upgrading a power supply to accomodate newer graphics card

ErikDRed

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Howdy. I have an HP Pavilion Elite 9520, that has worked well for years. Graphics card is finally failing, and newer graphic cards require more than the 350W power supply installed. What options are available?

The graphics cards I'm currently looking at are Nvidia series Geforce GTX (680, 690, 770, 780, and Titan).
 

ErikDRed

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Thank you. I'm certainly thinking of the higher range of power supplies, but SR-71 brought up a good point about card length. I'm including a link to the HP webpage that shows the complete specs for my machine. I hope that is helpful.

The one exception being my hard drive is slightly smaller than the one listed. Wore out the first one. As for the cooling capacity of the machine, I wouldn't know how to answer that. The current video card fan is failing but everything else seems ok.

As for my budget, I'd like to spend as little as possible, but I will pay for what is needed. I try to get stuff that will last a long time.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01619747&prodSeriesId=3824167