Predator Orion 3000 po3-620 upgrade

DaFique

Hey guys, i just bought predator Orion 3000, my specs are i5-10400F, 8GB, 1650, 256GB nvme m.2.

i want to know what kind of upgrade i can do.. 

Please Help ~ 😭

billsey

Well the obvious ones are available, you can bump the processor to any other 10th gen 65W TDP version, though I don't believe they shipped any of the units with higher than the i7-10700, the i9-10900 should drop right in. The motherboard supports memory in 4, 8 or 16GB sticks, so you can bump up to a maximum of 64GB. Match the speed of what you have now and stay away from XMP memory. Your motherboard has an M.2 slot for the SSD and it supports SATA, NVMe x2 and NVMe x4 drives, the last is best, in pretty much any size. They ship from the factory with 1650, 1960, 2060 and 2070 GPUs so you are good to go with any of those. Moving beyond those upgrades, especially with the GPU, may be problematic due to the power supply. You have a 500W single rail ATX12VO supply and there are very few aftermarket versions...

DaFique

billsey said:

Well the obvious ones are available, you can bump the processor to any other 10th gen 65W TDP version, though I don't believe they shipped any of the units with higher than the i7-10700, the i9-10900 should drop right in. The motherboard supports memory in 4, 8 or 16GB sticks, so you can bump up to a maximum of 64GB. Match the speed of what you have now and stay away from XMP memory. Your motherboard has an M.2 slot for the SSD and it supports SATA, NVMe x2 and NVMe x4 drives, the last is best, in pretty much any size. They ship from the factory with 1650, 1960, 2060 and 2070 GPUs so you are good to go with any of those. Moving beyond those upgrades, especially with the GPU, may be problematic due to the power supply. You have a 500W single rail ATX12VO supply and there are very few aftermarket versions...

For the gpu, my 1650 did not required the power connector from my psu, so do i have to search the gpus without the connector or what? Sorry i really really clueless here 😅

btw, my 8GB is just 1 stick 2666 mhz

do they come with the sata cable also? Or i just didnt notice it.. 😅

GotBanned

What do you usually do with your PC? What games (resolution and frame rate) do you play, if any?

My PO3-620 had the same CPU as you have, but it had RTX 3070, 16Gb RAM and 1Tb M.2 nvme storage drive. All this with a 500W PSU, which I believe is the very same as you have.

For smoother overall operation I'd guess you want 2x8Gb of RAM (easy to do and pretty cheap) and maybe more storage space (very easy to do). Depending on your monitor's resolution and supported refresh rate, a faster GPU might give a nice boost in games.

About the GPU and additional power cables. Open your case and see if there are two unused PCIE power cables meant for GPU. My RTX 3070, which is physically almost identical with Zotac RTX 3070 Twin Force has one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector. Since your PSU is not modular, most likely it has the same two additional PCIE power cables.



Since GPU's are still very expensive, I'd think even a 3060 Ti would give you a nice FPS boost in most games. But I'd start with getting more RAM and run it at dual channel mode (two identical sticks in correct RAM slots, see the manual). Even this should give you a nice performance boost.

Easwar

Hi @DaFique,

READY FOR ANYTHING. Game, stream, edit – do it all – with an octacore 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 Processor1 and GeForce RTX™ 30701 at your beck and call. Top that off with up to 64GB of 3200MHz DDR4 memory, up to 2TB1 PCIe NVMe SSD and plenty of space for additional HDD storage and you have yourself a gaming goliath.

you can upgrade the M. ... Yes, there have been a lot of different Predator Orion 3000 models. In general they should all support a M. 2 SSD or two and some number of SATA HDDs or SSDs.

billsey

Ignore Easwar here, your system is 10th gen, so you can't put an 11th gen chip in without a full motherboard swap... The blurb he copied from the website is for the newer models.