Upgrading Graphics Card with Ryzen Processor and Making PC Modifications

[knocturnal2435]

I was looking at getting the following system and making modifications to it.

https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-pavilion-gaming-desktop-tg01-0170m-7bb49av-1

I plan on taking out the 310W power supply, putting in a new 500W power supply.
I plan on taking out the RX 550 and putting in the RTX 2060 from my current PC.
I plan on taking out the 2x 4GB RAM and upgrading it to 2x 8GB RAM for a total of 16GB of RAM.

I'm looking at this because the new Ryzen 3500 has had great benchmarks for gaming, my current CPU is an i5-4590... which has lasted me years, but it's a pretty substantial bottleneck in 2020. Especially for CPU heavy games.

I've never had an AMD Processor in my PC. There is no integrated graphics. If I take out the RX550 and put in the RTX 2060, will the PC be able to boot up? (there will be no drivers for the RTX 2060 in place).

With the Intel chips, with integrated graphics, I always swap out my graphics card, it still boots using the Intel HD Graphics, and then install the drivers for the new graphics card. I wanted to know if it will be any different upgrading the GPU with a Ryzen CPU w/out integrated graphics.

[mtono]

just insert the new 2060. if you have windows 10 it should be no problem

[r.linder]

When upgrading a GPU, you have to uninstall previous drivers, because a 2060 won't run on RX 550 drivers, and vice versa.

Don't forget that you can't install an AMD processor on an Intel motherboard, and vice versa. You want at least a B450 motherboard, and you need DDR4 RAM.

[Magma Dragoon]

Why buy it only to immediately gut it? You're paying $600 for an OEM copy of Windows, a CPU so bad AMD only sells it to OEMs, a bad motherboard and a bad case. You could get a P400A, 3600, B450 Tomahawk Max and a retail copy of Windows 10 Home for $500.

[ugafan]

what is the point of buying that computer if you plan on swapping out the gpu, power supply, and ram? why not simply do a new build?

[knocturnal2435]

I was thinking of doing an entirely new build. Thought I could save myself some work by having the processor / motherboard done, and swapping out a couple of parts. I'm not a major computer guy, my last PC I swapped out the PSU, GPU, RAM, and went from HDD to SSD. I learned it all for the first time then.

How much does a retail copy of Windows 10 Home? Isn't that over $100?

And if I went with the 3600, or any of the current Ryzen's under a completely new build from scratch, wouldn't I need an X570 motherboard (so I wouldn't need to update the bios?). I thought the B450 needed a bios update which would require installing a cheap Ryzen CPU, no?

[r.linder]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από knocturnal2435:

I was thinking of doing an entirely new build. Thought I could save myself some work by having the processor / motherboard done, and swapping out a couple of parts. I'm not a major computer guy, my last PC I swapped out the PSU, GPU, RAM, and went from HDD to SSD. I learned it all for the first time then.

How much does a retail copy of Windows 10 Home? Isn't that over $100?

You can download and use Windows 10 for free, but you can't customise anything and a watermark stays on the screen.
You can get keys from other sources for cheap.

[L37]

On topic of OS - do you have some version of windows right now?
Because if you have win7/win8, even OEM, you can easily move it to new PC and then upgrade to win10. Once you do it you can reinstall clean if you wish.

[ugafan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από knocturnal2435:

And if I went with the 3600, or any of the current Ryzen's under a completely new build from scratch, wouldn't I need an X570 motherboard (so I wouldn't need to update the bios?). I thought the B450 needed a bios update which would require installing a cheap Ryzen CPU, no?

MSI has the MAX line of B450 boards which are already updated for Ryzen 3000 series.

[Magma Dragoon]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από knocturnal2435:

I was thinking of doing an entirely new build. Thought I could save myself some work by having the processor / motherboard done, and swapping out a couple of parts. I'm not a major computer guy, my last PC I swapped out the PSU, GPU, RAM, and went from HDD to SSD. I learned it all for the first time then.

How much does a retail copy of Windows 10 Home? Isn't that over $100?

And if I went with the 3600, or any of the current Ryzen's under a completely new build from scratch, wouldn't I need an X570 motherboard (so I wouldn't need to update the bios?). I thought the B450 needed a bios update which would require installing a cheap Ryzen CPU, no?

If you have the know-how to replace half the parts you can put together all the parts from scratch and get better parts for less money.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Never buy prebuilds with gaming as your goal, it hardly ever works out well. Just build your own, learn something along the way and save money at the same time.