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‎02-22-2020 02:25 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion 590-p0020
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello.

 

I like to play games like Skyrim and such that need decent graphics to actually enjoy. To do so, I need to upgrade the video card and by in order to do that I need to upgrade the PSU as well. 

 

I know *how to do both as I have been upgrading computers for about 25 years but I cannot find detailed specs on the HP Pavilion 590-p0020 anywhere so that I know exactly what I can actually upgrade to.

 

For the video expansion slot, everything simply says PCI-e.  Nothing on the net seems to say which version of PCI-e the motherboard has on it. I have read people on amazon saying that they upgraded this same desktop pc to PCI-e 3.0 graphics cards by nvidia but I don't know if I believe that. 

 

Can anyone here tell me what version PCI-e the expansion slot is and how powerful a PSU I can put in? Or give me some examples of some really nice but not too expensive cards that they would suggest?

 

I have a couple hundred extra dollars to spend but nothing outrageous and that is, luckily lol, with my wife's blessing hahaha.

 

I love this machine. It was a Christmas present year before last just after mine crashed hard. I am just hoping to give it a boost. I have 32 gig of ram in it right now, so that is already maxed.

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‎02-22-2020 04:21 PM - edited ‎02-22-2020 04:27 PM

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@beodawn1,

The HP 590-0020, as shown here,  utilizes a proprietary PSU.  The GPU card slot is PCIEx16 version 3.0

Please read the commentary, and snapshot by spreadsheet.  When I update the data, the link is destroyed (for now).  The cross reference is my work. Just follow the logic.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Upgrading-Power-Supply/m-p/7476...

 

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