Got a pair of these from e-bay for $79 & $89. Quad core, & 4gb of RAM. No DVD drive. Came with old but working 250gb hard drives & Windows 7. Bought an internal DVD drive for one of them off e-bay for only $10. Put in new hard drives & 4gb more RAM. That was 4 years ago. They both are still running great, & 1 of them is my primary computer, so it's running hard daily, almost always on, set to sleep after no use for an hour. Nice fast little computer even by today's standards. Not a hard core gamer, but do a lot of video editing, processing, & conversions with it rather quickly. Highly recommended. Amazing for their size, age, & power efficiency. Running in dual-boot with Windows & Linux Mint, but was running Linux Zorin on it smoothly too.
@@montana6693 No. But it easily plays separate HD 1080p videos in dual displays smooth, at the same time. On-board graphics does a lot better than I expected. Beware they have a dual-core version of the 8300 too. You want the quad core. It also handles 1080p video editing, processing, & conversions fast. Don't use 4k video & don't need it. If you're using high quality, sharp 1080p, most people won't notice the difference. I have some high quality 480p DVD content that looks better than some of the crappy 720-1080p stuff they're streaming these days. They're over-compressing HD stuff so much, that some of it is duller & looks worse than a lower resolution version (no matter what computer, player you use, or how fast your connection is).
I bought one in mint condition, fitted with an i7, 16gb 2x8gb SODIMMs for £20 then I find out its got a M2 slot for a SSD and a mini-PCIex slot which I have just bought a Beast Pro kit and its going to have poss a RX560 4gb, what a bargain and what a forward looking machine having things like SSD capability and external grafx card capability when normal desktops just lacked those things.
Hi, great posts BTW - here's a query. I picked one of these up all-ready-to-go with PSU and it worked. So I upgraded to i7-3770S CPU + SSD + RAM. It worked fine at first, I soak-tested it for a few weeks. The BIOS, after all updates, I noticed was a weak point, at least buggy and arguably just broken but I worked-around ok, running just 1804 latest refresh, it worked. (BTW W10 also works. Dual-booting doesn't, I won't detail here why not.) Anways a couple days ago I logged in remotely from my notebook with ssh. I did some trivial but large backups and a couple upgrades/installs. Then I issued shutdown -r 0. It died. Or rather, it went into a zombie state from which no repair is possible, believe me, I tried everything. In this state the fans are on, everything is powered - but no BIOS activity. Power-cycle gives a single beep, a brief 1-or-2 secs LED on and then does nothing. Briefly, can anyone opine? My options are pretty grim: (1) buy another mobo and try it. or I could just as easily .. (1b) Buy another of these USDTs and put all the CPU+RAM+SSD stuff I bought in that one!?! The above 1x options are "philosophically distatesteful". And if it still fails, now I have 2x old HP boxes that don't work!?! (2) Maybe total waste of time+money: Buy another HP-Elite USDT 135/180W PSU-brick - unfortunately other makes don't work, I tried. BTW I have no reason to suspect the existing one, voltage is nominal but no way to test full-7A load behaviour. (3) Replace the CMOS battery but I think this would be a pointless waste of time.
That honestly sounds like a capacitor issue to me, mine is starting to do the same, and it has bulging capacitors, honestly, I couldn't even get an OS on mine to begin with, so I moved the CPU to my router PC, but imo your best bet would be to get a barebones Dell Optiplex or something and move the CPU, SSD, and RAM to that.
This is 5 years old but if you still have this channel up can you tell how to get WIFI out of this HP 8300USDT? Some say just to buy usb wifi dongle others say get the intel card. My 8300 does not have any slots though. Any suggestions?
The m.2 is only meant for disk caching and has GB limit. The video card addon is hard to find as you must get one with the heat sink intact, also you have to upgrade the powersupply to the more powerful one. Not worth spending extra money for old tech.
I have it with a i7, it is from the EZB here in Frankfurt ;) i Love the Pc and Play GTA5 Online with it. But i Need a Grafik Card ^^ i7 Grafik use 2Gb oft RAM. With the MXM ATI 1GB Grafik, it dont go realy better Or?
I bought one of these with an i3. Having a real hard time trying to bypass/unlock the bios password. I can temp boot from usb but would like to perm set it to look for usb first.
