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CatninjaOG
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December 13th, 2022 18:00
Aurora R11, can a 3060 work?
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.
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Posted December 13th, 2022 21:00
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.
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Posted December 13th, 2022 21:00
@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 .
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Posted December 14th, 2022 08:00
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
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Posted December 14th, 2022 08:00
Thank you so much for the help, how would I check my PSU though?
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Posted December 14th, 2022 09:00
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.
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Posted December 14th, 2022 19:00
nVidia says 650 watts is the minimum PSU . . . but I understand there are other factors.
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Posted December 14th, 2022 19:00
550 Watts should work, although I would say that would the minimum with a 3070.
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Posted December 14th, 2022 19:00
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...
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Posted December 13th, 2022 20:00
I have the Aurora R11(liquid cooled) with a Dell 3060 Ti (dual fans) and it's working fine.