Best hardware for a replacement desktop?

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 2:59 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 2:01 PM Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
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>> Aryeh Friedman writes:
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>> >  > You need an uninterruptible power supply (UPS):
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>> >  > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply
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>> >  Already on my shopping list but half the problem is the machine is
>> >  a name HP and looking at the specs I have likely put more demand on
>> >  the power supply then I can supply if there any drop in voltage.
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>>         I'd be interested to hear how you do this ... but assuming it's
>> true your solution has two parts:
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>>         1) the UPS to deal with the "power hiccups".  Before you buy,
>> check ports/sysutils to see what models are covered by available
>> software.
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> Neither of the two other systems on the same power strip that where custom
> build (not name brand) and being careful to not overload the internal
> supply went down even once
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>>         2) a more vigorous internal power supply.  I have no idea if it's
>> even possible to upgrade HP products short of having HP do it (and
>> maybe not even then).
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> This is one of the primary reasons for wanting to upgrade the entire
> system.... HP refuses to support upgrades and uses non-standard physical
> dimensions... HP Pavilion 7 is not upgradable and I have already done all
> the tweaks I can do (and thus overloaded the power supply in all likely
> hood)... most notably I added 3 SATA drives in it beyond the one it came
> with (including a SSD),  I increased the RAM from 8 GB to 24 GB (works fine
> despite the stated max being 16 [dmidecode says the max is 128 GB though]),
> added a mid range nvidia card to it (GeForce GT 710).    So all in all I
> suspect I have severly overtaxed the power supply which is 300W.
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>>                         Respectfully,
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>>                                 Robert Huff
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> --
> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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