Power supply options for H530

I am currently running a Dell Dimension 2400 with 640 meg of ram and Windows XP. The computer has served me well for the last 6 years but I think it's time for an upgrade. We use our computer for basic email, web surfing and occasionally microsoft office documents. I received a email this morning that the Lenovo H530 is on sale for $399.00 (100 dollars off). It has 4 GB of ram, windows 7, 1TB hard drive, Intel dual core G3220 processor. It is expandable to 16 GB of ram. I am sure that this computer is sufficient for our needs. The only question that I have would be the power supply. The unit comes with a 180 watt power supply. I know in the past I attempted to install a video card in my old Dell and it wouldn't work because of the power supply. Evidently it did not produce enough power to run the system and the additional video card. Will I run into any issues if I wanted to install a power supply with more wattage in the Lenovo so I can install a video card down the road if I wanted? Thanks for your help

hi johnfillippi,
Welcome to the Forums.
AFAIK, you shouldn't have any problems or encounter any issue(s) replacing the stock PSU of the H530 as it uses the standard ATX form factor (the front panel connectors are also standard).
In addition, if you'll be using an aftermarket graphics card other than the one listed on page 49-50 of the hardware maintenance manual then you may want to check this article as you may need to alter some BIOS settings for the graphics card to work (this applies if the BIOS is UEFI enabled).
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