Highest GTX Card for Dell Precision 690? (2017)

[delleon]

Hi guys!

I have a dell precision 690 with a 1000W PSU and I want to upgrade the GPU.

Originally I wanted to go with the gtx1070, however reading:
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3515/t/20004961

I worry it won't work? If not, whats the highest option for the 690 with a budget up to $500-$700 in 2017 ?

Thankyou for your help people!

PS: I'm going to ramp it up to 32gb of ram and I'm running off of ssd...

 

[toshibitsu]

You may have to settle for a GTX 900 series video card. I'm wondering about the PCI-E connections on the PSU though... Are they 6+2 pin or just 6-pin? Regardless, it should work

 

[delleon]

You may have to settle for a GTX 900 series video card. I'm wondering about the PCI-E connections on the PSU though... Are they 6+2 pin or just 6-pin? Regardless, it should work

Hey toshibitsu,

cool. I'll look into your 6+2 question once I figure that out jajaja. Intermediate at these things

So these would be k options in that case:

https://www.amazon.es/EVGA-04G-P4-2974-KR-Tarjeta-gr%C3%A1fica-GDDR5-SDRAM/dp/B00NSXYEQW/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1510945803&sr=8-9&keywords=gtx+970

https://www.amazon.es/MSI-GeForce-GTX-980-Tarjeta/dp/B00O9F5LI8/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1510945886&sr=8-7&keywords=nvidia+gtx+980

Cheers!

 

[william p]

Not all new cards are UEFI. This is a Mfg. choice not a characteristic of the GPU itself. PNY and Zotac tend to favor Legacy BIOS for backwards compatability. MSI who also would like to sell you a new MB favors UEFI.
The VESA 103 issue belongs completely to AMD GCN3 and up cards. That's R9 3xx (285) and up. Thye've known about it since R9-285 ITX and won't fix it.
Here are some running the newer GTX1060 GPUs
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Precision-WorkStation-690/4233
The Precision 690 I believe is closely related to the T7400/5400 and uses FBDIMMs. This requires an extra MB connector that aftermarket PSUs don't have so your limited to what the PCIe cables will support.
Here are some T7400 with 1000W PSU. (hint hint) If you open the ones with the GPU your interested in sometimes it gives the MFG. name, always has the BIOS version.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Precision-WorkStation-T7400/3398
Here are T5400 with 875W PSUs
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Precision-WorkStation-T5400/3763
See this.
https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2016/04/05/radeon-r9-fury-nano-uefi-firmware
Dell of course is trying to scare you into buying anew computer. It is true that a UEFI card won't work. So just buy one that isn't. Support Video card makers that support you.

 

[william p]

The PCI e connections are typically either 6 pin or 8 pin. The 6+2 is an aftermarket thing. For workstations 2x GPUs are more common than 1 big one.
Most likely you have 2x6 pin. Don't try the 6 to 8 pin adapter that works on single rail aftermarket PSUs. The Dell multi rail PSUs tend to ration current as needed. So they should be treated as 2x 75W cables. You can make 1-150W 8 pin out of 2x6 pin 75W. But if you find a 6 pin and 8 pin on the same cable you probably can't use both.

 

[delleon]

You may have to settle for a GTX 900 series video card. I'm wondering about the PCI-E connections on the PSU though... Are they 6+2 pin or just 6-pin? Regardless, it should work

I have 2 x 6 pin power cables (See linke below if I've described it correctly):

https://imgur.com/a/eqODf

The current system is running a gtx8800

I beleibe I'm going to go with the GTX 970. From what I understand it should run on both BIOS and UEFI:

https://www.evga.com/Products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=8296b494-5d1d-400d-b2e8-d00ccd71e088


What do you guys think?

 

[delleon]

I have 2 x 6 pin power cables (See link below if I've described it correctly):

https://imgur.com/a/eqODf

The current system is running a gtx8800

I beleive I'm going to go with the GTX 970. From what I understand it should run on both BIOS and UEFI:

https://www.evga.com/Products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=8296b49...


What do you guys think?

 

[maxalge]

unless you have a nice quad core xeon that card would be bottlenecked pretty bad


something like a gtx 960 would be about max I would drop into it if it has a weaker xeon

 

[delleon]

unless you have a nice quad core xeon that card would be bottlenecked pretty bad


something like a gtx 960 would be about max I would drop into it if it has a weaker xeon

I have dual quad core xeon's running at 2.33Ghz

It's good enough I recon?

 

[maxalge]

unless you have a nice quad core xeon that card would be bottlenecked pretty bad


something like a gtx 960 would be about max I would drop into it if it has a weaker xeon

I have dual quad core xeon's running at 2.33Ghz

It's good enough I recon?

then it should run fairly ok, they are old though since its a precision 690

so newer games will probably need to have cpu intensive settings lowered to get stable fps

 

[delleon]

unless you have a nice quad core xeon that card would be bottlenecked pretty bad


something like a gtx 960 would be about max I would drop into it if it has a weaker xeon

I have dual quad core xeon's running at 2.33Ghz

It's good enough I recon?

then it should run fairly ok, they are old though since its a precision 690

so newer games will probably need to have cpu intensive settings lowered to get stable fps

Great! I'll wait till monday to close the thread incase anyone else has any opions on it.

So I guess gtx 970/980 is the short answer for the question

Thanks Maxalge

 

[william p]

The fastest CPU scores at userbenchmark.com are 2x X5365 Xeons and they only equal a single Q9550 38% ranking.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Precision-WorkStation-690/4233
It seems like it should do better than that. But that's what it's scoring there. I would do CPUs first. That seems to be it's weak spot.

 

[william p]

Read this thread. I just bought a T7400 MB for $35. Newegg marketplace.
https://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/77794-old-dell-690-cpu-upgrade-for-gaming
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Precision-WorkStation-T7400/3398

 

[delleon]

Hmmm... I'm thinking the way to go might be the quadrok4000

I'm not looking to replace motherboards on this build. Only to top it off and leave it as it is. Also, the aim isn't gaiming versus cad/editing etc. gaming would be a nice add on.