I had an optiplex 790 with an i5-2400 and installed a zotac low-profile gtx 1050 Ti. It was an awesome little gaming rig. That's definitely one of the cheapest and most effective ways to get into PC gaming.
What size 790 do you have, MT, DT, SFF, or USFF? USFF has no expansion slots. What CPU do you have? I accidentally thought I5-2400 from the post above.
Intel Core i5-2400 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce 100% of bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck.
Woops woops, oops oops, here's a YouTube List of 790's running the GTX 1050 ti.
I say it that way because in other posts, I've proven with YouTube videos, people have been running up to 75w cards on 240w (no less than) PSU's.
speedstep
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May 21st, 2020 15:00
MSI GT1030 GDDR5 works fine.
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GT-1030-2G-LP-OC.html
Low profile Gigabyte version also works fine.
https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GeForce-GV-N1030D5-2GL-Computer-Graphics/dp/B071DY2VJR/
The oem dell version has no fan part number 8CCF1 for tower models.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/msi-gt-1030-2g-lp-oc-graphic-card-2-gb-gddr5-pcie-30-x16-low-profile-hdmi-displayport/apd/aa362018/graphic-video-cards
Make sure whatever GT1030 you buy is GDDR5 version.
The DDR4 versions of this card are junk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y32mBdZHJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHTMZHcFaJE
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I had an optiplex 790 with an i5-2400 and installed a zotac low-profile gtx 1050 Ti. It was an awesome little gaming rig. That's definitely one of the cheapest and most effective ways to get into PC gaming.
foxleybob
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May 22nd, 2020 03:00
wow!!!
Many thanks for all that info.
I'll get round to reading/looking at it all soon.
speedstep
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May 22nd, 2020 07:00
Stock 790 power supply DOES NOT support 75W card like 1050TI.
bradthetechnut
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What size 790 do you have, MT, DT, SFF, or USFF? USFF has no expansion slots. What CPU do you have? I accidentally thought I5-2400 from the post above.
Optiplex 790 Tech Guide
bradthetechnut
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Graphic card and processor will work great together:
Intel Core i5-2400 (Clock speed at 90%) with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Clock speed at 90%) x1 will produce only 1.16% of bottleneck.
Graphic card is too weak for this processor:
Intel Core i5-2400 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce 100% of bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck.
Woops woops, oops oops, here's a YouTube List of 790's running the GTX 1050 ti.
I say it that way because in other posts, I've proven with YouTube videos, people have been running up to 75w cards on 240w (no less than) PSU's.