Is the HP Desktop Intel Core i5-13400 upgradable?

[bananaban]

Hello! I have a HP Desktop Intel Core I5-13400, it has 12 gb of ram, and 512 gb of ssd. I'd like to know if I can upgrade it, and by extension, put an RTX 4060 into it. Thank you!

[jkomarek]

Hello and welcome to the HP support community. What PC do you have precisely, please give the model. Very much in general, yes, you most likely can upgrade a HP desktop PC. But to be certain, we really need to know what model exactly your PC is. 

When you have this information, you can search for the computer name on YouTube - HP has good support videos where they explain how to exchange certain parts (at least for their business PC line they have that). 

In google, you can search for "specs >your PC model name>" - there is also good information available in this way.

[bananaban]

Hello, I have a S01-pF2043wb pc, the ram and ssd are 8gb and 512. I'm planning on turning it into a gaming pc, thank you.

[jkomarek]

If you mean this machine https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c08655158

then this is your motherboard: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c08266241

And the documentation says that you can upgrade your CPU up to an Intel Core i7-12700 or an Intel Core i7-12700F. That is quite a powerful CPU. 

Regarding the RAM, your motherboard has two slots of which one is in use. The easiest would be to use the same amount and kind of RAM once more, you then have 16 GB, and that should be enough for most games. But you can also replace your 1*8 GB of RAM with 2*16 GB for a total of 32 GB, the maximum supported amount for your motherboard. 

I am not sure if you can upgrade your GPU or not. Currently, the GPU which is integrated in your CPU is used. This is decent for office work and watching a movie, but gaming is not the strong suit of Intel's integrated GPUs. You are limited by the available PCI slots (there should be one large one which can be used for a graphics card if the geometry of your case and the size of the card permit it) and by the 180 watts of your integrated power supply which is not much at all. You can probably only use a low profile graphics card with up to 75 watts of power consumption, and even that may be pushing it. That would be a card with e.g. an Intel ARC A380 chip (I have one of those, they are fantastic for video encoding via hardware and should also be decent for gaming - but since I am not a gamer, I cannot really speak from experience) or with an AMD Radeon RX550 chip. Probably not so great for video encoding but even better for gaming. But I repeat, I am not certain about this part.