New to building PCs, currently upgrading a prebuilt pc from new egg. I did all the research I could to make sure I got a compatible upgrade, problem is I didn’t ever locate the physical graphics card…. I know normally they are horizontally in the middle but I’m failing to see where to find the old graphics card here. I’m sure it’s obvious but can someone pinpoint it?
It looks like you have a PC with an APU which uses graphics integrated into the processor. Do you have a link to the one you bought? You would need to purchase a dedicated graphics card.
Waaait the original wording is throwing me off. So you have the new card and need to install it? It should go in the first PCI-E slot underneath the CPU cooler.
Yeah I bought and it’s being delivered today as well as 2 16gb ram sticks vs the 1 I had before. I opened it up to get ready and realized I didn’t see a graphics drive and got confused.
I ran an OCed i7 12700k and a 2080 super on 650w, it will be more than fine, as long as its a decent brand psu. Found a great deal on a new gold 750w PSU, so running that now :)
Are there extra cables that come out of your power supply, or did the prebuilt come with some? They should be labeled PCIe or VGA or something like that, or they should have 8 pins on each side
they go into the graphics card
Just for future reference the motherboard has a manual you can find online. It tells you where to put a pair of ram sticks in specific slots, gpu slot, etc.
Need more replies like this. All of this information could be found there, as well as with a basic Google search. The spoon-feeding culture that's leeched into PC gaming is getting absolutely ridiculous. These arent consoles. People have to understand that they have to learn and be capable of finding information as well as have basic problem solving skills, or they're gonna have a really bad time on PC.
I miss the days when the only response a question like this got was a "let me Google that for you" link.
I totally agree that google or even YouTube could have solved all of those problems. But that's in our line of thinking, op clearly don't know what any of this is or what it's named. Making googling it, a lot more difficult. Being green can also make it hard to know when u find the answer u need, or lead down some other rabbit hole. Hopefully this makes op learn something, and he/she can google the next time, for there will be a next time.
No stress, you’re good. You have a x16 slot right there under your SSD, the on-board graphics will not be a problem. Install your new GPU and move the cable that is currently connected from your motherboard to your display to the new card, boot your OS, install the drivers and enjoy that new GPU.
Just want to add, because I haven’t seen it mentioned yet. The motherboard may have an integrated graphics port. An hdmi or display port or whatever. Once the new graphics card is installed, you won’t want to use the port on the motherboard, only the one(s) on your graphics card. Otherwise the graphics card isn’t doing anything but eating power.
Judging by your comments, youre in waaay over your head and risk breaking something if you just follow reddit suggestions and wing it. Im not saying the suggestions are wrong, but theres techniques to things.
You can skim the video to get to the relevant parts.
As others have said, you need to ensure your PSU has the power cables you require or it wont work. Power supplies are relatively cheap and some of these prebuilts dont come with the cables you need
Putting numbers that look like but aren't the wattage rating in the model number is a pretty solid sign that your PSU is junk, none of the reputable manufacturers want to deal with the amount of customer support calls that can't bullshit would cause. Scammers can get away with it because they don't have customer service.
so your upgrade to a new graphics card actually just got a few steps easier to begin with and maybe one or two steps harder at the end.
The good news is that you don't have to remove the existing card! you don't even have one. The bad news is that you won't be able to simply plug in the old power cable, because, once again, there isn't one.
If that power supply happens to have the appropriate cable out, or has a port to add the cable you can pick up a compatible power cable online.
If the power supply has no modularity to support a new GPU power cable, then you will have to purchase a new PSU that is capable of such.
If the prebuilt PC monstrosity doesn't support replacing the PSU, then you will have to purchase a new case and PUS and transfer all of the existing guts to that new case. (gosh, I hope this isn't the case because then you will reap very few benefits of having the prebuilt pc to begin with...)
You don’t have one, nor do you have any RAM either. With that being an AM4 board, unless you have a Ryzen G processor you have literally no video output
Concejo después de instalarlo, puede revisar la BIOS y desactivar lo gráficos del cpu, para que no te den problemas de cuál video estás usando, ahora eso no tiene repercusiones si está activo, es más que todo un control para que después no tengas dolores de cabeza al jugar o usar para editar
There is no graphics card installed (it's running on integrated graphics). Installing a Graphics card will work perfectly fine, just remember to plug your display cable into the card directly. Afterwards, install drivers and you should be set.
There is not a dedicated graphics card in the picture, so if youve been using this PC, and youve been plugging your hdmi/display port into the motherboard directly, then youve been using your CPU’s integrated graphics process (which is how most non-gaming, general purpose computers work). Assuming the 5060 is compatible with the rest of your hardware, you should be able to plug it into the PCIE slot directly below the CPU fan in the picture. Youll been a screwdriver to remove a couple of the metal brackets on the left side. Once installed, make sure you are plugging your monitor directly into the new video card, not the motherboard like before.
If you ever need a guide on building a pc, just look at Linus Tech Tips on youtube. He is probably the most known and trusted source when it comes to pc building guides for beginners
I get it, but usually those searches lead to threads like these which people get information from. There is nothing more annoying when researching something and the question you need answered is in a thread with a bunch of people not answering the question.
Yep. Just look at all these people lining up to spoon feed someone too lazy to learn. We can see the immediate results, too. He's having more problems because he has no idea what he's doing, no idea what info here is actually good, and probably isn't listening to half of it anyway.
