Can I turn my HP Pavilionp6610f Desktop into a gaming computer?

Clovensinger19 · Apr 15, 2014

So like I have had this HP Pavilion p6610f desktop for 2 years now. Never has been good for gaming because the integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 is garbage for any of the games I've wanted to play.I don't want to buy a brand new computer but I was thinking if I replace the PSU I can install a better graphics card and i should be good from there. I'm not really knowledgeable in computer though so I don't know if i have to do something else to it like mess with the motherboard or whatever.
My computer has an AMD Athlon II Quad-Core Processor, 4 GB RAM and 750 GB of hard drive space. Not sure what the wattage on the PSU is. I repeat, I do not know allot about computers so any help will be appreciated.

fkr · Apr 15, 2014

here are your specs:

HP Pavilion p6610f: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02479651&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en

fkr · Apr 15, 2014

you do have a x16 slot so you can upgrade. your power supply is crap (250 watt). I am going to research a little more but a gtx 760 or so is my initial guess with a good 600 watt power supply.

Deemo13 · Apr 15, 2014

That would make a good gaming computer. It all depends on how much you want to spend. You could grab a R9 270 and a new power supply for under $250.

If you want to make your HP into a real gaming computer, you can even get a new case.

fkr · Apr 15, 2014

using this link and some general reading.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/122?vs=118

I think you would be safe with a AMD 7850 or r9 270. You may be able to push it with a 7950 r280 or gtx 760. Basically your budget for graphics cards is under $250 USD and safest to know you will not have a bottleneck at under $200 USD.

Clovensinger19 · Apr 15, 2014

Thank you guys allot. Really surprised how fast I got a response

Clovensinger19 · Apr 15, 2014

Oh and another question. if I am looking to live-stream these videogames to TwitchTv say using OBS or Xsplit, I shouldn't have any problems should I? Because very recently I was just test-streaming Dead Space which is fairly old so i was able to play it in high settings. But when I began streaming it there was a significant FPS drop and the stream was extremely choppy. I dont know what the problem was either and I realize this may be a specific problem for my computer.

fkr · Apr 15, 2014

http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay/?spf_p.tpst=kbDocDisplay&spf_p.prp_kbDocDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c02560084-8%257CdocLocale%253D%257CcalledBy%253D&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

this is your board i believe. you would need to take measurements of the room available for a GPU. See if you can remove a drive bay or something if needed. I still cannot find a good picture of your case.
http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv255/outlawtrigger/SP_A0412.jpg looks like you have room

you could put a AMD Phenom II X6 10xxT Six-Core (Thuban core)into your socket

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_price-asc-rank?keywords=amd+phenom+ii+x6&qid=1397615306&rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A193870011%2Cn%3A229189%2Ck%3Aamd+phenom+ii+x6%2Cp_n_feature_four_browse-bin%3A2383240011&sort=price-asc-rank

I think that all of these are capable of working on your motherboard. you can cross reference with the motherboard spec llink

make sure your running PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600006126%20600006069&IsNodeId=1&Description=DDR3-1333&name=8GB%20%282%20x%204GB%29

fkr · Apr 15, 2014

certain new nvidia GPU's have a feature that takes the load off of your CPU. It makes streaming video allot easier.

Deemo13 · Apr 15, 2014

fkr :

http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay/?spf_p.tpst=kbDocDisplay&spf_p.prp_kbDocDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c02560084-8%257CdocLocale%253D%257CcalledBy%253D&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

this is your board i believe. you would need to take measurements of the room available for a GPU. See if you can remove a drive bay or something if needed. I still cannot find a good picture of your case.
http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv255/outlawtrigger/SP_A0412.jpg looks like you have room

you could put a AMD Phenom II X6 10xxT Six-Core (Thuban core)into your socket

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_price-asc-rank?keywords=amd+phenom+ii+x6&qid=1397615306&rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A193870011%2Cn%3A229189%2Ck%3Aamd+phenom+ii+x6%2Cp_n_feature_four_browse-bin%3A2383240011&sort=price-asc-rank

I think that all of these are capable of working on your motherboard. you can cross reference with the motherboard spec llink

make sure your running PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600006126%20600006069&IsNodeId=1&Description=DDR3-1333&name=8GB%20%282%20x%204GB%29

I think for gaming a Phenom II X4 would be quicker than the Phenom II X6. I just remember reading that somewhere.

fkr · Apr 16, 2014

this is the one that held on for a long time.

http://www.amazon.com/AMD-HDZ955FBGMBOX-Phenom-3-2GHz-Retail/dp/B002TQYUAE/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1397624426&sr=1-2&keywords=amd+phenom+ii+x6

edit:
The thing is you cannot overclock with that motherboard so I would guess you would do better with a 6 core. I will see if I can generate a comparison

the BE (black edition) are faster even without an overclock; however, these games are old and many more games are using more cores so I do not know how that will relate to todays games really.

Deemo13 · Apr 16, 2014

fkr :

Have a look at these good reads

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Phenom-II-X4-970-and-Phenom-II-X6-1075T-CPU-Review/1109/2

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/318263-28-phenom-phenom-1100t
(this one has charts scroll down)

I think since the Phenom II X4 and the X6 run on similar architectures, it would be dependent on how high it is clocked. Similar to how the i7 performs very very close to the i5 in terms of gaming due to games not really using the hyper threading.

The applications seem to utilize the hexacore well.

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