How to upgrade the power supply on a HP Z240 workstation.
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- One of the most annoying things about using an old office or workstation PC as a gaming PC is the limitations of proprietary connections. This made it quite difficult for us to use a higher end GPU in our HP Z240 conversation but there is way.
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Hahahaha my local Tech shop discouraged me on the changing of the case and GPU. I guess they were just lazy to get the adapter and doing a bit of research. Thanks for this!!! glad I subscribed.
They were probably more interested in selling you something else tbh. This is why we DIY our PCs :D Thanks for the subscribe.
Great stuff!! Getting my better half's z240 tower all worked out before case swap , least amount of down time when swapping. For us in the USA the Comeap psu adaptor works perfectly, I bought a cheaper no name psu adaptor and a cheap new Ares gaming 650w power supply, Turned out they both had problems and returned. Comeap psu adaptor and a new Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 80+ Gold 600W psu worked perfectly. She loves the gtx 1080 over the gtx 1650 that was in it before the OEM psu swap ..... She will love the new Montech case even better I ordered .
Again thank you for the great content !!😊
Glad I found this video. Now there's hope that I can do the necessary power supply upgrade at some point in the future. And yes, that power supply upgrade is necessary because my AMD Radeon R7 240 turned out to be a graphics card for office computers. It is good enough for Star Wars: The Old Republic, but not good enough for Witcher 2 - and most graphics cards I'm considering for my HP Z240 require a better power supply than what I currently have in the system.
good explanation!! im having this issue while upgrading my psu.. im still waiting for the 24 to 6pin adapter to arrive..
Looking at buying one very cheap atm , Good to know about the adapter , Great vid 🙂
Good upgrade mate! I was thinking pairing something like a 2060 Super with the i7 6700 for some upcoming content for this build👀
With the new PSU this system can be upgraded a lot more now so not sure where we will take it.
Hi i purchased the24 pin connector. Everything works great however on boot up now i get a 90 e error power supply fan not detected. But it is in fact running. Any thoughts? I used the link provided for the cable. Thank you
This is not something I saw, I am not even sure how it would know but worth checking your bios for any warning / error toggles around this. Maybe mine was already disabled or something.
Nice. My "office" workstation is a DELL Optiplex 9020 ... gonna do the recase treatment to it like this and then flip it. This can make for fairly profitable PC flipping solutions.
I think they can, just a shame sometimes they use green or blue motherboards instead of black although I have been tempted to challenge myself to take this one at some point and make it look amazing in theme.
Hello, I'm writing from Poland. The adapter works with Z240 and Bequiet 600W power supplies? I bought this HP cheaply but my GTX 760 card needs to replace the power supply and the 400W HP one needs to be replaced..
The adaptor will work with any standard PSU.
really helpful
Is it possible to use the same power adapter backwards? For example, if I wanted to keep the power supply but upgrade the motherboard?
I doubt it as the connections would be the wrong way around.
Could you make a power supply video about z2 g4 it’s also used proprietary connectors
Sorry I don't have a Z2 G4 to work on for a video.
@@TechLabUKthat's too bad. I came to this video looking for the same answer.
Recently bought a Z2 G4 with an i7-8700 for just under $200USD. Not nearly as much documentation around modding them yet compared to the Z420
Great video. Any advice on maybe installing an RX590 into the Z240 running a Xeon E3 1270 v5? Would it work okay?
Yeah will work fine with the right PSU.
With this adapter mine pc is turning off with a 1080 and 550 watt power supply under high loads, i have only installed 2 drives and there is no way that the psu cannot supply that power right? Any fixes to that?
Should work fine tbh, the GPU can only pull 75w from the PCIe connector so that shouldn't be an issue as the rest should be coming from the PCIe Power connection in it.
Hello sir!! Can that 400w psu originally installed in z240 handle the 3050 gpu Ga107 version which comes with 6 pin connectors? thanks in advance
Would be pushing it, I believe Nvidia says 500w or above (I think, never had an RTX 3050 tbh).
have you tried using an E3 1230 v5 processor with this motherboard?
No, haven't tried but I couldn't image it not working considering this is technically a workstation. I suspect the documentation online should say what's supported or not.
I got that computer it said it has an intel core i5 but when I got the computer it said “intel I7 inside” so I went to task manager and it said Intel core i5
هل باور ال 400 كافى للجهاز مع كارت 1060 6 جيجا ؟؟
Probably yes
Is the SMPS you have upgraded still working properly or not?
Is there any problem with the motherboard by upgrading the SMPS and using the connector?
cause i have same system and also i have to swap smps and cabinet
please reply
Not sure what you mean tbh. With the adaptor cable everything works fine power wise.
It means motherboard working fine or not
@@ashutoshthokle3995 Yeah, Motherboard works perfectly fine. If you are re-casing you will need to do more modification to get the front USB IO working but if not the PSU change with the adaptor works great.
24 Pin to 6 Pin ATX Power Adapter Cable (and convert +5V sb to +12V sb)
Hi i got my hands on one of these it has the i7 7700 and gtx 1060 3gb can i upgrade the graphics card on this. I would love to upgrade the shell etc. But really dont know where to start with size etc.
You are only limited by the original PSU so if you swap it out like in the video you can use what ever GPU you want to.
Thank you. I'm very new to this, would a rtx 3060 ti work fine if I went for a 550w or 600w psu?
@@RoyPaddon It will work, not 100% sure on the balance of performance between that and the cpu though as I have never tried both together.
@TechLabUK brilliant thank you. Well I just went in loft pulled out my old pc which had a 600w atx modular psu. Plus an old ati crossfire x MB. May try doing something with that too.
I have hp z240 tower workstation desktop "i7-6700" cpu. Can I upgrade it to the 8th Gen i7-8700?
No, you will most likely be restricted to 6th and 7th gen as 8th and 9th use a different socket version.
Will this work with the z2 g4 hp workstation pls help
Can’t see why not, search for an adaptor for that model.
@@TechLabUK can you check if the motherboard of the z240 is the same as z2 g4
@@TechLabUKis there anyway to contact you for help
to earn carbon credits, use the old case and old z240 PSU and use 1, 2, or 3 built-in displayports. be grateful electricity is available and you're not in prison or on death row. PCIe 3.0 is your best friend when you're alone and have no carbon credit.
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