Buy psu or buy different gpu?

[39bdog]

I got an HP Pavilion M9402F and a R7 250 and the card has no display. The fan spins but no display. I have a 300w psu in there now and the card recommends a 400w PSU. However I am wondering if the motherboard is not compatible with the card. I don't want to buy a new psu for the card not to work still. I am wondering what I should do. Thanks

 

[cin19]

If your HP is the HP Pavilion Elite m9402f http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01549580#AbT1 and I think you need to update the BIOS, because the MB has the nvidia nForce chipset, which is a little bit picky for the new gen. GPU. If you can't find the newer BIOS, you may buy the old version GPU or forget about it. Your HP PC ( with r7 250) will only draw less than 300W, or around 260W something like that.

 

[39bdog]

If your HP is the HP Pavilion Elite m9402f http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01549580#AbT1 and I think you need to update the BIOS, because the MB has the nvidia nForce chipset, which is a little bit picky for the new gen. GPU. If you can't find the newer BIOS, you may buy the old version GPU or forget about it. Your HP PC ( with r7 250) will only draw less than 300W, or around 260W something like that.

That is my computer and I have bios 5.14 I have no idea if that is the newest one because I can not find any other bios on their website for it. What would be the old version of the GPU?

 

[cin19]

The PC will show you what date is for the bios 5.14, and you are better to buy the GPU was released around that time so that the MB will support the GPU, like pcie2.0 x16 with DDR2 or DDR3 version like that, because the r7 250 has

 

[39bdog]

The PC will show you what date is for the bios 5.14, and you are better to buy the GPU was released around that time so that the MB will support the GPU, like pcie2.0 x16 with DDR2 or DDR3 version like that, because the r7 250 has

The date says 6/20/08 so it is old and there might be an updated bios but I don't know. That's what I was thinking also. But the thing was the card worked on my even older dell optiplex 745. And do you have any recommendation for an older card to get?

 

[cin19]

Dell optiplex 745 has the intel chipset, and it has new BIOS to update so that the r7 250 works on the dell pc.

And what do you do with that HP? How about just use the Dell optiplex 745 even it is older than HP, because you don't need to buy either PSU or GPU.

It depends on what you will use the GPU for, and the old version GPU is not good for the games, I guess you may use the PC for games because you got the r7 250.

 

[39bdog]

Dell optiplex 745 has the intel chipset, and it has new BIOS to update so that the r7 250 works on the dell pc.

And what do you do with that HP? How about just use the Dell optiplex 745 even it is older than HP, because you don't need to buy either PSU or GPU.

It depends on what you will use the GPU for, and the old version GPU is not good for the games, I guess you may use the PC for games because you got the r7 250.

Yeah I just bought this pc because I needed a bigger hard drive, I needed more ram, and the computer had a faster processor than the optiplex and it would have cost more to buy all of that for the optiplex when I won this computer for a cheap price on ebay. I did want to use it for some gaming. No heavy gaming just some medium gaming

 

[cin19]

Sorry, it is hard to recommend one GPU for the HP, because the BIOS and nvidia chipset problem, and you do not know the GPU will work or not until you put it into the PC.

If the game is the GPU intensive, and you may consider to use the Dell with the r7 250, and you can move the RAM to the Dell too, I think they are compatible.

 

[39bdog]

Yeah thanks for trying to help. I might do that. I will still try and work something out haha. But thanks for helping

 

[39bdog]

Actually do you think that a Radeon HD 6670 will work possibly? It is a PCI Express 2.1 and it is similar to the R7 250 with just a little less performance and I can get one for around $60

 

[cin19]

HD 6670 came out 2010/2011, even it is the pcie2.1X16, it may or may not work.

 

[39bdog]

HD 6670 came out 2010/2011, even it is the pcie2.1X16, it may or may not work.

Yeah I was reading that pcie 2.1 has ussues sometimes with pcie 1.0. I am trying to find if anyone is using it with the motherboard