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Severe depression and A Dell Optiplex 3010

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This small mod/build is an attempt to get my brothers spirit up, who has been suffering from severe depression. His birthday is coming up and has been living on his own after being homeless for more than a year. I found a computer desk on craigslist for 15 bucks, which he thinks is for his laptop but its really to surprise him with the computer I am building. I managed to find a Dell OptiPlex 3010 on ebay for 77 dollars. It has 4gb ram, intel i5 3470, 320gb hdd. I also managed to get a gtx 1050 and I bought an extra 4gb of ram and a couple of fans. I hope this will be able to play games at 1080p at least in medium settings. Hes into drawing and does amazing graffiti so I bought a vinyl graffiti wrap and I am going to give the case so color. I really hope this mod/build will help him feel like hes not alone.
 
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That's a great thing you're doing for your bro,I believe he'll be excited when he sees the build ..

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I really wanted to upgrade this processor to an Intel Xeon E3-1230 or maybe wait a little and save for the xeon 1270 but I cant seem to figure out if it will work with this motherboard. The idea would be to buy a xeon and sell the 3470 I am hoping to save a little more money down the road and also do the same to the gtx 1050 and get a 1060.
 
#10 ·
The Dell A11 bios and/or newer has the mircocode for the xeon E3-12XX series. Unless dell blacklisted those cpu's somehow they should work.

Nice build
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