Hp 6300 vs Hp 8300 sff and cmt

[umarazmat]

I needs to know or a comparison page what is differences between these desktop and tower models 

unfortunately HP never bother of making a comparison on there products. 

I need to know same and different spec. 

Hp 6300 desktop or cmt

vs

Hp 8300 desktop and cmt

first things I like to get cleared too .

i know board is different.

but does both have sata III support hard drive or is it sata II only.

what max hard drive capacity can it handles. In one drive or two. 3tb and 4tb ???

Power supply?

[wb2001]

@umarazmat,

 Not sure where your being offered these older Business machines. What I can tell you is that the market has been flooded with resales. The PSU in both is a fixed item, the motherboards are not an ATX form.  The power headers different.  The main power is a 6 pin, and the aux is 4 pin.  Trying to cobble an ATX is hazardous. The BIOS level should preclude modern graphic cards.

The HP6 300 dates back to May 2012.  Various versions had Linux, WIN 7, and some has WIN 8.

The 8300 dates back to Sept 2012, so that version also shares the plight of the 6300's.

 As to a hard drives, the capacity should be limited to 2T.

The  6300 supports only 1 Sata 600 drive, the 8300 supports only 2 Sata 600.

[umarazmat]

These are flooded in my local market and even older hp 8000 and dell 780

my main concern is in desktop it will be not for gaming at all due to the psu of it and will no install gpu too.

as I will be connecting two hard drive with dvdrw .

as that is my mainly Concern.

will be for streaming, uploading, downloading, windows, office excel and word, watching movies on full 1080 hd.

i will be buying 2tb and 1tb, but for the moment I will be connecting 250gb for now until these comes next week.

that why I needed to know is 6300 was worth it or not. As it is limited to sata II Mainly, then I guess hp 8300 it is.

as for me ram , hdd should be as new as possible. And it's graphic can handle my movies and works.

i will use it to max of it life hopefully 3-5 years. Before it become scrap and 6th Gen comes in its place by then.

[umarazmat]

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@wb2001 wrote:

@umarazmat,

 Not sure where your being offered these older Business machines. What I can tell you is that the market has been flooded with resales. The PSU in both is a fixed item, the motherboards are not an ATX form.  The power headers different.  The main power is a 6 pin, and the aux is 4 pin.  Trying to cobble an ATX is hazardous. The BIOS level should preclude modern graphic cards.

The HP6 300 dates back to May 2012.  Various versions had Linux, WIN 7, and some has WIN 8.

The 8300 dates back to Sept 2012, so that version also shares the plight of the 6300's.

 As to a hard drives, the capacity should be limited to 2T.

The  6300 supports only 1 Sata 600 drive, the 8300 supports only 2 Sata 600.

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I also forgot to mentioned I will be upgrading the windows too, firstly to windows 10 and then further windows 

[wb2001]

@umarazmat,

Here is a illustrated guide.  See section 6 on graphics.

[umarazmat]

Thank you,  seems graphics are okay ... I guess it woudl be enough for movies not 4k movies though.

But I'm confused on the limit of hard drive of 2tb...

is it limit to max tv it hand holds for single hard drive or for all hard drive .

eg . I plan to buy 1tb and 2tb 

will both work or will only one work ...

as now im considering of looking at those unbranded option as I need to work two in desktop and 3 in cmt or tower. With 1tb, 2tb  and 500gb , if I went for tower one.