Pimping Out a TC-780-AMZKi5 for Gaming

Hey ACER Community,

I am planning to buy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N5SXZY8/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=AKJ7ND6X6KF2J&psc=1

I have been looking at Amazon reviews and the general consensus is that it has an extra M.2 slot, Pcie x 16 slot, and an extra Ram slot. I do not want to get rid of the DVD drive.

I'm going to take advantage off all that by adding:

500GB M.2 SSD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073SBX6TY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Gtx 1050 ti 4GB: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MF7EQJZ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
2400mhz 8gb DDR4 stick: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D8U2BKA/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

I particularly want to set the SSD as my main boot drive. Any tutorials for that?

If you have any advice or comments on compatibility, please let me know! Also, send me tutorials on installing all of the hardware onto the computer.

Thanks in Advance.

P.S: If any of you have similar setups, what is your average FPS for CSGO, Minecraft, League of Legends, Fortnite, and Overwatch on High/ultra?

Edit: I have read that a lot of times, after putting in a new graphics card, the HDMI slots for the actual mobo will be disabled. Is that true for this particular computer?

Accepted answers

Sharanji

Ov3rpowered

This model has One SSD bay supporting M.2 type SSD modules, Supports SATA 3.0 SSD in 96/128/256/512GB capacities.

This model supports DDR4 1.2V 2133 unbuffered DIMMs (4GB, 8GB or 16GB) dual channel up to 32GB total memory.

Here's the user Benchmark of compatible components found for Acer Aspire TC-780.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Acer-Aspire-TC-780/37161

Some of the officially tested parts are listed below :
SSD : FLASH DISK LITE-ON SSD NAND 512GB CV1- 8B512 LF+HF with part number KN.5120L.005
Memory :

Please create a USB recovery media before making any changes on your laptop. Use the following steps to create a USB Recovery Drive using Acer Care Center:
Click the Start menu. Click All Apps. Click the Acer folder, then click Acer Recovery Management. Click the Backup tab.
Click Get Started to the right of Create Factory Default Backup. Insert a 16 GB USB drive into your system.
Make sure there is a check in the box next to Back up system files to the recovery drive and click Next.
Select the drive you wish to create the USB recovery drive to and click Next. Click Create. Click Finish.

To transfer your OS to SSD.
Please follow the steps below and see whether it helps:
1.Download and install Minitool partition wizard free.
2. Install the SSD and use Migrate feature to transfer the contents of HDD to SSD.
3. Go to BIOS and change the boot order to make the SSD as your first boot device.
4. Make sure the migration was successful, then format the HDD and use it for storage.
You can also remove the HDD and use the laptop only with the SSD after the migration completed, if you prefer.
https://www.minitool.com/partition-manager/partition-wizard-home.html
https://www.minitool.com/help-pw/migrate-os-to-ssd-hd.html

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Sharanji

Ov3rpowered

This model has One SSD bay supporting M.2 type SSD modules, Supports SATA 3.0 SSD in 96/128/256/512GB capacities.

This model supports DDR4 1.2V 2133 unbuffered DIMMs (4GB, 8GB or 16GB) dual channel up to 32GB total memory.

Here's the user Benchmark of compatible components found for Acer Aspire TC-780.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Acer-Aspire-TC-780/37161

Some of the officially tested parts are listed below :
SSD : FLASH DISK LITE-ON SSD NAND 512GB CV1- 8B512 LF+HF with part number KN.5120L.005
Memory :

Please create a USB recovery media before making any changes on your laptop. Use the following steps to create a USB Recovery Drive using Acer Care Center:
Click the Start menu. Click All Apps. Click the Acer folder, then click Acer Recovery Management. Click the Backup tab.
Click Get Started to the right of Create Factory Default Backup. Insert a 16 GB USB drive into your system.
Make sure there is a check in the box next to Back up system files to the recovery drive and click Next.
Select the drive you wish to create the USB recovery drive to and click Next. Click Create. Click Finish.

To transfer your OS to SSD.
Please follow the steps below and see whether it helps:
1.Download and install Minitool partition wizard free.
2. Install the SSD and use Migrate feature to transfer the contents of HDD to SSD.
3. Go to BIOS and change the boot order to make the SSD as your first boot device.
4. Make sure the migration was successful, then format the HDD and use it for storage.
You can also remove the HDD and use the laptop only with the SSD after the migration completed, if you prefer.
https://www.minitool.com/partition-manager/partition-wizard-home.html
https://www.minitool.com/help-pw/migrate-os-to-ssd-hd.html

Hit 'Like' if you find the answer helpful!

Click on 'Yes' if the comment answers your question!

billsey

Yeah, the key here is that though there are two M.s slots, one is configured for SSD and the other for wireless. No extra drive that way, though there's no reason you can't put a larger drive than the tested models. Also the Intel Skylake H110 chipset supports 2133MHz RAM, not 2400MHz. The x16 slot is as you suspect, it'll handle the GPU card easily, though check PS specs, some SKUs need a beefier supply to drive the card.

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