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Hey guys, so I discovered something today that I wish I knew a long time ago and I just wanted to see what more I could learn about it. I was building up a Dell t3500 and put an RX 560 in it. No matter what I tried and checked, I could not go into the computer's bios anymore and it would just go to a black screen. Put in an Nvidia card and no issues like usual. I found out that a lot of these cards only support UEFI bios. However, I'm able to run it just fine in Windows and even did a userbenchmark test on it. Why in the world won't this card and others I have tried from AMD work properly with a Legacy BIOS computer? And why would it fully work inside windows but not allow me to access the BIOS screen?

So, I bought two lightly used XFX RX 560 4gb cards. I was Dumb and believed these versions didn't require a 6-pin. Well, they do. My plan was to use one in a Dell T1650 that I have, which has a small PSU, so I wanted a card that went off of MB power only. I just built a T1650 for a client with a gtx 1050ti and it did great! So... Since there are models of the rx 560 that do not require external power and it is a lower powered card, would it be absolutely terrible to run a sata to 6-pin? I know many people use them and are just fine, but then there are always other on the other side too. So, absolutely 100% no for this pc and card, or try it out? Thanks.

Well, thankfully I found a great deal on a gtx 1050ti so that'll be perfect! Thanks guys.

Next question then, can I run a gtx 1060 3gb with some form of power adapter? I don't know what the t1650 has as far as extra power cables goes, as I don't have the computer yet. Hopefully it has at least the 320w psu.

Still doesn't quite make sense to me, but thanks for trying to help me understand. I assume the t5500 is the same?

I'm confused then. If both the t3500 and the t1650 are standard PSUs, what's the issue?

Awesome!! That is great news!! I will most likely pickup a t3500/5500 psu. Thanks guys!

I'm trying to save money and I know that the stock PSUs are pretty solid, that's why I'm looking into this. With both have the standard 24pin, why do you say it would fry it? Do you know that the wires are all in different places? In that case, wouldn't buying an aftermarket psu pose the same issue? So I'm looking to get a GTX 1050 TI and I know that will be just fine on the motherboard pcie power. But I also found a great deal a single fan 1060 3gb but that requires an external six pin.

But I can't really use an 8 pin on the 4pin MB on the t1650, can I?

Hey guys, so I'm building a computer for a client and I recently bought a Dell t1650 that I'm waiting to get here. It has a crappy power supply and I'd like to potentially upgrade it. Buy computer is a Dell t3500 and it has a solid 520 watt power supply. Better yet the T 5500 has an 825 power supply. I can find these power supplies for about 30 bucks with the harness so it's a great deal. The only thing that I see is different is the CPU connector for the t1650 is a 4-pin while the T 3500 and 5500 I believe are an 8-pin. Would it cause any issues getting a 8 Pin to 4 pin adapter and running that power supply? Thank you guys.

Well... I was easily able to properly reflash the correct bios. It restarted and was fine. Finally showed the default clock as 1405 but the current clock was 1130. I decided to unistall the Radeon software and then restarted. It now will not go past the dell loading screen. Goes past the dell screen to a black screen then will not go any further, no matter the port used or bios position in the card... Super annoying! The seller is nice enough to exchange it for another that he has. I just hate to be defeated!

That's a bit foreign to me but I'll look more into it. Thanks.

Hey guys, I need help pretty badly. I picked up a secondhand XFX RX580 8GB gts black edition that should have a base clock of 1257mhz. Well, gpuz is showing its default is 1130mhz. Also, I cannot OC in afterburner or the stock software at all. I go to apply and it just goes right back. What the heck is going on!? Never had this problem with any Nvidia GPUs. Things I've tried - Flipping the bios switch, disabling fast boot, checking all the boxes I can think apply in Afterburner (there is one I can't change under AMD options and it says to the right "disabled"), uninstaling the driver and reinstalling it, etc... Nothing seems to work and I'm very confused! The bios appears to be stock, looking at the bios I.d. under gpuz and referencing a techspot bios download for the card. What is going on here!!? How can I fix this? Do I need to reflash the Gpu? Thanks.

Wow, I'm actually shocked. It works just fine on my t7500. So, it's a power issue. Crazy! Any way to tap into a second 12v rail on the t3500 for extra power? I'm new to this and am not sure a molex connector is on a separate rail.

Well, maybe it can't. Maybe I just need to utilize a second rail somehow. The card needs 265 watts. But then, the pcie gives 75w, so actually it should be OK.