- Nov 26, 2013
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Hi Guys,
I'm hoping I can borrow some of your knowledge to asses if a Dell Optiplex 960 I have lying around is worth upgrading to play a few games on.
Basically I was thinking of getting a new graphics card and an SSD in the hope that the cpu and ram would be good enough to play modern games. I'm not expecting top end performance here, just enough to play relatively decent settings at 1080p.
Here are the systems specs:
cpu: intel core 2 quad Q9650 @3 GHz
ram : 8GB DDR2 @800 MHz
I'm kind of lacking knowledge of the motherboard specs. I think it has a pci express x16 port for the graphics card (it came with a 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3470).
What do you guys think? Would a new graphics card be worth the investment? My xbox has just died and I fancy returning to pc gaming. The computer is a few years old now but was pretty decent at the time of purchase.
Cheers,
Rich
I'm hoping I can borrow some of your knowledge to asses if a Dell Optiplex 960 I have lying around is worth upgrading to play a few games on.
Basically I was thinking of getting a new graphics card and an SSD in the hope that the cpu and ram would be good enough to play modern games. I'm not expecting top end performance here, just enough to play relatively decent settings at 1080p.
Here are the systems specs:
cpu: intel core 2 quad Q9650 @3 GHz
ram : 8GB DDR2 @800 MHz
I'm kind of lacking knowledge of the motherboard specs. I think it has a pci express x16 port for the graphics card (it came with a 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3470).
What do you guys think? Would a new graphics card be worth the investment? My xbox has just died and I fancy returning to pc gaming. The computer is a few years old now but was pretty decent at the time of purchase.
Cheers,
Rich
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