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Got board last week and striped the power supply out of my old PC from a few years ago. Which was a 500w Thermaltake. And then went and picked up a new video card too.. a Evga GeForce SC Ultra GTX 1650 Super.

I ended up having to make some modifications to make it fix. But, I've enjoyed it so far. The lag I was experiencing the past few month have been ridiculous. I've ended up playing World of Warcraft classic sense the lag wasn't as noticeable on there. 

 

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52 minutes ago, Sikon said:

Got board last week and striped the power supply out of my old PC from a few years ago. Which was a 500w Thermaltake. And then went and picked up a new video card too.. a Evga GeForce SC Ultra GTX 1650 Super.

I ended up having to make some modifications to make it fix. But, I've enjoyed it so far. The lag I was experiencing the past few month have been ridiculous. I've ended up playing World of Warcraft classic sense the lag wasn't as noticeable on there. 

 

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Something worries me about the second picture. The motherboard seems to be quite old judging by the colour of it. The 1650 is a new enough card

Can you confirm what your CPU is?

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4 hours ago, Barron3000 said:

Something worries me about the second picture. The motherboard seems to be quite old judging by the colour of it. The 1650 is a new enough card

Can you confirm what your CPU is?

Yeah, it's not a custom build. Just a basic PC that came with a low end GeForce card. Nothing too dope, just the basics. I'm like the cab driver on Total Recall, "Come on man, I got 4 kids at home." Later in the movie.. "Come on man, I got 6 kids at home." ? #BallinOnABudget! Lol. 

The original specs prior to what I just did. 

Acer Desktop Computer Aspire AT3-710-UR56

Intel Core i5 6th Gen 6400 (2.70 GHz)

16 GB DDR3

2 TB HDD

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 4 GB

Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

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6 hours ago, Sikon said:

Got board last week and striped the power supply out of my old PC from a few years ago. Which was a 500w Thermaltake. And then went and picked up a new video card too.. a Evga GeForce SC Ultra GTX 1650 Super.

I ended up having to make some modifications to make it fix. But, I've enjoyed it so far. The lag I was experiencing the past few month have been ridiculous. I've ended up playing World of Warcraft classic sense the lag wasn't as noticeable on there. 

 

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my eyes are still burning ;) 

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If your using that POS and your play that good I'm calling HAX just saying. lol

 

 

If you put a cheap SSD drive in it you will be amazed by how fast it makes your computer feel. It really really helps especially on an older machine or a laptop.

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nice about 3 months ago my son bought me the gtx 2060 sc for my birthday 8g on board

 

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On 8/29/2020 at 10:14 PM, J3st3r said:

If your using that POS and your play that good I'm calling HAX just saying. lol

 

 

If you put a cheap SSD drive in it you will be amazed by how fast it makes your computer feel. It really really helps especially on an older machine or a laptop.

I do okay, i feel I'm average. I have my good days and bad days playing like anyone else. I do considerably better when I find a good camping spot vs running around. Especially on brighter maps than dark woody maps, I cannot see that well on the forest type maps. 

I don't think there is an SSD slot on this motherboard. Is there a USB version? Lol really though I think it would run better with a better CPU. However, I dont think I will upgrade this anymore. Would be better off saving for a custom build. 

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5 hours ago, Sikon said:

I do okay, i feel I'm average. I have my good days and bad days playing like anyone else. I do considerably better when I find a good camping spot vs running around. Especially on brighter maps than dark woody maps, I cannot see that well on the forest type maps. 

I don't think there is an SSD slot on this motherboard. Is there a USB version? Lol really though I think it would run better with a better CPU. However, I dont think I will upgrade this anymore. Would be better off saving for a custom build. 

Hey Sikon,

Would definitely get an ssd, the difference is night and day. You could always get it and then reuse it in any future custom build anyway. You could go the cheaper route and get a smaller one and put the operating system and any frequently used files/programs on it like Cod and keep the current hard drive for extra storage, or go with a larger one and just put it all on there, they are fairly cheap now, this is what I went for a few years ago. You get the added bonus that the computer is really quiet as you don't have the old mechanical hard drive noises. When I switched mine out a few years ago all I did was clone the old hard drive onto the new one, didn't have to reinstall anything.

