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Radeon 300 series in XPS 8300
Hello all,
I've got an XPS 8300, and am thinking of upgrading the video card in it. I swapped out the Dell specific 6000 series card for a 7850 a year or two ago, but with the release of the new 300 series of AMD cards, I'm thinking of upgrading again.
With the age of the XPS 8300, will these new cards cause issues, or will they be basically plug and play like my 7850 was?
speedstep
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June 21st, 2015 16:00
The particular 960 from EVGA 02G-P4-2966-KR GTX 960 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card that I purchased will likely work fine.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487091
A 970 or 980 might not and would require a new power supply. The 525W unit in my T3400 works fine with my 960 using 2 6 pin to 8 pin power adapter that comes with the card.
Dell-Gokul G
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June 19th, 2015 08:00
Hi,
Thank you for reaching us.
I see the card were released just yesterday, When went through the models, there are 4 different categories
These cards are meant to run faster than the DDR5 speed
There isn't much of information available on all the cards in 300 series, Hence I would suggest you wait for sometime till we get updates on the specifications and minimum requirements.
Thank you
HistoryNerd
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June 19th, 2015 09:00
Thanks for the info, however, this doesn't really answer my question.
From what I've read online, the 8300 has issues with newer cards, what with the lack of BIOS updates etc. I'm just wanting to make sure these new cards, even if they are a re-brand, will actually work in my tower.
speedstep
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June 19th, 2015 09:00
Be aware that both NVIDIA and ATI rebrand the same ole same ole all the time without actually doing anything new. Not sure of the meaning of "faster than GDDR5???"
The 7750 is now marketed Retail as an R7 250 also beware that there are GDDR3 versions.
HistoryNerd
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June 19th, 2015 09:00
Thank you for the reply.
I'm looking at either the 370 or 380, and will certainly wait until I hear back from you guys.
speedstep
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June 19th, 2015 10:00
New card issues are based on poor support from Sapphire and other vendors. UEFI vs CSM Bios is one issue and how to map memory is the other. A sapphire R7 260X did not work with a cryptic message about not being able to run DOS VESA Video Bios Mode 103. There is also a major issue with ATI drivers because DOTNET is not installed in windows by default. If you try clean windows 7 sp1 and the 14.x omega drivers it will crash on install at the point where it says detecting video hardware with STOP 0x0000000CA blue screen.
This was from my Precision T3400 (Late 2007) which is older than your XPS 8300 (Late 2010)
Sapphire's response was that they only support UEFI bios now.
I recently put a GTX 960 in my precision T3400 and it worked fine.
I had a disagreement with a friend who insisted that he had to have a core I7 cpu and a $500 pc with a $300 video card to play games.
So I went to my local used PC shop and got a Precision T3400 with 4 gigs of ram and Vista Business, 250 gig hard drive for $199. Took the drive out and installed a smaller drive and installed Windows 10 on it and the latest Driver for Nvidia for windows 10.
The result is impressive. Keep in mind that Windows Home is $109 and Windows PRO is $199. However you can get WIN8 pro upgrades for less than this. Also note that the OS that came with the unit is sometimes required to do bios updates. A09 on the T3400 is recommended because it allows all the features and does not have bugs with the ePSA diagnostics which on the T3400 are built into the bios.
Anyway For Less than $500 he has a windows 8 64 bit machine with EVGA 02G-P4-2966-KR GTX 960 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487091
HistoryNerd
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June 21st, 2015 16:00
Huh, maybe it would be better if I just slapped a 960 in instead of the new AMD cards?