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To: sm1th who wrote (670)	5/14/2017 8:16:30 PM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Recommended By shadowman Respond to of 1380

Yes, depending on rest of gear 350W at total draw may not leave much margin for error. Your xeon shows TDP of 95W. Many newer gpu are around 150W TDP, some are more and some less but 150W might be a good benchmark to plan for. The dell pdf I found on your system listed these as official psu options: Platinum efficiency, hot-plug, redundant 495W or 750W power supply Silver efficiency, cabled 350W power supply Auto-ranging power supplies _________________________________________________________ How many pins is the connector from the psu to the motherboard? Knowing this should determine if third party psu will work or you're better off with one listed above. In theory there should be adapters for psu to motherboard connectors but I personally would never trust an adapter for the primary electrical connection in the pc. How many pins are the connector to the current gpu? 6? 8? Any new card should go in pcie 3.0 x16 full length. Some newer gpu with 8 pin connector will work on a 6 pin and some won't. I did a recent rebuild similar to your system (600W psu, can search through this thread for z420 or rx 480) and lucked out there but have heard of 6 to 8 pin adapters. There might be quality risk in the brand of adapter but it's a safer proposition to try, imo, than a psu to mobo adapter. Message 31001287 Depending on the gpu, you'll likely need a gpu and psu upgrade to run smoothly but it should work. Have you browser searched for people upgrading their gpu in a T320 with a similar situation to yours?

To: sm1th who wrote (670)	5/14/2017 9:11:30 PM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 1380

If you didn't know, new gpu size vs old modest size. The RX 480 8gb is dual slot gpu but somewhat modest priced and performance compared to some others. The nice thing is with a bigger workstation/server case you have the extra pcie slots and case space to make improvements like you want... trying to do the same in many consumer pc cases would be tedious to impossible. Message 31000762

To: sm1th who wrote (670)	5/26/2017 11:50:34 PM
From: nicewatch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1380

Did you ever research further about upgrading the gpu in your Dell? Message 31122133 FYI. I ordered two types of adapters, unsure which was best, the more expensive HP adapter part designed to work directly from 6 to 8pin and a cheaper generic dual 6pin that turned into a single 8 pin (the 600W psu came with two 6pin leads for gpu). I used the HP part first and it has worked fine since installing but time will tell. The original 600W psu is working fine so far with new card which has tdp of 180W. Would assume your current 350W is dicey to handle a modern gpu, did you look into the 495W and 750W psu for that Dell? I'm sure they make psu to mobo pin adapters and to repeat wouldn't want to try that first, but in looking into whether the 600W psu in Z420 was enough power, I did come across some using adapters for that mobo, believe it was 18 to 24 pin adapter. Depending the quality of 4k monitor you might do fine with a lesser card like gtx 1070 or 1060 with 6gb ram. But if you can find a deal on a gtx 1080, it does future proof you a bit more and should have viability for several years if you migrated parts to a new pc. Good luck.