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Will this work for light gaming?
Hello,
I’m new to these forums and I had a question regarding a desktop I saw online for a good price. I was looking to get into some light of gaming without breaking the bank. I saw this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-Optiplex-760-Desktop-Intel-Core-2-Duo-2-6GHz-8GB-RAM-750GB-HDD-DVD-ROM-Windows-10-Professional-19-Display-Keyboard-Mouse-Speaker-WiFi/126071539?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=940&adid=22222222227050233785&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=145405612031&wl4=pla-325151072397&wl5=9015650&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=113125887&wl11=online&wl12=126071539&wl13=&veh=sem and thought it might work. Only thing is I need a graphics card for it, and I’m simply not computer savvy enough to determine what will or won’t work. I’m primarily interested in Star Wars: The Old Republic, so anything I get would need to run that at a minimum. Can anyone give me a recommendation as to a graphics card to get that would run that on this rig or if it’s not possible due to one constraint or another? Thank you.
I’m new to these forums and I had a question regarding a desktop I saw online for a good price. I was looking to get into some light of gaming without breaking the bank. I saw this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-Optiplex-760-Desktop-Intel-Core-2-Duo-2-6GHz-8GB-RAM-750GB-HDD-DVD-ROM-Windows-10-Professional-19-Display-Keyboard-Mouse-Speaker-WiFi/126071539?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=940&adid=22222222227050233785&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=145405612031&wl4=pla-325151072397&wl5=9015650&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=113125887&wl11=online&wl12=126071539&wl13=&veh=sem and thought it might work. Only thing is I need a graphics card for it, and I’m simply not computer savvy enough to determine what will or won’t work. I’m primarily interested in Star Wars: The Old Republic, so anything I get would need to run that at a minimum. Can anyone give me a recommendation as to a graphics card to get that would run that on this rig or if it’s not possible due to one constraint or another? Thank you.
Its not a good pick because its NOT a tower.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/100516693
GPU's have become Crazy expensive because they are used for crypto mining. These were $139 now they are all over $200+
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01MCU1ERO/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=all
This is an Ok card.
https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-Graphics-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B077V3F9T8/
This one is better but still overpriced imho
https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GeForce-GV-N1030D5-2GL-Computer-Graphics/dp/B071DY2VJR
The site is Correct. VISTA was 2007 and WIN7 was 2009 WIN8 was 2012 and WIN10 was 2015.
- Processor. 1 gigahertz (GHz)* or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2
- RAM. 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
- Hard disk space. 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- Graphics card. Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 driver
The Microsoft Authorized Refurbish Licenses MAR are now Windows 10 home or Pro.
They sell Units from HP, DELL, etc. Even the Optiplex GX620 from 2006
can run Windows 7 or 8 or 10.
If you want to run 64 bit windows 10 it requires LAHF SAHF and CMP XCHG 16 which means Pentium D 915 or later.
None of the older pentium 2 or pentium 3 systems support 8 or 10 because they dont have NX etc.
Older pentium 4's do not have NX either so 2004 and earlier systems are XP or VISTA or 7 max.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/refurbishedpcs/
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Posted February 1st, 2018 11:00
Walmart does 3rd party sales like Amazon does. This is listed as a desktop, but if you look at the description it notes its a notebook? I'd stay away from it.
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Posted February 1st, 2018 10:00
Hello Catcher51,
That is a strange offering from Walmart. We never offered the 10 year old 2008 Optiplex 760 with Windows 10. I wonder if their sales site is correct? Also, OptiPlex systems were created as a Business Desktop.
If you are looking for a cheap used Dell computer for light gaming check out Discount Electronics at the link below. I have purchased used Dells through them as well.
Discount Electronics
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