Need 500W Power supply to push GeForce GTX 1080 Card

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jontramos

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Hello! At work I have several Dell Precision 3620 workstations that I would like to upgrade the graphics cards to GeForce GTX 1080, which will help our designers with 3D rendering. I have come to learn that those cards require a 500Watt power supply, but the Dell Precision 3620 towers only have 365W PSU.

I was planning on upgrading the PSU to 500+Watt, but I am being told by Dell that they do not make one that will work with this case. And I am reading on forums that this model Dell has proprietary power connectors...

Does anyone have any advice on how to upgrade the PSU? Or am I out of luck?

Thanks in advance,
Jon
 
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spdragoo

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Urgh, then that's going to be a problem getting a GTX 1070 in. I checked directly on a couple of sites (Gigabyte & EVGA), & even the mini single-fan versions meant for ITX builds all required an 8-pin PCIe cable.

So it's looking like the most powerful GPU you can put into the system, without replacing the PSU, is going to be a GTX 1060.