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It's more or less working fine. A little sluggish and pokey, but that's probably because it has 4gb of memory currently and a slow, slow 7200rpm HDD. In this age of SSDs, it's a little amazing to think back to the days when that actually seemed like lightning speed. For ten bucks, it's pretty great.
Here's the page for it:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05124908
But I was rolling the idea around in my head about gutting it, basically using the existing case (with monitor) and PSU to house a different motherboard and cpu, and maybe giving it to one of my roommates who need an updated PC. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a CPU/mobo that would fit the case, not overload the PSU and actually work properly? Perhaps something AM4, as I'm partial to it? The existing mobo is a Molokai-U, the whole thing so any new mobo would need to be able to fit in that same space and be of those dimensions, I would think. It would need to draw something like 65
watts or less of juice max, since that seems to be the limit of the PSU.
If you think I'm blowing smoke, tell me that too. The alternate idea would be to find a cheap-ass SSD somewhere, open it up, swap out the slow HDD for the new, faster SSD, install one of the extra ram modules I have lying around to bring the total ram up to at least 8gb and let it travel. It would be an improvement, I'm sure. But I really would like to try to swap the guts for an AM4 with an actual (integrated) GPU that doesn't completely suck so she could do a little light video encoding, that kind of thing. I'm basically just batting ideas here. Hell, if you think Intel is the way to go, feel free to suggest those too. Since the board is apparently Intel, it's probably going to be easier to find one compatible with the existing case and PSU. I'll listen to anything.
Forgive me if this is the wrong place for the question. I don't post much here--like, at all-but this seemed like the forum for a question like this might be asked. If it needs to be moved or deleted, that's fine. Thanks for listening. Kind of need a project like this to keep my sanity at this point Hope my questions are clear enough to understand. The village idiot thanks you for your patient and time.
Here's the page for it:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05124908
But I was rolling the idea around in my head about gutting it, basically using the existing case (with monitor) and PSU to house a different motherboard and cpu, and maybe giving it to one of my roommates who need an updated PC. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a CPU/mobo that would fit the case, not overload the PSU and actually work properly? Perhaps something AM4, as I'm partial to it? The existing mobo is a Molokai-U, the whole thing so any new mobo would need to be able to fit in that same space and be of those dimensions, I would think. It would need to draw something like 65
watts or less of juice max, since that seems to be the limit of the PSU.
If you think I'm blowing smoke, tell me that too. The alternate idea would be to find a cheap-ass SSD somewhere, open it up, swap out the slow HDD for the new, faster SSD, install one of the extra ram modules I have lying around to bring the total ram up to at least 8gb and let it travel. It would be an improvement, I'm sure. But I really would like to try to swap the guts for an AM4 with an actual (integrated) GPU that doesn't completely suck so she could do a little light video encoding, that kind of thing. I'm basically just batting ideas here. Hell, if you think Intel is the way to go, feel free to suggest those too. Since the board is apparently Intel, it's probably going to be easier to find one compatible with the existing case and PSU. I'll listen to anything.
Forgive me if this is the wrong place for the question. I don't post much here--like, at all-but this seemed like the forum for a question like this might be asked. If it needs to be moved or deleted, that's fine. Thanks for listening. Kind of need a project like this to keep my sanity at this point Hope my questions are clear enough to understand. The village idiot thanks you for your patient and time.
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