Questions gaming related for HP Pavilion 500-326na

itskao · Jan 3, 2016

Hello, after purchasing a HP Pavilion 500-326na about a year ago I have decided to start upgrading.

I am wondering would a ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card work for my model?

link to Graphics Card: http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/asus-strix-geforce-gtx-950-graphics-card/329198/403.0.2

Also I have went to my local shop "PC World" and asked an employee that am I able to upgrade my RAM from 6GB to 8GB or even 10GB and he said no sinice all of the slots for RAM is taken on the PC. Is this true and am I able to upgrade? Thankyou

BadActor · Jan 3, 2016

The case only has a 180 watt PSU, so upgrading the GPU is a no go. Are you running out of RAM with 6 GB's? Adding more won't give you any improvement if your not using all you have now.

itskao · Jan 3, 2016

BadActor :

Well, I really use my PC for gaming really so when ever i play most games, i have to keep my graphics to the lowest as possible and even sometimes my game crashes and i get and error saying "Your computer is out of memory".

What really good graphics card would you recommend for my type of model?

13thmonkey · Jan 3, 2016

nothing, unless you upgrade your PSU.

13thmonkey · Jan 3, 2016

if you have 6GB of ram then you probbaly 2+2+1+1 or 4+2 (depending on how many slots you have), both of which are really nasty of HP. so you can swap to 2+2+2+2 or +4 to give you 8, but you shouldn't be having issues with 6. Do you have virtual memory configured well?

BadActor · Jan 3, 2016

If your's is running dual graphics right now, there's virtually nothing you can use with your PSU that would be any better. If you wanted to mod yours by using a different PSU you might be able to use a 750Ti/950/760, but would have to check your case dimensions for fit. You might Google "HP Pavilion 500-326na GPU upgrade" and see if any one has already done this.

itskao · Jan 3, 2016

13thmonkey :

What PSU would suggest.. around 300W?

I havent done anything to do virtual memory, I will search up on how to configure it. thanks

johnnyb105 · Jan 3, 2016

If anything a good 500 watt PSU Unit is what I would recommend and then as said above you could run the cards that bad actor has stated...

13thmonkey · Jan 3, 2016

itskao :

13thmonkey :

What PSU would suggest.. around 300W?

I havent done anything to do virtual memory, I will search up on how to configure it. thanks

I wouldn't recommend anything around 300W.

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