The $122 HP Pavillion Gaming PC! | The Value of Upgrading a Prebuilt
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- This here is an HP Pavillion p6310y which I picked up for just ten dollars at my university's surplus center. It looks like it could be capable of some gaming, but does this system have what it takes? I upgrade the Pavillion with a GTX 1050 and a 1TB Hard drive to find out what performance you can expect if you manage to find one of these out in the wild.
This video was a super pleasure to make, but it took a while as I'd been recovering from bronchitis throughout production. I'm finally over it now though which means more content for everyone! Yay!
As always, thank you guys for watching, and I'll be seeing you next week!
These HP Pavilion are all you need for casual gaming and web browsing. I used one for last 10 years. Still works great. They also are often equipped with the realtek ALC888 DAC chip which I really like for game sound and music. And look at the capacitors on that motherboard. They are everywhere.
I grew up on a 4 core 2.5hrz AMD, with a add on GTX 750Ti, and 8 gigabytes of ram. Not only did it breeze through what my parents wanted to do on it. It tanked my gaming on medium settings for most games. The only thing wrong with it now that I can find is the power supply is ticking. For an office PC it's a beast lol.
Any help with upgreading the windows of those?
I found a PC similar to this in the trash a while back. These type of old PC’s are great for web browsing, light gaming, testing out other OSes, use as a file server or Minecraft server, etc
This is my dad's computer right now I was thinking about upgrading it for him. Thanks your video gave me a pretty good idea of what im dealing with.
My dad used to have one of these but he realized that you can use a laptop for the same task because it's not very powerful and laptops aren't very powerful but they are portable so
I have 1 of these in my room, I bought from a pawn shop 5 yrs ago for $200. Well I dont use it since I 3 bought 4 pcs s ij but it's time to upgrade it
Honcho Flex I went into my parents attic and found one laying around
I stared at it like
“Ah yes
Something to do while the world is on fire 😂😂😂”
I have this computer! I've had it since 2010, and it has been through repairs several times running Windows 7. It still does work today, but randomly freezes like very often and its hard drive is about to fail soon.
Good that HDD these days are quite cheap for what you get
i have it too and this pc whenever there was a blackout i have to press enter which did SYSTEM REPAIR and i was 5 years old when i used that pc sooo a bunch of viruses was on that pc so we deleted all of it and yeah
It eventually stopped working since back when I made that comment. It's now dropped off and recycled at Best Buy.
Next you need to get is an hdmi capture card. I would've loved to see some game play. Is that athlon overclock-able?
I was a bit lazy this time and didn’t use gameplay footage, ehehehe 😅 unfortunately the CPU isn’t overclockable. That said in a follow-up I hope to take a look at some of the more powerful options available on that platform such as the Phenom II series.
@@gameandtinker877 i have this exact pc without a gpu, and a phenom 2 APU, and think about getting a gt 610, since its cheap and i have low budget
@@gameandtinker877 Phenom II X4 9xx series CPUs are the highest that are compatible with this motherboard I think, and if you get the Black Editions then they're overclockable. I think the X4 955 has like 3.3GHz and the 965 has 3.4GHz. There's also 975 at 3.5GHz, but those aren't as easy to find
@@_Veno please for the love of god don’t buy a gt 610
@@_Veno Don't get that, if you have a max budget of like $40 I would get a GTX 460 instead. MILES better than that GT 610.
I have this computer running windows 7! we have had it since 2012 and we bought it from costco when it just came out. it still is running windows 7 today but im gonna upgrade it since were upgrading desktops.
Woah just found your channel and love it,great job and love to see more videos like this
ur name
@@lostdeeper did it break yt for u?
I've got this one for free. Somebody threw it away.. I connected it and it works just fine :)
It's a nice day today, I guess :)
Even if the desktop alone with its old parts can be bought at a cheap price, keeping the old parts would not be recommended, especially for the old hard drive. Replacing with a solid state drive and more RAM would be the only source of improving the aging machine.
for my pavilion i put in a gtx 750 ti, amd phenom x4 945, 1TB ssd and a wifi card because it didn’t have wifi on the motherboard
Proof some people don’t need new computers. Especially for non gaming purposes. You can save so much money.
