changing out GPU in prebuilt

RJ45-Dude · December 11, 2021

Hi, in past posts, I've talked about how I'm taking the CPU, graphics card, ssd, RAM, and possibly wifi card out of my Dell G5 5090 prebuilt. That leaves the Motherboard, PSU, and case left. I'm planning to give these parts to my big sister, who I'm hoping will buy some cheap parts to replace the parts I took out, that way she has a cheap gaming PC. I know that the PC I'm giving to her is a prebuilt, which tend to have very proprietary parts, so I guess my question is, if she were to put in a GPU that was a normal PCIE card, it had the right power connector, and it was enough for the PSU to handle, but was different from the prebuilt's original GPU, would it work with the prebuilt, or would some proprietary software/hardware restrictions prevent it from working?

(for reference, the card that was originally in the PC was an RTX 2060)

Thanks for any and all help.

heli1337 · December 11, 2021

29 minutes ago, RJ45-Dude said:

Hi, in past posts, I've talked about how I'm taking the CPU, graphics card, ssd, RAM, and possibly wifi card out of my Dell G5 5090 prebuilt. That leaves the Motherboard, PSU, and case left. I'm planning to give these parts to my big sister, who I'm hoping will buy some cheap parts to replace the parts I took out, that way she has a cheap gaming PC. I know that the PC I'm giving to her is a prebuilt, which tend to have very proprietary parts, so I guess my question is, if she were to put in a GPU that was a normal PCIE card, it had the right power connector, and it was enough for the PSU to handle, but was different from the prebuilt's original GPU, would it work with the prebuilt, or would some proprietary software/hardware restrictions prevent it from working?

(for reference, the card that was originally in the PC was an RTX 2060)

Thanks for any and all help.

You can put other GPU than original one with no problem but you still have to watch out for connectors