I want to know which video card will fit in dell optiplex gx270 slimline desktop?

i am going to do a little bit of everything with the computer and the video cards.|||he's right. dells are very proprietary. looking at some images online, i doubt you will do much better than a stock psu. to tell you the truth, after looking up specs, i don't see it being worth upgrading in some aspects. if you are going to use it for normal stuff (web, typing, music, movies ect....) it should do ok. if you are wanting to play games, i would build one. you are limited in regards to the power supply, the 865 chipset (meaning you at best can run a pentium d, i think), the ram, the video expansion slot and worse yet, fitting a new better board in that case isn't going to work (i hate dells for that reason). i'm telling you this because i don't want ya disappointed in the performance area. if you were to upgrade you would likely be doing the ram, cpu and video card and in turn the psu before it's over with anyway. i'm sure you don't need to know about your system.



to actually answer the question

you need a low profile agp or pci (not pci-e/pci express) that has a small power consumption which will limit your options greatly doing a fast search at newegg i found this

hd 4350 512 mb 300watts (there was a few nvidia 5200s and 6200s also)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

the only thing though, i don't see any power supplies over 160 watts that are the weird shape. if have the square looking (micro atx/atx) psu, you might be able to. you might be stuck i don't know. it would be a waste upgrading the psu and video card (a relatively weak one at that) to run it on a single core (maybe a low end dual core if you are lucky). seriously, i would spend more money if you are wanting a gaming rig. for normal use, i'd leave it alone. it doesn't have to be overly expensive either. a decent dual core and video card paired with 4 gigs of ram will do it. something like this would do it

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…

that's an e6500, 4 gigs of ram, 500 gig hdd, dvd writer, and 9800gt. it's 318 in the cart +shipping for 15. that should run anything out there with a few video tweaks on games and it's literally 3-4 times the cpu power. that would allow a little of everything.|||You will need to get a low-profile video card that your power supply can handle.