I bought an HP M01-F1024 from Best Buy as a stop gap measure until sanity comes back to computer components. It features the Ryzen 7 4700g CPU-that is why I bought it knowing the rest of the box could be problematic.
First off,8 Gigs of ram-on one stick! This should be illegal. At least HP could have put in 2 4gigs so it would be dual channel. I hear the fan is loud and crappy (I haven't even unboxed yet-been busy),and it is not a simple upgrade. It is for an Intel mobo (see
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The power supply is weak (180 watt ,but at least Gold) and of course ,as with most pre-builds non-standard. I guess they figure the BIOS is crippled (no overclocks),so you won't need anything larger.
I was flirting with idea of ripping out the good parts (4700g CPU,256 m.2,wifi that takes up their other m.2 slot)
So,what would be a good mobo/ram for this? I already have the Fractal Design Focus G Mini case new in a box laughing at me (pro tip-don't drink and shop!)
Apparently the 4700g is close to the 3600x in CPU tasks. I could work with that. I'd load up on RAM,give it decent cooling and happily VirtualBox,light vid editing,pawn. I'm not much of a gamer,but I bought the HP hoping I could play 2 games-RDR2 and GTA5 and not have them suck. And no. I don't want to buy a 5 year old video card ridiculously overpriced-or any separate video card.
Thanks for any replies!
First off,8 Gigs of ram-on one stick! This should be illegal. At least HP could have put in 2 4gigs so it would be dual channel. I hear the fan is loud and crappy (I haven't even unboxed yet-been busy),and it is not a simple upgrade. It is for an Intel mobo (see
)
The power supply is weak (180 watt ,but at least Gold) and of course ,as with most pre-builds non-standard. I guess they figure the BIOS is crippled (no overclocks),so you won't need anything larger.
I was flirting with idea of ripping out the good parts (4700g CPU,256 m.2,wifi that takes up their other m.2 slot)
So,what would be a good mobo/ram for this? I already have the Fractal Design Focus G Mini case new in a box laughing at me (pro tip-don't drink and shop!)
Apparently the 4700g is close to the 3600x in CPU tasks. I could work with that. I'd load up on RAM,give it decent cooling and happily VirtualBox,light vid editing,pawn. I'm not much of a gamer,but I bought the HP hoping I could play 2 games-RDR2 and GTA5 and not have them suck. And no. I don't want to buy a 5 year old video card ridiculously overpriced-or any separate video card.
Thanks for any replies!