Graphic Card Help Please

Boozad said:

Two more things to take into account. First is the case size, you must make sure that the card you're going ot buy will fit into the case. 970s are big cards and a manufacturer's aftermarket card may well be substantially bigger than the reference card.

Also it would be worth checking whether the CPU will bottleneck a high end card or not. I'm not sure of the performance of the 3330 but I'll look into it.

Boozad
Size has been what we have been looking at as when we tried to install the Radeon HD 7870 we had no end of problems as it was a tad large, we ended cutting out some of the internal casing to make it fit.
The EVGAGTX 970 SSC that he was wanting to fit is a similar size to what he has installed at the moment and we have 1.75cm's to play with still.
As for the CPU that's when we need the help of you guys as I can honestly say I don't have a clue, If it helps I can post the Tag/Service code for Dell so that you can see all the specs etc of the PC?


Regards Swamps :)

I thought that i should update you with my sons card update.We fitted a Geforce GTX 970 4 GB card in the end, kept the same PSU. Poppedstraight in with no issues with the size. Card didn’t plug & play straightaway. Had a few issues but nothing major.
Basically card was found in devicemanager but not working, disabled onboard graph card but that didn’t help.
TookGTX card out to get onboard card working again, replaced GTX card for thesecond time and it decided to work.
Has been running for a week now with no problems at all.

One happy son and just want to say thank you to all thathelped.



Regards Swamps

ThrashZone said:

Hi good deal :)
Should of checked for windows update one for the new card might of showed up for a driver,
Refer to this in the future :)
NVIDIA Drivers - Avoid Problems

We did, It didn't find one, infact it couldn't help us at all...
Think we downloaded from EVGA in the end.

Swamps :)