- Jul 1, 2016
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System specs:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
CPU: i7 4770 (3.4 GHz [up to 3.9GHz with turbo] 4-Core 8-Thread)
RAM: 32.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (4*8GB)
Motherboard: HP 18E4
(Haswell Q87 Chipset)
Storage: WD Blue 1TB
Right now I'm running on the 4770's integrated graphics (Intel HD Graphics 4600) and I'm looking to upgrade to a dedicated card as I don't have one (I have a Quadro as this used to be a workstation PC but obviously that's not a gaming card). I've been looking at prices and benchmarks and decided that, at least for now, I wanted to get a GTX 1050 (4GB). I prefer nVidia over AMD, but I could be persuaded if there is a better deal. What I've been looking at, specifically, is the Zotac® NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mini GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 4GB Graphic Card. From what my brother told me (he got this PC from his boss) it has a Micro ATX form motherboard, so the ones I was looking at before (ATX) wouldn't fit. My real question is: will this card fit in my system? I couldn't find much information about the motherboard, but the tower itself is a Microtower (according to the store page). I heard this is also a "Plug-in card" which I've never heard of before, can someone explain that to me as well? I know my PSU is not nearly strong enough to run this, so I will definitely need to upgrade that, as well. Does anyone know of one that would fit this computer and be compatible? I'm not amazing when it comes to computers, I generally rely on my brother for that, but he's not positive either so I wanted to come to you smart people.
TL;DR: Will the Zotac® NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mini GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 4GB Graphic Card fit in a Micro ATX HP EliteDesk 800 Tower PC? If so, what PSU will fit as I need to upgrade that as well.
EDIT: As a side-note. I do have a PCIe x16 slot available.
OS: Windows 10 Pro
CPU: i7 4770 (3.4 GHz [up to 3.9GHz with turbo] 4-Core 8-Thread)
RAM: 32.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (4*8GB)
Motherboard: HP 18E4
(Haswell Q87 Chipset)
Storage: WD Blue 1TB
Right now I'm running on the 4770's integrated graphics (Intel HD Graphics 4600) and I'm looking to upgrade to a dedicated card as I don't have one (I have a Quadro as this used to be a workstation PC but obviously that's not a gaming card). I've been looking at prices and benchmarks and decided that, at least for now, I wanted to get a GTX 1050 (4GB). I prefer nVidia over AMD, but I could be persuaded if there is a better deal. What I've been looking at, specifically, is the Zotac® NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mini GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 4GB Graphic Card. From what my brother told me (he got this PC from his boss) it has a Micro ATX form motherboard, so the ones I was looking at before (ATX) wouldn't fit. My real question is: will this card fit in my system? I couldn't find much information about the motherboard, but the tower itself is a Microtower (according to the store page). I heard this is also a "Plug-in card" which I've never heard of before, can someone explain that to me as well? I know my PSU is not nearly strong enough to run this, so I will definitely need to upgrade that, as well. Does anyone know of one that would fit this computer and be compatible? I'm not amazing when it comes to computers, I generally rely on my brother for that, but he's not positive either so I wanted to come to you smart people.
TL;DR: Will the Zotac® NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mini GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 4GB Graphic Card fit in a Micro ATX HP EliteDesk 800 Tower PC? If so, what PSU will fit as I need to upgrade that as well.
EDIT: As a side-note. I do have a PCIe x16 slot available.
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