Great video!
i have this exact system, (not upgraded to what you have done yet) when i get enough money i will get atleast a gtx 770 or 1050.
hey i need that system
need it for 9 dollars
Me too im looking for a gtx 1050 ti but im not sure if I am able to or if the PC has a PCI-e x16 slot that i can use . Im really just confused overall on this.
Yeah
I have a pavilion a4327c-b pc bundle desktop (its a desktop very similar to this one) it is running tiny10 but i am getting linux on it soon.
I have an HP system almost exactly like this! Just wondering... when I checked the specs on the HP website it said the board is Micro ATX form factor. Do you think that a Micro ATX AM4 board would fit in that case? Obviously with some modding to the IO plate :)
Micro-ATX mobos should work in that case. One thing to look out for is whether or not your choice of cooler (AIO or a traditional heatsink+fan) will actually fit in the same PC case. Now.... this case actually pre-dates AIO water cooling, so you won't see any obvious place to mount a radiator. I mean, you could probably mod something to mount it where the case fan is, on the back of the PC, but that's usually a 92mm fan, and I don't think anyone makes a 92mm radiator. I might be wrong, but the smallest AIO I've ever seen was designed to be mounted in the rear of a case that's designed for a rear 120mm case fan.
bro my one was giving me grief . got into bios like once . ive cleared cmos . new hdd in . swapped out cpu . reset ram
I know this is an old video, but I have a question. I have this computer and I’m wondering if it’s worth it to try and fix it up (it would be my first experience doing anything inside a computer) or if I should just buy a more recent pc. I want to stream on twitch eventually just for fun. If I were to need to buy a new one do you have a recommendation on a college student budget?
Depending how old the pc is, but on a college student budget I would recommend to try and just fix it up, upgrading the parts you need to game like your graphics card
Yes it’s worth it. Even in 2024.
I had this pc running windows 7 pro
P A T H E T I C.
Mine runs ultimate with max graphics on prebuilt
Plus a core 2 duo
@@Praetorium XD
As far as I have heard all Windows 7 and Windows 8 product keys will work as Windows 10 product keys I'm not sure how to tell if it's Windows 10 home or Windows 10 Pro though
I have this game pc and it's not working anymore! it has that same text ''reboot and select proper boot device''. I changed psu (3rd one) new gpu (gt 960 or something) and also hdd :(
That sounds like an issue with either your hard drive, or BIOS. Basically right now, your desktop doesn't recognize that there's anything with an OS, which means either it's not reading Windows on your hard drive, or there's a BIOS issus that's preventing it from reading the hard drive. First step would be to go into your BIOS settings by pressing F10 when the computer first starts up, navigating over to the boot settings, then make sure that your hard drive is detected by the BIOS and is set up so it will boot.
If it is, then it's an issue with either the drive itself or Windows software. At that point, trying a Windows recovery media is probably your best bet, or a new hard drive with a fresh install.
Is there a way to update it from windows 7 in 2024?
I have the slim line s5 1010 and I'm looking to upgrade it
Hi, I have this exact same system, the problem I have is that I bought a GeForce Gt. 730 (4GB ), but for some reason the games don’t run that smooth and after playing for 5 mins they screen goes black even though the pc is running. I read online that for some graphic cards updated, the power supply should be updated as well. Do you guys think this is my problem ??.( I also tested the graphic card on old games wwe 2k15 and Tomb raider underworld and the same happened)
Are you sure the GPU wasn't bootlegged and that's why everything slowed down?
I've the h8-1170uk module HP pavilion HPE. Is it worth upgrading this pc with new Graphic card/SSD hardrive/New RAM 32GB or it's better to just buy new PC.. what would you recommend please? Also if so which parts would you recommend Thanks
I have this hp but different model but I figured that I would just swap the motherboard out
Where can I purchase cheap computer parts such as this one?
Mine gets a bunch of boss what could cause this my dad said the motherboard failed before so is that it? Board is Foxconn 2ab1
Whats a good alternative OS because I don't want to buy windows for mine and I have the hp pavilion p6110f I'm looking to play low end games and watch videos and possibly stream what do you recommend and it's basically bone stock hell it still has the Intel e5300 cpu
Have you upgrade to a Phenom II? I have a hp pavilion p6754y & I have a phenom II I want to install. The problem is a firmware update is required. I haven't found it.
