Better Video Card for XPS 8100 using stock PSU

[ianch99]

I have a Dell XPS Studio 8100 with a HD 5670 and wondered if anyone can recommend a (significantly) better card that would work with the stock PSU which I think is 350W? I don't really want to pay more than £100 if I can help it.

The boy is leaving home in Sept and wants to take his PC with him. I have have fitted a SSD which has perked things up a lot but the current card may not be the best for the sort of (Steam) games he runs (FPS & Strategy mostly).

It may be that there is no viable step up without a new PSU but I thought I'd ask .. thanks

[damien c]

Probably looking at a Nvidia GTX750Ti.

Requires no additional power other than the power provided by the PCI-E slot, has more Vram and will use probably a little bit less power overall but not much.

I have one in my media/lan pc now but I have yet to game on it, but according to reviews it should easily handle most games at 1080p with high settings.

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by damien c

Probably looking at a Nvidia GTX750Ti.

Requires no additional power other than the power provided by the PCI-E slot, has more Vram and will use probably a little bit less power overall but not much.

I have one in my media/lan pc now but I have yet to game on it, but according to reviews it should easily handle most games at 1080p with high settings.

Thanks for this. Ebuyer have this card for £96.99 but say it needs a 400W PSU Do you think they are just being conservative here?

[qasdfdsaq]

^^ Pretty solid recommendation right there. A 350w PSU is going to be the limiting factor and that's about the best you can get with one.

That said, depending on the rest of the components you could probably get away with a GTX 960 which will be much faster and not a lot more expensive.

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Originally Posted by ianch99

Thanks for this. Ebuyer have this card for £96.99 but say it needs a 400W PSU Do you think they are just being conservative here?

The recommended figures are always bloated. Tomshardware says it needs a 300W PSU:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming...w-32899-3.html

The card uses less than 75w so unless you have a dual-8-core CPU system even a good quality 350w is overkill.

[ianch99]

GTX750Ti looks a good choice, thanks guys

[alferret]

I picked up an R7 260 x for 80 quid from PC world pretty good gaming performance @1080p but I use it for 4k output in media centre