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04-11-2024 11:29 AM
Look up:
HP Elite 705 G1 QuickSpecs pdf
You'll find there are different form factors for that. What is yours? Options close down the smaller you get in terms of what you can do and how much power you have to do that with.
04-11-2024 12:19 PM - edited 04-11-2024 12:29 PM
HP EliteDesk 705 G1 Small Form Factor PC - Setup and User Guides | HP® Support
Lots of good info from HP there. Get the service guide and on page 23 (look for that # on the bottom corner of the page) you'll see the 1/2 height (small form factor card and backplane metal plate) video cards that HP specified to work in there. You can look up their power draw specs to see what HP engineered in as a max power draw. You only have a 240W max tdp power supply to work with.
Your SFF box was released in 2014 but it will be able to run current W11 using Paul's Rufus technique from the forum here. I'd use that to do a W11 install. Hopefully you're already running W10 so it will be able to use the "digital license" from that to auto-activate the W11 install. For sure you need to be running a SSD if not already.
EDIT: For the SFF models I like the nVidia Quadro K620 card, still getting driver updates. I turn off the processor based video if that is present and use the card instead. I'm sure others have their favorites too. You have one PCIe x16 with 16 lanes, and one with only 4 lanes... use the one with 16 electrical lanes for your video card... IIRC it is black and the lesser one is white. Make sure you get the short backplane metal plate, not the tall one. Let the seller know that is critical for your needs. These are going for about 18-20 USD currently, recycled via eBay.
04-11-2024 10:56 PM - edited 04-11-2024 10:57 PM
Re your basic question... that card is also from 2014. If anything has sprinted foreword fastest in computer history in that time frame to now, 2024, it has been video card technology. Performance for cost/power used has gone way up since 2014. As a good friend said years ago to me.... "Time to come out of your mud hut".
So, your foundation is strong, could be stronger, and your proposed video card is not.