XPS 8300, AMD Radeon HD 6770, possible failures?

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I have a Dell XPS 8300. As of late I have been having an array of problems all stemming it seems from my graphics card. Kodi was crashing on exiting and some videos would show on the screen with green fragmented  sections. I sent a crash report to them and was told it was the graphics card. Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Sampler loads but does not visually show on the screen. I wrote to NI and was told again, it was the graphics card. There were others I won't go into.  What do I need to do at this point?  Should I upgrade my card?  And if so, which card will work in an XPS 8300 without having to alter any other components. I'm not sure about the power supply, how do I determine which one I have? And does that actually matter ? I'm not a 'gamer' however I do use it to watch videos and do some light video and music production. My specs are :  Operating System    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU    Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.40GHz    35 °C    Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology RAM    8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24) Motherboard    Dell Inc. 0Y2MRG (CPU 1)    26 °C Graphics    LEN LI2323swA (1920x1080@60Hz)    1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series (ATI)    45 °C Storage    1397GB Seagate ST31500341AS (SATA)    30 °C Thank you...

speedstep · Answer

' green fragmented  sections' is an overheating likely damaged card. GTX1050 TI should work fine. https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-DisplayPort-128-bit-ZT-P10510A-10L/dp/B01MCU1ERO

DELL-Jesse L · Answer

Wrwk,

Below are the options for video cards in this system when it shipped.

ATI® Radeon® HD 5450

ATI® Radeon® HD 5450 is AMD's fastest and most advanced 2D, 3D, and multimedia graphics performance for desktop PCs in the value market. It supports PCI Express 2.1, DirectX® 11 with Shader Model 5.0, integrated HDMI, and Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) which supports Blu-ray??? decode (H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 formats) with dual-stream and picture-in-picture (PIP) capabilities.

ATI® Radeon® HD 5670

ATI® Radeon® HD 5670 is AMD's fastest and most advanced 2D, 3D, and multimedia graphics performance for desktop PCs in the mainstream market. It supports PCI Express 2.1, DirectX® 11 with Shader Model 5.0, integrated HDMI, and Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) which supports Blu-ray® decode (H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 formats) with dual-stream and picture-in-picture (PIP) capabilities.

ATI® Radeon® HD 5770

ATI® Radeon® HD 5770 is the first GPUs in its class to offer full support for DirectX 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance. The ATI® Radeon® HD 5770 supports PCI Express 2.0, DirectX® 11 with Shader Model 4.1, external ports include DisplayPort, HDMI and Dual DVI-I port.

ATI® Radeon® HD 5870

ATI® Radeon® HD 5870 is AMD's fastest and most advanced 2D, 3D, and multimedia graphics performance for desktop PCs in the value market. It supports PCI Express 2.1, DirectX® 11 with Shader Model 5.0, integrated HDMI, and Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) which supports Blu-ray??? decode (H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 formats) with dual-stream and picture-in-picture (PIP) capabilities.

NVIDIA®GeForce GT420

The NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 graphics board is a standard PCI express (2.713 inches by 5.7 inches) form factor graphics add-in card based on the GT 420 graphic processing unit (GPU).

The NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 graphics board supports a standard configuration of a single dual-link digital DVI-I display interface, HDMI output, as well as an optional VGA via header and cable. The NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 supports up to 1024 MB of DDR3 on board graphic memory in 128-bit configurations.

NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 460

The NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 460.

Wrwk · Answer

Thank you Jesse L and Stepspeed for your help.

I did some looking around and it seems that the only one I could find locally was the EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 TI. It seems to be similar the ZOTAC listed above. Would this be just as good or do I need to go with the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mini, 4GB instead ?

I prefer to purchase locally if possible whereas if I have to return it for whatever reason I don't have to deal with the cost and hassle of mailing it back. And of course BB price matches anyway.

EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI

Thank you again....

Also what does the TI stand for ? I noticed some have an OC, some TI, and others have neither. Does this make a difference as to which one I should purchase ?

speedstep · Answer

The Short EVGA card is fine. The 1050 comes with 2GB of video memory, while the 1050 Ti employs 4GB of VRAM.

1050 has less shaders 640 than the 1050TI 768

https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-6253-KR

According to Nvidia, neither GPU is considered VR ready (you would need, at minimum, a GTX 1060 for that)

Wrwk · Answer

Thank you again SpeedStep !

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