Question Graphics card upgrade planned - - - - is there anything I'm missing?

[BelactheLion]

I'm trying to upgrade this PC so that i can play Rumble on my Quest 2. These are the specs from when I bought it; I have upgraded the memory to 32 GBs and added a 1TB hard drive but otherwise these are still its specs.

From the research I've already done it seems like the best budget option is the RTX 3060, which would mean I need to upgrade my PSU to 650W to be safe; one source I looked at suggested the Corsair RM650. Is there anything else I'm missing? for example, am I likely to need more fans? I haven't noticed any problems with temperature so far but want to make sure I don't upgrade my computer only to immediately burn it up because I didn't get enough fans or mess it up some other way

HP Victus 15L Gaming Desktop PC
Product number: 49N24AV
[Serial Number Removed by moderator]
•BU RCTO UMA Victus TG02-0 H670 US
•Front Bezel Ceramic White Metal with 350 W 80 Plus Bronze certified power supply
•CKIT HP W/K HP Victus 22C1 US
•Ceramic white
•22C1 Product Cycle
•Intel Arc A380 Graphics (6 GB GDDR6 dedicated)
•256 GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
•No HDD
•8 GB DDR4-3200 MHz RAM (2 x 4 GB)
•Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2x2) Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 combo
•Windows 11 Home
•Intel Core i5- 12400 (2.5 GHz up to 4.4 GHz , 18 MB L3 cache, 12 cores )

(for reference, here are the spec requirements/recommendations for Airlink)
requirements:

• Component: Intel i5 – 4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater
• Operating System: Windows 10
• Memory: 8 GB+ RAM
• USB Ports: 1 USB port

recommendations:

• CPU: Intel Core-i7-9700L or comparable AMD
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 or comparable AMD GPU
• RAM: 16GN DDR4
• Wi-Fi: 8mbps or higher
• Storage: 50GB to 340GB

 

[Eximo]

Everything I can see shows a proprietary power supply and motherboard, You can't just take an off the shelf ATX power supply and put it in there. There does appear to be a 500W and 650W version of the PSU available from HP.

"What you need is this 500-watt power supply upgrade for your Victus by HP 15L Gaming Desktop PC TG02-0000i (491A7AV), which can be purchased with different part numbers: L89233-001 / L89233-005 / L77487-001 / L77487-003 / L81009-800."

15L indicates the volume of the computer. 15L is actually very small for a computer, I would be wary also of the physical size of the graphics card you can install. Verify the length and thickness of the card before purchase.

RTX 3060 is a little older, I might lean towards a more power efficient RTX 5050 or RTX 5060. Only 8GB, but quite a bit newer and you can stick with your 350W PSU.

If you do get the 500W PSU, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or RX 9060 XT 16GB would be a good options.

 

[Eximo]

Here are the 650W part numbers:

L57253-003 or L36049-003

 

[BelactheLion]

I'm having a hard time finding measurements for the graphics cards as I shop; what's a reliable way to find that information?

 

[Math Geek]

i usually look at the card's product page for dimensions. it's the most reliable. quick search usually has the product page as top result.