$75 dollars on eBay....man things have changed
Have the same one but how to update it to the next gen
Im looking at one on ebay for 50 im wondering if i can upgrade the graphics card all the forms ive read say yes but mine has a i7 920 in it along with a nvidia 260. And 16gb ram i mean its worth a shot
That hp is kinda good for it’s amount look that graphic card lol
what happened your few videos were 4 years ago.
I have this computer
Quick question how much W is your PSU
love the video accept I didn't like that you went with windows 8.
Hello i have the same exact pc and I am brand new to the whole build a pc thing and I was wondering if you/anyone has a tutorial on how to install a ssd that would be great
Can it be any GTX 1050 TI graphics card or does it only have to be ZOTAC
Bruh I paid $4 for this thing so worth it
I have the ho pavilion p6-2108p what upgrades can I put into it to make it the best it can be for gaming
www.support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03137294
This has all the upgrade information you'll need, scroll down and it's under the "[componant] upgrade information" tabs. Looks like the highest you can go is as follows:
CPU: AMD A8-3850 (Liano) quad core
RAM: 4GBx2 PC3-14400 (DDR3-1866)
Your hard drive is up to you, you can add a graphics card and/or sound card but you might (likely will) need a new power supply
@@johnmichaell2505 thanks a lot💜
@@PigEatinBacon13 No problem! If you upgrade the ram, don't go for server ram! it's not compatable with your machine and you'll not be able to use it
Also keep in mind that even fully upgraded, your might find your PC is still not great for gaming, especially since the highest upgradable cpu is only 0.1GHz faster than the CPU in the video's rig.
@@PigEatinBacon13 Here's a comparison of what you have now (the E2) and the A8
www.cpu-world.com/Compare/148/AMD_A8-Series_A8-3850_vs_AMD_E2-Series_E2-3200.html
i wonder if an amd phenom ii 960t can be put in here?
Your graphics card didn't need pcie power? It's a 1050 right
Anything I could do to a slimline s5510f for gaming? Honestly mostly want to play Minecraft on decent setting and hopefully some modded Minecraft
Where is the nvidia graphics hardware l can't see it ??
3:35 thank me later
Is it possible you would get better GPU performance by upgrading the power supply to at least 500W?
I don't thinks so. Maybe yes if the GPU can be overclocked and the reason for not overclocking it is limited power. But generally PSU don't control performance.
I thought you were gonna upgrade the processor
I got a AMD phenom2 for ya
If u gonna play tf2 I recommend you to no to use the player model in the hud can be turned off in the console
Can u show me how to open the pc
Hi. Got a question. Wouldn't the x4 630 bottleneck with the 1050?
No
What is the PSU on that unit?
I hate Asus boards that HP uses... I've had to scrap out a few in my day.... this one was one of them.....just saved the processor....and the memory, if there was any....
Are you droodles Blitz?
Ok I have an HP that looks like this one but I know that it could play OG Skyrim, Fallout 4 and GTA 5/online at 1080p with good frame rates (how much? enough at high to mid settings) I think all I want to do is update the boot drive to an ssd (if I can) as it is slow to boot... it has windows 9 I do believe (I am at work soooo ?) and upgrading the ram to 16 (I think you can upgrade it all the way to 18 but again?) I think it is ddr4. Edit it upgraded its self to windows 10 with out my permission... not happy about that. Again edit: What ever hints or ideas are welcome...even smart ass ones as I like a good laugh 🤣.
They never made a Windows 9. It went from 7 to 8, to 8.1, to 10
@@johnmichaell2505 Thank you. I was able to find out the exact model I had when I got home...all in all not a bad rig and it had served me well for the last decade. I may up grade it with an ssd and I bought more ram. Upgrading the graphics card is not worth it as the architecture changed and the cards you can get have a poor cost to benefit ratio.
i got the hp pro , but it is soooooooooo f*cking slow!!!! i can barely do anything!!!!!!! help please!!!!!!!!!
Where is the nvidia graphics hardware in this stuff,,,I can't see it ??
@@Ieo2249 wdym
I have the same pc but I don't even use it at all coz l have another better gaming pc.....but I wanted to remove the Graphics for the old PC but l can't find it
Shouldn't you use an amd gpu because its an amd cpu? It would run better since they are made for each other?
