HP Elite 8300 SFF Gaming PC Upgrades!!! Graphics Card, SSD, RAM

Upgrades on a refurbished HP Elite 8300 SFF i7-3770 Desktop PC for Fortnite and other gaming for around $550 Total for both the desktop and upgrades. Total cost could be kept around $400 if 8GB RAM and smaller SSD used. Software steps and hardware changes to install Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 OC LP, Samsung 1TB SSD and 16GB RIPJAWS X RAM). Great starter build for PC gaming.

[curtisharrison]

On almost every hp forum people are saying you can only use a Radeon 7450 low profile video card in these machine's. I have been building computers for dam near 20 years and I had to giggle as long as the card is under 75 watts the power supply should work fine and as long as their is a slot for the video card and you have the proper drivers it should function properly. I have to say I have been watching a few of these videos on the HP sff and I think this is the most upgrades I have seen thrown into one of these machines. Grate job on the video I think this lets a lot of people no you not just stuck to a low end graphics card because someone on a HP forum says you can't use other cards.

[krod]

Thanks for the video, I just bought mine and will do the same upgrades.

[LeandroMorsa]

Hello friend! Putting in the video card, you didn't have to change the PSU? because his original PSU is 240w and the board asks for a PSU of at least 300w.

[Kollohv]

Question on memory: can you just leave the old ram and just add new ram stick (same latency) ? Does it perform better i.e in this case 8gb x 2 plus the old 4 gb ram?

[umarazmat]

Bro the gpu card u mention here and in lenovo m92p which one is cheaper and which one is the best for these board.
As I might upgrade to Hp G1 600 or 800 next year

[YoutubeAtro]

With the upgrades can you livestream and game at the same time?

[Joseph-wuvm]

Isn’t the graphic card pulling too much wattage since the power supply is only 250 watts?

[EtherealMoonglow]

Hey man, I'm extremely new to pc upgrading and currently I installed a gtx 1650 LP on this exact system, One thing I am pretty unsure about is How could I change the CPU on this? As I am currently stuck with a i3-3220 and I desperately wanna upgrade to an i7-3770, Any help regarding this would be great! (sorry if this is a dumb question)

[Nemotoad]

Wait it doesnt need a better PSU? The standard unit will power all this?

[thepowerpuffthot]

I have the same one but how did this go work on 240 watts

[ItachiUchiha-zrxm]

I have another question. How were you able to get your Windows 10 key to re-activate Windows 10 again after putting in the new SSD and booting the PC up? All the parts I've ordered should be coming in the next few days and this is the only step I'm not sure of because I don't know if there's even a way to get your Windows 10 key on a refurbished PC since the OS was installed by a third party???

[erikwithak]

This is by far the most helpful video for what I plan on doing with my 8300. For the Ram would I be able to replace the ram with 2x4gb 1600 MHz and place the pre existing ram in the 2 free slots?

[gabe]

What about the power supply? I believe this model is somewhere between 200w to 250w. Would you need to upgrade the power supply and if so, what on Amazon could I buy that would fit in the HP 8300 SFF?

[drown]

I’m planning on getting an optiplex (i5-3470, 500hdd, 8gb ram ddr3) and installing a gt 1030 lp with 500gb of ssd. I don’t wanna have to upgrade the psu which will most likely be 250w, will it be okay?

[daedaetv]

This was a great video but only if you had someone hold the camera for you then this video would have been godly
but thank this helped alot.

[eddiejauregui]

Where were you able to purchase the small slim bracket? Or does it come with the graphics card?

[nino_coco]

Man, the HP Elite 8300 do not support enabling XMP profile for the memory sticks, so it runs them at CL11. A waste of money putting fancy memory into it.

[anmw]

I got mine 2 days ago and I was wondering If I could upgrade the graphics card? I just bought mine on Amazon from Skytech USA so you can check the specs there. What graphics card should i put in? (Looking for a good but cheap option.)

[sixstonks]

How can you even use the word cheap if you threw a bloody 1050 in there

[essentials]

Can you use a 1030 graphics card instead