Thinking of upgrading to PO5-650-UB22 I will plan on adding a Noctua CPU cooler and additional NVME

bravozero588 · January 24

Hey all, been a while. I currently still have my PO3-630-UA15 and it's been great, just wish I had more performance out of it and because it's a small case, getting an aftermarket case then upgrading the RTX card and a bigger power supply… I might as well just get another PC or build my own. My wife has also recently gotten into PC gaming and I gave her my old HP Omen 17 laptop but I think she's going to want her own desktop setup, so I'm also considering giving her my current rig.

That said, since I've had awesome luck with Acer I want to give them another shot and get a factory built Predator 5000, more specifically the PO5-650-UB22 which has the i7 13700f and RTX 4070ti as well as DDR5 ram. A bigger case, better GPU and CPU and a better power supply seems like a more future-proof rig than my current one to be honest. I can build my own but it'll cost just as much if not more based on the same parts just more custom. I will plan on adding a Noctua CPU cooler and additional NVME stick.

Thoughts?

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StevenGen · January 24

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/699322/thinking-of-upgrading-to-po5-650-ub22

The new Predator PO5-650 is a 13th Gen Intel LGA1700 socket cpu on an mATX (W x H 244mm x 244mm) board that has the Intel® H770 Chipset and has either the 800W or the 1200W 24pin PSU ATX PSU and runs an M.2 SSD PCIE Gen 4x4 drive. This desktops ram can be upgraded to 64Gb DDR5-4400MHz 288-pin DIMM at 4x 16GB ram slots and Dual channel should be enabled always when plug-in 2 or 4 same memory size DDR5 memory modules.

This desktops mainboard mATX can be put into other mATX cases and its oem PSU can be upgraded also. A community member (maybe someone on the forum has the link to that post) who just upgraded his oem PO5-650 desktop to a new 1000W PSU and to an RTX4080 and a Noctua NS-U9S cpu cooler but an NS-U12S will also fit, but he also needed a gpu spacer for the gpu as the gpu gets too hot with the restricted space available that restricts the gpu fans for ventilation. So you can do that easily. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

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chugzilla · January 24

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/699322/thinking-of-upgrading-to-po5-650-ub22-i-will-plan-on-adding-a-noctua-cpu-cooler-and-additional-nvme

well, what's awesome about the 5000 cases they are huge and upgrading them is easy. i have gutted mine and the only original parts besides the case are the MB-CPU-GPU. and the stock fans but i added more and it runs amazing. these cases hold the Noctua NH-U12A it's the largest Noctua cooler than will fit in the 5000-7000 cases. and it's their best air cooler.