New here, upgrading my orion 5000. anyone get a 40 series yet???

PredatorJoe

Hey guys new here and just returned to pc building after 10 years and alot has changed of course. I got my orion 5000 (i7 12700f, 3080, 16G ddr5 ram, 800psu) on black friday for a steal and having been gaming pretty hard for a few months now. my first upgrades were samsung pro SSD and 32g corsair dominator ram. I run 2 monitors with my primary being an LG ultragear 4k gaming at usually maxed settings… I first must thank this community for being so informative as my next upgrade will be the nocturna cpu cooler and top exhuast fans. my system gets hot and the fan loudness of gaming mode is gettig old. If the new cpu cooler does not occulde my first ram slot i will probably add two more sticks. right now the dominator ram poke out so far as to not be able to fit under the stock cooler in slot 1. fingers crossed on the nocturna.

The reason I am here is running 4k native has about tapped this 3080 on newer games. im playing atomic heart right now which gets amazing fps maxed but then other new games like dead space remastered prove too much. I know the stock psu can handle it as the 4080 is more efficient, some claim their cards draws less power than 3080, and its required psu is 700-750.

Now for my main question. I am looking to upgrade to a 4080 probaby a tuff gaming or equivalent. After scowering the web and youtube their is not very straightforward answers on going from 3080 to 4080. especialy with our systems(and more importantly our psu's cable syctems). Im wondering if there is an adaptor cable that will plug into the cable going to my current 3080 and plugNplay into what comes with the 4080. I have not broken this system down enough yet to see if the psu has ports or if everything is hard wired as a factory deal. any help would be appreciated.

Thanks and glad to be here!

chugzilla

well, the one thing i can tell you is even with a dual fan Noctua the NH-U12A, and one or 2 frostblade fans up top, its going to stay loud in gaming mode, so you would need to replace all the acer fans, they are made by cooler master and they are just loud, no easy way to say it lol, i know this from mine, but i love it because for me it blocks out other noises in my house that bother me haha. and i know the PSU in ours is an 800 watt 80+ gold with a fan but im pretty sure for any 40 series ya need atleast a 1000 watt PSU but there are a few members here who have put 40 series in there cases that are better qualified to answer this but they all upgraded the PSU as far as i know. and yeah you will be able to add more memory i just put 4 in mine and it runs amazing but i used the crucial 4800 because no matter what we put in acer has limited us too 4400 but you only get that with 2 sticks with 4 sticks you get 4000. my benchmark tests are higher with 4x16 compared to 2x16 and my games and fps went way up its really awesome to be honest, i also like a few other just yesterday removed the HDD caddy for extra air flow it helps. im sure you have seen my posts so i wont detail every upgrade but i have made a few, even a new cpu bracket-top cover the lga-1700 one intel supplies is garbage and bends-warpes the cpu over time there are youtube vidoes detailing this. anything else ask away and welcome to this amazing community !!@!!