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Upgrading My Computer

Liam Wilson
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4 minutes ago, DukeChocula said:

The worst part about trying to just upgrade the hard drive is that HP usually makes you buy theirs. If it doesn't have a special code built into the hard drive, it won't be recognized as a boot drive. The biggest problem with prebuilts is they're way more expensive, usually sub par quality, and they usually lock stuff down and use proprietary connectors and such.

So that is basically why you are suggesting a new motherboard

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Lets slow down for a minute. It sounds like it's software honestly. I just read your other post and if you just bought this thing 8 months ago, I doubt that it's so dusty that it's unusable anymore. There might be some dust. But not enough for you to be stuck thermal throttling. It almost sounds like youre not running on the graphics card, only the APU.

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1 minute ago, DukeChocula said:

Lets slow down for a minute. It sounds like it's software honestly. I just read your other post and if you just bought this thing 8 months ago, I doubt that it's so dusty that it's unusable anymore. There might be some dust. But not enough for you to be stuck thermal throttling. It almost sounds like youre not running on the graphics card, only the APU.

The APU is the combination of the GPU and CPU? Im not sure im sorry xD

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No thats good. Yeah it's an APU or Accelerated Processing Unit. Or AMDs technology of on chip graphics. it's much stronger graphics wise to built in Intel stuff. That's actually their best product right now for consumers. 

 

You have a dedicated graphics card it sounds like, but the system might only be using the on board graphics. Completely skipping the graphics card, or vise versa. So you're not getting max performance from it.

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1 minute ago, Liam Wilson said:

The APU is the combination of the GPU and CPU? Im not sure im sorry xD

Yes, that is correct. The APU can pair with a GPU that is similar, like yours. If it is set up then you essentially get Crossfire through that APU and the GPU.

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2 minutes ago, DukeChocula said:

No thats good. Yeah it's an APU or Accelerated Processing Unit. Or AMDs technology of on chip graphics. it's much stronger graphics wise to built in Intel stuff. That's actually their best product right now for consumers. 

 

You have a dedicated graphics card it sounds like, but the system might only be using the on board graphics. Completely skipping the graphics card, or vise versa. So you're not getting max performance from it.

Thank you for the support it's much appreciated :D , so how would I get max performance?

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2 minutes ago, DukeChocula said:

So it is back to normal or you need more help?

It's just that the drivers aren't uninstalling from my system, I've followed the video's steps, restarted the computer multiple times and it is still not working

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6 minutes ago, DukeChocula said:

Do you have Catalyst installed? If so you probably don't need to delete your drivers. I'm sure theyre up to date. The follow the video after that if you can't get them uninstalled properly. I assume it's because your APU is using the driver.

I did, I uninstalled it, now it's not installing because everything is up-to date and, im not sure of any other way to install it

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41 minutes ago, DukeChocula said:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows%2010%20-%2064

 

Download the 307MB one. That's exactly what you need and you can clean install that. If it give you an option to clean install or replace everything do that.

Alright, its installed and everything, I enable the Dual Graphics option? correct

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Can I have the exact model number of your computer? I'll be able to tell you if you can get an SSD or not. Sometimes they don't let you unless you buy a overpriced HP SSD. SSD is meant for OS and major programs only. Everything else should be installed to the hard drive.

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2 minutes ago, DukeChocula said:

Can I have the exact model number of your computer? I'll be able to tell you if you can get an SSD or not. Sometimes they don't let you unless you buy a overpriced HP SSD. SSD is meant for OS and major programs only. Everything else should be installed to the hard drive.

The Model number is 500-539

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This is compatible. I think it comes with a SATA cable. Basically you'll reinstall windows onto the SSD only. Then you'll take windows off of your old hard drive leaving just the files you want to keep (pictures, movies, documents, games) then you just use the computer like normal. Except now it will be super snappy and boot in 10 seconds. It's a little confusing of a process if you're new to it. But it's not really that hard once you know what you're doing. I'd be happy to walk you through it!

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