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August 16th, 2019 10:00
Precision 690 GPU Upgrade
I have a Dell Precision Workstation 690
- Phoenix ROM BIOS 1.10 A08
- 0DT029 Board
- Windows 10 Pro Build 18956
- Dual Intel Xeon 5150 CPU @ 2.66GHz (Plan to Upgrade CPU's to Xeon 5365 within the next few months as they are cheap and would suffice until I can save for a new setup)
- 16 GB RAM
Video Card I currently have:
- AMD Radeon HD 5450
- 1GB RAM
I want to upgrade the GPU and I originally purchased an AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB. I tried everything to get it to work but it kept giving an error 43 in the Device Manager. I tried everything to no avail. It would boot up and I could enter the BIOS but nothing would make it work. I then took that back and picked up a Nvidia MSI GEFORCE GTX 1650. Everything was great but when I would install the driver, I would get a black screen and wouldn't be able to do anything or it would be black and locked up. The support said that it was the card and I needed to take it back but thought I would post here before buying another one to see if there is a hardware conflict that is known by anyone and/or what type of card I could get.
I want to buy from BestBuy because I get a discount so that would be best if possible. I thought about trying the lower end cards from there but I would like to have at least 4GB if possible due to video editing software (Resolve). I try to use my 1gb card with 720p footage but it crashes every time.
Thanks in advance for your help and advice!
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bmcowboy
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August 16th, 2019 22:00
Hi @tronix3 ,
When you search on internet, you can easily located lots of queries about RX 560 not work on legacy PCs without UEFI BIOS. But for GTX 1060, it should be fine. Check out Userbenchmark and you'll see lots of Precision 690 builds installed with this card.
Before returning your GTX 1060, you may try it on another PC if possible and see if same problem exist. And if so, probably problem from GPU. Otherwise, failure PCIe slot or even bad OS of your Precision 690 may be the root cause.
For Best Buy, I'm not sure if you were buying refurbished GPU from them. Personally I never recommend people buying second-handed GPU as we never know how these cards have been gone through. Some (or even most) of them came from virtual coins vending machines and you could hardly imagine how terrible their condition are.
tronix3
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August 17th, 2019 13:00
Sorry, there was an error in the GTX card, it was a GEFORCE 1650 not a 1060.
Thank you for the reply. I see that there were a lot of legacy PCs that didn't work with that card but they are saying the 570 and 580 work fine so I may check into that.
I don't have another PC to use to check that GTX card out, just a laptop, so I had already returned it. I am going to try to buy another one I think to see if it works.
The card looked to be brand new and didn't say anything about being refurbished but who knows if it was or not. I was going to buy a used one but read that you never know how they were used so I decided against. I am going to try to go get another one today and will let you know how it works. I may even try a RX 580 if they have any.
Would it be the slot and the HD 5450 still work fine? I don't seem to have any issues with it, aside from it being old.
I was thinking of upgrading RAM when I upgrade the CPU's, do you have any suggestions for RAM?
Other than that I am happy with how the 690 still runs to this day, I will definitely upgrade when I am able to but seeing how the 690 has done throughout the years makes it hard to want to get something different.
Thanks again for the help
bmcowboy
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August 18th, 2019 21:00
Hi @tronix3 ,
Take a look at Wiki:
With Xeon X5100 or X5300 series CPU, DDR2 memory, PCIe GEN1 slot and no USB3, I wonder if it still worth to hardware upgrade this old buddy. It could hardly handle modern applications or games even if you upgrade it to it's maximum likelihood. Better save money for another refurbished workstation with DDR3 and PCIe GEN3 at least.