Need PC experts to help me!

[Pastor Peanut]

First off I know your probably thinking why am posting this on steam, and I guess because there's a lot of people who know about computers here. But anyway to the point.

So I have a lenovo 510s-08ish.

Some specs :
GPU : GT 730
CPU : Intel Core i5 6400
RAM : 8 GB

So as you can see the CPU and RAM are decent but the GPU not so. So does anyone know if its possible to upgrade my GPU to a better one. Ones am looking at are GTX 1060 and GTX 1070. So is it possible to change it? Would there be enough space to fit it inside? Any sort of information to help and also if your just gonna comment ♥♥♥♥ on like buy a new pc or your pc is crap pls dont

Thanks,

[Talby]

unfortunately this is an SFF case that only has a 250W power supply with a non-standard connector, so you will need to perform a good amount of surgery to get a new case and power supply installed.

The motherboard appears to be standard ATX hole pattern so it should fit a normal ATX case, and for the motherboard power connector you may have to cut / splice the old connector on a new 450w+ power supply as this guy did[forums.lenovo.com].

Have done similar swaps in the past, it's not hard just a bit of time and if you're not familiar with electronics best hire some help with the power connectors (beer and pizza works wonders)...

Outside of that, best you can do is a low-profile 1030, it will be near double the performance[gpu.userbenchmark.com] of the gt730.

[Pastor Peanut]

Talby님이 먼저 게시:

unfortunately this is an SFF case that only has a 250W power supply with a non-standard connector, so you will need to perform a good amount of surgery to get a new case and power supply installed.

The motherboard appears to be standard ATX hole pattern so it should fit a normal ATX case, and for the motherboard power connector you may have to cut / splice the old connector on a new 450w+ power supply as this guy did[forums.lenovo.com].

Have done similar swaps in the past, it's not hard just a bit of time and if you're not familiar with electronics best hire some help with the power connectors (beer and pizza works wonders)...

Outside of that, best you can do is a low-profile 1030, it will be near double the performance[gpu.userbenchmark.com] of the gt730.

So am able to switch the GPU to a GT 1030?

[Mysterious Gamer]

Well, as far as I know changing the GPU depends on the size of the case, the type of PCI ports that the motherboard have and the energy that the power supply can provide.
In your case, there's no much you can do in that PC. The size of the actual GPU could help me to search a new model to you, but the actual ones won't fit in the case.
If you can, change the case and the power supply, and then you can install a newer card on the PC.

And about the last thing that you said here..
What else could I tell you? That PC, or directly, the ones that came from a factory don't allow costumization. The ones that allow it are mostly the made by the users, not "Lenovo" or "HP", for example.

[Pastor Peanut]

Mysterious Gamer Improved님이 먼저 게시:

Well, as far as I know changing the GPU depends on the size of the case, the type of PCI ports that the motherboard have and the energy that the power supply can provide.
In your case, there's no much you can do in that PC. The size of the actual GPU could help me to search a new model to you, but the actual ones won't fit in the case.
If you can, change the case and the power supply, and then you can install a newer card on the PC.

And about the last thing that you said here..
What else could I tell you? That PC, or directly, the ones that came from a factory don't allow costumization. The ones that allow it are mostly the made by the users, not "Lenovo" or "HP", for example.

I agree, if I were to change the case, power supply and GPU then may as well just get a custom built PC and if possible I could salvage the CPU.

[_I_]

the best you can do is a low profile gtx 1050

ex.
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/zggPxr/msi-geforce-gtx-1050-2gb-low-profile-video-card-gtx-1050-2gt-lp

recomends a 300w psu, but with an itx board and few accessories it will be ok with the 250w

or you can transplant the board/drives into a mid tower case for any gpu/psu

[Talby]

Peanut Pancake님이 먼저 게시:

...So am able to switch the GPU to a GT 1030?

yes as long as it includes the short bracket, like this one[www.amazon.com]