Aurora R11, can a 3060 work?

Question

Hi, so im not too knowledgeable about building pcs and stuff like that but I do know a good amount. I want to upgrade my 2060 GPU to a 3060 GPU and was wondering if firstly, it will fit correctly, secondly, work with my other parts and third, work with liquid cooling. My specs are 2060 CPU, intel i7 CPU and 16 gb of ram. I have a liquid cooling system and idk if I have to get other parts or if it will work with the 3060 and how to make sure it cools correctly with it. Thank you in advance for the help.

Sparky1964 · Answer

I have the Aurora R11(liquid cooled) with a Dell 3060 Ti (dual fans) and it's working fine.

ProfessorW00d · Answer

Your liquid cooling system is working on your CPU, and has nothing to do with your graphics card. The nVidia RTX 3060 or 3060Ti Founders Edition ( seen here )  will fit in your Aurora R11. There may be other brand graphic cards that will also fit . . . you want a graphics card that is no longer than 270mm. Hopefully you have the 1000 watt PSU.

Tesla1856 · Answer

@CatninjaOG wrote:

I want to upgrade my 2060 GPU to a 3060 GPU and was wondering

1. if firstly, it will fit correctly,

2. secondly, work with my other parts

3. and third, work with liquid cooling.

1. Different makers/versions are different sizes.

2. More powerful power-supplies make this kind of thing easier (might actually work under heavy utilization).

3. Yes

I will say ... hardly worth it for such little gain. If doing one last upgrade, I would go for a RTX-3070 .

CatninjaOG · Answer

How much better is the 3070? And will it fit in the R11? Because on another forum I saw someone said that it didn’t fit and you have to take out fans or something

CatninjaOG · Answer

Thank you so much for the help, how would I check my PSU though?

ProfessorW00d · Answer

You can check your PSU wattage by going to the Dell Support page and enter (or auto detect) your Service Tag . . . this should show the original shipped components in your rig.

The nVidia RTX 3070 & 3070 Ti Founders Edition graphics cards will also fit in your R11. Again, 270mm long is the limit without modifications.

DELL-Chris M · Answer

Your out of warranty Aurora R11 shipped with a 550W PSU. The Aurora R11 was validated with 1000W PSU 0PDJK and 1000W PSU 0WTGN.

ProfessorW00d · Answer

nVidia says 650 watts is the minimum PSU . . . but I understand there are other factors.

Vanadiel · Answer

550 Watts should work, although I would say that would the minimum with a 3070.

Vanadiel · Answer

What is interesting is I run a 5950X and an RTX 3080 in a case with fans and RGB, and never draw more than 500 Watts from my UPS when under full load, and that is with 2 monitors also plugged into the UPS...

redxps630 · Answer

use basic online psu calculator R11 cpu i7-10700k, 2x8 GB ddr4, RTX 3060 Load Wattage: 404 WRecommended PSU Wattage: 454 W if RTX 3070 Load Wattage: 455 WRecommended PSU Wattage: 505 W

redxps630 · Answer

basic online psu calculator estimates for Ryzen 5950x + RTX 3080 (10 GB)

Load Wattage: 536 W
Recommended PSU Wattage: 586 W

the above is c/w Vanadiel observation. load wattage is the max system may consume in typical real world scenario. iirc Vanadiel rtx3080 is Dell oem from Aurora.

if Ryzen 5950x+ RTX 3080 12GB

Load Wattage: 567 W
Recommended PSU Wattage: 617 W

CatninjaOG · Answer

Ok thank you so much

CatninjaOG · Answer

So do you think I need to buy a better PSU to run the 3070?

Tesla1856 · Answer

@CatninjaOG wrote:

So do you think I need to buy a better PSU to run the 3070?

I would.

If you got a 550w PS with an Aurora-R11, that was the small/baby one. There was a larger optional one available ... a 750w/850w or whatever was standard in nicely-optioned Auroras back then.

The idea is to not be running your PS at 100% utilization (for various reasons). For one, the power is very un-stable that over-loaded. They also like to explode when you run them up that high.

If you want 550w for the system (under max load), I would recommend a 750w-850w PS.

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