But i bought a 1060 3gb a few months ago for 80, and now its going for over 140 on ebay, prices seem pretty inflated

I wouldn;t be a good person to ask on that, i build with whatever i can scrounge together XD

I hope someone else knows a good answer to that

But in general make sure you get a computer that isnt too small/ a half height

otherwise you will serriously limit your options for graphics cards

👍

Thank you for the answers 😃

No problem 😄

Yeah, learned that the hard way. Bought a surplus desktop for $125 from my college of all places, with the intent to upgrade a few parts in it and start using it as a gaming PC. Come to find that with the variant it is, adding a fancy graphics card could overload the board.

At least I have a nice desktop for standard use at home

The heart of my system is a Optiplex DT 7010 motherboard, holy crap it has so many janky adapters on it to make it work in a normal pc case, but it does work

@VirtualTools_ what about if I find someone who made a list of the parts I would need for a good cheap gaming desktop

Do you think that would work

By research i also mean deal hunting

especially now more than ever, so much stuff is being scalper, out of stock, or just a bad price

its a pretty hard time to find good prices on stuff

It'll probably be a month or more before i start buying parts

Hopefully that changes some by then

A list of parts is a good idea though, just keep an eye out for good deals 🙂

This is a lot of work......

Lol

Yeah thats why for first time i always reccomend prebuilt+gpu

either new on both or a mixed of used

depending on budget

Wait a hot minute

Optiplex 7010

Yes

But i put in in an Antec Nine Hundred case

I bought a Optiplex 7020. I need a refresher since it is late for me. DT? Is that full or small size?

DT is the 2nd biggest, but its half height case

MT is the full size case

SFF is the small half height case

and USFF is the barely upgradable at all super small case

The DT was fine until i wanted to add a GTX 275, which is definitly NOT gonna fit in there, so i put it in an Antec Nine Hundred case and learned how much proprietary BS dell used

I'll have to figure out which variant I have, then.. My dream of a PC that runs more than Minecraft may not be so distant after all

Through a quick glance, it seems I may have SFF

Heres a thing from dells site showing the differences

Look like the bottom ones? or the top ones?

Bottom

It's SFF

good, the top ones are really old

I miss my Windows '98 MT tho ;-;