Upgrade HP Pavilion 595-p0570ng

[Nurligion]

Hello,

I want to check the posibility to change the Rx 550 2GB against the new AMD RX 5600 4GB.

I Know that the problem will be the PowerSupply.

The system has a 180W PSU, but the Different is only 3 Watt TDP (RX550 50W TDP against RX5600 53W TDP).

Thanks

Stefan

[BeemerBiker]

Can you provide a link to the card you are interested in buying?  the only 5600 series I can find require a minimum of 450 Watt power supply and an 8 pin power connector

[Nurligion]

Upsi, wrong Card I ment RX 6400 😄 sry.

Link to AMD:

https://www.amd.com/de/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-6400
Link Example
https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/4GB-PowerColor-Radeon-RX-6400-LowProfile-DDR6-retail_145...

[BeemerBiker]

I trust tech power up and they recommend a 250 watt power supply

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-6400.c3813

A comparison of RX550 and RX6400s shows better performance for sure

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-6400-vs-AMD-RX-550/m1834749vs3925

Note that the RX550 is recommended.  I suspect that is because of the price.to value.  There are only 16 reviews of the 6400 probably all are based on "give aways" by AMD to reviewers.  There is not even a price list.  If you find one one listed on eBay is is probably fake.  I bought a fake gtx1050ti two years ago and was lucky to be able to return it.

IMHO the 6400 is superior but you need 250 watts.

[Nurligion]

After all i decided to buy the 4GB MSI Radeon RX 6400 Aero ITX retail at Mindfactory.

Fist stresstest about 600 sec works fine.

Decisive for me was techpowerup where both cards needed a 250 watt power supply.

The MSI Tool "AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition" shows the used Power, it was at max at 53 Watt.

I guess th recomended Power Supply has to calculate the whole System.  And the HP Pavilion 595-p0570ng has not much extra power consumer. The CPU uses 65 Watt.

Thanks for your help and links 🙂

[midwolf]

Hey 

I thought about doing the same thing on my 180w HP slim line. How it goes for you? Just to know : i've an i3-10100 , 2x8 ddr4, and 3 drives (1ssd +2hdd), what about you?

Thanks in advance, I'm doing the math and it's supposed to be ok. I just want to play low budget with the things I already own (no overclock, no later cpu upgrade) but people just replying : have a 100w more than you need ..just to be sure....- Sure about what the ..????? 🤔

[BeemerBiker]

Let me know if it works good with the 180 "gold" power supply as  there are a lot of owners that want to upgrade.

[midwolf]

Well.... Tried on my "Slim Desktop S01-pF1011nf" and I'd to attempt 3 times for the computer to boot, and it didn't recognize my rx 6400. (Classic psu problem. It just won't let some component load to ensure the boot. Can be an hdd , here it was the GPU, (It happen in my old optiplex 3020))

As it was basically plug and play with my other 240w psu PC (Inspiron 3891), I guess 180w is just not enough.

For the info I tried with 1 8go ram/ 2 hdd + 1 nvme ssd and 3 usb dongles to "emulate" a regular use. 

Learn my lesson 😓.

Everything still functioning without the gpu though. 

Now I'll also tell people to secure a 100w more than the need .... "Just to be sure" ... 😂

Update: I tried again weeks after, and it seems that it works. But I had to rely just on the nvme ssd, no other hard drive. The overall system is a bit noisy too. I'll not bet it can last for long.

But it works... eventually