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CODmaster1112
#227697037Sunday, November 19, 2017 2:15 AM GMT

Specs: Dell Optiplex 755 with Windows 10 Home Edition - 64 bit Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz, 2200 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) RAM: 4.00 GB 500 Gigabite Internal Hardrive GPU (Integrated): Q35 Express Chipset Family - GMA 3100
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#227697146Sunday, November 19, 2017 2:18 AM GMT

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redpandanicole
#227702772Sunday, November 19, 2017 5:07 AM GMT

Absolutely nothing to do with the processor, yes its kinda crap today but its more than enough for roblox. Do you have a dedicated GPU? Because GMA 3100 can hardly run roblox in 1024x768, speaking from experience. If you want this to play roblox at all you will need a graphics card to use over the GMA 3100. For an Optiplex 755, i presume the small form factor one (thinner than a regular PC), buy a low profile GT 710 or 720 or 730 AT THE MAX (anything more powerful than a 730 is wasted) and drop it in there. They are single slot low profile cards and will fit in anything with a pcie x16 slot. Power is not a concern with these low power cards either. Thats all you got really, i also suggest dropping windows 10 entirely and going back to stock windows 7, there is no advantage to 10 on a 4000 series C2D and it will actually suck up a lot of potential performance from that CPU.
jaxx_g
#227703188Sunday, November 19, 2017 5:21 AM GMT

lol
CODmaster1112
#227705383Sunday, November 19, 2017 6:53 AM GMT

Wow! Thank's for the tips. I'll definitely take that into consideration. As much as I want to buy a budget GPU, it gets kind of hard to posses if you don't earn any money. Unfortunately, I don't get a weekly allowance anymore. Also, the Optiplex was given to me from my grandma. (She owns a Cyber Cafe and had a spare PC to give me) Normally, Optiplex's were meant for simple office computing being that my model is SFF & was manufactured in '09. So I never was really expecting to get anything good out of it. I mean, it sure does a great job at serving it's purpose. Anyway, I'll try to look into buying a new/upgraded Optiplex, like the 7010 variant. Any other suggestions would be useful by the way. -CODmaster1112
CODmaster1112
#227705451Sunday, November 19, 2017 6:57 AM GMT

One more thing, do you think a GT 730 could run Garry's Mod?
oliverbeast25
#227706528Sunday, November 19, 2017 8:00 AM GMT

I have gmod, and yes but be alert if you spawn too many stuff in, you get lag, I might just upgrade.
biII_wurtz
#227706568Sunday, November 19, 2017 8:02 AM GMT

ok hi my name is bob and i will help you go into files go to PC search "system32" press backspace
redpandanicole
#227706595Sunday, November 19, 2017 8:03 AM GMT

If you went to a 7010 you'd have 3rd gen i series stuff but still HD Graphics 2500, which wouldnt be that much better for roblox. 3000/4000 tend to lag a decent bit with this game. The E4500 + a GT 730 should handle garrys mod, probably not great, probably 720p medium/low to get 50-60fps with some medium complexity stuff or custom gamemodes like TTT, but it would run. I had roblox running fine in 720p max settings with a 1.3ghz Sempron 3850 and a GT 710 on Windows XP, the c2d's are similar in performance to the 4000/6000 core2duos, albiet with 2 more cores. Christmas is coming up, if you can suffer for a bit a GT 730 is like 30/40$ used on ebay. Or honestly even the 710 is fine for roblox and theyre cheap. Dont bother with a 210 or the 8400GS that are also still sold new for some reason. Consider the 710 your reasonable lowest. Also look into something like an AMD R7 240, which is similar to a gt 730. You can actually go pretty far with a 755, a lot of people buy a core2quad Q6600 and a gtx 750ti and its a capable 1080p gaming machine for things like GTA V and all that. Going from the E4500 to a Q6600 is going to require a bios update but the processor itself is like 10-15$ on ebay.
SageDave
#227707490Sunday, November 19, 2017 8:48 AM GMT

Pretty much everything redpanda said. Can't stress this enough but make sure PSU is good enough. Minimum 250W continuous can run it a GT 730, but you may experience hangs or random shutdowns, etc.. so I'd say have at least a 300W good quality PSU.
redpandanicole
#227707574Sunday, November 19, 2017 8:53 AM GMT

the thing is like 30w, honestly a 755's power supply will handle it fine GPU specsheets show PSU requirements so people dont try and stick 200w cards on 200w power supplies and think they'll work, im 100% sure that the 755's PSU will handle up to 65w on the pcie slot
SageDave
#227707704Sunday, November 19, 2017 8:59 AM GMT

was just giving a little word of caution, right now i'm on a dell optiplex with a gt 710 lobbed into it and i get hangs / random shutdowns all the time. i've yet to upgrade the psu but i've tried everything else with no luck on fixing it. but yeah, theoretically you should have no issues.
CrAzYBiRd
#227708116Sunday, November 19, 2017 9:22 AM GMT