Your computer will take a traditional ssd with a sata interface, here is an example of upgrades for "Aspire AT3-710-UR56" on the Crucial site :  https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/acer/aspire-t3-710-ur56 

It just looks like you can't get the newer m2 versions but rest assured traditional hard drive to normal ssd is still a huge difference.

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16 hours ago, Sharpe said:

Hey Sikon,

Would definitely get an ssd, the difference is night and day. You could always get it and then reuse it in any future custom build anyway. You could go the cheaper route and get a smaller one and put the operating system and any frequently used files/programs on it like Cod and keep the current hard drive for extra storage, or go with a larger one and just put it all on there, they are fairly cheap now, this is what I went for a few years ago. You get the added bonus that the computer is really quiet as you don't have the old mechanical hard drive noises. When I switched mine out a few years ago all I did was clone the old hard drive onto the new one, didn't have to reinstall anything.

Your computer will take a traditional ssd with a sata interface, here is an example of upgrades for "Aspire AT3-710-UR56" on the Crucial site :  https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/acer/aspire-t3-710-ur56 

It just looks like you can't get the newer m2 versions but rest assured traditional hard drive to normal ssd is still a huge differen

That's really not a bad deal on those, but yes.. my first thought when Jester mentioned SSD, was the m2 series. The actual drive version didn't even come to mind. 

As far as noise.. My pc was hella loud prior to replacing these two items. Practically sounded like the fans engaging on an 92 Honda Civic on summer day in Death Valley! And there's not much exaggeration when i say that. Now however,  i can barley hear it or even tell that it is running now. 

My PC is slow at loading larger programs that use a lot of resources, but once they are loaded. It generally runs fairly smooth. With MW 2019 being the exception. I have noticed occasionally the entire system will freeze when 'quiting to desktop'. My kids mostly play that, so I'm not sure if that has changed sense i replaced the PS and GPU.

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On 8/30/2020 at 3:33 AM, Sikon said:

Yeah, it's not a custom build. Just a basic PC that came with a low end GeForce card. Nothing too dope, just the basics. I'm like the cab driver on Total Recall, "Come on man, I got 4 kids at home." Later in the movie.. "Come on man, I got 6 kids at home." ? #BallinOnABudget! Lol. 

The original specs prior to what I just did. 

Acer Desktop Computer Aspire AT3-710-UR56

Intel Core i5 6th Gen 6400 (2.70 GHz)

16 GB DDR3

2 TB HDD

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 4 GB

Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

Ah you are all good so, I was thinking that it may of been an older CPU that could cause bottleneck with your 1650.

Your i5 6400 would have no issue with that card ?

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A 250gb SSD will be big enough for Win 10 and a bunch of 10-20gb games or 1 big game like GTA5 and COD4 with a shit ton of maps. A 480 or 500g SSD is big enough for GTA 5 @ 100gb and Call of Duty Warzone @ 225gb+ and Win 10 and you MIGHT be able to get COD4 on it as well.

There are both excellent choices. I have 2 250gb SSDs in my rig and I don't have enough room to install and update COD Warzone.

250gb

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-860-evo-series-250gb/p/N82E16820147676

and 500gb

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-860-evo-series-500gb/p/N82E16820147674

No joke your computer will feel like a whole different animal with just a cheap 240-250gb SSD. My Windows loads up completely in between 8-10 seconds seconds with a bunch of crap running at startup. Maps on COD4 load in something like 2-3 seconds.

I could only imagine how fast a PCIe M.2 SSD would be, There supposed to be more than 4x faster. My motherboard has 2 slots for M.2 drives but I can't afford to buy the new SSDs yet.I want to get a 1tb drive but the 1 that I want is $180.    

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