Open the case and look for a green or blue jumper on the motherboard, it should be across 2 pins. Put it on 1 pin and boot the system up and you should get a message saying it has been cleared. Turn off the system and put the jumper back and boot up again. You should now have full access to the BIOS. Check HP's website for a full diagram of the board and where the CMOS reset jumper is.
might be little late but i have this computer too and i added the mini pcie to 16x pcie riser and im running a gtx 950 just need to use computer power supply to power the pcie riser card
Co-worker of mine just gave me one of these for free (I5-2400s?, 8GB DDR3-1600, no HDD or power adapter though). Thinking maybe of gutting and selling off the good parts, customize the case for a miniITX build.
The power adapters are sort of a pain cuz you pretty much need the e x a c t model by searching up the pc serial on HP Part Surfer and finding the model of power adapter that is usually paired with it and prey someone is selling that e x a c t model on ebay for under 40 dollars or something lol
I have it with a i7 and have use much Systems in it, all with USB! I dont remember, i have has Problems First Time but will it Check tomorrow (we have 2:15am here in Germany), Gn8
@@rickynelson7023 not that I know of, I don't think it has an M.2/mini PCIe slot, and idk if there are MXM to PCIe adapters, plus I can't remember if the machine uses an MXM slot
This is a nice piece of a little beast to keep around! Mine is running Window 10 pro, 16 gig ram, 1tb mSATA, 4tb HDD,
Got a pair of these from e-bay for $79 & $89. Quad core, & 4gb of RAM. No DVD drive. Came with old but working 250gb hard drives & Windows 7. Bought an internal DVD drive for one of them off e-bay for only $10. Put in new hard drives & 4gb more RAM. That was 4 years ago. They both are still running great, & 1 of them is my primary computer, so it's running hard daily, almost always on, set to sleep after no use for an hour. Nice fast little computer even by today's standards. Not a hard core gamer, but do a lot of video editing, processing, & conversions with it rather quickly. Highly recommended. Amazing for their size, age, & power efficiency. Running in dual-boot with Windows & Linux Mint, but was running Linux Zorin on it smoothly too.
Can you add a graphics card?
@@montana6693 No. But it easily plays separate HD 1080p videos in dual displays smooth, at the same time. On-board graphics does a lot better than I expected. Beware they have a dual-core version of the 8300 too. You want the quad core. It also handles 1080p video editing, processing, & conversions fast. Don't use 4k video & don't need it. If you're using high quality, sharp 1080p, most people won't notice the difference. I have some high quality 480p DVD content that looks better than some of the crappy 720-1080p stuff they're streaming these days. They're over-compressing HD stuff so much, that some of it is duller & looks worse than a lower resolution version (no matter what computer, player you use, or how fast your connection is).
I bought one in mint condition, fitted with an i7, 16gb 2x8gb SODIMMs for £20 then I find out its got a M2 slot for a SSD and a mini-PCIex slot which I have just bought a Beast Pro kit and its going to have poss a RX560 4gb, what a bargain and what a forward looking machine having things like SSD capability and external grafx card capability when normal desktops just lacked those things.
Hi, great posts BTW - here's a query. I picked one of these up all-ready-to-go with PSU and it worked. So I upgraded to i7-3770S CPU + SSD + RAM. It worked fine at first, I soak-tested it for a few weeks. The BIOS, after all updates, I noticed was a weak point, at least buggy and arguably just broken but I worked-around ok, running just 1804 latest refresh, it worked. (BTW W10 also works. Dual-booting doesn't, I won't detail here why not.) Anways a couple days ago I logged in remotely from my notebook with ssh. I did some trivial but large backups and a couple upgrades/installs. Then I issued shutdown -r 0. It died. Or rather, it went into a zombie state from which no repair is possible, believe me, I tried everything. In this state the fans are on, everything is powered - but no BIOS activity. Power-cycle gives a single beep, a brief 1-or-2 secs LED on and then does nothing.
Briefly, can anyone opine?
My options are pretty grim:
(1) buy another mobo and try it. or I could just as easily ..
(1b) Buy another of these USDTs and put all the CPU+RAM+SSD stuff I bought in that one!?!
The above 1x options are "philosophically distatesteful". And if it still fails, now I have 2x old HP boxes that don't work!?!
(2) Maybe total waste of time+money: Buy another HP-Elite USDT 135/180W PSU-brick - unfortunately other makes don't work, I tried. BTW I have no reason to suspect the existing one, voltage is nominal but no way to test full-7A load behaviour.
(3) Replace the CMOS battery but I think this would be a pointless waste of time.
That honestly sounds like a capacitor issue to me, mine is starting to do the same, and it has bulging capacitors, honestly, I couldn't even get an OS on mine to begin with, so I moved the CPU to my router PC, but imo your best bet would be to get a barebones Dell Optiplex or something and move the CPU, SSD, and RAM to that.
