can I upgrade?

[rcubed1003]

I have a asus essentio series m11bb at the moment, I would love to get a graphics card and new power supple in. But I have no idea what I am doing can anyone help?

 

pc specs: https://www.asus.com/us/Tower-PCs/M11BB/specifications/

[rcubed1003]

and yes I know, its an old pc.

[WhitetailAni]

Can you post a picture of the inside?

[rcubed1003]

1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Can you post a picture of the inside?

sadly not right now, but I can give a picture of what one of the motherbored looks like and tell you any info you need.

[WhitetailAni]

Thanks!

[rcubed1003]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Thanks!

[WhitetailAni]

That is a standard motherboard (and from the days of brown, black, and blue ASUS boards, I remember those), so you will be able to upgrade the power supply.

One of the things with some prebuilts is that they sometimes use proprietary power supplies and motherboards to not allow you to upgrade it, but that isn't a problem here.

 

You should know that your CPU will bottleneck almost any modern graphics card you put in, so you might want to look into a full system upgrade (later, not now - prices are all weird).

[rcubed1003]

1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

That is a standard motherboard (and from the days of brown, black, and blue ASUS boards, I remember those), so you will be able to upgrade the power supply.

One of the things with some prebuilts is that they sometimes use proprietary power supplies and motherboards to not allow you to upgrade it, but that isn't a problem here.

 

You should know that your CPU will bottleneck almost any modern graphics card you put in, so you might want to look into a full system upgrade (later, not now - prices are all weird).

So, what about not modern graphics cards? any graphics card here is better then built in graphics, I'm just looking for anything. If it takes bottlenecking then I will just accept that

[WhitetailAni]

I would avoid getting any graphics cards right now, as the pricing for any of them is very expensive.

[Fasauceome]

9 minutes ago, rcubed1003 said:

So, what about not modern graphics cards? any graphics card here is better then built in graphics, I'm just looking for anything. If it takes bottlenecking then I will just accept that

used GTX 750 ti might appeal to you, or a GTX 950 if you can get it for like $60

[rcubed1003]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

used GTX 750 ti might appeal to you, or a GTX 950 if you can get it for like $60

thanks! any power supply recommendations? 

[Fasauceome]

5 minutes ago, rcubed1003 said:

thanks! any power supply recommendations? 

country and budget?

[rcubed1003]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

country and budget?

USA, 0-300$

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, rcubed1003 said:

USA, 0-300$

It's a pretty large budget, here's a decent midrange PSU that will get the job done and be good to carry into an upgraded system.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/FdRFf7/corsair-cx-2017-550w-80-bronze-certified-atx-power-supply-cp-9020121-na

[rcubed1003]

1 hour ago, Fasauceome said:

It's a pretty large budget, here's a decent midrange PSU that will get the job done and be good to carry into an upgraded system.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/FdRFf7/corsair-cx-2017-550w-80-bronze-certified-atx-power-supply-cp-9020121-na

thx so much! so if i got a GTX 950 it would be as easy as just put it in? 

was think of this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/373394135192?_trksid=p2471758.m4704

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, rcubed1003 said:

thx so much! so if i got a GTX 950 it would be as easy as just put it in? 

was think of this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/373394135192?_trksid=p2471758.m4704

yes

[rcubed1003]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

yes

oka,y thank you.

[Aragorn-]

you can go two ways.

 

a) buy a old/low end card for your dead end system and accept that its poor.

 

B) buy something better as part of a whole system upgrade, and accept that its going to be CPU limited sometimes until you sort the CPU.

 

Personally, i would buy something a bit better, as the start of an upgrade path. Upgrade the GPU now, and then look at swapping out the mainboard/cpu/ram at a later date. If you buy a crappy GPU now, it'll all just go in the bin when you upgrade the rest of it which seems like a waste of money to me.

 

I wouldnt personally buy anything slower than an RX480.

[rcubed1003]

The main problem I was having is if i got a graphics card then it didn't work. like maybe my PCI porn wasn't meant for it, or my pc was just to bad to use it

[Aragorn-]

Well i've ran my Vega56 in a X58 machine from 2010 without issues, so i wouldnt worry too much.
 

Infact just yesterday i watched a video on Phils Computer Lab with an RX580 running on a board with a Pentium 4 from 2006...

 

Some very new cards have issues on older non-UEFI boards, but your board appears to have UEFI so you shouldnt have a problem.