Will an NVIDIA card run on an A10 processor?

[kkingotu]

I just purchased an HP 750-116 it has an 3.60 gigahertz AMD A10-8750 Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G processor, and I contacted HP support to see if the video card I found to add to my system would work with the motherboard, a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Mini ITX Overclocked 4GB GDDR5 PCiE Video Card GV-N970IXOC-4GD. They told me that it was compatible, but I would have to upgrade the CPU in order to upgrade the video card. I have never heard of that and was wondering if that was true? from what I saw investigating the card, nowhere does it mention that the processor needs to be upgraded. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

The first answer is yes, provided you in fact have a PCIe x16 slot. More likely they meant you have to upgrade your power supply to do so. Hopefully you have a standard PSU and motherboard with a PCIe x16 slot, check before ordering- that's originally a laptop proccessor so whether or not it does is in doubt. And don't waste money on a 970, a R9 380 is the best I would put with that. You wouldn't be able to utilize the 970 fully with that CPU.
Edit: Wait, did you just misstype the A10-7850K? If so, ignore what I said about it being a laptop CPU.

 

[kkingotu]

I did tell them that I was upgrading the power supply to a 750W power supply for the card and other future upgrades, and found that HP only supports an ATX Power Supply so I am still looking for that. Yes the motherboard does have a PCIe 16x 3.0 slot, the problem with the ATI boards is that they are too long to fit into the case, and a search on a mini ATI card gave me no hits. . I have roughly 9 inches in length to fit the card.

 

[johnnyb105]

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+PRO+A10-8750B&id=2647

Its more then likely one of those computers that have the power supply on the outside of the case like a laptop thus its hard to upgrade that for the pc to use either the 380 or 970 and most of those boards are itx form factor just worked on a hp a week ago that was like that more less a throw away.. Sorry

 

[johnnyb105]

I did tell them that I was upgrading the power supply to a 750W power supply for the card and other future upgrades, and found that HP only supports an ATX Power Supply so I am still looking for that. Yes the motherboard does have a PCIe 16x 3.0 slot, the problem with the ATI boards is that they are too long to fit into the case, and a search on a mini ATI card gave me no hits. . I have roughly 9 inches in length to fit the card.

Well ati no longer makes cards amd does, and there no longer then the Nvidia cards as well good to know that you have a slot to upgrade the pc.

 

[beegmouse]

You have a 300W PSU, you cannot run a 970.
You do have a PCI slot.
The PSU is not a standard format.


http://support.hp.com/lt-en/document/c04803066

In short, you cannot upgrade your PSU
You cannot use a GPU which requires more power than the motherboard can provide.
This limits you to about 60W
The best solution is to get an AMD card which matches the APU specs and Hybrid crossfire them