- Jan 1, 2014
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Recently my Radeon hd4850 died on my Dell Studio XPS 435mt (i7-920 core CPU). I replaced it with a severely underpowered geforce gt610 just to make sure that was the issue. I'm attempting to upgrade several aspects of my PC.
I have the dell stock 360W max power supply. after 2 days of researching the best card I can find for my situation without replacing the power supply, ive come to the conclusion the Radeon HD 7790 would be a great choice, however..., It would appear 90% of the graphics cards now take up two slots worth of space.
I'm not sure this will work for me as the GPU will then be almost on the floor of the dell chassis (thanks again dell) and I'm worried about air flow and heat dissipation. There's only one fan in the chassis and only one connector location on the motherboard to even attach a fan. I'm also thinking about just getting a Radeon HD 7750 (or radeon HD 6770) instead at this point because that's one slot height. unfortunately the 7750 (or 6770) have much less performance power and they actually cost just as much (in some cases depending on brand and purchase location they cost even more then the 7790)
Dell also managed to mount my two HDD drives on my chassis wall restricting my space even more (Really love you right now Dell...) I really don't want to invest in a new power supply or chassis because at that point i might as well put together something new if I have to buy a new case, power supply, ram (I intend to buy that because some of that died too), and video card
if I do purchase a 2 slot GPU and the heat / air flow isn't a problem (anyone know about this?) I have to unplug all the headers feeding my extra USB / headphone ports on the front panel as well as an entire SD card reader setup that comes off the bottom of the motherboard, since that would appear to interfere... (really...seriously dell?)
anyone have any comments, opinions or suggestions on any of this? i'm not the most computer literate person but ive been researcing this for hours and I feel as though ive reached a brick wall.
I have the dell stock 360W max power supply. after 2 days of researching the best card I can find for my situation without replacing the power supply, ive come to the conclusion the Radeon HD 7790 would be a great choice, however..., It would appear 90% of the graphics cards now take up two slots worth of space.
I'm not sure this will work for me as the GPU will then be almost on the floor of the dell chassis (thanks again dell) and I'm worried about air flow and heat dissipation. There's only one fan in the chassis and only one connector location on the motherboard to even attach a fan. I'm also thinking about just getting a Radeon HD 7750 (or radeon HD 6770) instead at this point because that's one slot height. unfortunately the 7750 (or 6770) have much less performance power and they actually cost just as much (in some cases depending on brand and purchase location they cost even more then the 7790)
Dell also managed to mount my two HDD drives on my chassis wall restricting my space even more (Really love you right now Dell...) I really don't want to invest in a new power supply or chassis because at that point i might as well put together something new if I have to buy a new case, power supply, ram (I intend to buy that because some of that died too), and video card
if I do purchase a 2 slot GPU and the heat / air flow isn't a problem (anyone know about this?) I have to unplug all the headers feeding my extra USB / headphone ports on the front panel as well as an entire SD card reader setup that comes off the bottom of the motherboard, since that would appear to interfere... (really...seriously dell?)
anyone have any comments, opinions or suggestions on any of this? i'm not the most computer literate person but ive been researcing this for hours and I feel as though ive reached a brick wall.
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