


I finally managed to replace 80 Gb Western Digital HDD in old Dell OptiPlex 745 I have at home (child’s PC 🙂 ) with fast and nice 750 Gb Barracuda ES2 (which was freed up after moving all my data to NAS) and decided to install Windows 10 TP on this box. It isn't worth it, they're too outdated to be worth adding new/better parts.Just a quick note on another Windows 10 Technical Preview installation I did recently. Oh, and you don't want to be spending any more than, say, $60-70 or so at a maximum on those PCs. However, please take note that the CPU may impact performance even with such a low-end card if it's a lower-end Core 2 Duo. Here's a video of an R7 250 playing Minecraft for a bit of an example:

Runs Minecraft at a decent framerate on medium/high settings, and it there isn't many better choices beyond that in low profile cards anyway. Shouldn't require a power supply upgrade, and will fit in the Optiplex 745 SFF with 100% certainty. It's a full height I'd be going with something like this or this. There's no way that would fit without cutting a rectangle out of the side panel. This card will work fine with the pre-instaled PSU. Quote from Techdolphin »Hi Matt, I did some googling and some people have put the 750 ti into the optiplex 745, but this does require cutting two inch-long pieces of plastic so the card can sit properly. Please let me know which video card to purchase. My question is this: What graphics card would work best (Best gaming experience) with her current power supply and SFF configuration computer? I'm hoping some of you have already gone down this path with the Optiplex 745. It only has the 275W power supply (or so I've read.) I'm running an adapter for VGA+USB+Audio to HDMI to her 32" television. I want her to be able to run the latest version of her game, but don't know what type of video card to upgrade her computer to. She purchased this software with her own money (not a small task for a 12 year old in a middle class family- quite humble allowance!). I ended up loading up V1.7.2 (I believe it was) in order to work with her computer. I found that the standard onboard graphics isn't compatible with the latest Minecraft version. My youngest just purchased Minecraft for her computer (they've had it on the Xbox for a year or so), and I had a HELL of a time figuring out why it wouldn't work. I bought each of my daughters used Dell Optiplex 745 computers.
