TL;DR : So the question posed is can I replace my Radeon 5770 with a GTX 960 while keeping the same 460W PSU? From what I can find it seems my GPU is 108W and the one in question is 120W.
Title says it all. I have a Dell XPS 8300 with a 5770 Radeon series GPU that idles at 70 degrees Celsius and peaks @ over 100 under load. I have cleaned the entire case, I have taken apart and cleaned the gpu and I have redone the thermal paste. The next step seems to be to get rid of it.
I soon plan to build my own monster computer, but not quite yet. So right now I need to fix this GPU problem in a way that tides me over for a year or two.. or more.
The plan is to replace my current GPU with a "ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 960 Overclocked 4 GB", everything I know about computers tells me I should upgrade the PSU first (currently 460W) but I have been told that due to the nature of Dell prebuilts, I need to upgrade the motherboard if I am to upgrade the PSU. Now if I upgrade the motherboard, I don't want to cheap out so theres about 100$ there plus 100$ to rebuy my OS. If I go this far I may as well just build the whole damn thing.
Thus leading me back to the TL;DR, can I replace my GPU with a 12W higher GPU while keeping my 460W PSU?
Title says it all. I have a Dell XPS 8300 with a 5770 Radeon series GPU that idles at 70 degrees Celsius and peaks @ over 100 under load. I have cleaned the entire case, I have taken apart and cleaned the gpu and I have redone the thermal paste. The next step seems to be to get rid of it.
I soon plan to build my own monster computer, but not quite yet. So right now I need to fix this GPU problem in a way that tides me over for a year or two.. or more.
The plan is to replace my current GPU with a "ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 960 Overclocked 4 GB", everything I know about computers tells me I should upgrade the PSU first (currently 460W) but I have been told that due to the nature of Dell prebuilts, I need to upgrade the motherboard if I am to upgrade the PSU. Now if I upgrade the motherboard, I don't want to cheap out so theres about 100$ there plus 100$ to rebuy my OS. If I go this far I may as well just build the whole damn thing.
Thus leading me back to the TL;DR, can I replace my GPU with a 12W higher GPU while keeping my 460W PSU?
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