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December 27th, 2012 10:00

Upgrading Video Card in Optiplex 7010

Hello,

My son got himself a 7010 via his work (free pc) and he wants me to upgrade anything that can be upgraded.  Considering he works with 3D imaging apps like CAD, the AMD 7570 needs to be drop kicked.  He wants to game on it when not working (the desktop is for him to work at home - he has another at work).  I figured a 79xx series would be a great upgrade but the current PSU is horribly inadequate for any future upgrade - EVER.  275 watts hardly suffices with any card above the 75xx series.  

Having bought Dells in the past, the PSU can be a pain to upgrade because of size constraints and proprietary limitations.  Does anyone know what options I have in upgrading the PSU to say a Corsair 650TX?  The specs of his machine are:

OptiPlex 7010 MT                                   OptiPlex 7010 Minitower w/ Standard Power Supply
Operating System(s)                             Windows 7 Professional, No Media, 64-bit, English
Processors                                             3rd Gen Intel® Core™ i7-3770 (Quad Core, 3.40GHz, 8MB w/HD4000 Graphics)
Memory                                                    16GB, NON-ECC, 1600MHZ DDR3,2DIMM
Graphics Cards                                     1GB AMD RADEON HD 7570,FH,w/VGA
Boot Hard Drives                                   1TB 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s with 32MB DataBurst Cache™
Removable Media Storage Device     16X DVD+/-RW and 19-in-1 Card Reader
Thermal                                                   Heat Sink, Performance, Minitower
Wireless                                                  Dell Wireless 1530 PCIe WLAN card, FH
Power Supply                                         OptiPlex 7010 MT Standard PSU
Second Hard Drive Options                 1TB 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s with 32MB DataBurst Cache™

Thanks,

Patrick