4K upgrade (on 135” screen)

[DVox]

First apologies for a few pretty basic questions - it’s been 15 years since I quit competitive gaming stopped building rigs...

I started casually gaming a bit again a couple of years ago after a decade without a gaming PC. Being busy at work with a startup I got lazy and bought an HP pre-fab (specs below).

I’m now upgrading the home theatre with a Sony native 4K projector and a 135” screen and I’d like to be able to play more graphics intense new releases in 4K without breaking a sweat, and ideally pick up a VR kit again down the line (I got a Vive in 2018 but returned it as I wasn’t impressed with the experience at the time).

Question 1: is there any point in upgrading the HP or should I start over?

Question 2: If you recommend upgrading, what would you get on a ~£1k budget?

Current HP specs:

HP Pavilion 580-091na Gaming Desktop PC, Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

HP Pavilion 580-091na

 

[Tupro]

I’d like to be able to play more graphics intense new releases in 4K without breaking a sweat

4K doesnt come cheap, you will need a top end GPU so thats £500+ of the budget
your also going to want to start from scratch.. that i7 is only 4 cores, the mobo is very basic, you need 16gb ram minimum and an SSD

a £1k budget will be very tight to get the specs you will need, especially with the inflated prices at the moment
i would wait if possible for prices to balance out

 

[DVox]

Thank you - makes complete sense. I was hoping that some RAM and a GPU would be a possible upgrade but I’ll wait 6 months and re-evaluate a new build. Will try to sell the pre-fab in the meantime as well.

 

[spolsh]

it's power that's the issue with that system I think, 300W PSU is tiny for GFX cards now. Don't even know if it's a straight swap or if HP use some proprietry connectors or anything else wierd.

 

[EsaT]

it's power that's the issue with that system I think, 300W PSU is tiny for GFX cards now. Don't even know if it's a straight swap or if HP use some proprietry connectors or anything else wierd.

That case is also total garbage for gaming PC, because of using PSU as exhaust.
And neither there would be much hope for decent intake airflow.