HP ProDesk 400 G4 Microtower Business PC (upgrade)

[jadenboeldak]

Hi,

 

I recently bought an HP ProDesk 400 G4 Microtower Business PC ( Product No. 1JJ56EA#ABH ) and i wanted to upgrade it but i don't have a lot of experience with building a pc. I have an budget of 500 euro's. And i live in the netherlands. Can anyone help?

 

 

[Radium_Angel]

Depends on what you wanna do. First step, is to determine if the PSU is in a standard form factor, and if it can handle any upgrades, or itself needs to be upgraded.

Then check the BIOS to see what CPUs it'll support (and likely this being business-oriented, few/no options in the BIOS will exist for overclocking or RAM timing adjustment) and if it's not on the list, it won't support it.

 

Is this what you bought?

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05361522

 

[jadenboeldak]

That's the pc i have. The psu is not a standard form factor. you can see wich cpu's it supports in the document. Do you have any recommendations for me to upgrade this pc? i have the cpu intel i5 7500.

[Needfuldoer]

What do you want to upgrade? Graphics? CPU? RAM?

 

RAM should be easy, it's just regular unregistered, unbuffered DDR4.

 

You're limited to Skylake and Kaby Lake (6th and 7th gen) CPUs, so your high end CPUs are the i7 7600 and i7 7700.

 

Your GPU options are limited by your chassis and your power supply. If you have a small form factor chassis, you'll be limited to half-height cards. (And if it's a micro PC, forget it.) You probably have a 180 watt or 310 watt PSU. You might be able to use a low end card that only draws power from the PCIe slot, but if you have a full tower and want to run a GPU that requires a power connection you'll have to replace your power supply. That's certainly possible, you'll just need a 24-pin to HP 6-pin ATX power adapter cable.

[jadenboeldak]

i want to replace the psu so i can use a better gpu. any recommendations?

 

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, jadenboeldak said:

Hi,

 

I recently bought an HP ProDesk 400 G4 Microtower Business PC ( Product No. 1JJ56EA#ABH ) and i wanted to upgrade it but i don't have a lot of experience with building a pc. I have an budget of 500 euro's. And i live in the netherlands. Can anyone help?

 

 

Sell it and get a standard PC with upgradable parts...

Really there isn't much point trying to upgrade that, CPU is from 2015, PSU and board aren't standard

 

[Radium_Angel]

3 hours ago, jadenboeldak said:

i want to replace the psu so i can use a better gpu. any recommendations?

 

The non-standard PSU form factor is a huge problem. One that may not be cost effective to solve. Let me look about and see what options you might have

[Radium_Angel]

No dice on a new PSU, you get to buy the crappy proprietary HP ones, or nothing...