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XPS 8500 upgrade PSU and GPU (nvidia RTX 3070 TI)?
Has anyone successfully upgraded your XPS 8500 (desktop) with PSU that is powerful enough to drive an nVidia RTX 3070 TI (Founder's edition) GPU? If so, which PSU can I buy that would fit with the original 8500 case? Thanks!
redxps630
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January 2nd, 2022 22:00
You need a 600w psu to drive 3070Ti in 8500 w i7-3770, 16Gb ddr3, sata ssd+hdd, dvd, based on basic psu calculator.
any standard 600w ATX form factor 24/4 psu will fit 8500 case.
currently EVGA has good deal on psu 600w.
PS i7-3770 bottlenecks RTX 3070ti
Tesla1856
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January 3rd, 2022 09:00
The XPS-8500 is about 10 years old.
So, not a good candidate to hold a Nvidia RTX 3070 TI .
Nor really, to even be trying to setup as a "gaming computer" at this late stage in it's life.
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January 3rd, 2022 14:00
Re: Can you please elaborate more about the "600w ATX form factor 24/4 psu"? This is the first time that I heard that there is a standard "24/4" for all PSU.
sorry I was not being clear. I meant a standard form factor (150x140x86 mm) ATX psu that has a 24 pin ATX connector for motherboard and 4 pin cpu connector for cpu, with additional 6/8 pin PCIe connector for gpu, sata power connectors for drives, and maybe a few 4 pin molex connectors. This is what XPS 8500 mobo would need. 3070Ti would need a PCIe 8 pin to 12 pin adapter in addition.
This is a powerful gpu. 8500 case has only one small rear chassis fan. You may need to add some fan in case or consider liquid cooling.
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January 3rd, 2022 14:00
Can you please elaborate more about the "600w ATX form factor 24/4 psu"? This is the first time that I heard that there is a standard "24/4" for all PSU. Thanks!
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January 3rd, 2022 20:00
@redxps630 Thank you!
So for the XPS 8500, which GPU currently would be the best bang for the bucks, with the best performance possible without being dragged down the performance by the Intel i7-3770 (which we could not upgrade)? Take the "# of core" and "thread" aside (most of the PC Games can not take advantage of extra cores and threads anyway), it seems that the i7-3770 can run up to 3.9Ghz, which should be considered OK for gaming, right? Thanks!
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January 3rd, 2022 21:00
If you plan on upgrading pc in near future then it might not be a bad idea to get a modern gpu for better future proof. For example if you may consider upgrade to Ryzen or 8/9/10th Gen Intel cpu from i7-3770. Otoh if you plan to stay on 8500/i7-3770 for a good while then it is said
a more modern RTX 3000 or 2000 series gpu is better suited for 4k gaming at 120Hz. If you game at 1080p an older gpu may suffice.
RX580 + i7-3770
GTX 1070 + i7-3770
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I just wanted to add the bench results BTW little bit of soldiering. Check YouTube or buy adapter 90 degree data so card will fit anyway user benchmarks put the system in ufo 140percent desktop battleship 98 workstation nuclear sub 119 percent out of 100 PCs with similar so it say but it put me in the category of modern processer did not realize I have a old 17 2014 but I still rates 60 percent 171 percent graphics per user benchmark exact wording record breaking score this GPU can handle all 3d games at high resolutions . if this helps ya