Good Upgrade Path For Predator Orion 3000 PO3-650 UB91

Took out the 3050, exhaust fan, and CPU cooler. Holy cow these things are loud, especially the GPU. Plus the CPU cooler is just plain bad, you will know this especially if you have been playing Helldivers 2 lately.

The exhaust was Noctua NF-A9 PMW, not much explaining needed there. The CPU cooler is a Noctua NH-U9S. I found both of these on the Acer forums in other discussions about the Orion 3000. The cpu cooler is a little more complicated, but between the YouTube guides and everything else, it should be easy, even for first timers. The only thing you really need to know is that you NEED four M3 12 mm screws to screw the first little mounting arms. No, you do not need to remove mobo, I don’t believe you can anyways, and also why bother.

The GPU, I went for the rtx 4060 ti 16gb. It is a superb 1080p card, and uses very low power, only about 35w more than the 3050 that came with the PC. Mine is a PNY verto dual fan, and it is very quiet, I’m pleased with it. And yes, I did order a device for supporting the card and preventing sag.

All in all, I think this is a great upgrade path, and is a good way to learn more about PC parts

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Bootyfingers

and here she is

billsey

You actually can remove the motherboard, it's just a big hassle and not needed for the Noctua. :)

Bootyfingers

I figured you could, there’s just never going to be a good reason too I guess. I’m going to upgrade the front fan to a Noctua too, just not sure which one I would use! That PNY card is just so quiet, once I’m on all 3 fans Noctua the power supply is going to be the loudest part of the PC! Haha I wonder if I could have got a 4070 in here with the power supply. It really didn’t seem like the best idea tho

Raees2k3

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/700740/good-upgrade-path-for-predator-orion-3000-po3-650-ub91

hey what about the ram? I have a po3-650 and want to get 32gb ram but I’ve seen the confusion and limitations about it in forums so now I’m stumped. Let me know if you have upgraded your ram yet.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1317242#Comment_1317242

Below is the full memory specification and memory modules that Acer tested this desktop with and they guarantee to work fully with this desktop. Good luck and hope this helps you out.