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March 1st, 2020 03:00
X51 R3, general upgrade
Hi, I browsed around for this topic but most posts are a bit dated, so I'm asking for your advice about a general upgrade for my X51 R3. It works fine but I'm not able to play AC origins with full graphics and the SSD is almost at capacity. Any ideas, which upgrades worked for you (and fit properly in the chassis)? Thank you.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 with 2GB GDDR5
256GB M.2 SSD + 2TB 7,200RPM
16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2133MHz SDRAM Memory
Intel i7-6700K Processor (4-Cores, 4.0GHz)
Alienware X51 R3 Chassis Liquid Cooled without Optical Drive
Alienware 330W AC Adapter
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speedstep
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March 1st, 2020 04:00
Specific GTX1060 works fine and would be the best update.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epCx8IjLCS4
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Geforce-Graphics-Graphic-06G-P4-5161-KR/dp/B01LWVKHIM
https://www.evga.com/products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=06bfa9bd-e2a8-4e5b-9e0c-b76be8756515
jpattee
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December 6th, 2020 00:00
Just did an partial upgrade on my R3. Upgraded the Ram from 8gb to 32gb, cloned the hard drive to an 2tb ssd and installed a 1tb secondary drive. Need to just find a graphics card now. With the upgrades I did the system is very fast now.
jpattee
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December 11th, 2020 21:00
Finished the upgrade with a msi gtx 1650. System is better than new now.
Thiaminee
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March 23rd, 2021 02:00
I upgraded the SSD, swapping the 256 gb samsung one for a Sabrent SSD 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280.