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According to the specs, your HP Pavilion Desktop - 500-425nc is fitted with the Memphis-S motherboard (SSID: 2AF7), and just like I commented here, is fully 24-pin ATX power enabled/functional:
This is highly relevant, since your stock 180-watt ATX power supply doesn't have enough wattage to power a meaningful graphics card. Point is, you can swap your current power supply with any industry standard 24-pin ATX power supply, as long as you watch its dimensions (LxWxH) for fit inside your case.
Look, it all depends on your budget. Personally, I would recommend upgrading your power supply to at least a 400-watt power supply and go for a decent graphics card like a GTX 1650 at a minimum, or consider an RTX 3050, GTX 1660 Ti or GTX 1660 Super -whatever you can afford.
As far as a processor upgrade is concerned, go for a 4-Cores, 8-Threads CPU, such as an i7-4770, i7-4770K, or an i7-4790 -all 84-watt TDP processors, or an i7-4770S or i7-4790S, which are 65-watt processors, and thus run cooler.
Kind Regards,
NonSequitur777
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Welcome to our HP community forum!
According to the specs, your HP Pavilion Desktop - 500-425nc is fitted with the Memphis-S motherboard (SSID: 2AF7), and just like I commented here, is fully 24-pin ATX power enabled/functional:
This is highly relevant, since your stock 180-watt ATX power supply doesn't have enough wattage to power a meaningful graphics card. Point is, you can swap your current power supply with any industry standard 24-pin ATX power supply, as long as you watch its dimensions (LxWxH) for fit inside your case.
Look, it all depends on your budget. Personally, I would recommend upgrading your power supply to at least a 400-watt power supply and go for a decent graphics card like a GTX 1650 at a minimum, or consider an RTX 3050, GTX 1660 Ti or GTX 1660 Super -whatever you can afford.
As far as a processor upgrade is concerned, go for a 4-Cores, 8-Threads CPU, such as an i7-4770, i7-4770K, or an i7-4790 -all 84-watt TDP processors, or an i7-4770S or i7-4790S, which are 65-watt processors, and thus run cooler.
Kind Regards,
NonSequitur777
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