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April 17th, 2020 17:00

Studio XPS 8100, will a Desktop Nvidia GTX 1060 work?

Want to get a virtual reality capable PC for when I buy an oculus quest, so will a Desktop Nvidia GTX 1060 work on my Studio XPS 8100?

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April 17th, 2020 18:00

the top cpu in xps 8100 is i7-870

Your processor is too weak for this graphic card.

Intel Core i7-870 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce 44.39% of bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck.

April 17th, 2020 18:00

Will a gtx 970 work? And my Cpu is an i7-860

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April 17th, 2020 18:00

Your processor is too weak for this graphic card.

Intel Core i7-860 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce 42.95% of bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck.

 

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Intel Core i7-860 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce only 2.32% of bottleneck.

Intel Core i7-860 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce 15.93% of bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck.

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September 19th, 2022 07:00

What would be the best/ top NVIDIA Graphic Card for a  Studio XPS 8100, Intel Core i7 -870?

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September 19th, 2022 10:00


@cbattist wrote:

What would be the best/ top NVIDIA Graphic Card for a  Studio XPS 8100, Intel Core i7 -870?


If they physically fit (and you have available PCIe-Power-Cables) my guess is ether the Nvidia-970 or even the GTX-1060 will work.

I believe the XPS-8100 is non-UEFI (ie Legacy) BIOS/motherboard ... just like my old Alienware Aurora-R1 with Intel i7-930. Mine is still running great with a GTX-1070. I can run Fallout-4, Fallout-76, and Forza-4 on it with no problems at 1080p.

 https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-General-Read-Only/Recommended-NVIDIA-graphics-cards-for-Alienware-Aurora-R1-2009/td-p/5590861

The GTX-1070 ended-up being much better, faster, and gaming-capable than it's original AMD-5870.

Finally, to offset the CPU-speed (and other older components) your bootable C-Drive should be a SATA-SSD.

 

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February 14th, 2024 15:40

I have a XPS 8000 with an i7-870 and 16GB RAM.  I am running a GTX 1060 6GB and have had great results with it.  Running RivaTunerStats, the CPU doesn't seem to be much of a bottleneck at all.  Most of the time, the GPU utilization is at a higher percentage than the CPU.  I was running a GTX 1050 Ti and have noticed a performance improvement between the two cards.  Keep in mind that the 1050 Ti has 4GB of RAM, while the 1060 has either 3 or 6.  You definitely would want to go with the 6GB.  This is just my own personal experience, but it is actual experience and not just quoting stats.

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