WILL THE R7 265X OR GE FORCE 750ti work on Dell XPS GEN 3 PENTIUM 4 3.6 PCIe slots?

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lepphd1

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Old Dell Tower Pentium 4 3.6 with ATI AmD X800 XT 256mem won't run newer games! Has PCIe video slot. Will R7 265x or GE FORCE 750ti run? Tower has 350 Watt power source. OS is Windows Vista 32 bit.
 
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You'll need to upgrade the PSU to a 550w if you plan to use a GTX750ti, The GPU will fit and work but it will be bottleneck and will not boot up since there is not enough watts in the PSU. I'd recommend you buy a "Brand new" PC instead of upgrading since the CPU will bottleneck the GPU
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You'll need to upgrade the PSU to a 550w if you plan to use a GTX750ti, The GPU will fit and work but it will be bottleneck and will not boot up since there is not enough watts in the PSU. I'd recommend you buy a "Brand new" PC instead of upgrading since the CPU will bottleneck the GPU
 
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Yeah, I agree with Effeectt on this one. You can use the power sipping (60W) GTX 750 Ti or an R9 265X (110W) with a new power supply, but the system you're talking about is at least 7 years old. Keep in mind that all (or at least almost all) Pentium 4 CPUs only have 1 physical core and one thread, and they were the top of the line during their time. For measure, a typical Core i7 from today has four much stronger physical cores and 8 threads (the 8 threads effectively make it an 8 core CPU), so you can see how much of a disservice such an old computer would do to even the slowest modern graphics cards. It's best you get a new system.
 
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Yeah but thats "MINIMUM" power requirement. When being used to play intensive games it will not perform to its max since it doesn't have enough power left (Only 50w's). So if you plan to play BF4 and other intensive games please don't use your current PSU since it may blow up (I made this mistake before so I don't want this to happen to you)!

 
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Sorry, wrong.

The manufacturers recommendation of 300 watts is more than the system needs.
a 250 watt will run it at max potential
All manufacturers requirements are higher than needed, because crappy power supplies are every ware.

Minimum means you don't have 6 hard drives in a RAID.
 
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One other thing about power supplies.
A 300 watt power supply connecter to a computer drawing 400 watts, WILL put out 400 watts, just not for long, and it won't be clean power.

Power supplies have no idea of how big they are.

Load controls the amount of current in any electrical system.
A power supply will try to put out any amount the computer or video card asks it to.
 
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