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I am wanting to replace the Nvidia cards in my Dell XPS 630i, but I'm not able to find the same card. They are NVidia GeForce 9800 GT cards. When I search Dell's product site for them I keep getting a PNY 680 or something like that. Is there some kind of conversion info somewhere for this?
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Better.
-> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html
And with a few possible exceptions, if your power supply was up to driving a 9800, it should be fine for these.
Bob
Amazon?
E-bay?
Cards?
How many of these units do you have in the machine?
If you have more than one.....parallel mode......it will make a difference how high up 'the list' you have to go to replace them with a single card.
I had 2 of those cards in the computer, and I replaced them with 2 EVGA GeForce 9800GT Akimbo 512MB GDDR2 PCIe cards and problem is fixed! However, the drivers are dated 4/14/08, which is probably okay, but I can't find the correct driver update. When I go to the GeForce site and put in all the details it gives me a list of about 15 different drivers and they all say they are for the new GeForce 660 cards! Can anyone help me find my drivers? 
PS - I'm using Windows XP. I'm thinking maybe there just isn't an update for these drivers. Thoughts?
1. XP came out in 2000 so drivers don't have to be the current year. Just that they work.
2. The 9800 is still quite an old card. Even a pair's performance should be beat up by a single card from the list given.
I did not check EVGA's web site. You should. And why didn't I mention nvidia.com? Because it's a support nightmare chasing the elusive last FPS.
Bob
I had 2 of them. I replaced them with 2 EVGA GeForce 9800GT Akimbo 512MB GDDR3 PCIe cards, however the drivers are dated 4/14/08 and I can't find any newer drivers for that exact card. I'm running Windows XP. I did go to Nvidia and fill in the details and it gave me a list of about 15 drivers, but they all said they were for the new 660 something or other cards and I didn't feel safe using any of them. Any suggestions on how to find the drivers, or should I just leave the '08 driver alone?
I found them! Thanks everyone for all the help! Hope I don't have to do this again anytime soon! lol!
here's one source covering many GPUs including Crossfire and Sli in the benchmarks.
http://www.techspot.com/reviews-videocards.shtml
VAPCMD
Most of the Dell standard set configurations are recommended and fix. The card NVidia GeForce 9800 GT may have being recommended for Dell XPS 630i on Dell website and hence you may not get information for the other card for this standard configuration.
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