Old Dell PC with an old ATI/AMD Radeon 3450 low-profile card - can it be replaced?
I've got an old freebie low-profile desktop Dell optiplex (edit: sorry, not Inspiron) 760 for my son, and it's nice that it came with a video board - even an antiquated cheap one like a Radeon HD 3450. As is typical for these machines, it's running on an anemic little 255 Watt non-standard PSU so I can't really upgrade that.
I've seen online that others have upgraded this machine to a 6450, which is still an old out-of-date value-board, but benchmarks say that it would be a massive improvement. When I talked to a guy at Canada Computers, they disagreed - said that any upgrades on this machine would be a waste of time and I wouldn't see real improvement. Thoughts? Anybody else have any luck upgrading these non-upgradeable Dells?
It mostly plays old games - I'm not looking to run the latest and greatest on this thing. I'm just looking to get better performance on slightly-newer-old-games.
I've seen online that others have upgraded this machine to a 6450, which is still an old out-of-date value-board, but benchmarks say that it would be a massive improvement. When I talked to a guy at Canada Computers, they disagreed - said that any upgrades on this machine would be a waste of time and I wouldn't see real improvement. Thoughts? Anybody else have any luck upgrading these non-upgradeable Dells?
It mostly plays old games - I'm not looking to run the latest and greatest on this thing. I'm just looking to get better performance on slightly-newer-old-games.
Last edited by Pxtl on Nov 18th, 2017 11:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.