This is 5 years old but if you still have this channel up can you tell how to get WIFI out of this HP 8300USDT? Some say just to buy usb wifi dongle others say get the intel card. My 8300 does not have any slots though. Any suggestions?
Unbelievable that I was able to find 2 OptiPlex 9020s from a recycle center
It's crazy what you can find with a little luck!
Was that a m.2 pcie on board? Also, what type of graphics upgrade does it take. Is it like them imac ones you plug in.
The m.2 is only meant for disk caching and has GB limit. The video card addon is hard to find as you must get one with the heat sink intact, also you have to upgrade the powersupply to the more powerful one. Not worth spending extra money for old tech.
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@@myschwettyballs the slot under the HDD/SDD is an mSATA slot that can carry 1tb mSATA drive for your OS
I have it with a i7, it is from the EZB here in Frankfurt ;) i Love the Pc and Play GTA5 Online with it. But i Need a Grafik Card ^^ i7 Grafik use 2Gb oft RAM. With the MXM ATI 1GB Grafik, it dont go realy better Or?
U can try egpu. It works on mine. I have the similiar PC too
I bought one of these with an i3. Having a real hard time trying to bypass/unlock the bios password. I can temp boot from usb but would like to perm set it to look for usb first.
Open the case and look for a green or blue jumper on the motherboard, it should be across 2 pins. Put it on 1 pin and boot the system up and you should get a message saying it has been cleared. Turn off the system and put the jumper back and boot up again. You should now have full access to the BIOS. Check HP's website for a full diagram of the board and where the CMOS reset jumper is.
might be little late but i have this computer too and i added the mini pcie to 16x pcie riser and im running a gtx 950 just need to use computer power supply to power the pcie riser card
I didn't know one could even do that... sadly the system seems to be having capacitor related issues so I threw the CPU in my router build.
Where is the PCIe
@@rickynelson7023 under the hard drive
@@dcmike1967 did u remove that metal bracket that holds the ssd or hard drives
@@rickynelson7023 nope the mini picie lays flat and usb cable goes under the hard drive too
Co-worker of mine just gave me one of these for free (I5-2400s?, 8GB DDR3-1600, no HDD or power adapter though). Thinking maybe of gutting and selling off the good parts, customize the case for a miniITX build.
Do you play with this pc?
The power adapters are sort of a pain cuz you pretty much need the e x a c t model by searching up the pc serial on HP Part Surfer and finding the model of power adapter that is usually paired with it and prey someone is selling that e x a c t model on ebay for under 40 dollars or something lol
Have one with ssd, 8g, 3770s and a MXM 7650a not bad for a retro gaming emulator.
it would be interesting to put an mxm card into this.
What's the name of the power supply
Можно ли установить Intel Core i7 3770S в этом блоке?
Да, это то, что у меня есть
Does the hp compaq ultra slim had a graphics card slot?
And another question can you make the hp compaq motherboard on a new case and if its just possible
I’m wondering too
where is the sd card slot?
Mine does not boot from USB no matter what I do.
I have it with a i7 and have use much Systems in it, all with USB! I dont remember, i have has Problems First Time but will it Check tomorrow (we have 2:15am here in Germany), Gn8
Does it get really hot while running?
Stays pretty cool pushing it hard. It uses laptop parts, with more space & better cooling than in a laptop.
can i add a MSI G7101D3HP1 GT 710 to this?
Nah the Elite 8300 doesn't have the full sized PCIe slot.
@@AdamMessmann is there any way to add a PCIe slot ?
@@rickynelson7023 not that I know of, I don't think it has an M.2/mini PCIe slot, and idk if there are MXM to PCIe adapters, plus I can't remember if the machine uses an MXM slot
tiene psi expres?
I fucking hate the fact that these old office pcs are so fucking inflated in my country.
seems like they are everywhere, they are great for homelab stuff and I suppose that doesn't help with demand
SODIMM
Can any body tell me how to remove BIOS or supervisor password of hp 8000 ultra slim desktop.
i want to buy this cpu
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Can any body tell me how to remove BIOS or supervisor password of hp 8000 ultra slim desktop.
Can any body tell me how to remove BIOS or supervisor password of hp 8000 ultra slim desktop.
Can any body tell me how to remove BIOS or supervisor password of hp 8000 ultra slim desktop.
Can any body tell me how to remove BIOS or supervisor password of hp 8000 ultra slim desktop.