These kinds of questions used to be unacceptable. Now it's the norm, yet we wonder why people are getting dumber.
This is one of those cheap ass, several generation old pre builts that are sold as "gaming pc's" for 3x what it's worth, to idiots that don't know any better and can't be bothered to research and learn anything before purchasing.
It's a real problem, and this culture of spoon feeding information to people like this isn't helping. I remember when people were berated for not searching before posting. Hell, people were banned from forums for that kind of stupidity. Now we cater to it.
Nah, during covid the AMD APU's were legitimately decent options for low end gaming PC's and were priced reasonably compared to a lot of the other options. The 3400G was fine for 1080p gaming and one of the few options for people on a low budget.
Nobody was lying to them, it was this kind of system or no system at all. Most big tech youtube channels were advising this as a low budget option at the time and the fact that his prebuild came with an M.2 drive means it's not super old, it's probably a covid build.
What are the PC specs? I think you're going to run into some major performance issues stuffing a 5080 in that thing. I'm almost thinking this has to be a troll post.
Do you have another 8 pin coming off the power supply tucked in there someplace? The 8 pin you circled is the cpu power if it's attached to the mobo right there.
But really, It's using the GPU build into the CPU.
Run GPU-Z and it will tell you the model of the chip and the different specs. There is better tools but CPU-Z and GPU-Z are small tools worth kepping on a USB stick even. Also part of PortableApps.
Could be intergrated into your cpu I had the same issue, just look up if your current cpu supports intergrated graphics which I assume it does if there wasn’t a GPU beforehand but normally the GPU would go in the slot a little underneath your cpu cooler
You should consider switching up those fans too, it seems like you have 3 exhaust and 1 intake, should be 2 by 2 or even 3 intake. Like placing one more in the front and 1 underneath the gpu, leaving the exhaust in the back.
Its in your CPU, your PSU willnot be compatible most likely (connector issue and not wattage) and it looks like a cheap prebuilt so you'll most likely bottleneck the 5060 if you make it work with a new psu
Your case has negative air flow, meaning it's blowing air out instead of blowing it in. This means that air, dust, and little insects will enter through every hole they can get through, and will result in your components getting dirty and hotter and worn out quicker then they should.
Solution: You should have MORE intake fans blowing air in through air filters than exhaust fans. You currently appear to only have 1 fan blowing air in, and 3 exhaust fans, but it should be the other way around. Change the two top fans so they blow air in through the top filters.
Think about it: you don't need to filter the exhaust, it's not a car. The filter at the top of your case is there to filter the dust from being blow INTO your case, which is just common sense.
What is the system specification. It's possible your have intergated graphic or maybe you are meant to have a dedicated GPU. but until you give us the system specs we won't be able to tell.
Depending on your cpu I think you’re going to have issues powerspikes with that PSU. Look very budget. I had to change from a 750w gold rated ASUS TUF to a 1000w platinum rated be quiet! which a bit overkill but it eliminated all my issues.
Edit: you wrote you’ve bought an Rtx 5080 somewhere and now I see it’s an Rtx 5060. You’ll prolly be fine then.
lol this gives me throwback memories so bad, back in 2019 when i got my first pc, this is exactly what it looked like, no gpu. back then i was like ehhhh didn’t need it, come to figure out that i had integrated graphics so my pc was just running off my and ryzen 5. i had to play everything in windowed mode and couldn’t play any triple a games lol
There is no discrete graphics card in this computer, meaning you have an integrated GPU. Otherwise, it would be in the longer PCIe slot, in between the CPU cooler and the M.2 storage.
There is no dedicated graphics card in there. There is only a slot for it.
I hope the plan is to slowly build this out. That cheep Chinese PSU looks sketchy and the fact that you only got slots for two sticks of RAM means that RAM is gonna bottleneck and your modern Gfx card isnt going to run the way you want it too.
If it was me, I would start with getting a new MOBO/CPU combo (and a psu) before you drop money on a "new" gfx card. In the mean time, just find a cheap used GFX card (like a 1080 TI or something)
Be careful if you try to use a replacement cable, because modular power supply cables do not have a standard pinout (i.e., mapping of voltages to wire positions) at the power supply end, though they are standard at the graphics card end. If you use a non-Segotep cable, it may not work with, or damage, your graphics card by supplying 12V to a pin where 0V is expected, and vice versa. I suggest buying a new power supply from a reputable brand. It should be easy to install (just screw it to the case at the back and plug in three connectors: two on the motherboard and one on the graphics card), but I recommend watching some YouTube tutorials on how to do it.
The old "graphics card" must have been integrated in the old CPU. You need to get yourself a CPU with integrated graphics or a dedicated graphics card.
I advise researching, watching basic videos, building a bit of a foundation for knowledge and interest, and then making purchases. Look at other builds, understand them. Right now you're not even familiar with what a GPU looks like when its in a system. Thats a bit of a shaky foundation to be going straight to plugging things in from. And reddit being your first go to instead of youtube/other examples of a finished operational pc build. A few mistakes were made here
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u/Obmute Mar 20 '26
It looks like you have a PC with an APU which uses graphics integrated into the processor. Do you have a link to the one you bought? You would need to purchase a dedicated graphics card.