Old Orion (PO3-600) Upgradre Success!

TheHackintosh
TheHackintosh Member Posts: 14

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Thanks to @billsey My PO3-600 Is Mouse Quiet and Never Reaches 70 Degrees. The Upgrade Was A Way Trough Hell taking pictures of the cables untouched etc... and Removing The Motherboard just To Mount a Push-Pin Cooler I Was Worried when i saw that there are some weird Acer-Only Backplates on this Machines and They are GLUED DOWN so Removing The Acer Stock Heatsink Was Hard Once I Got It Removed I Installed a Very Good Cooler from Cooler Master : The Hyper TX3 Evo. Pushing The PushßPins In Place was Harder than Taking The whole PC Apart I Got It Mounted after a Hour. Then Ive Put The PC Back Together With Almost No space between the Coolers Heat Pipes and The side Panel (about 2 milimeters) spare The PC Booted With No POST Passed Beep So I Was Worried but After A Minute Ive Got My Desktop Displayed My Temperatures Dropped from 50 idle to 40 idle and 80 under load to 60 under load And The Thing Is : I CANT HEAR IT I love my new cooler and my PO3-600 even more Waiting For My Be Quiet 80mm Case Rear Fan To Arrive For It to be completly Quiet. To Be Continiued.

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  • wQAdAWd
    wQAdAWd Member Posts: 2 New User
    can you give a guide on how you removed the motherboard? Ive been told its glued onto the case so how would i remove it? Also how did u fit the cooler into the motherboard? is the cooler u have a push pin one or a screw type one? Im also looking to replace the stock fan as its soo bad
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,234 Trailblazer
    The motherboard is not glued into the case, it's just held in place with the normal screws. The support cage for the CPU cooler mounting studs is affixed to the bottom of the motherboard with an adhesive however, so if you are trying to replace the cooler you might have to pry it loose.
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  • TheHackintosh
    TheHackintosh Member Posts: 14

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    wQAdAWd said:
    can you give a guide on how you removed the motherboard? Ive been told its glued onto the case so how would i remove it? Also how did u fit the cooler into the motherboard? is the cooler u have a push pin one or a screw type one? Im also looking to replace the stock fan as its soo bad

    It Is screwed Down By 6 or 9 screws And The Current Cooler (stock) Has A Backplate that is very hard to remove thats why my dad was Holding The Motherboard And I Was Pulling Out The Backplate The BACKPLATE is GLUED to The Motherboard not the Motherboard to the case My New Cooler Is the Cooler Master Hyper TX3-Evo This cooler dropped 20 Degrees off My CPU Fantastic, Right? The Cooler Has Push Pin Mounting And In My Case At least, It Was Very Hard For The Push Pins To snap In Place. After 2 Hours of Pushing The TX3-Evo Into My Motherboard It Finally Decided to Snap In. The Removal Of The Motherboard Was Very Easy, Just Take Photos of the wires where they were connected Originally for Easy Reassembly The Hardest Part Was Mounting The Darn Cooler, For You I Recommend the Hyper 212 Evo As It is a little bit Better than The TX3 And You Dont Have To Play Around With Push Pins that break by simply looking at them Also The 212 Has A Backplate to Additionally stiffen The Motherboard Around The CPU for Better Results. The TX3 Is a very tough Fit it BARELY Hides under The Panel! 2mm clearance Only! Yeah Thats It i Recommend you to download the P03-600 PDF To A Tablet and using provided Pictures for Disassembly Thats It For This One Im Looking To Replace the PSU Very Very Soon See Ya Later!

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