HP Compaq 8000 Elite power supply upgarde

[XargXar]

Just added yet another hdd to my system. Its got now 4 3.5"hdds, 1 ssd, the stock dvdrw, a cheap (under $10) sound card with 2 optical outputs, a cheap pci sata card and the gtx670. Mwwwwahahaha Burn Baby Burn!!! Nah... still cool.

[junaidiqbal]

How will be the fan speed without those fan cables in the converter ? Will it be teasing or normal ?

Your psu fan speed teasing or is it fine ?

[XargXar]

If you don't connect them you'll get a fan error message - press f1 to continue each time you turn on the pc. The lazy way to get around this is to use the Fan Speed signal form the chassis fan to fool the motherboard. Check the schematics uploaded here for more info. Let me know if you still need more help.

[prerunnerwannab]

Hey, so I found a thread that says an 8100 elite small form factor gives a max of 35 watts through the pcie slot. So it looks like a 750 ti does NOT work because it draws like twice that much power.

[prerunnerwannab]

Idk about an 8200 elite sff though.

[prerunnerwannab]

Okay, so there seemed to be some discrepancy in the HP manuals, but from what I gathered after a chunk of research, is that the 8100-8300 Elite SFF all have a max output of 35 watts thought the PCIe x16 slot. The full size towers all do 75 watts, but if you have a small form factor, you're screwed unless you have a gpu with a 6 or 8 pin external power source which would require an atx psu...
So no plug and play 750 ti options for us with an SFF elite which super freaking blows chunks. Seriously, I'm just about ready to boycott HP over how absurdly proprietary they make their designs.

Sorry for giving you false hope Barnstormer. I had the same plan as you 😞

As a side note, I finally got my computer to run in a stable manner. All I had to do was replace everything that was HP 🙂 All that I took from the origional computer is the cpu, the hard drive (which will be replaced soon) and the dvd drive. But on the plus side, it's allowing me to play around with making a small Steam OS box, because all I need now is a cpu (I'll pick up a used i3 on eBay or something) and a hard drive (I have an extra hanging around). 

So pretty soon if any of you are interested I can throw up a post on my thoughts about how well an i3 8100 Elite SFF works at being a Steam Box 🙂

[Barnstormer]

I'm still waiting for my cable to arrive from China. Ok it amazes me that they can make the thing and ship it half way around the world for £5/$10 or whatever it was, but it takes soooo long to get stuff here. I'll let you know when it turns up. My system is a CMT by the way, in case there's any confusion.

[prerunnerwannab]

Lol oops, I meant OatmealNuggy.
But I know, right? It's so cheap!

[XargXar]

The asus gt730 2gb ddr5 is a low profile compatible card that runs on just 25w. Its my recommendation for a sff system after installing one in a m58p. Check the reviews and videos for this card keeping in mind that there are versions with less memory and ddr3 instead of ddr5. I'm not saying they are bad cards but haven't tried them.

[prerunnerwannab]

Dude, XargXar, you're an absolute legond! I was going to settle with some little gt 710, but now I can get something that's halfway decent for my Steam box! 

I also found a page by Nvidia giving the specs of the different 730s, and it's good to note that one of them draws a bunch of power, but it's like the worst one of the bunch, sowhile that's kind of weird, it's fine with me!

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-730/specifications

What's also really nice, is that the 2gb gddr5 EVGA card on Newegg has a review from a guy that has an 8200 Elite SFF, and he says it works great and that it really impressed him with how well it plays games, so we know it'll work! Woo!

So many Kudos for that post! 🙂