

RAM = 75~100$ for 8gb of decent stuff, look for something 'Ryzen Compatible'ĬPU = 99$ Ryzen 2200G (okay gfx, 4 cores 4 threads), 169$ Ryzen 2400G (good graphics, 4 cores 8 threads)

Save up some dough and buy some nice stuff for yourself. You would also have warranty on the parts. The 2400G would be *close* to the regular 1050 in performance (please look it up!), and the CPU portion would be worlds faster than the old dell's cpu, even a 9650 quad-core (especially in Beam Physics, more than 2x here!). Do try to get something close to 2800~3200mhz RAM though as your on-chip video speed is limited by RAM speed. Have an ATX or m-ATX case and a decent brand 350 watt or better power supply (the system won't be terribly power hungry without a discrete video card, and without overclocking it, which you *could* do with B350 chipset if the board is made for it). So entirely, yeah, buy a Ryzen G-series CPU, a motherboard with the B350 or A320 chipset, some 8GB of RAM (2x4gb), and you won't need a GPU especially with the 2400G cpu as it's pretty good. I wouldn't bother updating it to put high-performance video in it, as it's not made for the task. Make sure to look up what kind of RAM is compatible with it (dual rank, single rank, etc, it should say). If it's got 4 slots it will either hold 8gb (2gb x4) or 16gb (4gb x4). The dell will make a great office computer for years yet. Ryzen G-series Has decent usable integrated gfx, too. Clock speed = fps here.Ĭould buy Ryzen 2200G or 2400G + m-ATX mobo + RAM for what you'll spend fixing this up! Keep in mind dell mobo wont support all cpu's due to Dell not updating BIOS - look it up first. So should get power supply to fit case that has pci-e power 6-pin. So a card wanting 75watt power from a dell pci-e slot that provides 25w of power only will result in no boot, or it failing to render 3d mode games properly. Click to expand.WARNING: keep in mind Dell mobo PCI-E x16 ports support 25w power not ATX standard 75w power.
