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New Geforce GTX 960 does not power on/show signal on my Dell i7 system

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georgehuibregtse
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Saturday, May 09, 2015 3:00 PM (permalink)
I have been using an evga 660 in my Dell i7 XPS 8500 PC for a couple of months now. Before I had an E8400 XPS 420 PC which I still have lying around. I bought a GTX 960 for the performance gain and mostly because it is smaller since it is a pain to fit the GTX 660 in the I7 XPS 8500 box. Now the GTX 960 it won't show any signal, the fan starts blowing for a little while and the  sytem boots into windows just fine. So I put in the stock card that Dell ships with the XPS 8500 and that works fine. I dust off the old XPS 420 PC, put in the GTX 960 in and it works without any issue. Anyone have any idea? all of my cards (660 GTX, 960 GTX, stock dell card) work fine in the XPS 420 but the 960 GTX won't do a thing in the XPS 8500 with the i7. The XPS 8500 with the i7 has a 475 watt power supply where the XPS 420 only has 400 watt.  
 
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    georgehuibregtse
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    Re: New Geforce GTX 960 does not power on/show signal on my Dell i7 system Saturday, May 09, 2015 3:34 PM (permalink)
    Never mind, it was an XPS 8700 and Dell had a firmware update for it.
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    Re: New Geforce GTX 960 does not power on/show signal on my Dell i7 system Saturday, May 09, 2015 4:03 PM (permalink)
    You need to install dell xps 8700 system bios a10. also the PSU requirement for the is 400W or greater. CPU(88W)+GPU(400W), you need a new PSU too. I had the same card and same computer, I had to get a corsair cx750m from best buy for everything to power on. So at least a 750W PSU.

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    Re: New Geforce GTX 960 does not power on/show signal on my Dell i7 system Saturday, May 09, 2015 4:39 PM (permalink)
    Dude, thanks for posting, I appreciate it but have you read any graphics card review? The 400w power supply is needed for the total system load, not just the graphics card.... that would be crazy.
    Read this from the Nvidia site: 
    Got all the way to the bottom and see that the GTX 960 pull 120 watts not 400... seriously.
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    Re: New Geforce GTX 960 does not power on/show signal on my Dell i7 system Saturday, May 09, 2015 5:12 PM (permalink)
    Well, I was thinking overclocked, sorry...my 960's used to pull 235W each(470W with bios mods to remove power and voltage restrictions). I would still upgrade from Dell's PSU just to be safe. You never know when the overclocking bug will bite you...
    post edited by DeathAngel74 - Saturday, May 09, 2015 5:17 PM

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    Re: New Geforce GTX 960 does not power on/show signal on my Dell i7 system Saturday, May 09, 2015 10:01 PM (permalink)
    http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmmain.aspx?faqid=59550
     
    That should be useful for anyone else who comes across the thread in the future.  There are links for the XPS 8500 and the XPS 8700.  
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