Graphics Card Upgrade Dell Inspiron 580

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We have a 6 year old Dell Inspiron 580 MT. Just purely because of its age I am about to put in a new Hard Drive, & while doing this I thought to upgrade/replace the dedicated Graphics card.

At the Moment there is a 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce G310 card in there. The Computer is used mainly for business, so no gaming stress on it. The Card handles two Monitors, both Dell 2007FP with a resolution of 1600 x 1200. At the moment one is on the DVI, one on the VGA but I would like to make both DVI to "Future Proof" if we replace the Monitors with larger Higher resolution ones.

What would be a sensible upgrade Graphics Card? I would like to find one that would not require a PSU upgrade as well.

CPU is an Intel Core i3 Processor 530(2,93GHz,4MB)

8 GB of RAM onboard

Any suggestions much appreciated :)
 
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One issue you need to reasearch is whether your computer has a EUFI BIOS, or Legacy BIOS. The video card must match. The GTX750 runs off of the power from the PCIe slot. A lot of people run then with 300W Dell PSUs. It can be found both ways. The GPU fan only speeds up under heavy load so for what you're doing it shouldn't be an issue. You already have a fan in your PSU and your CPU so it's no big deal. GT730 is a nice card. The 1GB 64 bit version is faster end runs cooler than the 128 bit 2 GB. Don't get anything that doesn't have DDR5. They only draw 30W so the PSU won't be an issue.
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This is a 710 with 2 DVIs that would run you for about $55 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N83WM4241. According to Nvidias website your g310 requires at least 300 watts. The 710 requires the same amount of power.

On the other side of things, if you really did want to future proof that PC I would try to find something with 2 Hdmi's. I found a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB WINDFORCE 2X OC EDITION with 2 DVIs and 2 HDMIs for $120. But, this requires a 400 watt psu.

Both of these can be found on newegg.
 
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Thanks for the quick reply. I am in Germany & not coming up with any 710's dual DVI, just the regular HDMI DVI VGA layout. Would using the HDMI output with an HDMI - DVI adapter Work just as well?

And regarding Passive vs. fan cooling - the 580 is in a quiet room - would the fan version be very obvious?

Thanks again for your help!
 
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I did get the 710 as you suggested, but just prior to trying to install it, I got a message on the Dell Forum that the 710 was not compatible with the 580. In any case, the thought of trying it anyway became moot, as I could not get the old graphics card out. The Service manual showed one white tab to press at the back, but the actual Mobo has a black lever instead, & pressing it hard & pulling up on the card achieved nothing, so I gave up on the swap for now. Frustrating, but there we go! obviously there is a trick to releasing the old card, but I don't know what it is!
UPDATE: Well, I did some You Tune research & turned out Dell changed the Design, & this lever has to be pulled AWAY from the card not pushed towards it. Shame they did not update the service manual as well!!

So still wondering about the 710, if anyone used it successfully in a 580 MT


 
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One issue you need to reasearch is whether your computer has a EUFI BIOS, or Legacy BIOS. The video card must match. The GTX750 runs off of the power from the PCIe slot. A lot of people run then with 300W Dell PSUs. It can be found both ways. The GPU fan only speeds up under heavy load so for what you're doing it shouldn't be an issue. You already have a fan in your PSU and your CPU so it's no big deal. GT730 is a nice card. The 1GB 64 bit version is faster end runs cooler than the 128 bit 2 GB. Don't get anything that doesn't have DDR5. They only draw 30W so the PSU won't be an issue.
 
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