Short answer, yes, you can upgrade the gpu in the dell. Longer answer, how many watts is the psu, how many pins to the gpu from psu is the connector, and are there any spare connectors? I'm heading out soon for a few hours but newer video cards draw more juice. Also if your psu needs upgrading that is very likely proprietary to dell motherboard and not an off the shelf psu.
No reason why an Nvidia or AMD gpu of past few years cannot work in that dell with the proper connection and power. My understanding is the rated cards for your dell and ones like it are tweaked in the drivers to run certain programs better, including professional grade engineering, design, and likely graphics and video programs too than, say, the standard gtx series, and can charge a premium sometimes to enterprise customers because said cards are "certified" for using those programs. it doesn't mean consumer cards won't work for those purposes they're just not optimally geared for it, so to speak. |
