C2Q to dell optiplex 790

zBitkus · 2 Jul 2018 at 20:16

Hi all,

not interested YET to get new shiny system for purpose of my pc use or gaming, but at multitasking i started to notice that C2Q struggles to keep up with it. I was looking at them dell optiplex 790 models with I3 and I5, its not a big difference I3 or I5 as them optiplex pc's take i7 2600 to so looking to upgrade it to it's maximum cpu and ram. Will i see a lot of improvement over my Q9550 clocked @3.4ghz, or it will be just a little bump up and it's not worth it? thank you

orbitalwalsh · 2 Jul 2018 at 20:43

Grab i7 2700 if you can , getting non slim desktop version helps as well !

zBitkus · 2 Jul 2018 at 20:55

orbitalwalsh said:
Grab i7 2700 if you can , getting non slim desktop version helps as well !

Yep looking to get MT one so can pop in 1050ti from c2q chest and up the psu, i7's are going ridiculously expensive if you can find one, i find it better to buy cheap with i3 inside or i5 and just update bios and get i7 separately and up ram to its max

zBitkus · 2 Jul 2018 at 21:49

Quick question, will it take 1050ti as on data sheets i see max 25watt for pcie x16 and 1050ti takes 75watts. Thank you

orbitalwalsh · 3 Jul 2018 at 08:06

PCIe 1.0 was 60w and rest 2.0/3.0 can supply 75w to the card

Armageus · 3 Jul 2018 at 08:26

zBitkus said:
Quick question, will it take 1050ti as on data sheets i see max 25watt for pcie x16 and 1050ti takes 75watts. Thank you

The mini towers are normally fine, it's the sff/desktops that tend to have the pcie slot wattage limited, although worth finding the spec sheet or checking on Dell forums.

zBitkus · 3 Jul 2018 at 09:18

orbitalwalsh said:
PCIe 1.0 was 60w and rest 2.0/3.0 can supply 75w to the card

Thank you

Armageus said:
The mini towers are normally fine, it's the sff/desktops that tend to have the pcie slot wattage limited, although worth finding the spec sheet or checking on Dell forums.

Well thats what im looking at for a while, and youtube videos too

people put in to them 790's gpus and it runs flawlessly or some gets some problems with it, so it confusses a lot. Found 790's and 7010's that im interested atleast 7010's on data sheets states 75W on blue pcie

thank you for your input too