HP Pavilion 570-p070na Graphics Card upgrade?

[TheBorester]

Hi All,

I am a complete newbie to forums so apologies if i am repeating here.

I am looking to upgrade the Graphics Card in a HP Pavilion 570-p070na.

The graphics card i was looking at is the MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

I've never installed a graphics card before and wondered would this be compatible?

If not could someone suggest something compatible for playing games such as Final Fantasy 14 / Fallout 4

Many Thanks

[Grzwacz]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

The card you are looking at may not fit in your MB or chassis. Your MB is slightly over eight inches in length. This graphics card is nine inches in length. Plus the PSU 24 pin motherboard connection may cause a problem with a dual slot graphics card. 

The card, I think you are looking at, (Link) is a dual slot card and requires a minimum 300 watt PSU and one six pin PCIe PSU connection. You have a 180 watt PSU.

A successful graphics card upgrade using the card you are considering is not looking very good.

You need a SFF (shorter length and possibly a single slot) graphics card that will fit in your chassis. A good gaming card will require a PSU upgrade.

Regards

[TheBorester]

Many thanks for your help Grzwacz.

This confirms my suspions, although i wanted to check as it is all so confusing 🤣

Thank you again for your reply!

[Grzwacz]

Hi TheBorester,

You're very welcome.

Very sorry I could not help.

PC upgrades can be confusing.

Regards

[TheBorester]

Hi Grzwacz,

I've been doing a bit more research and noticed you had commented on a similar post where a guy had upgraded his PSU but his machine was a  570-p050na

Would the same PSU go in my machine (570-p070na)

Then would this single slot card go in and do you think it would be sufficient for modern day gaming.

The card is EVGA GeForce GT 730 4GB DDR3 Dual DVI mHDMI Graphics Cards link

Even if that graphics card is not suitable can you recommend a good single slot one that will go in easy enough?

Many Thanks again for all your help.

[Grzwacz]

Hi The Borester,

Yes, the 570-p050na PSU upgrade should work in your PC; both systems have a similar chassis and the same Lubin MB. Make sure the new PSU has supplemental PCIe connectors. This gives you GPU upgrade options to use more powerful graphics cards for better gaming.

The EVGA GT 730 may fit. This graphics card is 6.6 inches in length but is over four inches in height. The Lubin MB has the 24 pin PSU connector and Front_Panel audio and USB 2.0 connectors located close to the PCIe x16 graphics card slot.

I can't say for sure you will not have any graphics card installation problems with the 730. 

I would look at Nvidia 1000 series cards. Some OEMs are making SFF cards. These cards may be a better fit in your system.

The comparative 1000 series cards are more power efficient and provide greater bandwidth.

I use this site (Link) to see if my system can run specific games at the recommended settings.

Regards

[Grzwacz]

Hi The Borester,

I forgot to mention the following in the previous response.

There are other factors which affect the gaming experience. The RAM, the processor, and the MB's chipset DMI.

All of this hardware contributes to a good experience. The latest and greatest graphics card cannot overcome other hardware limitations.

Regards

[TheBorester]

Thank you again Grzwacz for all your valuable information you have helped so much.

I'll get the PSU ordered for starters and take a look at the SFF cards you mentioned.

Many thanks again

[Grzwacz]

Hi TheBorester,

You're very welcome.

I am relying on your previous reference to a successful PSU upgrade on a 570-p050na system you found in a different thread.

Did the PSU upgrade work in that PC? I don't know what specific thread you are referring to and don't know if the OP was successful in upgrading the PSU on that system.

I would not want to see you get a PSU and then find out it does not fit in the chassis.

Go for the new PSU if you know the upgrade worked on the other PC.

Regards

[TheBorester]

Hi Grzwacz,

Yes the PSU upgrade was successful, he had to do a little bit of fudging to get the card in eg disconnection of front panel, disconnection of cd, and a hacksaw job on the case of the gpu to clear the PSU connector haha.

But the PSU went in grand.

Found another post where a user managed to get a MSI GTX 1050 TI 4G OC (single fan) in a HP 570-p023w which i think may be the same case and motherboard.

They said it fitted fine with the front panel connections and cleared the psu connector.

They just had to push out the cd drive to get the GPU installed but then pushed it back in once installed.

I may give this one a try see how it goes