Hey all, long story short, my dad and I are teaming up to upgrade my brother's video card in his store-bought HP pc. HP Pavilion a6130n. There's a long story behind the store-bought PC since I normally build the computer for him; but that's for another day. I'm trying to find a picture of inside his case to make sure he has room for a 2 slot PCI-e card (ex: 8800 GTS) but the real question I'm facing is can I put any replacement PSU in or do they have a proprietary setup for that stuff? I'm looking to spend $80 - $120 on a quality PSU to handle the new video card. We're thinking about any of the 8600/8800 GT/GTS cards. newegg is sold out on all of the new GT cards so I'm leaning towards the 8600 GTS 256MB card or the 8800 GTS card which is what I have in my system currently. I just need to find out if he'll have room for the double-slot ones. If anyone has pictures of the inside of the case please let me know. I'm tending towards the single card for heat-related issues being that it's not a tower-case.
The only company I'm aware of that has been known to rig their PSU's up funny is Dell, and they may not be doing that anymore. HP conforms to the standards, so you can buy off the shelf parts for the system.
