- Jul 14, 2016
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Hello, this is my first post, this seems like such a great community and I'm really grateful for any advice I get. My system is a 5 year old Dell XPS 8300 with i7 2600k, 8gb ram, Radeon 5770, 460W PSU, 1tb HDD. I am really a novice.
1. Can I swap out a Radeon 5770 with a 5770 sapphire vapor x model without any changes to drivers, bios, etc.? I believe my Radeon 5770 has failed, and I have the Sapphire-Vapor X from another PC I just purchased on the cheap. Can I just slot it in and see if my XPS will stop artifacting and crashing? If not, how do I swap between the two, software/firmware wise?
2. Can my system, with its current Dell-branded PSU, support a GTX 760 safely? I know I'm on the edge but it is difficult finding a good answer. Also I know this motherboard is choosy about cards but I know both the 750 TI and the 760 will work from what I've read, and while the 760 is more powerful, they seem to have same resale on used market.
For more detail on my problem, I was playing Guns of Icarus one night when I have a horrible crash, looping audio and black screen, I could feel it was bad. System then refused to output video upon reboots. Upon reading up advice I pulled the PSU cord, held the power button for 60+ seconds, tried to reboot but no display. Then I pulled keyboard; on boot I got a keyboard error and computer booted normally. Now the system will run for about 5 or 20 minutes before artifcating and then crashing, or if I put a fan on the computer with the case side off, it will crash after 1 to 3 hours. Any attempt to play 3d intensive games results in artifacting/crashing within 5 or 10 minutes of gameplay, with desk fan. I have blown out the GPU's cooler fan (which was a mess, I'm ashamed), but have not reapplied TIM, something I'm building up the courage to do. Does it sound like it's my GPU that's in distress, and not any other part of my system? From what I've read artifacting means it is most likely the GPU and the GPU was the only fan that was caked and it was frankly running at about 95C when gaming... Oi, so ashamed.
I have gotten several BSODs apparently related to this instead of crashes, sometimes the BSODs themselves have artifacting. Critical information reads 0x000000EA (0xfffffA8006A6EB50, then all 000s for other codes.
System was very stable and dependable before that fateful crash.
1. Can I swap out a Radeon 5770 with a 5770 sapphire vapor x model without any changes to drivers, bios, etc.? I believe my Radeon 5770 has failed, and I have the Sapphire-Vapor X from another PC I just purchased on the cheap. Can I just slot it in and see if my XPS will stop artifacting and crashing? If not, how do I swap between the two, software/firmware wise?
2. Can my system, with its current Dell-branded PSU, support a GTX 760 safely? I know I'm on the edge but it is difficult finding a good answer. Also I know this motherboard is choosy about cards but I know both the 750 TI and the 760 will work from what I've read, and while the 760 is more powerful, they seem to have same resale on used market.
For more detail on my problem, I was playing Guns of Icarus one night when I have a horrible crash, looping audio and black screen, I could feel it was bad. System then refused to output video upon reboots. Upon reading up advice I pulled the PSU cord, held the power button for 60+ seconds, tried to reboot but no display. Then I pulled keyboard; on boot I got a keyboard error and computer booted normally. Now the system will run for about 5 or 20 minutes before artifcating and then crashing, or if I put a fan on the computer with the case side off, it will crash after 1 to 3 hours. Any attempt to play 3d intensive games results in artifacting/crashing within 5 or 10 minutes of gameplay, with desk fan. I have blown out the GPU's cooler fan (which was a mess, I'm ashamed), but have not reapplied TIM, something I'm building up the courage to do. Does it sound like it's my GPU that's in distress, and not any other part of my system? From what I've read artifacting means it is most likely the GPU and the GPU was the only fan that was caked and it was frankly running at about 95C when gaming... Oi, so ashamed.
I have gotten several BSODs apparently related to this instead of crashes, sometimes the BSODs themselves have artifacting. Critical information reads 0x000000EA (0xfffffA8006A6EB50, then all 000s for other codes.
System was very stable and dependable before that fateful crash.
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