nVidia GeForce GTX 260 1792MB

What ever it is it wil be Dell branded. Dell contract with all the major players to make their cards and then generically brands them. The have been known in the past to use EVGA and XFX a lot. The card will OEM and while it will comform to the general card specs it will be tweeked, usually downward to suit the Dell design

Hi Ace35 and welcome to DELL Forums.

It seems that the nVidia GeForce GTX 260 is not an OEM product, according to nVidia web page. The GT 220 and GTS 240 offered for the XPS 435 are OEM. IMO they are replacement cards for the top end Radeon that DELL offered for the 435 because, according to a couple of posts here in the Forums, the cards were to blame for BSOD so many people are complaining about.

Now the GTX 260 needs a 500 W PSU and the XPS has a 475 W unit. A lot of people here would say that DELL understates its PSU and nVidia overstates its cards. Also what Davet50 said holds true, DELL will tweak the cards to fit its sys.

GeForce web page. Look for your card and click specs.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html

Hope it helps.

That still does not mean the card is not OEM. Remember Nvidia does not make card only specifications. It is up to 3rd party manufacturers to implement them as they see fit.

That is true. I am only showing Ace where to find specs about the card since that was one of his question, and that such a card is not offered as OEM by NVIDIA. I am also affirming your statement that DELL will surely fit the card to DELL specs.

Peace.

Edit: Do you think that DELL is offering the GTX 260 as a double card into the XPS 435. Since its memory is 1792MB and all the specs I found is only 896 MB. SEE SPECS by DELL and NVIDIA.

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http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_260_us.html

Now that is interesting. That looks exactly like my retail card... Is Dell changing their tune????

Edit: Do you think that DELL is offering the GTX 260 as a double card into the XPS 435. Since its memory is 1792MB and all the specs I found is only 896 MB. SEE SPECS by DELL and NVIDIA.

Thanks for all the info. I had been on the NVIDIA site, but didn't see anything about the 260 card with 1792MB of memory.  I too was curious if it was a dual card, or it was a new custom card.  I'm curious how this extra memory compared to the 4870 (with 1GB) that was offered before the change to NVIDIA.

Ace

No the 260 is a single card and it can come with many differnt variations of onboard ram. The more ram on the card the less it has to depend on system ram and virtual ram to do the processing. Remember Nvidia only provides the basic specs. As to memory size the vendors will add their own.

Look HERE on the EVGA site. Scroll down and look at all the different configurations they offer for the GTX 260.

So once again this is a Dell spec'd card where they spec'd the amount of onboard memory.

Yep! EVGA got the 1792 MB and a couple more with 896 MB, of course all of them with different GPU clock speed and memory clock speed.

Thank you.

Is there any way to confirm if the card offered from Dell is the Core 216 edition? 

Since this is a card that is factory installed more than likely not. 

the best version of this card is the Core 216 editions. The thinner chip makes the card run cooler..They get better ratings too.

Hmmm....is there anyway for me to find out the exact spec on the card offered from Dell?  Cuz, if it's a watered down version of this http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5214246&CatId=28 then I'm not sure if it's worth the extra money and may be worth looking at the regular Studio XPS with the GTS 240 for $300 less.

Generally that answer is no as they will put in what ever is in inventory at the build time. If you can afford the card I would recommend getting the cheapest build and then add in your own card. I usually do this myself.

This has crossed my mind.  However, I'm worried about the 500 watt requirement for most decent (4870 and gtx260) cards you'd buy off the shelf.  Like mentioned earlier, Dell can customize their cards to work with their power supply.  If I were to buy the video card from dell, at least I know it will work with the build.