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Replacing GPU from the motherboard with another one Hawlett Packard 3047h

@wolly
Doesn't matter, I used blender on 6006u cpu with no dedicated gpu.
You can do it :peace:

Just learn animation and when you're at higher level, buy a new pc.
Now I sprout trees all over my campus and make textures in substance designer.
Do not let your hardware push you back from your dreams.

Yesterday my unreal engine would turn the pc off as soon as I import a tree. Took me a while before I found out SpeedTree plugin was causing that. I had 10 pc restarts just by dropping a tree and boom. I was thinking it's bcz I use windows from dev channel. I use the buggiest latest Microsoft Windows.
 
I didn't find any that would be worth the price and fit in your case. Do you have an old version of 3DSmax? New ones do not work with this hardware. If you do, you could adjust that card I linked / cut off a piece to make it fit, not pretty, but functional.
 
pavle said:
I didn't find any that would be worth the price and fit in your case. Do you have an old version of 3DSmax? New ones do not work with this hardware. If you do, you could adjust that card I linked / cut off a piece to make it fit, not pretty, but functional.
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I used the 2012 3dsmax version!
Can the PCIE slot replace the power supply in the graphics card? I want to know if I can use the PCIE slot instead of placing the power adapter/cord inside the graphics card.
Is that possible?
 
Yes, my GT1030 (GDDR5 version) is powered by the PCIe slot alone.

wolly said:
But my motherboard only supports low profile. Can you add a high profile video card in this motherboard system?
Will it match?
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Looks like high profile to me.
 

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wolly said:
I used the 2012 3dsmax version!
Can the PCIE slot replace the power supply in the graphics card? I want to know if I can use the PCIE slot instead of placing the power adapter/cord inside the graphics card.
Is that possible?
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Yes, that card doesn't need any additional cables, it gets powered by PCI-e slot (up to 75W).
 
pavle said:
Yes, that card doesn't need any additional cables, it gets powered by PCI-e slot (up to 75W).
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And what about the other cards? Can they work without the cables and only with the PCI-E slot?
 
I was wrong, there is another equally powerful card (same core config) and 2GB of RAM and it is low profile and has adapter for DVI or VGA with it - says on the page (interlink). :toast:
Basically all the small cards do not need external power cable.
 
Low profile and GDDR3
 
Shrek said:
Low profile and GDDR3
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Well - at first I though the case could house a high profile card, but then - if you look there - that fan is 80mm, and the covers for add-in cards are off-set from it toward the motherboard. I measured a normal such back plate and it's ~12cm, but those covers in wolly's case look to me more like ~8cm, so the low-profile card it is. But both of them are HD 7xxx generation internally, so GCN and not older VLIW-5 parts, so better.
 
Ah! my bad.

Still the GT1030 (GDDR5) exists in low profile form.
 

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wolly said:
But my motherboard only supports low profile. Can you add a high profile video card in this motherboard system?
Will it match?
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I advise against buying any graphics card for this old machine at all. It's simply too slow and its processor is far too outdated for it to run what you want to run on it.

Like I said before the GT 1030 is the best thing that will fit in there, doesn't require external power source. But it won't be enough, there is no processor for this socket which can run 3ds max, even the Phenom II X6 series won't qualify due to the lack of SSE 4.2 support.

Give up on the idea before you end up wasting time and money, and prepare for a new build... Or purchase a laptop, any low end laptop today will be snappier than that old piece. Good luck.
 
Dr. Dro said:
I advise against buying any graphics card for this old machine at all. It's simply too slow and its processor is far too outdated for it to run what you want to run on it.

Like I said before the GT 1030 is the best thing that will fit in there, doesn't require external power source. But it won't be enough, there is no processor for this socket which can run 3ds max, even the Phenom II X6 series won't qualify due to the lack of SSE 4.2 support.

Give up on the idea before you end up wasting time and money, and prepare for a new build... Or purchase a laptop, any low end laptop today will be snappier than that old piece. Good luck.
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There are some 1050Tis that can run without the aux power connector. But still, the PC is a dinosaur by now, not worth spending more money on it, saving for a whole new build is a better idea.

Doubt the mobo can support a better CPU anyway, those prebuilts always come with some surprise firmware lock, I've read about some even blocking the expansion slots so that you can't install a graphics card or replace the one that came with the machine, so it's possible the card won't even work.
 
caroline! said:
There are some 1050Tis that can run without the aux power connector. But still, the PC is a dinosaur by now, not worth spending more money on it, saving for a whole new build is a better idea.

Doubt the mobo can support a better CPU anyway, those prebuilts always come with some surprise firmware lock, I've read about some even blocking the expansion slots so that you can't install a graphics card or replace the one that came with the machine, so it's possible the card won't even work.
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Yeah, there are a few, though I'd wager that CPU would bottleneck the 1030 as it is. Even if such FW locks didn't exist, the problem is that the architecture itself is so obsolete that even if you purchased the very best and newest CPU this platform can support it'd still not be enough...
 
I used the 2012 3dsmax version!

CPU AMD Athlon II X2 B28 3.4GHz <-- 2011 era CPU
RAM 4GB (3.5 GB USABLE) <-- MAX 8GB DDR3-1066 supported ?
HDD 1 TB
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ALWAYS look for new PCIe graphic cards As many low profile graphics cards come with both low profile and full length standard desktop brackets and with warranty. TAKE note of VGA/DVI/HDMI display connector.

USED HD6570, HD7570, HD5570 OEM graphics cards pull from DELL/HP machines are available in ebay/amazom
 
eidairaman1 said:
Time for a Ryzen 5 3600 with a B450 Motherboard with RX 6400/6500XT I say.
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Those cards don’t even have video engines, better off with Arc A380.
 
wolly said:
Where is the PCI EXPRESS Slot located in the PC? Is it on the motherboard?
How does it look like?
I'm asking these questions because I'm a noob!
https://imgur.com/a/zi42Ura
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Just based off that picture, something you can do for free to potentially get a small performance boost is check if your RAM is running in dual channel. Use something like CPU-Z to check. https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html If it is dual channel, then nevermind, don't do anything to your RAM. If it's running in single channel though, then move one of your RAM sticks so it's populated like so.

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