Upgrading an HP Pavilion TP01-3003W (318K3AA)

[NonSequitur777]

Respected Community,

Also going to upgrade the primary (boot) drive to a much faster AND competitively priced 1TB Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 3D NAND M.2 NVMe SSD, with read/write speeds up to 5,000 / 4,200 MB/s, though this drive will run at lower Gen3 I/O speeds in this PC:

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[NonSequitur777]

Dear Community,

Changed out the 500GB SK Hynix Gold S31 SATA SSD with a 1TB Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD.  Also swapped the rear chassis 90mm cooling fan with a 90mm blue LED cooling fan and added a 70mm blue LED cooling fan near the front panel.

Ordered a Corsair ML 120mm blue LED cooling fan + black grill guard to be added on the chassis' top-panel exterior, over the air intake cooling grid:

Btw, as you can see in this picture, I placed a non-LED 120mm cooling fan on the top panel, where the Corsair cooling fan is going to be placed.  Reason for this cooling fan is that the top panel air intake grid at this moment is passive and given the additional heat this system is already generating even without a 95-watt processor, creating a forced top air intake will significantly improve internal air flow/cooling.

Also updated BIOS version from AMI F.25 (03/26/2024) to F.30 (06/22/2024).

New/updated Userbenchmark scores: HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-3xxx Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[NonSequitur777]

Dear Forum,

Actually, rather than upsetting the beautiful white Pavilion case appearance, I decided to use a white-colored Thermalright 120x120x15mm ARGB PWM Slimline cooling fan (on sale via Amazon for $8.90) which will fit on the inside of the vented top panel:

Will use the Corsair 120x120x25mm fixed blue LED cooling fan I ordered for a different project.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[ea0680]

I have this same computer * with I5-12400,  Great to see how you are updating this system.   Thanks for keeping us updated. 

[NonSequitur777]

@ea0680,

Thank you for your feedback -stay tuned, more to come.

A really fun upgrade project, that is for sure!

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[NonSequitur777]

Dear Community,

Upgraded to an Asus RTX 2080 Super EVO V2 8GB GDDR6 and from a 500-watt power supply to a 650-watt unit, with HP part number: L57253-003 / L36049-003, in order to power this 250-watt TDP graphics card:

Ran Userbenchmark:

Link: HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-3xxx Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Bill_To]

Greetings @NonSequitur777 

The HP 650 watt PSU works with a TP01 case and MB?

That's interesting.

Did you have to mod the 650 watt PSU?

Regards

[NonSequitur777]

@Bill_To,

No, the 650-watt power supply did not require any modding: I happened to notice that its "P2" power connector had the same size/config as the stock TP01 power supply, and just tried it out, and voilà: the PC fired right up sans any issues whatsoever.

The only 'mod' of sorts I applied is that I connected a 6-pin PCIe to 8-pin PCIe power adapter cable to the PSU's 6-pin PCIe power cable, because the RTX 2080 Super requires two 8-pin PCIe power cables.  The power supply provides one 6-pin and one 6+2-pin PCIe power cables. Since each PCIe power cable provides 12V x 18A = 216-watt of power, this 6-pin PCIe to 8-pin PCIe power adapter cable modification is not an issue whatsoever.

Even though the 650-watt PSU's height is larger than the stock-sized power supply, it fits snugly inside the case (see previous picture) and the case happens to provide all 4 installation holes too in order to secure the power supply.

Think outside the box people: in principle never take "no" or "it can't/shouldn't be done" for an answer.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Bill_To]

Greetings @NonSequitur777 

Good to know.

I had thought this HP PC, and the entire product line which encompasses very many HP PCs, had a hard HP 500 watt PSU limit.

I have been giving incorrect advice to GPU upgraders for years.

The PC case has GPU dimension limits which cannot be denied. But there are a lot of higher powered dual fan GPUs which could work with the 650 watt PSU and this HP case and HP MB.

It's too bad HP does not provide more proprietary component upgrade info. Doing this would make life so much easier for all concerned.

Regards

[NonSequitur777]

Dear Forum, @Bill_To,

And speaking of 'thinking outside the box' (read: Reservation), it appears that I am the first HP System Pavilion Desktop TP01-3xxx User (at least based on Userbenchmark entries) to show that higher wattage 12th gen Intel Core "K" / "KF" processors are, in fact, compatible with this platform:

Link: HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-3xxx Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

Link: UserBenchmark: HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-3xxx Compatible Components.

The 125-watt HP LGA1700 CPU heatsink I had also purchased didn't fit, so I 'modded' the existing 45-watt heatsink by replacing the single 0.50 Amp cooling fan with dual 0.65 Amp Foxconn (p/n: PVA080G12Q) cooling fans:

I have had good results with stacking cooling fans on HP stock CPU heatsinks, as the airflow through the CPU's heatsink cooling fins increases markedly, thus keeping temps down.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777