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Tom Kingston
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Hello I'm upgrading my old dell Vostro 460 Mini tower

i7-2600

12Gb DDR3

500W Psu 80+ (Not OEM)

500gb SSD

2x 50gb HDD

 

Will a Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card (ZT-90101-10P)

 Or the AMD Radeon Gigabyte G1 Gaming RX 480 4GB GDDR5.  Fit 

Many thanks 

 

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4 minutes ago, Tom Kingston said:

Hello I'm upgrading my old dell Vostro 460 Mini tower

i7-2600

12Gb DDR3

500W Psu 80+ (Not OEM)

500gb SSD

2x 50gb HDD

 

Will a Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card (ZT-90101-10P)

 Or the AMD Radeon Gigabyte G1 Gaming RX 480 4GB GDDR5.  Fit 

Many thanks 

 

Yes, it'll fit. May I know what power supply you are running...

SSD TIER LIST

 

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 3700X

Mobo - ASRock X470 Taichi

Memory - G.Skill Trident Z RGB (8x2 3200MHz) 

Storage - Sabrent Rocket 1TB - Seagate Barracuda 2TB - WD Black 1TB

GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti LIGHTNING

Case - Fractal Design Meshify C

PSU - Super Flower Leadex II Gold 650W

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Not sure if these bigger cards will fit in a case meant for small low profile cards, but I have more concern with airflow.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Better get a 1050ti / 1060 mini than 970. Less power, more fps.

Ryzen 5700g @ 4.4ghz all cores | Asrock B550M Steel Legend | 3060 | 2x 16gb Micron E 2666 @ 4200mhz cl16 | 500gb WD SN750 | 12 TB HDD | Deepcool Gammax 400 w/ 2 delta 4000rpm push pull | Antec Neo Eco Zen 500w

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5 minutes ago, Tom Kingston said:

EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W

Get a rx570 instead. They go for around $70-90 on eBay. 

Also, I'll recommend you to upgrade that PSU.

SSD TIER LIST

 

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 3700X

Mobo - ASRock X470 Taichi

Memory - G.Skill Trident Z RGB (8x2 3200MHz) 

Storage - Sabrent Rocket 1TB - Seagate Barracuda 2TB - WD Black 1TB

GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti LIGHTNING

Case - Fractal Design Meshify C

PSU - Super Flower Leadex II Gold 650W

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