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Rian Berlajolli
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I need advice, I have a dell prebuilt office pc. It has always been my dream to make a gaming rig, and I need advice on a couple of things. I want to change the pc a little bit, so I want to add a dedicated gpu. 1660S to be exact (I saw your video on gpu's to buy in early 2020). I already checked the dimensions and it will fit in the case. I only need help with this: my motherboard is kind of old, considering that it comes in an older dell pc. It does have a x16 slot, so does that mean that I can put it there? Also, Should I change the power supply? it is a 250W psu. Anyone who I've spoken to told me that I need to check the compatibility of my motherboard with my card. But, as long as I see it, the only thing it needs to have is an x16 pci slot. I just hope you can help me and tell me what should I get, should I change the motherboard? Should I change the psu?

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Don't change the PSU or mobo 

They are most likely proprietary 

As for the GPU , a 1650 would probably be the best thing in this case as it doesn't need a pcie connector 

3 minutes ago, Rian Berlajolli said:

that I need to check the compatibility of my motherboard with my card

Who in the hell told you that 

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iirc some of those dell motherboards do not provide the full 75W of power to the PCIe x16 slot (which is probably running at x8).

Do you know what the model number for your motherboard is?

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Do you know which CPU, how much RAM, the name of your motherboard and PSU?

 

Click on start, type System Information and copy paste us system summary this will give us everything except for the power supply.

 

If you do go changing the PSU you might need an adapter cable. Take a picture inside the PC and show us.

 

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6 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Don't change the PSU or mobo 

They are most likely proprietary 

As for the GPU , a 1650 would probably be the best thing in this case as it doesn't need a pcie connector 

Who in the hell told you that 

some prebuilds dont support all gpus

Any Help is appricated! Please correct me if I´m wrong!

Sorry for grammer/spelling mistakes, but english is not my native language (it´s german in case you were curious) *expand to see builds*

 

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Everything thats not colourful I haven't bought yet.

 

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17 minutes ago, Rian Berlajolli said:

I need advice, I have a dell prebuilt office pc. It has always been my dream to make a gaming rig, and I need advice on a couple of things. I want to change the pc a little bit, so I want to add a dedicated gpu. 1660S to be exact (I saw your video on gpu's to buy in early 2020). I already checked the dimensions and it will fit in the case. I only need help with this: my motherboard is kind of old, considering that it comes in an older dell pc. It does have a x16 slot, so does that mean that I can put it there? Also, Should I change the power supply? it is a 250W psu. Anyone who I've spoken to told me that I need to check the compatibility of my motherboard with my card. But, as long as I see it, the only thing it needs to have is an x16 pci slot. I just hope you can help me and tell me what should I get, should I change the motherboard? Should I change the psu?

What is your PC's exact model? Knowing more about your CPU, motherboard and PSU would be helpful.

 

With some prebuilts, it is best to keep the motherboard, RAM, CPU and storage, but buy a new case and power supply for standard ATX compatibility (e.g., prebuilt PSUs often lack PCI-E power cables which many graphics cards require).

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14 minutes ago, Enzo1001 said:

some prebuilds dont support all gpus

No. Lol 

Some prebuilts have proprietory firmware that doesn't allow a dgpu lmao

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That PSU's certainly need help, depending the prebuilt you may not be able to replace it completely however which means you need to run two PSUs together.

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With pre-built mobo you can have to do some cutting and soldering to fit them in a new case ... I had to do so to fit the power button and all the front IO (well i stopped at the hdd light honestly) with a dell 7010 motherboard, but the psu connectors were standard.

 

2 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

No. Lol 

Some prebuilts have proprietory firmware that doesn't allow a dgpu lmao

 

I had a lenovo with an i7 2600 that supported only nvidia gpu and old amd gpu from the r9 era and didn't work at all with my rx470 ... I had to change my motherboard for a dell 7010 and that worked perfectly fine ... so no not all prebuilt can support all gpu.  some have a limited set of supported gpu. 

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Just now, Dr0y said:

some have a limited set of supported gpu. 

Hm 

Weird 

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Just now, TofuHaroto said:

Hm 

Weird 

indeed and it made me freak out at first ... i tried it in my pc and my gf's pc but it didn't work in both cause we had the same lenovo base ... I feared that I was ripped off and got some old mining card with mining bios ... I contacted the seller and he found out why it wasn't working ... turned out that lenovo had a whitelist of gpu in their chipset and recent amd cards were not there even if I had the latest bios version. 

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