So I have an Alienware Aurora R6(specs will come later) and I want to swap out the case and while i'm at it the PSU. Both of these things don't raise any red flags to me as it doesn't really effect the hardware side of things, just new housing and less chance of shorting out ( if you see a problem with that please leave it down below). So while I was planning it out I realized the the R6 motherboard looks like garbage, bare blue PCB no heat sinks on the board or really anything but the bare minimum. I am contemplating on switching it out along side everything else but a couple of things came to mind. The drivers of the old MB and the new one will probably conflict and I don't really know how I would transfer windows or my files over. A simple solution would probably be to wipe everything off of both drives if I am correct and start it as a "new" build. I am also struggling to find a motherboard that I think is good compared to what I have now so any help with those two problems would be greatly appreciated. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated thanks for reading.
System specs: Alienware Aurora R6
I7-7700(non K)
gtx 1080
256GB M.2 ssd and 2TB hard drive
Corsair H60 AIO
16GB of DDR4 at 2400 (two sticks)
450W psu from god knows who
Upgrades:
NZXT H700i case
MSI B250 gaming M3 motherboard (to my knowledge this is decent but again idk)
750W psu from Corsair. psu
Again Ideally I want to transfer everything from the old build except the case, Motherboard, and the PSU. I am aware that selling the PC as is and building a new one would be a viable option but I don't think that's necessary considering the main bulk of the build is still being used and if you're reading this and thinking about a pre-built system, don't. What people say is not a lie, just don't :lol:
Edit: Probably should have included some more details now that I look back at it. So in terms of the board it apparently isn't that bad spec wise so props to Alienware for that I guess, but based on other pre-builts I have seen that seems to be one of the main points to cut corners on. Moving on to the reason for a case swap, the case itself is incredibly small and at first glance it looks like Alienware did a good job with the design of the case and keeping everything tight but there are still some major flaws. Air flow is a nightmare in this case and the next obvious issue is space. Its designed to be small but that makes upgrades pretty impossible. Getting an AIO in there in the first place was short of a miracle and it still pushes against the PSU a little. SLI is something that I see myself getting into but that seems near impossible this case. Upgrading the single GPU is a hard enough task as many are too fat and long to fit in the case. The next reason is cable management. It doesn't exist in this case. they are all stuffed right next to the CPU near the front of the case so yeah I think enough said about that. The PSU upgrade just because 450W is a little on the low side and why 750. Price is the same for 550 and 650. So as for the case and PSU I think that nothing really changed besides the questions on why 750w which is reasonable I think I wanna shift the conversation to the Motherboard. I really couldn't tell you much about them besides the obvious specs (SLI, RAID etc) so recommendations with that would be great. I dont believe its transferable as I have seen a lot of talk about custom headers that dell uses for things like the power button, lighting etc. but again I don't know definitively. I am not a long time PC enthusiust in-fact a lot of this is new to me so go easy on me :lol: Thank you for all the answers and all input is welcome.
System specs: Alienware Aurora R6
I7-7700(non K)
gtx 1080
256GB M.2 ssd and 2TB hard drive
Corsair H60 AIO
16GB of DDR4 at 2400 (two sticks)
450W psu from god knows who
Upgrades:
NZXT H700i case
MSI B250 gaming M3 motherboard (to my knowledge this is decent but again idk)
750W psu from Corsair. psu
Again Ideally I want to transfer everything from the old build except the case, Motherboard, and the PSU. I am aware that selling the PC as is and building a new one would be a viable option but I don't think that's necessary considering the main bulk of the build is still being used and if you're reading this and thinking about a pre-built system, don't. What people say is not a lie, just don't :lol:
Edit: Probably should have included some more details now that I look back at it. So in terms of the board it apparently isn't that bad spec wise so props to Alienware for that I guess, but based on other pre-builts I have seen that seems to be one of the main points to cut corners on. Moving on to the reason for a case swap, the case itself is incredibly small and at first glance it looks like Alienware did a good job with the design of the case and keeping everything tight but there are still some major flaws. Air flow is a nightmare in this case and the next obvious issue is space. Its designed to be small but that makes upgrades pretty impossible. Getting an AIO in there in the first place was short of a miracle and it still pushes against the PSU a little. SLI is something that I see myself getting into but that seems near impossible this case. Upgrading the single GPU is a hard enough task as many are too fat and long to fit in the case. The next reason is cable management. It doesn't exist in this case. they are all stuffed right next to the CPU near the front of the case so yeah I think enough said about that. The PSU upgrade just because 450W is a little on the low side and why 750. Price is the same for 550 and 650. So as for the case and PSU I think that nothing really changed besides the questions on why 750w which is reasonable I think I wanna shift the conversation to the Motherboard. I really couldn't tell you much about them besides the obvious specs (SLI, RAID etc) so recommendations with that would be great. I dont believe its transferable as I have seen a lot of talk about custom headers that dell uses for things like the power button, lighting etc. but again I don't know definitively. I am not a long time PC enthusiust in-fact a lot of this is new to me so go easy on me :lol: Thank you for all the answers and all input is welcome.