HP P6-2355 Graphics Card Upgrade to coincide with RAM Upgrade

[lbelland12]

Hello,

I have a HP Pavilion P6-2355 and I'm looking to upgrade the graphics card. I have basically no knowledge of computer builds, just need to upgrade to meet my operating needs.

The motherboard is a H-Joshua-H61-uATX, and from what I can tell it's using an internal Intel HD graphics card. It looks like the processor is an Intel I3-3220 @ 3.30 Ghz.

I'm also installing a RAM upgrade, two Crucial CT102464BD160B 8gb sticks.

"CT2K102464BD60B is a 16GB Kit consisting of (2) 8GB DDR3L Desktop modules that operates at speeds up to 1600 MT/s and has a CL11 latency. It is dual voltage and can operate at 1.35V or 1.5V. It is Unbuffered and is non-ECC. It conforms to the industry standard UDIMM layout of 240 pins and is compatible with computers that take DDR3L UDIMM memory."

Any advice you have for a graphics card upgrade would be great, I do a lot of CAD design, photo, and video editing.

Thanks!

 

[dontlistentome]

That looks to have a 300W power supply so a 1050 Ti would be the fastest card you could use. I recommend you go to the support pages for any software you plan to use to see what hardware they recommend. Not all non game software uses videocards in the same way. If the projects you work on use lots of data then a 4gb card might be nice to have. If you work on smaller projects then a 2gb 1050 might be all you need. Check the space inside your case to make sure how tall and long of a card you can fit in there. Sometimes those pre-builts can have things like drive cages blocking some of the videocard space.

 

[Calvin7]

HP does not put much effort into making their PC's upgradable.
Your model can use GTX 600 series. Anything newer is not compatible.
https://forums.evga.com/gtx-960-not-compatable-with-JoshuaH61uATX-mb-m2408171.aspx

PC is limited by 300 watt power supply. It does not use low voltage memory. I would not put much money into it. Get yourself a bare PC case and retail boxed motherboard.

https://www.ebay.com/p/EVGA-NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-620-02G-P3-2629-KR-2GB-DDR3-SDRAM-PCI-Express-2-0-Video-Card/140593625?iid=382686497363&chn=ps

 

[lbelland12]

Thanks for the reply.

You'll have to forgive me if I don't understand parts of your response, but this is what I found as far as expansion slots for the motherboard - Expansion Slots:
1 PCI Express x16 (Gen2.0)
3 PCI Express x1 (Gen2.0)
1 PCI Express Mini Card x1

When you're talking about a 4gb card or a 2gb card, are you talking about the graphics card itself? I'd probably be inclined to just upgrade to the highest performance card possible as long as the cost isn't that much more, and the demand (power draw? some other strain?) on the other systems is the same.

 

[lbelland12]

Hi Calvin,

Thanks for the info. Are all the GTX 600 series cards the same, or are there different models/options? Where would you recommend getting one from? I'm assuming they've been obsoleted for a while now.

 

[lbelland12]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a drop-in compatible GTX 600 specific model?