Wow.
Ashley_Phantom
#227709322Sunday, November 19, 2017 10:30 AM GMT

Stop recommending people to buy low-end systems, a GT 730 is basically cancer to the low-end / budget line-ups and delivers bad price for performance. 40-50 Dollars for a GT 730 means you are going to get a bad used card, probably used for about 1.5-2 years and overclocked, it means performance degradation will kick hard in, bricking the card later on. There are lot's of threads in tech support forums screaming how crap GT 730s are at maintaining performance. I'm telling you, buying used will give you a pretty shwitty card which will brick soon. Don't buy a new GT 730 either, you will pay about 130, with that much you can buy a GTX 1050ti which mostly doesn't need an external power connector and runs off your PSU. Let's not get started on how much better the GTX 1050ti is. The main problem with this guy's prebuilt system is his processor, dual cores aren't that bad but his doesn't even have hyperthreading, and if I'm right it doesn't support TurboBoost which is bad too. Oh let's not forget about how FWUWCKING BAD the GPU is, it's literally integrated into his motherboard, so I can already guess it's 9 years old. Don't even try to run anything on it since it's so bad. Just save for a budget build, buy a PC for 300-400 dollars (which is budget and not low end jesus christ). Get some 2 Core 4 Thread Pentium and a GTX 660 or something. // ASUS GTX 1070 STRIX / i7 6700K
redpandanicole
#227719626Sunday, November 19, 2017 5:00 PM GMT

Hes talking about a 4000 series core2duo system, best GPU that wont be bottlenecked to all hell is a GT 730 A used gt 730 is fine considering they are low power cards that rarely get overclocked since 99% of them are in oem systems. I assure you that any GPU under 75w will not get bricked unless you purposely do something very wrong to it. Heat kills graphics cards, a GT 730 doesn't make a lot of heat, at all. A new GT 730 would be like 70 bucks, best buy carries them. Its stupid to buy one new when there's lots of used ones that need a good home but if someone really wanted new, thats up to them. And yes its dumb to buy a 730. But you are forgetting, Core2duo E4500. Unless OP wants to upgrade to a core2quad, which gets a lot more complicated than "put card into slot" then a 1050ti or whatever would be mostly wasted. Nor would putting a 130$ gpu into a 20$ value optiplex be a good idea. His processor is fine. Its the x3100 graphics that are an issue. I ran roblox fine for quite some time on an e6700 and a gt 710. And later that same gt 710 and a Sempron 3850, which is a 1.3ghz am1 quad-core apu. Its actually worse than the e6700. And I implied already, that a q6600 and a 750ti is a common project for these machines. Its like 100$ to get a 750ti, 8gb of ram and a q6600, its just a matter of how much effort you want to put into an optiplex. But 100$ is pretty decent for a machine that would play games like GTA V, Cities Skylines, CSGO, Skyrim, etc all at high settings in 1080p
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#227720368Sunday, November 19, 2017 5:19 PM GMT

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SageDave
#227721361Sunday, November 19, 2017 5:43 PM GMT

"it IS the processor because its literally so outdated and cant run most popular roblox games" A dual core is completely fine for ROBLOX.... it's his graphics that's causing the performance issue.
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SageDave
#227721494Sunday, November 19, 2017 5:46 PM GMT

...No?
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redpandanicole
#227724982Sunday, November 19, 2017 6:33 PM GMT

"it IS the processor because its literally so outdated and cant run most popular roblox games" but thats just not true, at all its a core2duo, yeah its out and outdated but its fine for roblox, ever hear of mo(hashtags)ores law? Its the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. When it was still true yeah, your processor was entirely outdated within a few years. This is really prevalent in the 80's and 90's. Back in the year 1997 my Thinkpad 380ED was top of the line with a 166mhz Pentium MMX. In 1999 with thinkpad 600X came out with a 600mhz Pentium III. Everything MMX was entirely outdated, even pentium II's were now pretty much obsolete. 2 years. By 2003 with my G40, with a 2.8ghz Pentium 4, the 600x was entirely outdated as well. Now heres the kicker, that 2003 G40 is still usable today for web browsing. Its perfectly fine with these forums, im posting from it right now. As time goes on the processor performance jumps become smaller and smaller and smaller. To the extent that core2duo's are still perfectly fine for quite a lot of stuff including modern gaming. Its not going to be great, but 8000 series core2duos are still on par with modern dual cores and still are listed as minimum specs for many AAA games. A core2quad q6600 from 2007 is still to this day fine for AAA games like Witcher 3, Tomb Raider, Titanfall 2, etc. The difference between an i7 3770k, 4790k, 6700k and 7700k is so small that upgrading to any of them becomes a matter of preference over anything, because even an i7 2700k is more than enough for anything gaming related today. The Core2duo E4500 is old, yes. But its beyond more than enough for Roblox, max settings too if paired with even a mediocre GPU like a 730. Roblox isnt hard to run. If you knew anything about what you're talking about you would know two things: 1) The problem is CLEARLY the x3100 graphics which are designed for literally just powering a display, before intel HD series stuff gaming wasnt part of the design considerations. 2) Core2duos are still fine for modern use
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redpandanicole
#227732339Sunday, November 19, 2017 8:34 PM GMT

whatever you say buddy come back when you know more about computers than "i7 is a good"

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