Desktop upgrades questons

[Jr2089]

Hello, I wanted to upgrade my pc to play more modern games and I have a few questions. What’s the best/range of cpus that I can use with the Lubin motherboard? Does it only go up to an i7-7700? Could the lubin motherboard use any Gpu that fits it? And could I take everything out and put it in a bigger case? Thanks and have a good day.

[NonSequitur777]

@Jr2089,

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

Very good questions, I would like to assist.

Your HP Pavilion Desktop - 570-p017c PC (Z5M32AA) as fitted with a Lubin motherboard (SSID: 82F2), is compatible with the following processors according to: HP Desktop PCs - motherboard specifications, Lubin | HP® Customer Support:

Even though the specs say: "TDP: Up to 65 W", I was pretty confident that you should be able to upgrade up to an i7-7700K, as I was able to do so in other related legacy HP LGA1151 socket-type desktops.  However, when I looked at almost 1,500 "HP System Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p0XX" performance scores here: UserBenchmark: HP Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p0XX Compatible Components, none of these desktops was fitted with an i7-7700K.

It seems highly unlikely that all HP System Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p0XX Users somehow forgot about the i7-7700K, and never tried it out.  Thus, chances are that HP strictly enforces the 65-watt TDP limit rule on this particular PC platform.

Moving on to graphics cards.  As the aforementioned UserBenchMark link shows, ANY GPU is compatible with your desktop.  You'll have to carefully measure inside your case though, in order to ascertain what size graphics card will fit, and then upgrade your ATX power supply (also watch its dimensions for fit) to match your GPU's power demand accordingly. 

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777