Upgrading Predator G3-710 and compatibility?

Byron9727

Current specs: 

RAM - 8GB

Disk Drives - 2 500gb HDD

CPU - Intel Core i5 - 6500

GPU - AMD Radeon R9 360

I heard you need to update your bios to make hardware upgrades, I have no clue how to do this. My current BIOS is American Megatrend Inc. R01-A0, 15,09,2015.

Upgrade specs I want:

RAM - 16GB (Add 8GB of RAM) HyperX Fury DDR 8GB 2666 MHz CL16

Disk Drives - Samsung 860 EVO 250 GB SDD

CPU - I'm clueless here when it comes to what is compatible or not, have a budget of £250 here.

GPU - XFX Radeon 570 4096 MB

Would all these be compatible? With the CPU I have no idea here, I've got a budget of about £250 for that but I don't know what's good and then what would even work with my motherboard which I'm not really comfortable upgrading. Any tips for upgrading bios too please.

Tried to make it clear as i can so sorry if it isn't as I'm not too knowledgable on this, first time i've upgraded/built a computer.

Thanks,

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billsey

You have the earlier edition of the G3-710, with 6th gen chipset. No need to upgrade the BIOS. You can use pretty much any 6th gen CPU as long as you stay within your power budget, if you go with a processor that uses much more power then you might have to upgrade the cooling as well. I believe you can use the 2666 memory, but it will be throttled to the 2400 the chipset supports so you might save a bit by getting the 2400 instead. You have four slots and can use up to 16GB modules in each slot so the 16GB you are planning on still leaves lots of room for future expansion. You have an M.2 slot in your system and can use M.2 SATA drives of any size in that slot. NVMe drives will likely not work since it's specced for SATA only. The GPU should work fine though double check the power requirements, your supply is likely big enough but better safe than sorry, IIRC yours is 750W which is plenty,

billsey

You have the earlier edition of the G3-710, with 6th gen chipset. No need to upgrade the BIOS. You can use pretty much any 6th gen CPU as long as you stay within your power budget, if you go with a processor that uses much more power then you might have to upgrade the cooling as well. I believe you can use the 2666 memory, but it will be throttled to the 2400 the chipset supports so you might save a bit by getting the 2400 instead. You have four slots and can use up to 16GB modules in each slot so the 16GB you are planning on still leaves lots of room for future expansion. You have an M.2 slot in your system and can use M.2 SATA drives of any size in that slot. NVMe drives will likely not work since it's specced for SATA only. The GPU should work fine though double check the power requirements, your supply is likely big enough but better safe than sorry, IIRC yours is 750W which is plenty,

Byron9727

Thanks for the help

Byron9727

billsey said:

You have the earlier edition of the G3-710, with 6th gen chipset. No need to upgrade the BIOS. You can use pretty much any 6th gen CPU as long as you stay within your power budget, if you go with a processor that uses much more power then you might have to upgrade the cooling as well. I believe you can use the 2666 memory, but it will be throttled to the 2400 the chipset supports so you might save a bit by getting the 2400 instead. You have four slots and can use up to 16GB modules in each slot so the 16GB you are planning on still leaves lots of room for future expansion. You have an M.2 slot in your system and can use M.2 SATA drives of any size in that slot. NVMe drives will likely not work since it's specced for SATA only. The GPU should work fine though double check the power requirements, your supply is likely big enough but better safe than sorry, IIRC yours is 750W which is plenty,65

What do you think is the maximum TDP I could get? One in there is 35, would a 65 TDP CPU be alright?

billsey

So an i7-6700 pulls the same power as your i5-6500, 65W. If you weren't having heat issues before you shouldn't have heat issues after the upgrade, unless you forget the thermal compound or to plug the fan in. The i7-6700K on the other hand wants 91W, so a bit less than 50% more. If you wanted to put that processor in I'd suggest you either have 50% more surface area on the heat sink or 50% more airflow form the fan, and better would be both.