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OMEN 30L Desktop - GT13-0280z CTO
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My HP Omen 30L desktop is from 2020. It comes with GeForce RTX 2060 Super, OMN Moria3 B450 30L PREM US PC as motherboard, Cooler Master 500 W Smart AC power adapter, and the AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X W/RGB Air Cooling.

Now that the gaming computer world is already many generations ahead, I wonder if it's possible to upgrade at least one of the following without replacing the motherboard and the power adapter:

1. GPU to the RTX 4060 Super

2. HDD to a  2TB SSD 

3. CPU to the latest Ryzen 7

Because if I need to replace the motherboard than it almost seems easier to just replace with a new PC?

 

 

 

 

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@Axis910,

 

Welcome to our HP community forum!

 

Your OMEN 30L Desktop - GT13-0280z as fitted with a Moria3 motherboard (SSID: 86D3), can be upgraded up to a Ryzen 9 3900 (3.10 GHz up to 4.30 GHz, 12-Cores, 24-Threads).  You can purchase this CPU for under a $100 via this trusted eBay Seller: https://www.ebay.com/itm/226314238784?_nkw=Ryzen+9+3900&itmmeta=01J6D8XKER9AY760FWMT6KZ20D&hash=item....

 

A Ryzen 9 3900 provides a nice performance increase over a Ryzen 7 3700X: Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen 9 3900 [14-Benchmark Showdown] (technical.city).

 

Looking online, I have found no HP System OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-0xxx Users with a newer Ryzen 7 processor, such as here.

 

There are as of today (August 28th) no RTX 4060 Supers offered for sale.  Yet.

 

With your 500-watt power supply, you could power a smaller-sized (two fan) RTX 4060 Ti powered by a single 8-pin PCIe power cable, such as this model

 

An RTX 4060 Ti would offer a significant graphics card performance increase over your RTX 2060: UserBenchmark: Nvidia RTX 2060 vs 4060-Ti.

 

You could upgrade your ATX power supply, say to a 650-watt unit, and then power an RTX 4070 Super, such as this model.

 

Yes, you can upgrade your HDD to a 2TB SSD. If you haven't done so already, your Moria3 motherboard has one M.2 NVMe SSD slot, which you should use as your primary (boot) drive for speed and performance.

 

Kind Regards,

 

NonSequitur777


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