Dell Optiplex 760 Upgrading

BGsniper26

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Hey guys, so i'm planning on buying a refurbished Dell Optiplex 760, a full tower configuration with a dual core 3ghz processor, 4gb of sdd2 ram, 250Gb HDD, windows 7 professional 32x.

I'm looking to see what exactly i can upgrade on it? If at all anything is upgradable? Of course if i wanted to put new hardware in it, like a low end graphics card, and a little more ram, is the power supply upgradable if extra wattage is needed? Otherwise any ideas on what i can do to improve its performance? I'm just planning on playing older games such as Age of Empires, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, Roller Coaster tycoon, Quake, Doom, but of course i want to insure it can run low end games steady and strong. Any help would be appreciated! Along with links to products or recommendations!
 
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There were 2 motherboards in those. One only support 2 core CPUs. M858N The other supports upt to Q9650.
You would be better off with an Optiplex 780. it has DDR3 support. and Q9650 is the good CPU. They are BTX Mini Towers. So there is almost no aftermarket support for coolers. I would suggest a 4 core and 64 bit Operating System so you can use more memory. 8GB is good.
A built out 780 would have Q9650, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a Zotac GTX 1050Ti Mini video card. A T9303 heatpipe cooler also.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-OptiPlex-780/3883 As you can see it will be a low end gaming computer at best.
Anything with a 1060 GPU has an aftermarket PSU installed.
The Zotac Mini 1050s are a game changer for these BTX Mini Towers they...

clutchc

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I would avoid older Dells from that era. They used an nonstandard BTX design, instead of the normal ATX. Plus, the location of the PCIe x16 slot requires only single slot (low end) cards.
Consider something a bit newer instead, like a Dell Optiplex 1710. I picked one up on ebay for a cheap gaming build w/i5-3470, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, and Win7 Pro OS for $200. Upgraded the PSU and gfx card to make it a great little 1080p gamer. Was really clean and nearly new in appearance.
 
There were 2 motherboards in those. One only support 2 core CPUs. M858N The other supports upt to Q9650.
You would be better off with an Optiplex 780. it has DDR3 support. and Q9650 is the good CPU. They are BTX Mini Towers. So there is almost no aftermarket support for coolers. I would suggest a 4 core and 64 bit Operating System so you can use more memory. 8GB is good.
A built out 780 would have Q9650, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a Zotac GTX 1050Ti Mini video card. A T9303 heatpipe cooler also.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-OptiPlex-780/3883 As you can see it will be a low end gaming computer at best.
Anything with a 1060 GPU has an aftermarket PSU installed.
The Zotac Mini 1050s are a game changer for these BTX Mini Towers they actually fit and have 1080P performance.
 
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