Hi, I have a Dell Studio XPS 7100 w/460 wattage a PCI ExpGen2x1 &amp;1 GB/s PCI ExpGen2x16 - 33 MHz ATI Radeon 5450. Is this a good, compatible upgrade?
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The HD 6770 would be a good upgrade for you Dell Studio XPS 7100. Though the card says that it requires a 500W power supply, the 460W power supply you have should do fine to power the HD 6770. Now my question for you is; Does the 460W PSU in your dell have a 6 Pin PCI-E power cable? If you do not have one then you would either need to look at upgrading your power supply as well, or find a graphics card that does not require the 6 Pin PCI-E power cable. The downside of finding a GFX Card that doesn't require power from the PSU is that the card won't be much of an improvement over your current Radeon 5450.
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Yes! The XPS 8700 has a 450w power supply, thats more than enough for this video card.
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H Michael,I have a Dell XPS M1730 laptop. I had a NVIDIA 9800M GTX w/ 2 GB (2000 MB of Ram) installed by the guys at Staples. It boots up in 20+ seconds! A NVIDIA 8800M GTX w/ 1 GB (1000 MB of Ram) will fit the slot too - I was told. This is all I know. Hope this helps.Roxy
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I have a Dell XPS 630i with a 750W PSU. I replaced my old card with my new EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti. It came with the cables needed, easy installment directions. It is much more quiet than my old card. Works like a charm.
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Sure, I run it on a 600watt no problem, it doen't support pci power, just the pci express conection. Not the best for gaming, decent for designing
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Hey Dexter, I don't recall mentioning a dell computer because this power supply was part of my custom build, so I can't answer your question. I suggest you measure the power supply dimensions in your xps 8500 and compare with the XFX pro. Normally Dell make everything custom to their specifications so you want to make sure that whatever PSU you end up buying is compatible with the case and motherboard (pin connectors)
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well sure, as long as you are within the recommended OS and processor range. With graphics cards what you are looking for (compatibility wise) is the proper slot (pcie-x16, which represents power draw/data flow rather than size), and enough power to run the graphics card. I would recommend at least 600 watts, if not more,of an 80 plus certified power supply unit, because this card uses 2 molex slots, and around 250 watts on load, and normal system builds use around 450 -500 watts without a gpu.
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I am running a Dell XPS 8700 with Intel Core i7 4770 CPU, ITB HD, 16GB 1600 RAM, and the GTX 660 w/2GB DDR-5 VRAM on a 460watts power supply. So far, after 6months, I have had no problems.
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The instructions say that a 450W power supply is the minimum required. My power supply has 650W, so it's never been an issue. As for compatibility with the Dell motherboard, I would be quite surprised if that was an issue. It fits into a PCI slot, which seems pretty standard these days. It also requires supplementary power from a PCI-E connector, but an adaptor is included that allows you to get that power from standard MOLEX power connectors -- the kind used to power hard drives before SATA came along. By the way, I've been quite happy with this card!
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Mine is in a Dell that had a 300w that went bad. I replaced with a 600w and have had no issues. When I did research before I bought the card, the suggestions that I read were a 400-500w psu
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No your perfectly fine since this card is a low power consumption card. Now it depends on what kind of processor you have. If you have intel you may need to upgrade it. If you have an amd like a 4100 your perfectly fine. If you have that processor and gpu it only requires 240 watts
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Just looked up the Dell Optiplex 790, which has a number of configurations. Spec sheet is downloadable here: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/shared-content~data-sheets~en/documents~optiplex-790-customer-brochure.pdf As usual with prebuilt systems, every configuration that I ran through Newegg's power supply calculator was using every watt that its meager power supply put out. Don't add so much as a hard drive without replacing that PSU. The heftiest one your system can come with is 265W, many come with a 240W PSU (depending on if they put one of the 95W CPUs or the 65W in). Anything bronze rated or up at 300W+ should do the trick. The Radeon 6450 only adds about 10W of consumption... but that would push an Optiplex 790 into brownout territory. FYI: voltages in a PC setup are standardized, immaterial to power consumption. The voltages it uses are the voltages supplied by a PCIe slot. This card has no extra power supply input. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Power Also, for that ~$40 and 10W you don't get much. I bought one for my parents' home theater PC to stop a microstutter when playing 1080P 60FPS flash video, and I chose this card for its compatibility with their old Llano APU in a dual graphics setup... if you're buying it to play games, you might want to look a little further up the pricing ladder... unless you're just playing games from ~2009 or retro-styled indie stuff. This would be better than an onboard intel GPU, at least in terms of compatibility, but that's about all that can be said for it.
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Correct. It has standard VGA, DVI-D digital & HDMI ports for onboard graphics. Would like to say also, I love this card.Any BIOS changes can be done with the mouse. Board can be tuned for how you use it. Replaced a dell XPS motherboard with this board and I have to say, the weak link of a dell XPS computer is the motherboard. I am running a core I7 chip with 16 gigs of ram and the performance increase from this board was noticeable. After reading other replies, I will have to say that I am not running integrated graphics because I have an add on card, but I do recommend this motherboard. Hope this helps. Correct. It has standard VGA, DVI-D digital & HDMI ports for onboard graphics. Would like to say also, I love this card.Any BIOS changes can be done with the mouse. Board can be tuned for how you use it. Replaced a dell XPS motherboard with this board and I have to say, the weak link of a dell XPS computer is the motherboard. I am running a core I7 chip with 16 gigs of ram and the performance increase from this board was noticeable. After reading other replies, I will have to say that I am not running integrated graphics because I have an add on card, but I do recommend this... » Read More Correct. It has standard VGA, DVI-D digital & HDMI ports for onboard graphics. Would like to say also, I love this card.Any BIOS changes can be done with the mouse. Board can be tuned for how you use it. Replaced a dell XPS motherboard with this board and I have to say, the weak link of a dell XPS computer is the motherboard. I am running a core I7 chip with 16 gigs of ram and the performance increase from this board was noticeable. After reading other replies, I will have to say that I am not running integrated graphics because I have an add on card, but I do recommend this motherboard. Hope this helps. « Show Less
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don't know. plugged card in & blew away my system. hd to a complete rebuild from scatch with a card from dell.
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I would not worry about using this card with Dell's 220W power supply in a stock 660s system. The Radeon 6450 is rated to draw just 27W at peak load; this version which uses DDR3 and a passive cooler is likely to draw even less. Both the Geforce GT 620 (30W) and Radeon 7570 (>40W) are tested and supported by Dell for use in your machine, which you can confirm in your owner's manual.
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Honestly, no. The graphics card technically needs 400 watts, I changed out the 350 with a 750. The computer should have at least a 400-450 watt at a minimum.
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We would need more information about the model you have. If you can list your computer specifications, I can help you. There are many different Dell XPS models from Dell. If it's a laptop, then no. If it's one of the desktops, then get the specs posted here and we can be of further assistance. Good luck. This card is great.