Dell Inspiron 620 w/ GTX 1050ti

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Just got a Inspiron 620 for pretty cheap and wanted to throw a good gpu in it, 1050ti looks and sounds good, but i can't confirm if it will work properly, as i've heard there may be problems since i have a stock psu. Can anyone confirm if it would/wouldn't work? Thanks in advance.
 
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Based on your UPGRADED set-up. You will likely get around a 300W Load, so you will probably want to upgrade your PSU so you give yourself that extra security of not burning out your PSU. A 400W should do fine, or more if you want future expandability. I've calculated off the following setup:

i5 2500 (3.3GHz)
8GB DDR3 1 MOD
GTX 1050ti
WLAN Card
2 x 120mm Fans
Gaming Keyboard
Gaming Mouse
Blue-Ray optical drive
1 1TB HDD
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1050ti draws 70W of power with a recommended PSU wattage of 300W (Which is always a cautious bet). So by all accounts it SHOULD be fine. But it depends on your other components.

Whats the full spec of your PC? - and I'll be able to calculate a load wattage
 
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Current

CPU: i3 2120 (3.3GHz) (Stock)
RAM: 4GB (Stock)
PSU: 300W (Stock)
GPU: GeForce 7950 GT (I Know It's Bad)

After Upgrades

CPU: i5 2500 (3.3GHz)
RAM: 8GB
PSU: Same (Hopefully)
GPU: GTX 1050ti


Thank you so much for responding
 
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Based on your UPGRADED set-up. You will likely get around a 300W Load, so you will probably want to upgrade your PSU so you give yourself that extra security of not burning out your PSU. A 400W should do fine, or more if you want future expandability. I've calculated off the following setup:

i5 2500 (3.3GHz)
8GB DDR3 1 MOD
GTX 1050ti
WLAN Card
2 x 120mm Fans
Gaming Keyboard
Gaming Mouse
Blue-Ray optical drive
1 1TB HDD
 
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Also in correlation with Sam Poland - most GTX 1050Ti don't require an additional power input, but some of the higher end ones do I believe, so you'll need to find out if the one you want requires extra power (as I said, most of them don't) and buy a PSU that can support it.
 
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I found a pic of one that did...it was dual fan model...evga I think. Better safe than sorry eh?
 
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Thank You everyone so much, i'm definetly going to do this now, was going to go with the 750ti, but figured i migt as well spend the extra money for something way better. Happy 4th.
 
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Just another quick question, what would the wattage be at max load if i only put in the 1050ti? It's definetly the first thing i'm upgrading, and i'm curious how much less it would be than with the i5 and 8GB RAM.
 
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It would likely be about the same or slightly more wattage, newer technology components have more efficient power consumption and thermal properties.

As bizarre as it may sound to go an upgrade and use slightly less power. Nowadays each new generation tends to give more power, for less energy.

So effectively, your older components are actually less powerful (generally) but use about the same / if not more wattage.
 
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I stand corrected, but it's not much of a change. Only upgrading to 1050ti would load at about 260w but I myself, still wouldn't want to just run that on 300w. 350 would be OK, but 300w is a bit too close for my comfort zone.

Upgrading whole thing would be about 40w extra. So you'd sooner want a 400w psu + depending on what expandability you want.

Hope that clarifies!
 
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