Thoughts on the Dell Inspiron 3650 as a *LITE* gaming pc.

So I'm thinking of going very Cheap as my PC now is 9 years old.

I'm thinking of buying the Dell Inspiron 3650.

I'm going to be doing webdevelopment and lite gaming on it.

Specs:
i7 Quad-Core 3.4Ghz Skylake
Amd R9 360 GFX Card
16gb DDr3 Ram
Dell Motherboard Single PCI No SLI Bridge
2 TB Hardrive

I'd like to know anyones opinion on this.

Programs to be Run:

While it is good enough for what you need it to run, if you want to run anything else a year down the line it's not a good idea. Go prebuilt. Grab an i7 and 1050 ti if you have the money. If you need something more budget I can recommend the FX 6300 processor and a GTX 1050 TI GPU. Prebuilts are almost always bad and my Inspiron started to crap out year 1.

I'd say build your own.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/k6vb3F
This build would offer much better performance, has an ssd that offers MUCH faster boot times as well as load times, has a quality psu for future upgrades, AM4 platform will be supported until at least 2020, case has enough room for another 2.5"/3.5" drive, b350 platform allows for overclocking, and the gtx 1050 ti from evga has a 90 day step up program to any higher tier gpu for the cost difference aswell as 2x+ the performance of the r9 360.

10-09-2017, 04:31 AM

TheMrDynamite Wrote: While it is good enough for what you need it to run, if you want to run anything else a year down the line it's not a good idea. Go prebuilt. Grab an i7 and 1050 ti if you have the money. If you need something more budget I can recommend the FX 6300 processor and a GTX 1050 TI GPU. Prebuilts are almost always bad and my Inspiron started to crap out year 1.

The FX series is pure trash there is absolutely no reason to buy it at this point when AM4 CPUs such as the athlon x4 950 exist for $60.
An i7, and a gtx 1050 ti isidiotic to begin with since you'll have a massive gpu bottleneck why spend $150 on your gpu, and 2x as much on your cpu.
Your gpu should always cost more than your cpu since it's the most important thing for performance.

dont buy a prebuilt one please build your own you will get way more bang for your buck. Its not that hard to assemble either!

Decided to buy it as I got it for 200 marked down from 1.1k I'm going to buy a case and a new motherboard. The only thing that is *Value* in that PC is the Skylake i7 Quad-Core 3.4ghz CPU.

Thanks everyone for your feed back really helps!

11-09-2017, 07:38 PM

DrBaja Wrote: Decided to buy it as I got it for 200 marked down from 1.1k I'm going to buy a case and a new motherboard. The only thing that is *Value* in that PC is the Skylake i7 Quad-Core 3.4ghz CPU.

Thanks everyone for your feed back really helps!

If your mobo is using DDR3L for skylake then you better make sure your motherboard you get supports it or you'll be buying new ram too.

DO NOT get a FX processor at this point as a upgrade in the future will require an entire PC change(Motherboard, RAM, CPU). I have a FX-6300 and I can tell it lags behind. I would recommend Zen as the current AM4 socket will support Zen2 and Zen3 I believe.

12-09-2017, 01:25 AM

Bitdefender Wrote: If your mobo is using DDR3L for skylake then you better make sure your motherboard you get supports it or you'll be buying new ram too.

I'll be buying a DDR4 ram motherboard, as well as 8gb of DDR4 ram to start off.

12-09-2017, 02:00 AM

DrBaja Wrote: I'll be buying a DDR4 ram motherboard, as well as 8gb of DDR4 ram to start off.

You're basically building a whole new pc at this point.
Why didn't you just build one in the first place, and get better parts then?..

Depends how light your light gaming is, it'd make an excellent network firewall although.