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Upgrade Graphics Card on Dell Inspiron 580 MT
Hello,
I did look through similar threads on this site first, but the most recent one I found was more than a year old, so I decided to create a new Post
We have a 6 year old Dell Inspiron 580 MT. Just purely because of its age I am about to put in a new Hard Drive, & while doing this I thought to upgrade/replace the dedicated Graphics card.
At the Moment there is a 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce G310 card in there. The Computer is used mainly for business, so no gaming stress on it. The Card handles two Monitors, both Dell 2007FP with a resolution of 1600 x 1200. At the moment one is on the DVI, one on the VGA but I would like to make both DVI to "Future Proof" if we replace the Monitors with larger Higher resolution ones.
What would be a sensible upgrade Graphics Card? I would like to find one that would not require a PSU upgrade as well.
CPU is an Intel Core i3 Processor 530(2,93GHz,4MB)
8 GB of RAM onboard
Any suggestions much appreciated :-)
DELL-Hemalatha
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May 29th, 2016 21:00
Sure, will wait for your reply.
DELL-Hemalatha
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June 1st, 2016 19:00
Hi by when can you try the new card?
Await your response.
Eving Traveller
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June 1st, 2016 23:00
Hi,
Still waiting for the new card to arrive - as I will be away on business this weekend, probably Tuesday next week. But I will write to let you know how it went :-)
DELL-Hemalatha
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June 2nd, 2016 19:00
Sure. have a good one.
DELL-Hemalatha
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June 8th, 2016 18:00
Hi, do keep us posted after trying the new card.
Eving Traveller
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June 9th, 2016 13:00
Hi,
Ok, finally had time to do the swap. Getting the old card out took some effort - the release lever at the back worked fine, but the "front end" of the card was well & truly settled in place at the bottom of the slot & took some pulling to get it out!
The GT220 uses the same Nvidia Driver as the G310 under Win 10, and the latest version had auto installed when we upgraded just recently to Win 10, so nothing to do there :-)
The new card is the Gigabyte version with a nice set of cooling fins & a big Fan - the 580 is now almost totally silent on start up, & we still haven't really managed to get the fan "excited", though being mainly a work Computer, You Tube Videos are probably the most arduous work it has on a daily basis. But much better than the "stock" card that came with the Computer, which would sound like it was a propeller plane about to take off if we used "Bubbles" as a screen saver! Again, not a sound from the new Guy :-)
So all in all very worthwhile as an upgrade!
Now we have the Graphics Card & Seagate SSHD in place, the Computer feels like new. Would be almost tempted to upgrade from the i3 to a compatible i5 processor, but reading what is necessary to do this, I feel it might be beyond my computer part swapping skills :-)
Thank you Hema for all your support & advice throughout this - I doubt we'd have got here without it!
Cheers,
Richard
DELL-Hemalatha
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June 9th, 2016 18:00
Hi Richard,
Happy to hear . It was pleasure serving you . Have a great weekend ahead.
Eving Traveller
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August 3rd, 2016 09:00
The new card is working great! Very Quiet, system loads faster, no slow down if many windows open. A very positive upgrade