XPS 8960, 750 Watt power supply, can the PNY 5070 TI OC 16GB be installed?

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I have the correct (minimum) power supply of 750 watts on my XPS 8960 and bought a sweet PNY RTX 5070 TI OC 16 GB, which is a 300 watt card that requires a minimum 750 watt power supply.  I had to buy a separate Nvidia 12VHPWR x 2 power adapter to make it compatible with the two 8-pin power output on the Dell 750 Watt power block, but the XPS does not recognize the 5070 TI at all.  I can't get the MS Device Manager to find it.  Nvidia claims the 12VHPWR x 2 power adapter should be enough to power the 5070 TI properly and is, in fact, packaged along with some of the 5070 TI cards, just not the PNY (which came with the X 3 adapter for safety).  Just to save the 'easy answers', the XPS has a i7-13700 (i.e. the regular 13th gen i7 with the integrated graphics using only 65 watts) so overall system power should not be a problem.  I seated the card into the slot just fine (it clicked and everything!) and the 12VHPWR x 2 power cable is connected to the 5070 TI just fine.  I bought the XPS 8960 with the antiquated (but very capable) Dell/Nvidia GTX 1650 Super which still works fine, but doesn't play nice with the latest games, so I'm just trying to upgrade.  I even went back to connect the 1650 again (to make sure nothing was amiss) and that still works fine, so the slot is fine, but the 5070 TI is nowhere to be found in the system configuration.  Maybe I have the very bad luck to have bought a rare DOA PNY 5070 TI, but I'm just trying to make sure I covered all the bases before the RMA happens.

Element115s4 · Answer

Always go Founders Edition with a Dell....or it's a real gamble.

I put my Dell RTX 3060TI into an OLD Circa 2012 PC and it is working BUT it can get a bit picky on video output when getting it installed (not always displaying BIOS screen, for example).

I am not sure where the issue comes from but my many older Founders Edition cards don't have any issues on the same PC.

When a GPU has issues outputting basic things like a BIOS screen, something isn't right.

Some would say: Well, this is because that old system isn't meeting the newer standards and they have a point.

I bet my RTX 5070FE would run just fine though. :P

user_199cec · Answer

Yeah, I was originally looking at a 5070 Founder’s Edition but I couldn’t pass up a decent deal on that PNY 5070ti and I may have mistakenly believed that '750 watt minimum' meant '750 watt minimum, even on a Dell'.

Element115s4 · Answer

@user_199cec​  Well the 5070TI is the nVidia sweet spot but it's a shame there is no FE option with that anyway. I don't think this is a PS related issue BUT 750w is a minimum. Even if I had a 5070TI FE option for my 8950 (750w) Dell, I wouldn't have gambled it.

user_199cec · Answer

Well, I never did figure out what the problem was, but I ended up returning the PNY 5070 TI OC and swapping it for a 'non-TI' PNY 5070 OC. (I love PNY cards, and I never had an issue with any of the 5 or so that I've had over the years until this one and I'm not convinced that the card was the issue here).  Anyway, that PNY 5070 OC posted immediately upon installation and is currently running like a dream.  I would have loved to level-up all the way to the 5070 TI, but I gave up the ghost and I'm happily running a stable rig again that can power though the current games at 1440 ultra with no issues.  I'm blasting away at incredibly detailed aliens and keeping the world safe with every mouse click once again.

Element115s4 · Answer

@user_199cec​  With your CPU, the 5070 is a good all-around match (nice that the PNY works).

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