Will a GTX 750 Ti Low Profile Card work in a Dell Inspiron 3650?

[Suiken]

Hi everyone,

I have an Inspiron 3650 that I want to upgrade for my mother, but the expansion options are extremely limited. What is the best graphics card that I can use in this system, given its pathetic 240W PSU and requirements for a low profile card?

I have my eye on this one, but the PSU requirement gets me a bit worried.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MW8NXAW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Is it possible to use it? I know it lists a 300W PSU requrement, but given that its a low energy card and only requires 60-75W to run, could I get by on the 240W PSU? If not, what is the best card I could put in this system to upgrade it?

Thanks for any help you can provide. I've never come across a system so limited in terms of its upgrade potential. Its driving me nuts, and Dell's Tech Support is utterly useless in advising me on what my options are.

 

[Hellfire13]

Again intel chips for those psu. That 240w will struggle with AMD chips. Not a generic perspective at all.

 

[bowie61]

You are not getting the point. For now its working fine, but in future you might face issues due to lack of sufficient power. Also prebuild PC s come with horrible psu units which are under efficient due to lack of quality capacitors and mosfet cooling.
Its good that its working for you but all I am saying is that, when you run that kind of stuff, you do it at your own risk.
Most people in this community doesnt endorse pre builds anyways. They are USUALLY over priced inspite of having cheap parts. At the same cost you can build yourself a more powerful machine with better parts.

Two of the very Graphics card upgrades that Dell recommends and sells for the Inspirion 3650 have a TDP 5 watts greater than the Nvidia 750Ti
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/Category.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=04&s=bsd&category_id=2999&mfgpid=244788
But I agree, with degradation, I wouldn't expect the PSU to last more than two years. At that time, if you extend your warranty, I will also expect, they will claim that your 750Ti caused the problem and reject any warranty claim.

 

[Hellfire13]

^Precisely what i was trying to say.

 

[bowie61]

I know it does no good to complain about these pre-builts. So instead I'll simply say, can you imagine how well their sales would be, if they would just put even a 400 watt +80, PSU? And the proprietary practice, as in the 3650, easily defeated with a $20 plain jane case and a $6 package of stand-offs. Oh Surely I didn't just suggest a person completely remove all the internal components and place them in a $20 case? No don't do that, then your OEM OS license would still be good, and you could use a $40 ATX +80 PSU, and a GTX 960. But hey if you already own the thing I guess a person can do as they wish, sometimes life has a way of putting us in these positions, not by choice,where we actually can innovate.

 

[Hellfire13]

Thats one way of looking at it.