Upgrading a Compaq Presario 5320US

[mkillio]

My friend has this computer and he got a new graphics card for it but the psu can't handle it so he got a new one but it doesn't fit the "special" compaq mobo. I'm having the hardest time finding him a new mobo. Where can we find one?

 

[mkillio]

nothin'?

 

[Beholdereye]

http://zipzoomfly.com

 

[see colon]

what do you mean doesn't fit? can you post a picture (or product link) to the PSU and a picture of the mobo?

 

[digitalwanderer]

My friend has this computer and he got a new graphics card for it but the psu can't handle it so he got a new one but it doesn't fit the "special" compaq mobo. I'm having the hardest time finding him a new mobo. Where can we find one?

Uhm, if the graphics card "doesn't fit" there is something wrong....did you get an AGP or PCIe graphics card?

 

[mkillio]

The Power supply doesn't fit, the Compaq mobo requires more connectors then the new Power Supply has to offer. My friend says that he has to purchase a special power supply to fit the motherboard, I just took his word on it.

 

[digitalwanderer]

The Power supply doesn't fit, the Compaq mobo requires more connectors then the new Power Supply has to offer. My friend says that he has to purchase a special power supply to fit the motherboard, I just took his word on it.

20 to 24 pin adapter cable.

 

[mkillio]

Good idea, thanks. Would he get a performance boost from getting a different mobo for not a whole lot more money then the cable? https://webmail-beta.iu.edu/horde/s...a-p4266e-socket-478-atx-mb-w-snd-p-11757.html for instance.

 

[mkillio]

I just talked to my friend and he said he had already tried the converter and that it didn't work . He called both Compaq and the company that makes the PSU and that they do something different that makes them incompatible.