Looking for a Budget GPU for Light Gaming on Dell Optiplex 5090

[suraswami]

Hello everyone,

I'm helping a friend fix his Dell Optiplex 5090 slim profile office machine for some light gaming on a minimal budget. The specs are:

• CPU: i3 10105F
• RAM: 16GB

I found an RTX 3050 on Newegg, but I'm wondering if there are any cheaper alternatives that fit the following criteria:

• Single slot
• No external power

Here's the link to the RTX 3050 I found:

https://www.newegg.com/p/1FT-007N-000C0

I'm open to both AMD/NVidia and Intel options, as well as workstation cards that can handle light gaming.

Any suggestions on what I should look for?

Thanks!

 

[Marcus L]

Probably a GTX LP 1650 which obviously isn't as good as a RTX 3050, i would say that's probably the single best GPU without PCIe power connector you can get, there are some RTX 4000 prosumer cards though likely more expensive, probably find a RX 6400 XT cheaper than $200 though, but will suffer with it's 4 PCIe lanes@PCIe 3x, still probably fine for casual gaming on a SFF system like this, would look at those options and weigh up the cost/performance accordingly