Help my friend save some money!

[Fluffybakon]

Hello all!,

 

So its my friends b-day soon and his wish is to get a mid-range Gaming PC. Overall, the budget is around 350-400 EUROS/SWISS FRANKS, in all caps cause I know you americans have it cheap :P. And i have a question regarding the PC i want to build for him. Overall, I would like to go for a GTX 1050ti from Gigabyte, but the CPU is the problem. Currently, he has an All In One HP, that has a GTX 860, and an i7. I was wondering weather it will work if I take the cpu, ram, and hard drive from his all in one, and put that in a nice rgb case with the 1050ti, motherboard, and power supply. If this is possible it will save us a lot of money, thanks.

 

(im not actually paying, im just building it :P)

 

-Lukas

[3 Lions]

4 minutes ago, Fluffybakon said:

Currently, he has an All In One HP, that has a GTX 860, and an i7. I was wondering weather it will work if I take the cpu, ram, and hard drive from his all in one, and put that in a nice rgb case with the 1050ti

No the motherboard will not fit in any case because it has a unique form factor that no case manufacturer supports. 

[NoxiousOdor]

2 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

No the motherboard will not fit in any case because it has a unique form factor that no case manufacturer supports. 

I don't think he means the MB just the other components. In either case he is right @Fluffybakon while the motherboard wouldn't fit the other components should you would just need to buy a new motherboard to go with the new case. 

[Goldensapling]

I don't think moving it over will work, if they have an 860 then it's likely a laptop type motherboard using a mobile CPU and RAM which will both be soldered to the motherboard or not fit a standard desktop motherboard.

 

The hard drive should work though.

CPU might work, depends on if it's in a standard desktop CPU mount or not.

[Guest]

There is no GTX 860???

[PaperLuigi]

1 minute ago, FTL said:

There is no GTX 860???

Yeah there is it's a mobile GPU GeForce gtx  860m

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, PaperLuigi said:

Yeah there is it's a mobile GPU GeForce gtx  860m

If @Fluffybakon was talking about the GTX 860M, then he is out of luck

 

OP: It seems like your friend's All In One uses mobile parts which are non removable. Seems like you have to get a entire new PC.

This might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/wiki/builds

Also read the FAQ section.

[Fluffybakon]

Okay, thanks for all the responses!

 

Summary
        Operating System
            Windows 10 Home 64-bit
        CPU
            Intel Core i7 @ 2.70GHz    73 °C
            Haswell 22nm Technology
        RAM
            16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
        Motherboard
            Hewlett-Packard 2B2B (SOCKET 0)    28 °C
        Graphics
            HP All-in-One (1920x1080@60Hz)
            Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HP)
            2047MB NVIDIA GeForce 830A (HP)    83 °C
            ForceWare version: 376.54
            SLI Disabled
        Storage
            931GB Seagate ST1000LM014-1EJ164-SSHD (SATA)    41 °C
        Optical Drives
            TSSTcorp CDDVDW SE-208GB USB Device
        Audio
            Realtek High Definition Audio

 

 

I asked my friend to do a scan, it appears he got some stuff wrong.

 

Can anybody tell me now?

 

Specifically the core and storage, thanks!

[Fluffybakon]

And another side note, the hdd will still have windows on it, amirite?