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    Smile New PSU recommendations for a GTX460 1gb upgrade

    Hi, I'm about receive an HP Pro 3130 Minitower PC from a colleague. i3-550, 2gb ram, 320gb HDD, intel graphics, not sure what PSU is in there.

    I have a spare GTX460 lying around from an old build. What PSU upgrade would you recommend if I cannot run it on the existing PSU?

    My sister has a Corsair CX430 for her i5-2500k GTX1060. She is willing to swap a new PSU for her one.

    Is it worth buying a new PSU or should I get a cheaper more efficient and more powerful graphics card instead?

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    Re: New PSU recommendations for a GTX460 1gb upgrade

    Depends what PSU is in the HP minitower. Also you may have trouble even fitting that card in it, though it's unlikely. I would say aim for 450w if you have that, you should be fine.

    edit: I am unsure of the TDPs of your processor and card though, 400w may be enough or even less!
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    Re: New PSU recommendations for a GTX460 1gb upgrade

    Going on the spare parts list on the HP site i would guess its got the 250W PSU in it so you'd probably need something more beefy, Nvidia recommend a 450W PSU for the 460 but you could probably get away with your sisters CX430.

    You may have problems though as the HP PSU maybe a SFF unit and being HP the screw mounting holes may not line up with a standard case, if it was me I'd wait until i got the HP Pro 3130 Minitower so as to better judge if a standard PSU will fit before i committed to buying any extras.

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    Re: New PSU recommendations for a GTX460 1gb upgrade

    Looking at HP's service manual:
    http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02207702
    the PSU 'almost' looks ATX, until you look a bit closer at the motherboard

    and the case

    and notice that everything is upside-down compared to ATX.
    So it looks like it's a BTX board.
    The max graphic card which HP offered with that PC was a Radeon 4650 which uses a fraction of the power which the GTX460 uses.

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    Re: New PSU recommendations for a GTX460 1gb upgrade



    A lot of the HP desktops have a similar inverted layout,and the same 250W/300W PSUs.

    Looking at that video,it seems possible to upgrade the PSU to a standard one. However,the bigger issue is whether the PCI-E slot can actually supply 75W and whether it the motherboard is locked to work with certain graphics cards,or whether it will have an issue with newer cards due to the BIOS revision.

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    Re: New PSU recommendations for a GTX460 1gb upgrade

    a half decent 400-450w psu should be fine and the gtx 460 should also be fine.

    the hp minitower is just a standard mATX with inverted motherboard, it's the smaller form factor HP's that start using really annoying non-standard parts

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