Future Plans With An OEM Computer?

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Michael Wade

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So ive bought a computer ( HP 500-326na if you must know) I'm hoping to change stuff around, mod it a bit and stuff along the lines of that over the next few months, i was originally planning to build a desktop... but i had no idea where to start. Until i found here and already have my desktop, so anyways.. if i were to change the CPU? GPU? Mod it out a bit, would liquid cooling be something i could do in this case? or would a new case be required? Thanks alot guys!
 
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What are you planning do to with this? Please don't tell me it's for gaming.

And for the love of god don't liquid cool an office computer. That's literally the same as putting $4000 rims and a racing spoiler on a Honda Civic
 
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no not really, i use my current laptop as a gaming rig, its kindof a bet with my cousin, he believes you cant do much with a cheap comp in a few months (i have until the end of feb) so i started of with my 400 budget he set... then i can spend up too 600 on upgrades and stuff, but i cannot change the motherboard thats why i wanted to build one and stupidly bought one... soo, with my 600 over the next few months with the mother board- what can i do to improve it (looks go aswell as performance, so both would be great!)
 
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That computer doesn't lend itself to upgrading...

So it has a motherboard with only 2 DIMM slots, so you'll always be limited to how many sticks of RAM you can throw in.
It has a 1155 socket, so you can't upgrade to the latest Intel processors
It comes with an extremely weak PSU (90 watts), so you can't put a big video card in it (even if you could fit it) - you're going to have problems powering anything
The case is small and poorly ventilated; it can't fit a big video card; there is no space to put a radiator; I don't even think there are empty drive bays (you can't install additional disk drives or optical drives); its cooling potential is limited...

Basically, I would advise you to start over. Don't mean to rain on your parade, but of the most basic upgrades:
1) You want to upgrade the CPU? You need to buy something that uses only 35 watts, because your PSU and mobo can't handle higher. Most of the bigger chips these days are 55ish watts. And you need to buy older chips (1155 socket)
2) You want to upgrade the GPU? Probably not enough power to run it, and probably not enough space in that case
3) You want to add an SSD...you can swap the HDD for an SSD, but that's not really efficient. Usually, people have smaller SSD boot drives and then big HDD storage (where you don't need the access speed, and the storage is cheaper) - you can't because you're limited both in power and bay space
4) You want to add RAM? You can do that - but only one stick.
 
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Should have taken the other side of that bet...I think your cousin's claim has some truth in it.

Can you provide some details on the motherboard? I can't tell from the specs if its ATX, mATX or mITX. Since you're locked into the motherboard, its the limiting factor here... How many and what type of PCIe slots and how many SATA connections will tell us what can be done.


 
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sorry, its an HP 500-326na its AMD based, It has an amd a78 fch chipset, and comes with 6GB DDR3 RAM, its CPU comes with AMD-6500 Quad Core, and the GPU supplied is an AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB. The mother board is a uATX (micro ATX) and is supplied with 4 DIMM slots up to 32GB ddr3 ram, FM2+ socket and contains 1x PCI express x16 (Gen 3.0) and 1x PCI mini card, and also Three PCI express x1(Gen 2) it has 7.1 surround support heres a link- http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c04293944&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en#N664
 
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