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Even with the pre-built constraints, the price is good. Still have an intel 5th gen cpu. To upgrade the ram alone is $200. Might as well buy this new desktop to upgrade.
Most new games will perform pretty terribly with one stick of ram nowadays. Power supply is probably also garbage knowing HP. Still a good deal, though.
For this build it's a bad price. If you got on the $1050 deal back in late May or June for this same case but with R7 5700G + RTX 3060 + 16GB RAM + 512 PCIe SSD + 1TB HDD that was a great value, but now with this spec, this isn't worth it at all. Motherboard, power supply in this case are all specially built and unusable for anything else.
I bought R7 5700G+ one a few months ago, really fast, upgraded to 32 gigs. Quick and Quiet.
True, it is not easily upgradable due to motherboard and Power Supply, yet I rarely upgrade my motherboards and occasionally the power supply.
This one, which is for sale, is likely similar to my older HP, which had a 280-watt power supply, I upgraded to a Gold 450 watt Antec and the only issue was I had to use a splitter to get power to the optical disk. It still works great and it is 3+ years old.
It works much better than the stock unit due to the extra ram I added was taxing the old power supply, plus I was having issues that were a weak power supply, they cleared up.
I bought this one a few months ago, really fast, upgraded to 32 gigs. Quick and Quiet.
True it is not easily upgradable due to motherboard and Power Supply, yet I rarely upgrade my motherboards and PS.
This one is likely similar to my other HP, which had a 280-watt power supply, I upgraded to a Gold 450 watt Antec and had to use a splitter to get power to the optical disk. It works much better than the stock unit due to the extra ram I added was taxing the old power supply, plus I was having issues that were a weak power supply, they cleared up.
Might need you to be more clear about the power supply upgrade. Did you hack in a compact power supply and use some creating wiring, or did you employ creative wiring and set a full-size ATX power supply on the top of the case?
Might need you to be more clear about the power supply upgrade. Did you hack in a compact power supply and use some creating wiring, or did you employ creative wiring and set a full-size ATX power supply on the top of the case?
Good luck!
Jon
I simply found an Antec that was the right size, the fans were in the right orientation and I had to use a cable splitter to provide power to the optical drive. I had a SATA power splitter and all was good. I think it was a mini AT power supply, definitely a stock item, got it on Amazon.
It is true sometimes they have used uncommon Power supply sizes and shapes and/or unique cabling. I have yet to see that in the last several years. No cutting/splicing issues on the one I did this with.
My R7 comes with an HP 400 watt Gold power supply, which is enough power for the 12GB RTX 3060, 32 Gig ram, etc.
So unless the Power Supply dies, no reason to change it out.
If I was planning to change out the Power Supply and Motherboard, I would simply buy a nice case and build my own from scratch. Yet, at the price, I paid it was hundreds less than doing that.
Unfortunately, this PC is not on the official Windows 11 supported CPU list, I think this PC before the pandemic with a 3400G was like 399-499. It debuted at Staples for 549 I believe without the GPU, only 129 bucks for a 1650x (should be the normal price of one of these in another dimension lol)
I was back and forth between this and an XPS 8930 with i7 8700 and 1050ti for $400 (FB marketplace) or this set up. Obviously this is more expensive, but is it worth the $250? Similar specs otherwise. I would have to add an NVME SSD to the XPS as it only has a 2 tb mechanical HD
The I7 is 3 or 4 generations old. The R5 is the current generation or 1 behind.
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True, it is not easily upgradable due to motherboard and Power Supply, yet I rarely upgrade my motherboards and occasionally the power supply.
This one, which is for sale, is likely similar to my older HP, which had a 280-watt power supply, I upgraded to a Gold 450 watt Antec and the only issue was I had to use a splitter to get power to the optical disk. It still works great and it is 3+ years old.
It works much better than the stock unit due to the extra ram I added was taxing the old power supply, plus I was having issues that were a weak power supply, they cleared up.
True it is not easily upgradable due to motherboard and Power Supply, yet I rarely upgrade my motherboards and PS.
This one is likely similar to my other HP, which had a 280-watt power supply, I upgraded to a Gold 450 watt Antec and had to use a splitter to get power to the optical disk. It works much better than the stock unit due to the extra ram I added was taxing the old power supply, plus I was having issues that were a weak power supply, they cleared up.
Good luck!
Jon
Good luck!
Jon
It is true sometimes they have used uncommon Power supply sizes and shapes and/or unique cabling. I have yet to see that in the last several years. No cutting/splicing issues on the one I did this with.
My R7 comes with an HP 400 watt Gold power supply, which is enough power for the 12GB RTX 3060, 32 Gig ram, etc.
So unless the Power Supply dies, no reason to change it out.
If I was planning to change out the Power Supply and Motherboard, I would simply buy a nice case and build my own from scratch. Yet, at the price, I paid it was hundreds less than doing that.
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