have no clue it doesnt show it in dxdiag

 

[nikoli707]

according to dell specs for the mini tower and the skinny small form factor... they both fit...

1 low-profile PCIe x16 graphics
-(H: 2.5" X L: 6.6")

that computer is seriously old and any new generation video card is going to be seriously bottlenecked by whatever cpu is in there.

what monitor resoultion are you trying to run? there really isn't any recommendation since 30 pounds would barely get you an amd 6450... and that wont cut it for what you are trying to do mate.

 

[kalvinkataria]

Type in ebay "HP 103c AMD RADEON HD 6570 PCI-e 1gb graphics/video card"
This card is buy it now £25 but im not sure if it will fit in dell optiplex 745 can you check it please? It wont let me copy and paste link here. Im not looking to buy any card new im looking for graphic cards on eBay which are cheap and can run minecraft lol and gta san andreas. I can run these on my laptop at low settings with high fps and my laptop has 512mb chip 6gb ram and i5 processor sony vaio

 

[kalvinkataria]

Im not looking to max out bf3 ultra high lol all I want is medium to low settings with just like a goodish resolution I usually like to turn down every settings to very low but put resolution normal or a bit higher... Plz reply asap need to buy a card this weekend. I see other cards on ebay msi cards that are 20 pounds(gbp) and 1gb low profile for gaming

 

[nikoli707]

minecraft really only cares about cpu speed... not the gpu. the 6570 is still a very slow gpu.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4278/amds-radeon-hd-6670-radeon-hd-6570/9

these are older games and benchmarks on this website...

 

[kalvinkataria]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-103c-AMD-Radeon-HD-6570-PCI-e-1Gb-Graphics-Video-Card-/221496255924

i dont mind playing minecraft on the lowest settings to get higher fps, anyways i'll mainly be playng samp. can you tell me if this graphics card will fit in my dell optiplex 745 mini-tower, i am using my dell optiplex right now and i can post specs if you tell me how to

 

[nikoli707]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-103c-AMD-Radeon-HD-6570-PCI-e-1Gb-Graphics-Video-Card-/221496255924

i dont mind playing minecraft on the lowest settings to get higher fps, anyways i'll mainly be playng samp. can you tell me if this graphics card will fit in my dell optiplex 745 mini-tower, i am using my dell optiplex right now and i can post specs if you tell me how to

it needs to be a low profile card and less than 6.6". that card doesn't specify that it is a "low profile" design.

 

[kalvinkataria]

I really cant afford a 40 pound graphic car can someobe show me a 20-30 pound graphics card for a old game like gta sa

 

[nottydread]

I bought a refurbished Optiplex 745 , which had been upgraded to have 8gb RAM and Win 7. It was ok as a basic document handling PC but had zero graphics capability. My son wanted to edit video and play Minecraft on it, so after much searching on the net I found you can easily add this graphics card to it for $40ish: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200813104177?redirect=mobile
I found it on this how to video on youtube : http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XjlwH6exs
The card is an MSI NVIDIA GeForce 210 1GB GDDR3 HDMI Low Profile PCI-E Video Card N210-MD1G/D3
Now the old thing can run dual hd screens, edit video (using windows software) and play Minecraft.
So if you have an old basic Optiplex 745 I highly recommend doing this.