When slapping a graphics card into an Optiplex doesn't work 

It doesn’t make sense to pair modern GPU’s with those old Optiplex’s anyway though. Not just compatibility but, bottlenecking the GPU performance. I say 2060 super up to the upcoming 40 series makes no sense.

1080ti et al :) the king

4790 isnt good enough for 2023 titles. AAA titles. Even my friend who still uses a 7700k cant play battlefield 2042 at all.

​@travis3701 I've seen people play modern games on the i7 2600 of course the 4790 can play modern games

I play warzone on a i5 4570​@@CuriousGamer022

you are probably correct

you can get issues where you wont be able to see the bios if the card only supports uefi on an old mobo.

I think I’m having this problem I’m upgrading my motherboard soon cause I have performance issues with a Rysen 7 2700x with 2060 the mobo is a b350 bazooka Msi

@@cloudx3975 b350 and a 2060 should have no issues. If you turned on fast boot by mistake some bios will boot and not enable you to enter them. You can either go to it via software from the mobo vendor or by hold shift as you hit restart inside windows and get into the uefi that way.

So true. I had this issue with an older Dell Vostro. It never got an updated UEFI BIOS so like Polaris AMD cards and newer wouldn't work no matter what I tried

Hi. Sorry to crash this thread but can i put a q to you? i want to put the internals of a 7060 mt into a new case because i need a stronger psu, for a gpu. There are adaptors for the main 6pin mb power supply but i don't know how to feed the 4pin cpu power on the mb, I'm assuming it's proprietary Dell and i can't just use a standard psu 4pin cable. Any ideas? Thx and sorry once again for crashing your thread.

@DeepakKumar-lv4te I believe they male adapters for that as well. I've always come across those unique adapters on AliExpress or other places like that.

Did you ever get your pc built?

@@patrickgeagan9509 I did, a ryzen 3 with rx580 and upgraded to rx6600

So it would work in an optiplex with an i5 7500 for example?

@@ryleycannings6928 As long as the powersupply isnt a 150w-250 should be perfectly fine. Maybe some bios setting changes needed but would work

That dell has a xeon 1270 in it, no integrated gpu.

@@leemachiin well shit I thought it had a 2400 or something

I think it's possible that in some dell pc's, even if the mobo offers iGPU capability, it may be hard-locked by Dell b/c they included a discrete GPU. I think I've encountered this scenario on some business PC's after I tried removing their GPU to put in other PC's, it was quite a few years back though and going off memory. I don't think I was able to find a Bios/uefi setting that allowed them to work w/o a dGPU.

@@linuxlover_8436 Many of the manuals will say which GPUs will work specifically on the mobo. The 6500XT is apparently a laptop GPU... so maybe it isnt as demanding as a 3050?

@@heyitsdazy I don't have any experience w/newer pre-builts, except an HP my father purchased about a year ago. The older pre-builts I dealt with never included a list of compatible gpu's. If they include this now, that is a very good change imho. Even though I prefer AMD, it seemed like those older PC's I dealt with were generally more friendly to Nvidia GPU's, but I realize now that it was probably a card by card basis depending on its architecture. I think if one is going to upgrade an older pc, it would be best to see if anyone on a forum or YT video successfully paired the card they are considering w/their motherboard before ordering to minimize the frustration. The only thing I know of the 6500XT is that if video editing or live streaming are important, you wanna stay away from it. If you only plan to game, then it will do ok there. Most would choose a 3050 over it I'm sure for those reasons alone as most probably want to at least live stream or plan on getting into content creation/video editing.

The point of the Video was to 'Upgrade' a Dell Pc. If he removed the Motherboard for another one, it would defeat the purpose. The other reason is so that other people that are trying to upgrade a Dell will know that a Rtx 3050 didn't work in this situation... Like he said, most ppl won't have extra hardware to swap and see what is the problem. I understand that he asked for solutions as well but I'm pretty sure he meant a way for the RTX 3050 to work with the Dell. (Motherboard and Processor) Edit: Like he said, It's most likely the Pcie lane being 2.0. Although it's weird that the 3060ti worked.

I think testing the pcie 2.0 on other systems to be an interesting topic, which Danny did ask for others to test and comment. Is it just Dell? So getting a z68 or whatever sandy bridge Mobo and testing is a possible future topic for him.

Does the dell optiplex 3010, 7010, and 9010 (3rd gen) use pcie 3.0? Or is it also 2.0

this gives me hope- I have an optiplex 990 and got the 3050 no dice on boot up. It looks like my system is booting up- no errors just black screen. My power supply also has the jumper. I'll try a new power supply next week.

