I bought each of my daughters used Dell Optiplex 745 computers. My youngest just purchased Minecraft for her computer (they've had it on the Xbox for a year or so), and I had a HELL of a time figuring out why it wouldn't work... I found that the standard onboard graphics isn't compatible with the latest Minecraft version. I ended up loading up V1.7.2 (I believe it was) in order to work with her computer. She purchased this software with her own money (not a small task for a 12 year old in a middle class family- quite humble allowance!). I want her to be able to run the latest version of her game, but don't know what type of video card to upgrade her computer to. It only has the 275W power supply (or so I've read.) I'm running an adapter for VGA+USB+Audio to HDMI to her 32" television. My question is this: What graphics card would work best (Best gaming experience) with her current power supply and SFF configuration computer? I'm hoping some of you have already gone down this path with the Optiplex 745. Please let me know which video card to purchase. Thanks! Matt
Hi Matt, I did some googling and some people have put the 750 ti into the optiplex 745, but this does require cutting two inch-long pieces of plastic so the card can sit properly. This card will work fine with the pre-instaled PSU.
Hi Matt, I did some googling and some people have put the 750 ti into the optiplex 745, but this does require cutting two inch-long pieces of plastic so the card can sit properly. This card will work fine with the pre-instaled PSU.
There's no way that would fit without cutting a rectangle out of the side panel. It's a full height card.
@OP: I'd be going with something like this or this. Shouldn't require a power supply upgrade, and will fit in the Optiplex 745 SFF with 100% certainty. Runs Minecraft at a decent framerate on medium/high settings, and it there isn't many better choices beyond that in low profile cards anyway.
Here's a video of an R7 250 playing Minecraft for a bit of an example:
However, please take note that the CPU may impact performance even with such a low-end card if it's a lower-end Core 2 Duo.
Oh, and you don't want to be spending any more than, say, $60-70 or so at a maximum on those PCs. It isn't worth it, they're too outdated to be worth adding new/better parts.
If you don't want to spend a lot of money, you can get a GT 520 or 610 on eBay for about $20. It should run minecraft pretty well as I used to run it on my secondary computer
If you don't want to spend a lot of money, you can get a GT 520 or 610 on eBay for about $20. It should run minecraft pretty well as I used to run it on my secondary computer
This^^ if you really don't want to spend that much. I currently have a 520 in my main PC (lol) and it runs at 60+ FPS on mc with optifine almost maxed (not 32 render distance to be safe) easily.
I had it running yesterday on max settings at 60 FPS. I'll try it again today.
EDIT: Woops I'm using optifine too.
EDIT 2: I just tested it and with optifine and all settings on max, including 36 render distance, I get on average steady 55-60 FPS while creative mode flying and 65-70 FPS while standing still. This is in Extreme hills because that's where it started me off.
EDIT 3: Sorry about my post about maxing mc easily, I was, for some reason, thinking that render distance could stay at 12 and mc would be maxed out, although the 520 still gets close to being able to imo. Also I always seem to think of optifine being vanilla so sorry about that too.
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This is the post I found: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2094954/dell-optiplex-745-video-card-upgrade.html
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There's no way that would fit without cutting a rectangle out of the side panel. It's a full height card.
@OP: I'd be going with something like this or this. Shouldn't require a power supply upgrade, and will fit in the Optiplex 745 SFF with 100% certainty. Runs Minecraft at a decent framerate on medium/high settings, and it there isn't many better choices beyond that in low profile cards anyway.
Here's a video of an R7 250 playing Minecraft for a bit of an example:
However, please take note that the CPU may impact performance even with such a low-end card if it's a lower-end Core 2 Duo.
Oh, and you don't want to be spending any more than, say, $60-70 or so at a maximum on those PCs. It isn't worth it, they're too outdated to be worth adding new/better parts.
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This^^ if you really don't want to spend that much. I currently have a 520 in my main PC (lol) and it runs at 60+ FPS on mc with optifine almost maxed (not 32 render distance to be safe) easily.
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I seriously doubt you'd be able to run 32 chunk render distance well with a GT 520.
EDIT: Woops I'm using optifine too.
EDIT 2: I just tested it and with optifine and all settings on max, including 36 render distance, I get on average steady 55-60 FPS while creative mode flying and 65-70 FPS while standing still. This is in Extreme hills because that's where it started me off.
EDIT 3: Sorry about my post about maxing mc easily, I was, for some reason, thinking that render distance could stay at 12 and mc would be maxed out, although the 520 still gets close to being able to imo. Also I always seem to think of optifine being vanilla so sorry about that too.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein
Current setup: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/PJzPD3