Office PC Upgrade?

[Teosaurus]

Budget (including currency): 250+

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Ready or Not, Battlefield 6/5, Hell Let Loose, Arma 3/Reforger,

 

Other details

Office PC: HP Pavilion P7-1268c

- i5 2400 3.1ghz

- 8gb DDR3 memory

- 1tb SATA HDD

- Intel HD Graphics 2000

- Intel H61 (mobo)

CASE DIMENSIONS

16.14" x 15.55" x 6.89"

 

more specifics in the link;

https://www.newegg.com/hp-pavilion-p7-1268c-student-home-office/p/N82E16883203776?srsltid=AfmBOorpCIyrwl23uNuz9aAxgwm64tr-oGE81QuAug6hD8I-Qs5NjVmL

 

 

Right now I have a gaming laptop with 16gb DDR4 and a 1650 as well as around 2tb of SSD storage. 

 

I found a listing for a 15$ HP Pavilion P7-1268c. And I was planning on buying it and upgrading it to be able to play modern games (ie games listed above) at least 60fps. I'm considering this upgrade because I'd like to be able to keep up with my friends when we're playing games the my laptop can't handle.

 

I have a couple questions that I hope someone could help me with;

 

1. Is this even plausible and something worth investing my money into or should I stay with my gaming laptop?

 

2. If it's worth it, can I upgrade the motherboard for DDR4 memory?

 

3. What GPUs can fit in the case?

 

I understand that my listed budget won't be able to cover the upgrade costs fully but I'm planning on saving up, I just want to know the general consensus if this is a project I should pursue.

 

[RONOTHAN##]

6 minutes ago, Teosaurus said:

Is this even plausible and something worth investing my money into or should I stay with my gaming laptop?

Stay with the laptop. If you ended up doing this and trying to upgrade it, unless you upgrade the motherboard you're not getting anywhere close to your laptop's CPU (I'm assuming it's something basic like a 9300H, not even a nice chip), and by the time you upgrade the motherboard the only thing you'd still want to be using in that system is the hard drive for secondary storage and maybe the case (the PSU is 50/50 whether it's standard ATX or not, but it's a nearly 15 y/o PSU that I wouldn't trust to live much longer). 

 

 

If you want to buy this to use as a secondary computer to do stupid stuff with, knock yourself out. $15 is a pretty decent deal for one of these if you want to have something to try out Linux or something like that with. Just don't expect it to be that you throw in a new CPU and a GPU and it's better than your laptop, because it won't be and isn't worth doing that. 

[podkall]

13 minutes ago, Teosaurus said:

2. If it's worth it, can I upgrade the motherboard for DDR4 memory?

no, that's not how that works, it's not physically compatible

[Hinjima]

14 minutes ago, Teosaurus said:

 

I have a couple questions that I hope someone could help me with;

 

1. Is this even plausible and something worth investing my money into or should I stay with my gaming laptop?

 

2. If it's worth it, can I upgrade the motherboard for DDR4 memory?

 

3. What GPUs can fit in the case?

 

I understand that my listed budget won't be able to cover the upgrade costs fully but I'm planning on saving up, I just want to know the general consensus if this is a project I should pursue.

 

1:  Probably not. You are mentioning some of the most CPU heavy games and running these games with an intel 2400/2500 is just going to be an incredibly poor experience.  8GB of DDR3 memory is also very limiting here.  

I have over 3000 hours in Hell Let Loose.

 

2: 15$ is cheap.  Knowing HP they most likely run proprietary connectors on the power supply so just swapping out for a DDR4 motherboard might be more difficult than you think.

 

3: Any GPU that doesnt require external power connectors like a GTX 1650 or Radeon 6400... Just run with the sidepanel off.

 

I dont think this is a viable path at all and I would tell you to save your money, this is not worth it.

Stick with your laptop for now.

 

 

[Teosaurus]

Thanks for your answers guys, I'll stick with my laptop until I get my money up.

[Hinjima]

31 minutes ago, Teosaurus said:

Thanks for your answers guys, I'll stick with my laptop until I get my money up.

Come back when you have saved up some and we'll make you a list and get you a system that can run these games  

Out of curiosity, how much do you think your budget would be when you have saved a little?
I kinda want to start playing with a list already.

 

I was playing with this idea, get a GPU on the used market perhaps.

This is as 'budget' as I would go for the games you listed.

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/W3ZB3w

[thrasher_565]

well could have gotten a 1tb hdd for $15... but looks like its sold out anyway

or could have gotten it and resold it for more then $15...

 

but ya to get something better then the laptop im thinking like atlest $600...

[podkall]

3 hours ago, Teosaurus said:

Thanks for your answers guys, I'll stick with my laptop until I get my money up.

this place is def worth asking to get the most worth out of your hard-earned money, so feel free to come back later on the forums

[Somerandomtechyboi]

3 hours ago, Teosaurus said:

Budget (including currency): 250+

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Ready or Not, Battlefield 6/5, Hell Let Loose, Arma 3/Reforger,

 

Other details

Office PC: HP Pavilion P7-1268c

- i5 2400 3.1ghz

- 8gb DDR3 memory

- 1tb SATA HDD

- Intel HD Graphics 2000

- Intel H61 (mobo)

CASE DIMENSIONS

16.14" x 15.55" x 6.89"

 

more specifics in the link;

https://www.newegg.com/hp-pavilion-p7-1268c-student-home-office/p/N82E16883203776?srsltid=AfmBOorpCIyrwl23uNuz9aAxgwm64tr-oGE81QuAug6hD8I-Qs5NjVmL

 

 

Right now I have a gaming laptop with 16gb DDR4 and a 1650 as well as around 2tb of SSD storage. 

 

I found a listing for a 15$ HP Pavilion P7-1268c. And I was planning on buying it and upgrading it to be able to play modern games (ie games listed above) at least 60fps. I'm considering this upgrade because I'd like to be able to keep up with my friends when we're playing games the my laptop can't handle.

 

I have a couple questions that I hope someone could help me with;

 

1. Is this even plausible and something worth investing my money into or should I stay with my gaming laptop?

 

2. If it's worth it, can I upgrade the motherboard for DDR4 memory?

 

3. What GPUs can fit in the case?

 

I understand that my listed budget won't be able to cover the upgrade costs fully but I'm planning on saving up, I just want to know the general consensus if this is a project I should pursue.

 

Not worth investing money into but its decent as a secondary pc if you need one of those for whatever reason

 

At best upgrades wise sensibly anyways 2500k/3570k bios flash to z68/z77 for adjusting cpu multiplier and whatever you you can whack in that doesnt overpower the probably proprietary psu so maybe a 1030 1060 or an undervolted 5600xt/6600

 

At best itll only beat your laptop gpu wise and thats if you find a 6600 but itll lag quite abit behind for cpu