@@boogiedownnyc how is it goin... ?? r9 270 also black screen...

They do sell them on their website in the US, their stock is just in and out though like every other retailer so it's just a random guess and check

Possibly, but it's not a problem with an actual 75W RX 560 running at load, which I tested. Also, when a card is just getting into windows, it's barely pulling any power at all

@@nerdonabudgetbut if you forget to plug in the additional power connectors it throws up a notification and tells u to shut down the pc and plug in the additional power cables

Lmao

Was that required each time? Seems too much of a hassle, unless one really needs access to another pc when it might be preoccupied or in need of repair

no... dx12 is only intalised with drivers.... and it should still post... (its also propitary windows sooo hardens my point that it should still post)

It is, A24

@@nerdonabudget Hmmm, You got me on this one Danny. Really wierd how it doesn't do anything when the 3050 is in there. Never seen this before

I have and old i7 2600k ,32 gb ram with a intel Dp67BG motherboard which has the same issue

is polaris vbios check implemented on today’s rx 480 drivers?

@@muki_x Hi, they removed the check in 2017 when RX 580 was released and it seemed like it was gone since then. The original problem affected anyone with a non-ref. RX 400 card and BIOS back then and in my case when you had a non UEFI motherboard (legacy ROM load attempt * on a card that had UEFI vBIOS). But they changed some part of wattman API since fall 2022 and RDNA3 so instead it reads from vBIOS (no SPPT powerplay tables there). I can't test this on a RX to confirm RN, but from user reports on forums, it seems this may affect soft modding and customizing values via API, not sure about custom vBIOS in 2023, if it boots, it may run but AMD is sneaky lately.

@@mt441 alright, thank you so much

Motherboard has DP and VGA, and I've tried connecting to them both separately with the card in and same result, no image at all

@@nerdonabudget I had same issue with a little card called r7 240 with two 945g motherboard (2005 chipset!), one from msi the other was elite group, on elite board just constantly shutin off and on. but when I used on a asus g31 system it worked fine, all of the boards were pcie 1.1! Id say the issue is either bios of the mb and/or the Galax bios or the motherboard chipset itself! if you have any chance find a retail pcie 2.0 motherboard, its very cheap especially second hand these days...

If you had issues with AMD cards, specifically the ones without any power cables to the PSU, then the latest bios revision fixes that issue (particularly with the RX 460 and 560, I had that issue with them before)

@@nerdonabudget awesome. Thanks for the heads up. That Vostro I was talking about I actually purchased initially for a cheaper gaming PC build because I had an extra RX570 but I couldn't get it to work. So I have since repurposed that PC as a Minecraft server for my home. But it would be nice to use it when people come over and want to game. I only paid $50 for the PC so it was a pretty awesome deal since it has an i5 and 4 DIMM slots.

@@nerdonabudget Weird as, I had an issue with the 480 and it worked on my other motherboards. gtx 1060 worked also on the weird mobo. I've attempted everything and all that, mobo bios update, settings changes, etc. In the end I just ended up selling my rx 480. fix unknown. hopefully you never run into this issue ever again :(

@@nerdonabudget thank you so much! This fixed my issue trying to set up an rx 460 system for my little cousin. He’ll be so happy

@@nerdonabudget my rx 480 doesn’t show any video the gpu slot works card works on another computer what should I do or is it not compatible ?

Yea it's to the latest one, which fixes a problem that's been known for cards like the RX 460 and 560 that are powered only through the pcie slot. Those used to artifact or crash when on older bios but on the newest one available they work fine, I reconfirmed that as well

@@nerdonabudget I'm baffled by the 3060 working , and not the 3050. I know it's not really feasible in the current market , but I'm curious to see if other brands will work , or if it's specific to that brand of GPU. What brand was the 3060?

@@stevenwilliams6638 I reached out to the other content creators I've collabed with and they didn't have the right combo of parts to test for me

@@nerdonabudget was worth a shot! I'm sure you will get to the bottom of it.

Did you do that to drain all the power from the system? I can give it a shot, don't believe I did that yet

@@nerdonabudget yeah, i did it twice actually that i remember. i turned off the psu, held the power button for a whole minute and then let go, held it again for another 30 seconds and got my rx480 to boot up to my test system. Hopefully its something small. good luck! oh yeah if u fix the problem, mind doing a follow up video? would love to see what the problem was.