Predator Orion 3000 P03-620-Eb12 motherboard change

Sonohbeach

Hello I was wondering if I can change the mother board on Predator Orion 3000 P03-620-Eb12. I want to be able to run XMP and better ram for game purposes. Also down the road want to be able to change my processor to an overclockable unit 

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GotBanned

If you already haven't, please search the forum. Few people, including me, have done this. Easiest would be to buy a new board, PSU and case and transfer components to it. And before you even ask why new PSU and case, the reason for this is mentioned in various posts. ^^ Just swapping mobos has its complications.

Quite  few people go this way in order to solve heat and noise problems pestering this otherwise very speedy little box.

StevenGen

Sonohbeach said:

Hello I was wondering if I can change the mother board on this unit. I want to be able to run XMP and better ram for game purposes. Also down the road want to be able to change my processor to an overclockable unit 

In my opinion and if you want to use your existing Case, PSU, CPU, GPU and RAM and not have to buy new hardware to suite a new mobo that has an XMP switch in the BIOS, it’s cheaper to get a new desktop if you want to achieve all those things as your PO3-620 can’t do an XMP overclocking through the BIOS settings and you will have to use other software "see Intel about their XMP" to overclock (be careful as overclocking can damage your mobo and RAM) also, the case size of the PO3-620’s accommodates a mobo size of a form factor DTX (that is a zize 8" × 9.6" or 203 × 244 mm) but its biggest as the mobo size in the PO3-620 is a size 200mm x 321mm so it’s an in between sizes to an ATX form factor so you will only be able to put a standard microATX just or a mini-ITX as most mobo manufacturers don't make miniDTX or DTX mobos in their main selling mobos so you are stuck, that is whyits best to buy a new computer. Good luck and hope this has helped you out. 

GotBanned

You are absolutely right. Getting a completely new PC would be even easier than transplanting components from one system to another.

Oh Acer, Acer, Acer... why did you decide to use ATX12VO standard Oh, why? *sigh*

billsey

The only way to meet some of the Intel requirements for their standards is with an ATX12VO power supply. There are bennies involved in getting those certifications, so many manufacturers of systems go in that direction. I expect the manufacturers of components will follow sometime after the new PSU designs are readily available, but not before. Kind of a chicken and egg thing...