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‎11-30-2022 01:21 PM

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I bought this about 5 years ago for video editing, its product number is z5n5oaa#aba, I would like to upgrade it.  To run faster and hopefully do less buffering.  Any help

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‎11-30-2022 03:03 PM

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@rondo64,

 

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

 

The product number you provided (Z5N50AA), according to: https://partsurfer.hp.com/partsurfer?searchtext=z5n50aa, is the HP Pavilion Desktop - 570-p047c.  According to: HP Pavilion 570-p047c Desktop PC Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support, this desktop is fitted with a 180-watt power supply, but the nice thing is that your motherboard, called "Lubin" with SSID: 82F2, is 24-pin ATX-power enabled -meaning, you could upgrade your power supply as to fit/power a nice(er) graphics card.

 

I would upgrade the RAM to 2 x 8GB of DDR4 PC4-19200, 2400 MHz, Non-EEC, Unbuffered, UDIMM, 288-pin RAM sticks.

 

Also, I would recommend the i7-7700 processor for speed.

 

Lastly, I would switch out the original HDD for a much speedier SSD using the freeware program Macrium Reflect Free for cloning.

 

If any of this resonates with you, and/or need suggestions how to do it, let me know.

 

Kind Regards,

 

NonSequitur777


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‎11-30-2022 03:03 PM

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@rondo64,

 

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

 

The product number you provided (Z5N50AA), according to: https://partsurfer.hp.com/partsurfer?searchtext=z5n50aa, is the HP Pavilion Desktop - 570-p047c.  According to: HP Pavilion 570-p047c Desktop PC Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support, this desktop is fitted with a 180-watt power supply, but the nice thing is that your motherboard, called "Lubin" with SSID: 82F2, is 24-pin ATX-power enabled -meaning, you could upgrade your power supply as to fit/power a nice(er) graphics card.

 

I would upgrade the RAM to 2 x 8GB of DDR4 PC4-19200, 2400 MHz, Non-EEC, Unbuffered, UDIMM, 288-pin RAM sticks.

 

Also, I would recommend the i7-7700 processor for speed.

 

Lastly, I would switch out the original HDD for a much speedier SSD using the freeware program Macrium Reflect Free for cloning.

 

If any of this resonates with you, and/or need suggestions how to do it, let me know.

 

Kind Regards,

 

NonSequitur777


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‎12-02-2022 08:45 PM

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Thank you so much.  It already has the i7-7700 in it.  Than you again for the help.

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