I just bought an OptiPlex 7080 Tower and I need to install a graphics card (I'm thinking the Nvidia RTX 2060 or 2070 super) and I believe it would require extra power than provided by the installed 260-watt PSU.
My questions are:
Can i replace the current PSU with the 500-watt PSU in this same chassis or would it require me to buy a whole new chassis and PSU?
What is the part number(s) or the links to where i can buy the upgrade(s)?
7080 motherboard uses Dell proprietary 6 pin ATX + dual 4 pin cpu, also seen in Dell G5 and XPS 8940, very likely using same pinout following same engineering DNA.
In that case you can probably use Dell 500W psu for G5 etc.
Y7R0X 0Y7R0X 500W PSU For Dell G5 5090 7070 7060 D500E005P Power supply
Call Dell spare parts to verify whether psu for optiplex 7070 is compatible with 7080.
I believe Dell's 500w PSU for the 7080 is enough to power the 150w RTX 2060. This is according to Nvidia's own website stating 500w is recommended. The site was uncooperative and I couldn't screengrab it.
But as for the 215w 2070 SUPER, though listed, I'm not confident a 500w PSU is enough, even though it's Dell. Please see screengrab below.
"There is an optional 500W power supply for the 7080" I also see that data in the guides, but I only see 305W and 255W PSU in the SPMD? I wonder if those charts were mistakenly copied from a different model PC?
I wonder if the SPMD is being a little weird. In Optiplex's anyway, the 305w PSU was full size (not narrow brick) used in Optiplex's generations ago. I'm not going to obsess over looking at old tech guides for the 255w PSU, but I do remember it being used in the smaller (older?) models.
7080/5080/3080 tower all use TFX thin form factor psu. per Chris Y7R0X 500W Chicony = XPS 8940, Optiplex 7080 MT/XE Typical Dell optiplex line has three tiers, 3080 being entry tier having only one 4 pin cpu socket, 5080 being mid and 7080 being high tier. 5080/7080 both have two 4 pin cpu sockets. Very likely 360w psu for 5080/7080 is backward compatible with 3080, and 500w psu for 7080 backward compatible with 5080/3080. It is just Dell did not feel the need to list higher power psu for lower tier line in the same class.
Stock psu for 3080 is 260w, for 5080 is 260 or 360w, for 7080 is 260/360/500w. It is likely the higher tier line higher power psu is backward compatible with the low tier, as you can see both 5080/7080 entertain budget low power 260w psu which has only one 4 pin cpu connector(they do not require both 4 pin cpu sockets to be connected to power).
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Posted February 25th, 2021 05:00
7080 motherboard uses Dell proprietary 6 pin ATX + dual 4 pin cpu, also seen in Dell G5 and XPS 8940, very likely using same pinout following same engineering DNA.
In that case you can probably use Dell 500W psu for G5 etc.
Y7R0X 0Y7R0X 500W PSU For Dell G5 5090 7070 7060 D500E005P Power supply
Call Dell spare parts to verify whether psu for optiplex 7070 is compatible with 7080.