What's a good gaming graphic card for A Dell Optiplex GX620

[Ahisa_]

It's refurbished works like new, I bought it for work but no longer need it for that so I want to give it to my son for gaming. What a good inexpensive graphic card

Specs :
Memory: 4GB
Hard Drive Capacity: 1TB
Processor Speed: 3.40GHz
Intel Dual Core Processor

 

[clutchc]

Which GX 620 do you have, the mini tower or the slim line?

 

[Ahisa_]

Which GX 620 do you have, the mini tower or the slim line?

The mini tower

 

[clutchc]

If this is how the inside of your PC looks, it will be limited to a single slot gfx card.

That and the stock PSU, will limit you to this card as the fastest you can use: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127836
It will be a good choice.

 

[william p]

That's a very old box with maximum support for Pentium D which is slower than any Core2 CPU. It's obsolete even by my standards. My E520 started out as a P4 era machine, but they provided a BIOS update for Core2 processors. There isn't one for this. I'm afraid it's a dead end as far as any kind of gaming goes. It probably wont keep up with a good cell phone anymore. This is from a guy who loves to max. out old Dells.

 

[Ahisa_]

That's a very old box with maximum support for Pentium D which is slower than any Core2 CPU. It's obsolete even by my standards. My E520 started out as a P4 era machine, but they provided a BIOS update for Core2 processors. There isn't one for this. I'm afraid it's a dead end as far as any kind of gaming goes. It probably wont keep up with a good cell phone anymore. This is from a guy who loves to max. out old Dells.

So there's no point in upgrading it at all? What about a new processor? I'm trying to avoid buying another computer.

 

[william p]

Maybe you could put an LGA775 Pentium D in there, and a used HD4670 GPU. At least it wouldn't cost much to try. If you don't already have a heatpipe cooler get D9729. The Pent.D produces 130W (same as my QX6800 unlocked Quad Core) and needs some serious cooling. Cooler is about $15. But don't expect too much. If the graphics card is faster then the CPU it runs out of data and freezes. So slow frame rates are better than a fast video card with a slow CPU. My computer was made in 2006, My CPU in 2007, yours is one generation older than that.

 

[Ahisa_]

Maybe you could put an LGA775 Pentium D in there, and a used HD4670 GPU. At least it wouldn't cost much to try. If you don't already have a heatpipe cooler get D9729. The Pent.D produces 130W (same as my QX6800 unlocked Quad Core) and needs some serious cooling. Cooler is about $15. But don't expect too much. If the graphics card is faster then the CPU it runs out of data and freezes. So slow frame rates are better than a fast video card with a slow CPU. My computer was made in 2006, My CPU in 2007, yours is one generation older than that.

Thank you very much for the advise and sorry to keep bothering you, but is this all something my son or I could do ourselves, and will it all be worth it?

 

[william p]

It won't run any newer games and since the word gaming was in the question I would say no it's not worth it. Yes you could do it yourself, and it wouldn't cost much but the actual result might not be much better than what it is now. It was made obsolete 10 years ago by the Core2Duo chips. There has been no development of that family of processors since. The Core2Duo series was developed until just a few years ago with fast, low power, Quad Core CPUs that are very common and inexpensive now. If you could sell it and get into a Core2Duo machine then you could improve it as needed. Make sure whatever you get has a PCIe 16x slot to add a Video card. There were some stripped down models without this. The computer I'm using right now is just one step ahead of yours, but it's a very big step.

 

[Ahisa_]

It won't run any newer games and since the word gaming was in the question I would say no it's not worth it. Yes you could do it yourself, and it wouldn't cost much but the actual result might not be much better than what it is now. It was made obsolete 10 years ago by the Core2Duo chips. There has been no development of that family of processors since. The Core2Duo series was developed until just a few years ago with fast, low power, Quad Core CPUs that are very common and inexpensive now. If you could sell it and get into a Core2Duo machine then you could improve it as needed. Make sure whatever you get has a PCIe 16x slot to add a Video card. There were some stripped down models without this. The computer I'm using right now is just one step ahead of yours, but it's a very big step.

It runs very well I had absolutely no problem working on it, but you seem to know what you're talking about I guess I'll just have to get a new computer. I had no idea it was so old, I wish I had checked it out before I bought it, oh well thank you very much for taking the time out to help me.