I upgraded my 8900 with a 750 watt EVGA modular power supply, and an AMD card with reference cooler (blower) to take advantage of the side panel vent for cool intake, and to exhaust the GPU heat directly out of the case.
As for the GPU, perhaps consider a used AMD GPU with a blower, when GPU prices return to reality?
The case has inherent thermal limitations, which is why I recommend a GPU with a blower-style cooler, taking advantage of the side panel vents for cool air intake. My AMD reference cooler thermals are great - with a custom fan curve.
I also replaced the stock Intel CPU cooler with a tower cooler, and installed two 92mm case fans.
Seriously, this is the single best thermal upgrade you can make for this system. The stock Intel cooler will dump 30 degrees of waste heat into your GPU backplane.
redxps630
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March 31st, 2020 15:00
GTX 1060 (6 GB) and i7-6700 match almost perfectly.
Intel Core i7-6700 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce only 0.02% of bottleneck.
nvidia recommends minimum system power of 400W for GTX 1060.
** gtx 1070 is mildly bottlenecked (7%) by i7-6700 and minimum system power is 500W.
your cpu is too weak for gtx 1080.
Hannibal07
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April 8th, 2020 09:00
Thank you.
speedstep
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NON dell cards will require SECURE BOOT off.
36V90 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, 3GB, 120w
DVP9W Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 4GB, 75w
24K8H Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, 2GB 75w
8CCF1 Nvidia GeForce GT 1030, 30w
The issue has nothing to do with Dell and everything to do with microsoft.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-hit-with-competition-complaint-over-windows-8-uefi-secure-boot/
barry.kennedy
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December 4th, 2021 22:00
I upgraded my 8900 with a 750 watt EVGA modular power supply, and an AMD card with reference cooler (blower) to take advantage of the side panel vent for cool intake, and to exhaust the GPU heat directly out of the case.
As for the GPU, perhaps consider a used AMD GPU with a blower, when GPU prices return to reality?
The case has inherent thermal limitations, which is why I recommend a GPU with a blower-style cooler, taking advantage of the side panel vents for cool air intake. My AMD reference cooler thermals are great - with a custom fan curve.
I also replaced the stock Intel CPU cooler with a tower cooler, and installed two 92mm case fans.
Seriously, this is the single best thermal upgrade you can make for this system. The stock Intel cooler will dump 30 degrees of waste heat into your GPU backplane.