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XPS 8300, Radeon RX 560, no go
I recently purchased a Radeon RX 560 and to my dismay it is not compatible with my system. now that i am wiser, can anyone suggest a graphics card with similar performance/price range (150 - 200) and with preferably 4g of ddr5 ram. Thank you in advance for the advice. I am running a XPS 8300 with an I7 - 2600, 8g ram and 460w PSU.
malkiri8
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June 13th, 2018 05:00
After some research here are some of the cards that i was looking into but i still dont know if they will be compatible with the system.
GeForce GTX 570
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GTX 1050 TI / 1050
Radeon R9 270 / R7 370
malkiri8
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June 13th, 2018 06:00
https://www.dell.com/community/Desktops-General/Dell-XPS-8300-video-card-upgrade/m-p/4541351
found a solution here. got the 1050 Ti
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June 13th, 2018 11:00
Good work.
Yeah, it seems that newer AMD R?-??? video cards will not work in Dells of this vintage. But newer Nvidia cards seems to work fine.
It's either the lack of a UEFI-capable BIOS or some say a required low-level VESA display mode is missing.
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June 24th, 2018 07:00
Does any one know exactly why the Radeon 560 graphics card and Dell XPS 8300 are not compatible?
Tesla1856
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June 24th, 2018 14:00
< It's either the lack of a UEFI-capable BIOS or some say a required low-level VESA display mode is missing.
No, but as these older machines get removed from service, it becomes even less of an issue.
It's probably just two-different sides of same core issue. Back during the years of transition from Legacy-BIOS to UEFI ... AMD cards came with an on-card DIP switch to switch between Legacy/UEFI. They would only work if set properly.
I don't recall ever seeing similar switches on that period's Nvidia cards. However, that doesn't necessary mean there was no issue ... nor that they worked both ways.
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June 25th, 2018 07:00
The Bios Requires DOS VESA video mode 103. Because this isn't there it never turns on and you cant get into F2 Bios. This is a UEFI vs Legacy option roms Issue. The Radeon 3450 5450 6450 6670 7750 never had these issues. AMD says that GCN series GPUs don't support Vesa Video mode 103. Sapphire tech support is very unfriendly about it. Nvidia on the other hand supports ANCIENT Dells like the DELL YC523 Dimension 9100 XPS 400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa9b0TkTsLM
All Nvidia cards are wicked expensive now EXCEPT for Fake 1050 TI cards and Low Profile GT 1030.
The 1050 TI used to be $140 now its over $240 for the same card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq8sZpeCPGY
The 1030 is a 2 Gig card.
https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-DirectX-Profile-ZT-P10300A-10L/dp/B0711NWFJX
https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GV-N1030D4-2GL-GeForce-Computer-Graphics/dp/B07C3DWK1Z