I was able to successfully install a Sapphire Pulse RX580 into my good old Dell XPS 8700. It's a bit of a tight fit. The SATA cables are connecting to the motherboard nearby so they need to be carefully passed around the card and positioned such that they don't touch the Sapphire's fan. Also, I had to update my BIOS to A14 from the original version it has for this work. Prior to updating the BIOS, I would get a blank screen and 5 beeps. FWIW, while at it, I also updated the PSU to a 750W.
@thesamet - 5 beeps means the motherboard battery is dying/dead. So you probably should replace the battery. It's a CR2032 3-volt lithium ion battery, ~$2.
Yes, I looked what the beep indicates and found this information. It seems too coincidental that changing a graphics card would happen exactly when the battery need to be replaced. Whenever I inserted the old graphics card there we no beeps, and now with the new cards there are no beeps either. I believe the beeps were indicating that there's some problem but it wasn't the CMOS battery. I possibly miscounted: the first beep had a different pitch and it was followed by 5 identical beeps. Now I see 6 beeps indicate a video card issue which makes more sense...
Thanks. My intent in the post was to report success with the installation of a pretty modern video card on a pretty old system, for those who are trying to figure out whether it fits or is compatible.
@thesamet - You had the PC unplugged (hopefully!) while replacing the video card which meant the motherboard battery was being drained to maintain BIOS settings. Once the PC was reconnected to the wall outlet, the power to hold BIOS settings comes from the outlet, but the battery would already have been weakened.
Miscounting the beeps is a different issue. We can only go by what you post...
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Go to this post about the GPU length and height, the chassis of the XPS 8700 and the XPS 8500 are the same
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS-Desktops/XPS-8500-Radeon-RX-580-or-590-upgrade/m-p/7190785/highlight/true#M21720
RoHe
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Search is your friend. :Wink:
Read this.
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Hi, yes I did search. I found contradicting information, one successful and a couple saying it wouldn't work. I was hoping to gather more data.
ekyu.chen
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March 22nd, 2019 14:00
Thanks! Seems like 4.9" won't fit. Too bad :(
thesamet
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I was able to successfully install a Sapphire Pulse RX580 into my good old Dell XPS 8700. It's a bit of a tight fit. The SATA cables are connecting to the motherboard nearby so they need to be carefully passed around the card and positioned such that they don't touch the Sapphire's fan. Also, I had to update my BIOS to A14 from the original version it has for this work. Prior to updating the BIOS, I would get a blank screen and 5 beeps. FWIW, while at it, I also updated the PSU to a 750W.
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November 16th, 2020 12:00
@thesamet - 5 beeps means the motherboard battery is dying/dead. So you probably should replace the battery. It's a CR2032 3-volt lithium ion battery, ~$2.
thesamet
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November 16th, 2020 12:00
Yes, I looked what the beep indicates and found this information. It seems too coincidental that changing a graphics card would happen exactly when the battery need to be replaced. Whenever I inserted the old graphics card there we no beeps, and now with the new cards there are no beeps either. I believe the beeps were indicating that there's some problem but it wasn't the CMOS battery. I possibly miscounted: the first beep had a different pitch and it was followed by 5 identical beeps. Now I see 6 beeps indicate a video card issue which makes more sense...
thesamet
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November 16th, 2020 13:00
Thanks. My intent in the post was to report success with the installation of a pretty modern video card on a pretty old system, for those who are trying to figure out whether it fits or is compatible.
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November 16th, 2020 13:00
@thesamet - You had the PC unplugged (hopefully!) while replacing the video card which meant the motherboard battery was being drained to maintain BIOS settings. Once the PC was reconnected to the wall outlet, the power to hold BIOS settings comes from the outlet, but the battery would already have been weakened.
Miscounting the beeps is a different issue. We can only go by what you post...