How would I go about upgrading the PSU?

[ma_gician]

How do I go about upgrading the power supply? The other parts I want to add (GPU, Better CPU, RAM) require more power (550w+). Do I need to buy an adapter? I heard that the hp pavilions have 4/8 pin PSUs which will not work with 24 pin ATX PSUs.

[BeemerBiker]

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@ma_gician wrote:

How do I go about upgrading the power supply? The other parts I want to add (GPU, Better CPU, RAM) require more power (550w+). Do I need to buy an adapter? I heard that the hp pavilions have 4/8 pin PSUs which will not work with 24 pin ATX PSUs.

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The P6597c has the AMD 760G chipset and probably looks like these

It takes a standard ATX power supply:  24 pin and a 4 pin 'CPU' power

Unfortunately, the BIOS do does not support UEFI graphics cards. That pretty much rules out anything manufacturerd after 2011

I was unable to find a bios update and manuals are almost non-existent

It was a good system when it came out but it is time to move on.

Put latest ubuntu on it and use it for sandbox surfing and torrenting.

[ma_gician]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMF_SPcLL0Y might work! I'm not giving up hope just yet.

[BeemerBiker]

HP motherboards are notorious for disabling on-board graphics when a graphics card is added.

I went through this with HP Pro 3400 (cupertino2 mombo) and had to mod the bios to enable a GTX-1060 to work.  The BIOS mode un-hid an "advanced' menu that allowed enabling the on-board graphics.  It was basically like the video you posted except the on-board graphics took the place of the cheap card the YouTube author added..

Your motherboard has ATI Radeon 3000 IGP which is a graphics chip on the motherboard.  If the HP bios does it's usual "thing" it will disable the on-board graphics and your new UEFI graphics card will not not work.  You might luck out.    Borrow any graphics card and see if the on board graphics is disabled when the new card is inserted.  If not disabled then a more recent gen 3 card might work and you will not have to obtain a 2nd card just to allow booting into windows.

You might try some larger memory sticks.  My Pro3400 was listed as using only 2 or 4gb sticks for a maximum of 8gb ram but I discovered that 8gb worked fine and now have 16 which is perfect for what I need.

[ma_gician]

Everyone I know is using a laptop right now so borrowing a GPU is not an option. Since older HP motherboards almost always disabled the on board graphics like you said and what I’ve researched, I’ll just get a GT 710 along with the other GPU. (it is a RTX 2060 super I have not purchased yet)

[NonSequitur777]

@ma_gician,

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

I do agree in principle with @BeemerBiker that investing in this older HP platform is, well, undesirable.

Nevertheless, as @BeemerBiker pointed out, your motherboard is ATX 24-pin power-enabled, so you could swap your existing power supply with an industry standard ATX power supply -look out for its dimensions for fit. If you do want to upgrade this desktop, install the max 4 x 4GB of DDR3 RAM and the Athlon II X2 B30.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[ma_gician]

Thank you for the response. The current CPU this board is using is a AMD Athlon ii x4 630 which is am3 (Edit: am3 & am2+). I believe I could upgrade this PC at up to a Phenom II x6 1100t which is am3. The motherboard (confirmed) supports pcie 2.0 which would not be a problem for the 2060 super.

[BeemerBiker]

I believe your system is the "p6000" series that uses the HP Alpinia-GLB motherboard

http://www.ascendtech.us/hp-605561-001-alpinia-gl8-motherboard_i_mbhpc605561rs78.aspx

Please look at your motherboard for part number 605561-001 to verify

Note that the above link lists a lot of HP systems all 6000 series numbers.  Some of those 6xxx are still listed at HP and drivers could be downloaded if necessary.   You might read this post by @Prométhée but I would not update the bios.  

[ma_gician]

I won't update the BIOS, don't worry. The CPU socket is am3 according to CPU-Z. I'm checking what part number it is right now. Edit: I'm back it's a 605561-001 which means confirmed am3 😎

[BeemerBiker]

The motherboard bios also has to support that processor.  For example, the  Phenom II X6 1055T has microcode 0x100FA0

That microcode is "sort of" listed in that 6.10 bios 

I believe that "no" means there is a newer version available.

That tool probably works on a copy of the bios such as "610.rom" and cannot access the bios directly.

You have an AMI bios and there are tools to download the bios for backup purposes

What bios version do you have?

You might look into obtaining that extractor tool and see if the FA0 microcode is in your bios.

The CPU will not be recognized if the microcode is not there.