Predator Orion 3000 P03-630 does it fit RX 6800 XT or just RX 6800?

EmPred3000

so basically I have RTX 3070 but if I would upgrade, would it fit the RX 6800 or the XT?

and a side question, I want to upgrade RAM to 32 GB, what is the best RAM to buy? Anyone has a name/link to perfect fit RAM?

thank you so much:)

GotBanned

What resolution and target refresh rate your monitor has? Depending on the game and the resolution either one, 3070 or 6800, can be faster. And even in cases where 6800 is faster, the performance uplift is not that much.

Vanilla 6800 and XTs have three fans. Measure your current card and then go to HERE. The link takes you to a site that has all GPUs listed. The particular one is one of the smallest vanilla 6800s out there, but even it is 286mm long. It should fit.

But providing the card enough power is an issue, All(?) 6800s need 2 x 8-pin PCIe power cables. As far as I know, your PSU has only one 6-pin and one 8-pin cables. So, it won't be enough to power the new card. I hope I'm wrong.

Because of the constraints (ie. case size and design choices, PSU, cabling, cooling, memory issues and limitations) I would sell your current PC and build a brand new one. I know you don't want to hear this, but… upgrading a prebuilt is hard.

chugzilla

i have an acer branded 3070 rtx and it comes with 2-8 pin connectors but only uses an 8 and 6 pin to power the card, the other 2 are there if ya need them just hanging around lol, it seems acer uses 2-6 pin connectors then alongside them are 2-2 pin connectors to make it an 8 pin heh.

GotBanned

Interesting. I had the same 3070 in my PO3-620 and it had 6 and 8-pin connectors. I could almost swear that the PSU provided only 6 and 8 pin cables.

When I installed ASUS 1080 Ti that needs 2x8, the PC did not even power up.

chugzilla

here is a picture, see the extra 2 pin hanging there, and the 8 pin on the right is the same way its a 2 and 6 combined to make 8 lol

GotBanned

I see that, but yours is PO5 series when OP's is PO3. As far as I know, PO3-620, which I had, and PO3-630 have the same PSU. Besides, at least some P05 units come with RTX 3080 which need two 8-pin cables to work.

Below is a pic of the 3070 I had just for reference. So it looks we had identical cards.

Anyway, OP should open his PC and see what kind of cabling he has.

chugzilla

yes thx for pointing that out, i overlooked that about the 3000-5000 series and the different PSU, mine came with an 800 watt 80+ gold lite on, good catch buddy ty.

billsey

The PO3 models have ATV12VO PSUs and come with the 500W version which (I believe) have a six pin and two four pins for the motherboard, plus a six and eight for the GPU card. The PO5 and PO7 models have the older ATX PSUs with higher wattage support.

EmPred3000

Thank you all for the answers. I am pretty noobish still when it comes to PC builds.

Here is the picture of my PC opened. I see 6 pin and 8 pin on my graphics card.

Judging on that, could you tell me what would be the best upgrades for me? I ordered 144 Hz 1440p 34“ Ultrawide MSI Monitor.

I want to upgrade CPU cooling, RAM to 32 or more GB, and what would be possible to upgrade on GPU and CPU? My 3070 is 8 GB, is there possibility to have 12 GB GPU on my 3000 series?

Thank you so much everyone!

billsey

I wouldn't recommend a change from 8GB to 12GB on the GPU, that will likely put you over the power budget by enough to be glitchy. CPU Cooling and system memory is fairly simple and safe. CPU upgrades typically don't give you much, if any, overall performance increase and usually just aren't cost effective.