HP 280 G2 MT

[hat7384]

Hey guys, I have a i3-6100, 8GB ram and 1tb HDD.  I want to upgrade it to a i7-6700k, 16gb ram, gtx 1660 super and upgrade the PSU from 180 to 500w. 

I feel like I need to upgrade the bios and/or change the CPU from the 6700k to the 6700.

BTW is there any psu that can support the 1660 super as well.

Thanks

[jkomarek]

If this is your machine https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04955444

then you can upgrade to an i7-6700 (TDP: 65W), but not an i7-6700k (TDP: 91W). 

With the upgraded PSU, it should be possible to power the i7-6700k, but it is not certain if there is a BIOS which supports it. With the upgrade to the i7-6700, you roughly double your CPU performance, the 3 to 5% more that the k version gives you are not worth the risk and price of this project - but that is only my opinion, the decision is yours. 

The RAM upgrade to 16 GB should be no problem and is very recommendable nowadays. 

The gtx 1660 super will most likely not work with the original PSU, if you really want that card, you will need a stronger PSU, i7-6700k or not. 

If you are into overclocking, by all means, do it. Personally, I wouldn't do it since I value stability above all else. And those 5 to10% more performance which a good overclocker might achieve can be measured, but usually not felt. 

But wait - you did not touch the subject of the one killer-performance upgrade that is easily possible to do! Exchange your HDD against an SSD (probably a SATA3 model), reinstall your operating system, games and applications and enjoy an enormous speed increase! My old laptop sped up the boot process from 120 sec to 20 sec after I built in a SATA3 SSD. An NVMe SSD would be even faster, but I do not think the machine is compatible, so I would refrain from it. 

[NonSequitur777]

@hat7384,

Not to be disagreeable, but an HP 280 G2 MT (legacy or non-legacy) can, in fact, power the two Intel 6th gen 91-watt TDP processors (i5-6600K & i7-6700K), such as these fine HP 280 G2 MT Users examples show:

Link: HP 280 G2 MT (Legacy) Performance Results - UserBenchmark

Link: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49254975.

Since your HP 280 G2 MT motherboard (SSID: 2B5E) is 24-pin ATX-power enabled, I don't see why you couldn't use a fitting industry standard ATX power supply to power an upgraded graphics card, like this HP 280 G2 MT User did, who had an RTX 3070 installed, which suggests that this User installed at least a 600-watt power supply: HP 280 G2 MT (Non-Legacy) Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

Just my dime's-worth observations.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[jkomarek]

By all means, if you have the evidence to counter my (sometimes overly careful) statements, please do so! The TO can now make an informed statement.