Would this make a good games rig?

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Got a DELL OPTIPLEX 330 unused in the office - was thinking about chucking in a good graphics card to make a wee games machine.
Its a C2D E4600 (2.4ghz) with 2gb RAM (800mhz) - 160gb SATA II hard drive
I would imagine, although it comes with on board graphics, that it will have a spare slot for a gfx card?

Would this be able to run as a games machine for my son whose own computer is a bit lame now?

Anything I should watch out for?

Recommendations for a card that will match the rig?
 
I personally steer clear of Dell, but thats just me.

Id check what kind of expansion ports its got before you go to far in! Also, might be worth putting 4GB of RAM, sometimes tell use their own notches in the RAM so watch out for that.
 
Check PSU in it too, most are cheap ones designed to happily power the machine at stock but wouldn't support a better GPU
 
Hi, ex Dell employee here. I used to get asked this kind of question a lot. The best answer i can give is NO.


You have to be careful as some of these can only use half height cards. The 330 comes in both the Smith and Neo chasis(neo is the smaller of the two) Neo only has a 260watt psu, the smith goes up a bit more but still these cases arn't designed for advanced graphics cards. The optiplex range is a desktop office range. You will probably find whatever card you put in will only work in pciex8 mode. If you think you can get around this by changing the PSU, think again, the dell psus have sliders to install them, normal PSU won't fit without drastic case modification.
 
Thanks Herr Ando - looks like I am building from scratch again for the first time in about 3 years - thought I was passed all that by now lol
 
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