No, that isn't how graphics cards work.
@@jamiechampion299 well how do they work then? i want to know so i can get the proper gpu for my cpu
@@bland9876 What do you mean? They work like any graphics card would (provided that is has proper power supply connections).
@@jamiechampion299 I just thought that if AMD made using a GPU and CPU then they could optimize the GPU way better to work with that CPU than they ever could with an Intel CPU in which they have no control over how it's made
@@bland9876 Not really. A GPU from NVIDIA is going to work as well as one from AMD. The CPUs use the same instructional architecture.
i have the elite
if i upgrade the ram to 10 or 16 gb how much would it be better
Compatibility issues like mine only allow up to 8 GB
My dad's Pavilion p7-1000 series had 8GB. I upgraded it to 16gb and it was a lot smoother. I want to get the Phenom 2 and an SSD for it next.
Can you help me with my pc is the same.
does it cabinet support crosair vss550w psu?
My pavilion has the 640 cpu 4gb ram and it has a mini pcie slot same one seen in laptops for wifi witch looks like an m.2 slot. Wonder if i can get an ssd that fits in there
I don't think these boards support an SSD in that slot. They are designed for the wireless cards that come installed in some machines. It would be far easier to use a SATA SSD.
@@jamiechampion299 the power supply has no sata connector so i would not be able to power an ssd in fact the hdd is connected with a old white plug (the ones ide drives use) and that is adapted to sata the only true sata power is connected to the dvd drive
@@bland9876 That is common on HP and Compaq machines of that era. You have to use molex to SATA adapters to power SATA drive. Usually they ship with adapters for SATA drives.
@@jamiechampion299 So I have to buy a SATA SSD a SATTA cable and a MOLEX to SATA power adapter? SATA power cables have lots of different wires and the MOLEX only has 4 so idk if it would work.
@@bland9876 Yes. If you are replacing the hard drive with the SSD, you can use the existing SATA cable. For power, you will need a molex to SATA power adapter (they are very common and do work) if your system doesn't already have one. I find it odd that you say that your system uses a hard drive with a molex power connector. That wasn't too common on SATA drives, and was really only seen in the mid 2000's with early SATA drives that were a bridge PATA design. Most systems this new should definitely have a newer drive than that.
Tragic cable management
I want this PC I like cheap and overpriced pcs
Would that mother board support an i5 processor
It is a am3 socket so i dont think so
@@jacobbolt3846 so I should stay with amd
@@bankhead832 well yes there are some good amd cpu's for a am3 socket
@@jacobbolt3846 big help I'm cramming my brain with cpu info and builds all in a matter of 1 week
@@bankhead832 no problem but intel cpu's dont fit an am3 only amds just letting you know
ok but HOW DO YOU OPEN IT???!?
On the side panels there's screws unscrew them
@@nojck oh. They dont look like any screw ive ever seen. It kinda looks like normal screws only accept that instead of that X its just a circle
@@Fettybun_productions u need a flathead screwdriver
@@nojck oh ok thanks for the help :D
@@Fettybun_productions no problem I have the pc myself and need to fix it
5:12 update, Windows 10/11 no longer takes old windows key because microsoft is an asshole.
Aye
Did u upgrade the cpu?
Nooooo
Honcho Flex if he were to upgrade the cpu he would have to chnage the motherboard and cpu which would only increase the price
YISTECH can I swap the amd cpu with another cpu? And if not how hard would it be to swap the motherboard
@@victormorales6124 Yes, you can. Check the specifications on the motherboard to see which CPUs it will support, and make sure your socket will match. Go to this site and put in your HP computer model, and it will tell you under the specifications what the motherboard can support. For the P6310y, the highest CPU it will take is AMD Phenom II X4 9xxx series, which will net you about 3.0-3.5GHz.
www.support.hp.com/us-en/computer
Can yu help make fix mine for me, you viedo can be I fixed a subscribers pc
This is really bad it’s not good
i have hp computer with an intel i5 im planning to buy 1050ti but i only have 300w power supply will it work?
Upgrade the PSU. Usually Ti 1050 card comes with external power pin. 300w is a bit low for adding gpu