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bigmack   05-20-2009 at 09:22:20 PM

I have a Slimline s3120n PC. I am planning on building a decent gaming pc, but I have a tight budget. Here is all the info for my PC (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883107396). Here is my question. Could I disassemble my PC, take the MoBo, Optical Drive, and Hard- Drive, put it inside a micro ATX case, install a decent graphics card, change the PSU, replace and upgrade the ram, and make it my budget rig? If I can do that, can I install any graphics card that will work with the PSU? Thanks guys.

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fullmetall   05-20-2009 at 09:32:25 PM

Depends on which kind of slot your motherboard has for video not psu.

the 6150 is probably a agp 2.0( not sure )

so your mobo may go pci 1....??


um, obscelete??

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GhislainG   05-20-2009 at 09:34:51 PM

It can't be done. From the picture of the back, it's obvious that expansion cards are mounted on a riser card.

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bigmack   05-21-2009 at 02:59:01 AM

What does that mean? I think that there are 2 pci slots and both are being used. However, I plan to remove the tv tuner and move my wireless pci card to the pci slot to leave the pci-e slot open. Can it be done now?

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AKM880   05-21-2009 at 03:34:41 AM

Looks like one of those extremely small desktop PC's. The 6150LE is an integrated GPU chip. Your PSU has 160W, which is too little for any decent GPU upgrade, but you can take the components out, the motherboard is m-ATX if I'm not mistaken.

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GhislainG   05-21-2009 at 04:49:21 AM

Is your s3120n like the picture in post http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] hics-card? If so, then it isn't like the one that I saw on HP and, as AKM880 said, it has a micro-ATX motherboard. Check the proposed solutions in that thread.

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AKM880   05-21-2009 at 04:54:32 AM

^ Either those pics in that thread are upside down or the motherboard is some sort of specially desigen HP specific one. Also not sure if you can use a standard ATX PSU with this one.

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AKM880   05-21-2009 at 04:55:26 AM

Also what is your budget for this upgrade, you can get a new motherboard aswell.

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GhislainG   05-21-2009 at 05:17:21 AM

Interesting stuff for the OP:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1224011
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc [...] ct=3432565 - if the motherboard is similar to this one, then HP didn't install a standard ATX PSU (which most likely won't fit).

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fullmetall   05-21-2009 at 02:29:25 PM

Got a option for you, save money and buy a new computer. done deal, +1 :)

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