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JLPhotos83

JLPhotos83

JLPhotos83

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Good morning,

Since getting my HP Victus Laptop.

Intel i5 8 Core
16GB Ram
RTX 3050 4GB

I have really enjoy being back pc gaming. I purchase this mainly for photography but got right back into Forza Horizon 5.

I read that the GPU on these can not be upgraded on these without replacing the entire motherboard.

I do also has a desktop with the Ryzen 7 5700G

But in only has the onboard gpu and the motherboard is tiny. It’s an HP 8906 so only single slot.

Would I be best sticking as I am for now or beefing up my laptop motherboard?
 
What do you mean by beefing up the laptop board? These are not user upgradeable parts and you instantly void warranty opening it up beyond adding more physical RAM or a storage upgrade.

You can upgrade the graphics card at time of purchase when buying from HP, but as you've already bought it, you can't just buy a GPU upgrade and swap it out. Swapping the motherboard requires buying a whole new Victus with the spec you want, as HP don't sell just motherboards with better graphics cards on there own, hence why the whole customisation at purchase system exists.

Assume maybe you can get a new motherboard from HP direct and fit it yourself, but as above, this voids your warranty and its also a lot of work dismantling a full laptop to do this and you would also lose your Windows activation as it's an OEM license tied to the original motherboard.
 
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That laptop isn’t going to game very well by the look of one review but try it and see.

Your desktop machine will probably be better but you’d again, need to see.

You could add a low power draw GPU for your desktop (that only needs power from the pci-e lanes) but I’d probably suggest that if neither work for you, selling both and buying a B450/b550 motherboard, 650 watt PSU, RAM and an Intel B580 GPU and moving your 5700G processor across.
 
unfortunately oem desktops often have proprietary psu and power mgmt layouts, so you will have to get the card from hp, and its not considered value for money,
regarding the laptop it would be best to replace it by a new model
but really all this depends on whether theres an actual need for an upgrade
 
Here's a cheap build that'll do 1440P gaming*
here's a review of the Intel B580 - they compare the Intel B580 to the desktop version of the 3050 and it's poor, the laptop version will be significantly worse.

You could also get a used AMD 580 8gig for not much money instead and it would be a much better performer than the 3050 or any low power draw GPU and then save up for a better GPU in a year or two.

I understand if money is tight at the moment but upgrading your current hardware is a waste of money.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £462.96 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

*The PSU is just a placeholder, I don't know PSU's that well.
 
Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite AX V2 (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard
MB-59Q-GI
£140 (incl. VAT)
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CORSAIR RM Series RM650 Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply
POW-CRS-01425
£75 (incl. VAT)
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Sparkle Intel ARC B580 TITAN OC 12GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
GRA-SPK-03779
£290 (incl. VAT)
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