REFURB Dell Optiplex 9010 Desktop Tower PC, Intel i5 3.40GHz, 8GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, Win10 Home, DVD $189.99 @ Newegg, by RefurbNinja

[VirtualLarry]

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Not bad, for the "tower" variety of Dell desktop, that can carry full-height and double-wide video cards.

Also, this is the Ivy Bridge model, going by reviews, and my personal experience with them, has been that the Sandy / Ivy models, used standard ATX PSU connections, and it was starting with the Haswell generation, that they moved to the proprietary PSU connection style.

So, with a little luck, you SHOULD be able to replace the PSU with whatever ATX supply you want (as long as it fits, length-wise, prefer modular to fit next to the DVD drive), and put in a decent video card, like a soon-to-be-released GTX 1660 Super (Oct. 29th) or a GTX 1650 Super (Nov 22nd) OR an RX 5500 or RX 5500 XT, whenever those will be released ("towards the end of the year"). Or just the old 1080P standby these days, a (potentially used, to save some cash) RX 570/580 card.

(*) If you don't feel comfortable replacing the PSU, or for some reason, it has a proprietary connector on the unit you get, then a GTX 1650 without the 6-pin PCI-E power connector is what you're going to need. I think that several of the Gigabyte models are like that. EVGA may need the power connector, as those are mostly overclocked. Zotac, I think, offers one of each variety.

Bump up the RAM to 16GB (should have four DIMM sockets, I think, not 100% sure), add a SATA 2.5" SSD (should be an extra SATA port and power lead by the HDD bays), and you'll be rocking! (I've done this with a couple of older Dell towers, it's an easy build with a clean refurb, and makes a solid gaming PC - albeit limited to a quad-core CPU, which may be limiting for some modern 2019 AAA games just coming out that were designed for six/eight-core CPUs.)

 

[SamirD]

Decent price, but is a great base as you've mentioned. I've got a 990 which is one generation older than this model (got it for $50 locally on cl) and have been able to upgrade the ram and there's plenty of space for a gpu like you've mentioned and a power supply upgrade. You can even upgrade the processor to an i7 so even those aaa games may not be too bad with a 1080ti mini and an i7.

 

[Steltek]

I agree that these are very decent boxes, especially at that price.

It does have 4 DRAM slots (my mother has one I bought from Dell Outlet for her about 6 years ago that she plays Farmville2 on -- I just upgraded it to Win10 pro for her the other day and it runs just fine).

You can directly upgrade the power supply as it uses a standard 24 pin PSU. The only catch is that you might have to remove the motherboard to install a new PSU if the PSU you choose is physically larger than the standard Dell PSU. You'll also be stuck using mini shorts for video cards as the memory slots and hard drive cage are right behind the PCIE 16x slot and prevent the use of a full length card.

It is also only $10 more for Win10 Pro and an additional $20 more to get it configured with 16GB of memory, both of which are probably worthwhile upgrades (unless you have an 8GB module laying around, you probably won't find a cheaper one even on eBay).

 

[VirtualLarry]

It is also only $10 more for Win10 Pro and an additional $20 more to get it configured with 16GB of memory, both of which are probably worthwhile upgrades (unless you have an 8GB module laying around, you probably won't find a cheaper one even on eBay).

Good catch!