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I purchased a few "HP ProDesk 400 G3 Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz 8GB RAM 1TB HDD Mid Tower" off of ebay at a good price. (Hint: "Make Offer")
I also already picked up some GTX 1650 D5 refurb cards for $120-130 @ Newegg a few weeks back.
So, as-is, I could build these into "Gaming PCs", likely by just dropping in the GPUs. However, they came with both 180W and 300W PSUs, which appear to be ATX-compatible, certainly, the mount for the PSU at the rear of the chassis LOOKS like ATX, as do the connectors on the mobo.
There is also a second drive bay, and a spare SATA port on mobo and SATA power cable, so one can add a SATA SSD for a boot drive.
I looked up the specs, and there MAY be a PCI-E x4 M.2 slot somewhere, but that was on the SFF HP page, and I don't see it in pics of the Micro-Tower mobo.
It does have a PCI-E 3.0 x16 GPU slot, and can accept double-wide cards (Assuming the PSU manages, or you succeed in replacing the PSU, which I may try to do.) It appears that the stock factory PSU has a micro-SATA-power connector for the slim (laptop-style) DVD drive. So if you intend to keep that functional, and replace the PSU, you'll seemingly need an adapter harness.
I also already picked up some GTX 1650 D5 refurb cards for $120-130 @ Newegg a few weeks back.
So, as-is, I could build these into "Gaming PCs", likely by just dropping in the GPUs. However, they came with both 180W and 300W PSUs, which appear to be ATX-compatible, certainly, the mount for the PSU at the rear of the chassis LOOKS like ATX, as do the connectors on the mobo.
There is also a second drive bay, and a spare SATA port on mobo and SATA power cable, so one can add a SATA SSD for a boot drive.
I looked up the specs, and there MAY be a PCI-E x4 M.2 slot somewhere, but that was on the SFF HP page, and I don't see it in pics of the Micro-Tower mobo.
It does have a PCI-E 3.0 x16 GPU slot, and can accept double-wide cards (Assuming the PSU manages, or you succeed in replacing the PSU, which I may try to do.) It appears that the stock factory PSU has a micro-SATA-power connector for the slim (laptop-style) DVD drive. So if you intend to keep that functional, and replace the PSU, you'll seemingly need an adapter harness.