Dell optiplex 960 best cpu and gpu

Lil Deadman

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I need to find the best gpu and cpu for my dell optiplex 960 , it's the mini tower . I want to have the ultimate parts for this pc and I need to know what fits right.
 
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I like your style :D The best CPU for a 960 is the Core 2 Quad Q9650, Dell even made the option available when the 960 was actively being sold so it's guaranteed to work. As for the GPU, that's a little more open-ended. If you want to keep your current PSU, you'd be limited to low-power cards like the GTX 750/750 Ti. If you're willing to upgrade your PSU as well, you can pretty much do whatever you want. The problem with this is that your CPU will become a bottleneck on the latest and greatest cards, enough that any card above a GTX 960/R9 380(X) is going to bottleneck hard.

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I like your style :D The best CPU for a 960 is the Core 2 Quad Q9650, Dell even made the option available when the 960 was actively being sold so it's guaranteed to work. As for the GPU, that's a little more open-ended. If you want to keep your current PSU, you'd be limited to low-power cards like the GTX 750/750 Ti. If you're willing to upgrade your PSU as well, you can pretty much do whatever you want. The problem with this is that your CPU will become a bottleneck on the latest and greatest cards, enough that any card above a GTX 960/R9 380(X) is going to bottleneck hard.

 
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So it's the rig I posted but in the desktop case, meaning it's lga775 based correct? The top line cpu for that is around $225 used off ebay I couldn't justify beating that dead lga775 horse for that kinda $$ when you can get a new horse for the same money$$

I5-6400 $155 Jet after discounts
GA-X150M-Plus WS $48.58 (amazon after $20 rebate)
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) newegg $33