Best graphics card for gaming for an HP Omen 25L gaming desktop

[MangoFury90]

I have a HP OMEN 25L gaming desktop that I want to make it better for gaming especially for Call of Duty 6, Fortnite, Spider-Man, and etc.

 

any suggestions? What would you add to this computer (graphics cards, ram type, sound cards, keyboards, mouse, etc)

[venomtail]

Gonna needs more specs of your machine for a serious recommendation. PSU, what you have right now, what resolution and so on.

[Tridefender]

Heard it has OEM PSU and is not compatible with other than provided card

[--SID--]

32 minutes ago, Tridefender said:

Heard it has OEM PSU and is not compatible with other than provided card

You heard it wrong. Omen 25L has a normal ATX PSU. But, the motherboard has a white list for GPUs. Other GPUs than the one the system came with might or might not work.

 

50 minutes ago, Xvrpaz22 said:

I have a HP OMEN 25L gaming desktop

What's the wattage of the PSU? Depending on the GPU, Omen 25L came with a 500w or 750w unit.

[ulookuglynoob]

2 hours ago, Xvrpaz22 said:

I have a HP OMEN 25L gaming desktop that I want to make it better for gaming especially for Call of Duty 6, Fortnite, Spider-Man, and etc.

 

any suggestions? What would you add to this computer (graphics cards, ram type, sound cards, keyboards, mouse, etc)

I mean, if the psu is not powerful enough, you could just get a low profile rtx 4060. Its not the best value though.

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, --SID-- said:

You heard it wrong. Omen 25L has a normal ATX PSU. But, the motherboard has a white list for GPUs. Other GPUs than the one the system came with might or might not work.

 

What's the wattage of the PSU? Depending on the GPU, Omen 25L came with a 500w or 750w unit.

Really can't imagine how they can "whitelist" or not any GPU, they all use the same PCie connection to the board...

But indeed we need @Xvrpaz22 specs to give any advice

AFAIK HP Omen problem is the crappy OEM boards they use that overheat with higher end CPU (ie above 100W or so..)

[Tridefender]

18 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Really can't imagine how they can "whitelist" or not any GPU, they all use the same PCie connection to the board...

But indeed we need @Xvrpaz22 specs to give any advice

AFAIK HP Omen problem is the crappy OEM boards they use that overheat with higher end CPU (ie above 100W or so..)

They can, load a series of ids in bios, if anything outside this list gets passed in during boot, then abort boot.

[MangoFury90]

21 hours ago, Xvrpaz22 said:

I have a HP OMEN 25L gaming desktop that I want to make it better for gaming especially for Call of Duty 6, Fortnite, Spider-Man, and etc.

 

any suggestions? What would you add to this computer (graphics cards, ram type, sound cards, keyboards, mouse, etc)

•Form Factor: microATX

•RAM: 8GB( HP52U40S6MA-8FRAE)

-DDR5

-Transfer rate: 5200 MT

-Kingston Fury brand

-Clock Speed:4400MHZ 

•CPU: 13th Gen Intel Core i3-13100F 

-clock speed: 3400MHZ (up to 4.5 GHZ with Intel Turbo Boost Technology )

•GPU: Nvidia GEforce GTX 1660 Super

-Refresh rate: 59Hx
•Hard drive: 512 GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD

•Power Supply: 500W 80 Plus Bronze certified power supply

•Expansion slots: 1PCIe x16; 3 M.2 (2 for SSD, 1 for WLAN)

 

What would you upgrade or change to enhance your gaming experience if you had this same desktop? 

Thank you everyone

[PDifolco]

2 hours ago, Tridefender said:

They can, load a series of ids in bios, if anything outside this list gets passed in during boot, then abort boot.

WTH will someone sane do that ??  

Is that a theoretical take or a real thing ?

 

[Tridefender]

17 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

WTH will someone sane do that ??  

Is that a theoretical take or a real thing ?

 

Oems lock processors via fuse to motherboards when they can, why won't they do that?

I assume they can do it.

[Tridefender]

58 minutes ago, Xvrpaz22 said:

•Form Factor: microATX

•RAM: 8GB( HP52U40S6MA-8FRAE)

-DDR5

-Transfer rate: 5200 MT

-Kingston Fury brand

-Clock Speed:4400MHZ 

•CPU: 13th Gen Intel Core i3-13100F 

-clock speed: 3400MHZ (up to 4.5 GHZ with Intel Turbo Boost Technology )

•GPU: Nvidia GEforce GTX 1660 Super

-Refresh rate: 59Hx
•Hard drive: 512 GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD

•Power Supply: 500W 80 Plus Bronze certified power supply

•Expansion slots: 1PCIe x16; 3 M.2 (2 for SSD, 1 for WLAN)

 

What would you upgrade or change to enhance your gaming experience if you had this same desktop? 

Thank you everyone

Throw away the 1 stick of 8gb ram, use 2 sticks of 16 each.

[PDifolco]

4 minutes ago, Tridefender said:

Oems lock processors via fuse to motherboards when they can, why won't they do that?

I assume they can do it.

They're bandits indeed, locking processor is needed for them because they use crappy boards

 

[MangoFury90]

20 hours ago, Tridefender said:

Throw away the 1 stick of 8gb ram, use 2 sticks of 16 each.

Thank you. 

 

I will upgrade the ram. The computer 
 

Would you recommend upgrading the graphics card?
 

if so would I need another fan if get another better graphics card?
 

Would you recommend adding another SSD drive? 
 

I attached a screenshot of my pc specs. 

[Tridefender]

1 hour ago, MangoFury90 said:

Would you recommend upgrading the graphics card?

If you feel constrained by GPU then yes, but be sure to check psu compatibility.

1 hour ago, MangoFury90 said:

if so would I need another fan if get another better graphics card?
 

No, I don't think your PSU will allow high power graphic cards.

 

1 hour ago, MangoFury90 said:

Would you recommend adding another SSD drive? 

If you desperately need the storage then yes, but it doesn't affect pc performance