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Will my old graphics card work in my new PC?

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  • Dell Inspiron
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June 15, 2014 8:07:58 PM

I recently got a new pc and was wondering if my old graphics card will work in it.
I bought a Dell Inspiron 580 and the card I want to put in it is the EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT.

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June 15, 2014 10:05:01 PM

I have The sleek Version of it namely the dell 580s as a backup at home .....
mostly it has 300w of the psu
u can surely fit this graphic card into it but what matters is ur psu power

if u can try to send me the specs.....of ur psu ....u have to open the case

Just check the Power supply
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June 16, 2014 11:53:40 AM

Stefen Rosario said:
I have The sleek Version of it namely the dell 580s as a backup at home .....
mostly it has 300w of the psu
u can surely fit this graphic card into it but what matters is ur psu power

if u can try to send me the specs.....of ur psu ....u have to open the case

Just check the Power supply


Would this happen to help? http://s1032.photobucket.com/user/chummiestdonkey/media...

I opened the side of the case and this is all I could see of the power supply.
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June 17, 2014 12:16:27 PM

if you have her on hand you could try and if she made artefact or bsod you will need to remove her .
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June 17, 2014 12:47:43 PM

Its going to be tight but usually the GPU manufacturers put 400w so you have a bit of an overhead. 300 watts is a bit low, depends if you are willing to risk it.
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June 17, 2014 4:18:21 PM

IrnMan said:
Its going to be tight but usually the GPU manufacturers put 400w so you have a bit of an overhead. 300 watts is a bit low, depends if you are willing to risk it.


What is the risk exactly?



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June 17, 2014 5:06:17 PM

If your GPU is using more power than your PSU can supply then either your graphics card will give lower performance and may crash or it might start depriving other components of power, in turn, damaging those.
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