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February 8, 2014 4:53:22 PM

My Specs: HP Pavilion
-M2N68-LA(narra 5) AM2+
-Front side bus speed:2000MT/s (2.0 GT/s)
-220W power supply (100V-240V)
Processors:
-AMD Phenom II Quad-Core/Triple Core
-AMD Phenom Quad-Core (A) 9xxx series (AM2+)/Triple-Core (T) 8xxx series (AM2+)

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February 8, 2014 7:22:48 PM

Before you upgrade your process, you'd need to update your power supply as (HP branded) 220W would be awful and could barely survive an upgrade let alone let you max out either of the CPU's you've mentioned.

If you're looking at upgrading an OEM branded box you need to go through a few things first.

1. Will your PSU handle an upgrade? At 220W yours will not.
These things are hardly 80+ efficiency tested, so you'd be lucky to get 180W peak out of it, which would barely power your existing box under pressure.

2. Can you upgrade your PSU? (IE: is it the standard ATX size PSU, or is it a proprietary sized power supply. (This is typical usually of the really small HP machines, the bigger desktop sized ones usually do have usual ATX Powersupply connection points.)

3. Are your other components going to bottleneck any upgrade?
Bear in mind that these things are designed for a price point. If you have an entry level box, you're also going to get the likes of onboard graphics, and minimal amount of RAM, so updating the CPU when you're running integrated anyway, or you're on a small (2-4GB) of RAM, you may find that the CPU upgrade doesn't provide you with the power you need.

So with all that it mind..

What do you want to do with your box?
Can we have the HP model number?

Furthermore, as HP motherboards will have locked down bios's so you can't get a spec sheet from the manafacturer, we need a part number to look up. :) 
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February 9, 2014 2:38:27 PM

teh_gerbil said:
Before you upgrade your process, you'd need to update your power supply as (HP branded) 220W would be awful and could barely survive an upgrade let alone let you max out either of the CPU's you've mentioned.

If you're looking at upgrading an OEM branded box you need to go through a few things first.

1. Will your PSU handle an upgrade? At 220W yours will not.
These things are hardly 80+ efficiency tested, so you'd be lucky to get 180W peak out of it, which would barely power your existing box under pressure.

2. Can you upgrade your PSU? (IE: is it the standard ATX size PSU, or is it a proprietary sized power supply. (This is typical usually of the really small HP machines, the bigger desktop sized ones usually do have usual ATX Powersupply connection points.)

3. Are your other components going to bottleneck any upgrade?
Bear in mind that these things are designed for a price point. If you have an entry level box, you're also going to get the likes of onboard graphics, and minimal amount of RAM, so updating the CPU when you're running integrated anyway, or you're on a small (2-4GB) of RAM, you may find that the CPU upgrade doesn't provide you with the power you need.

So with all that it mind..

What do you want to do with your box?
Can we have the HP model number?

Furthermore, as HP motherboards will have locked down bios's so you can't get a spec sheet from the manafacturer, we need a part number to look up. :) 


Well, my computer is HP Pavilion Slimline s5133w (2 GB of memory)
My Product num is AU191AA and what power supply/graphics card would you recommend for my pc, I couldn't find the name so I have no way of knowing whether is ATX or proprietary.
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February 9, 2014 3:03:55 PM

Hi RealGamer:
TDP: 95W
Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:

NOTE:o nly socket AM2+ processors are supported with this motherboard.
AMD Phenom II Quad-Core
AMD Phenom II Triple-Core
AMD Phenom Quad-Core (A) 9xxx series (AM2+)
AMD Phenom Triple-Core (T) 8xxx series (AM2+)
AMD Athlon X4
AMD Athlon X3
AMD Athlon X2 (B) (AM2+)

So something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/AMD-Phenom-2-2GHz-4x512KB-Quad-Co...

Should be compatible, seemingly with your existing PSU as quoted above!
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