Graphics Card for Inspiron 3671

A GPU with 6+ GB vram is almost certainly a high power one. You would need to upgrade psu to Dell 365w psu (XE2 tower) that has a 6 pin or ATX psu (w 24 to 8 pin adapter) to support such gpu.

minimum gpu that meets 6GB vram include gtx 1060 6GB.  It requires a 6 pin from psu.  1070 has 8 GB VRAM and faster cards have more.

@redxps630​ Thank you very much for your help! I'm thinking that maybe I misunderstood the game requirements...I'll check again.

@redxps630​ I checked the game requirements and it doesn't need a 6GB card—I don't know where I got that. It looks like a lower-end card is a minimum requirement. Could you please recommend any that are available now that would be compatible with my 3671? Thank you so much in advance!

you can use dell oem card

I know this is an older post but I thought I would give some data on the Inspiron 3671 upgraded to a gamer PC for anyone floating through these posts that has one and wants to game on a super low budget, this might just be for you!

 I was recently given this Inspiron 3671 mini tower PC in late November 2024 to check out and discovered this machine can still be upgraded like a normal prebuilt PC. And with a minor exception or two, the biggest, (or should I say smallest) being the case is rather small, so a twin-fan GPU that is short enough will fit in the case just barely.

I made the following upgrades for the kids to game on this PC:

Upgraded the RAM to double from 8Gb DDR4-2666 (1 stick) to 16Gb DDR4-3200 (2x8Gb sticks).

CPU is an i3-9100 3.6GHz (9th Generation) Coffee Lake.

Removed the spinner SATA 3.5" 1Tb 7200 RPM drive as it had failed (reason I was given this PC).

Replaced with a 2.5" SATA 1Tb 5400 RPM drive as storage drive to behind the front panel spot for more PS room.

Added a Toshiba 256Gb M.2 3rd Gen SSD as primary storage for OS & Boot drive.

Replaced the 295w factory 8-Pin PS with a Thermaltake dual fan cross-flow 430w ATX 24-pin PSU.

Added 8-pin to 24-pin PSU adapter from ebay or Amazon for under $8!

Added an MSI AMD RX570 4 or 8Gb GPU with 8 pin PCIe power socket.

Fresh Windows 11 home (current UEFI 23h2 @ time build) and latest GPU drivers after using GPU-Uninstall.

Note: This power supply version that I used on this build had PCIe power plugs on it and cross flow (front & back) fans (vs. the later version of this power supply with bottom 120mm single fan) so little to no case mods were required to fit this PSU as there is a fan in the rear and one in the front, none on the bottom which would have required upside-down mounting or drilling holes in the bottom of the case. None of this I wanted to do mind you, we wanted the PC to look mostly stock, not a hack job.

Performance is excellent in most all games so in the future, we will be upping the GPU to an RTX3060 8 or 12 Gb model real soon.

Overall the PC runs very well and should be usable for the next 3 or 4 years before it becomes so obsolete that it isn't worth dealing with anymore. It scores well on benchmarks such as Valley & Superposition and games in Fortnite at over 245 FPS 1080 resolution on the factory CPU cooler.

It isn't as fast as the Alienware R12 we have with an 11th gen i7-11700GK in it but it is not far behind in gaming. The Alienware R10 we have with either the R 5 5600X or now the 5800x upgrade CPU still smokes both intel based Alienware PC's. 

Why we did this:

  I had the parts laying around to upgrade this little Inspiron 3671 so figured why not! 

Have Fun!

A little update to the above post:

  The 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPU was getting a little warm when intense gaming was going on so we upgraded the factory CPU cooler with a Thermal Right tower and removed the factory duct work for the original cooler. Temps dropped by nearly 30* C! Huge difference and now the CPU stays in boost clock mode more often.

Second change was upgrading the MSI AMD Radeon RX570 to an Nvidia RTX 6040 Ti 8Gb GPU.

Frame rates went up by over 150 in Fortnite and is now maximizing the bandwidth of the CPU.

Runs faster, stays cooler longer so Win-Win here!

RR

Re: The Alienware R10 we have with either the R 5 5600X or now the 5800x upgrade CPU still smokes both intel based Alienware PC's. 

good to know