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The photo below contains the list of recommended graphics card (page 72)  that were tested to work on this IdeaCentre 510A-15ABR.

Hi Jay, thank you so much for the reply.

Do I need to upgrade my power supply as well?

Hi 

Those GPU's were tested to work based on Specification of a IdeaCenter 510-15ABR on this link which means there is no need to upgrade if you will just use it for light work load. ( low profile type of graphics is what fits on your computer )

If you will do Gaming then that's the time that you will need to upgrade your Power supply to the suggested 350 Watts  ( this apply to all the graphics cards on the list I sent you earlier).  

Note: Check how many pins are there on your power supply so you will know what you need to buy for an upgrade ( if I'm not mistaken you have 20 PINs on it you can double check just to make sure )

Open the side of your system, and check the label on your power supply.  If it says "Total Watts:  210w" then it can run one of the higher spec low-profile cards (75w) shown above or below, although I suspect the GTX 1650 would work also.  Best to choose a shorter card that does not require supplemental 6-pin PCIe power for easiest fit.  If it says "Total Watts:  180w", then the GT 1030 DDR5 (30w) is your best choice without upgrading the supply, I like the MSI cards with 4K HDMI and DP video ports the best. 

Hello folks,

I have a Lenovo  IdeaCentre 510A-15ARR

●  Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G (3.70GHz 2MB)

●  Graphics: APU (AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 graphics)

●  OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit

●  Memory: 8.0GB PC4-21300 DDR4 UDIMM 2666MHz

●  Storage: 1TB (7200rpm) HDD + 256GB SSD

●  DVD Drive: DVD Super Multi Drive

●  Power Adaptor: 210W

Upgraded to 16Gb RAM. Now I want to add a dedicated video card. According to posts in this thread a 2Gb 75w GTX-1050 should work. I'm looking at an MSI GTX 1050 Ti 4GT LP [PCIExp 4GB] and wonder if this will work as well.

https://kakaku.com/item/K0000929966/

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

Mod:  edited to correct the model number from 15AAR to 15ARR  -Al

I'm not finding any specs for 510A-15AAR, can you check this model number.  Run also a 'sys info', a model or machine type number will be there.  

Hi BiggAl,

Thanks for your time. It's probably a Japan specific machine. Here's the info that I can glean:

inxi -Fxz

System:

 Kernel: 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0

 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 Distro: KDE neon 20.04 5.19

 base: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal

Machine:

 Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 90J0008JJP v: ideacentre 510A-15ARR

 serial:

 Mobo: LENOVO model: 3706 v: SDK0J40700 WIN 3258167643981 serial:

 UEFI: LENOVO v: O4DKT35A date: 12/30/2019

CPU:

 Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics

 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB

 flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

 bogomips: 59087

 Speed: 1259 MHz min/max: 1400/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1257 2: 1258

 3: 1259 4: 1288 5: 1261 6: 1261 7: 1261 8: 1300

Graphics:

 Device-1: AMD Picasso vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.0

 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu FAILED: ati

 unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz

 OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-48-generic LLVM 11.0.0)

 v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.0-devel direct render: Yes

Audio:

 Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Lenovo

 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1

 Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor driver: N/A

 bus ID: 04:00.5

 Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel

 v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.6

 Device-4: ARC Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo

 bus ID: 3-1.2.2:5

 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-48-generic

Network:

 Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet

 vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 01:00.0

 IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:

 Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter

 vendor: Lenovo driver: rtl8821ce v: v5.5.2.1_35598.20191029 port: e000

 bus ID: 02:00.0

 IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac:

Drives:

 Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 388.24 GiB (33.2%)

 ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: UMIS LENSE40256GMSP34MESTB3A size: 238.47 GiB

 ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1SB102 size: 931.51 GiB 

https://www.lenovo.com/jp/ja/jpad/desktops/ideacentre/ideacentre-500-series/510A-AMD/p/90J0008JJP

@ Beerislife wrote:
 

Now I want to add a dedicated video card. According to posts in this thread a 2Gb 75w GTX-1050 should work. I'm looking at an MSI GTX 1050 Ti 4GT LP [PCIExp 4GB] and wonder if this will work as well.

 

https://kakaku.com/item/K0000929966/

 

Yes, your 15ARR uses the same case as the 15ABR, and with the 210w power supply that you have, will accommodate the MSI low-profile GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (also rated at 75w, same as a non-Ti 1050) shown in your link.  From your system specs:  

Thank you. I really didn't want to jump into anything without first knowing if it was possible.

I'm used to, or was used to, building my own machines, but health, dexterity and sudden lack of youth persuaded me to buy pre-built. I've always had a soft spot for IBM (Lenovo) machines since my OS/2 days and Lenovo and Linux work well together too. I had an IBM Thinkpad 390X, if I recall!

Anyway, I will head out to get said video card as soon as possible. Looks like the typhoon is due to hit us tomorrow!

Take care in these difficult times and many thanks!