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Upgrade your Aurora R3 with a new motherboard and processor.

Upgrade your Aurora R3 with a new motherboard and processor.

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09-01-2016, 06:28 AM
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Hello there, Recently I have been planning to upgrade my Alienware Aurora R3. It has an old BiOS with a workaround for a Windows 10 Install. There is one factor we know we have is that we cannot restart or it will go into a bootloop until we shut it down. CPU usage seems to be affected too. We decided to upgrade our video-card but found out that the RTX 980 is pretty much the highest supported GPU. From our research, it looks like the only way to proceed is by upgrading the motherboard to a more modern one. It looks like only very specific micro-ATX boards would work with controllers for the fan and lights. From what we know, the CPU pump might potentially not be compatible with the new board. Does anyone have any suggestions? It would be a shame to have such a good rig go to waste. There are random lag spikes in games where it will freeze for a good second then do it again every 3~ seconds. While it works flawlessly on some highest-settings on War Thunder, it can lag pretty much in any game, on any settings. This didn't happen before. Any ideas, reconmondations, or possibly anyone knows what motherboard would work?
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09-01-2016, 06:28 AM #1

Hello there, Recently I have been planning to upgrade my Alienware Aurora R3. It has an old BiOS with a workaround for a Windows 10 Install. There is one factor we know we have is that we cannot restart or it will go into a bootloop until we shut it down. CPU usage seems to be affected too. We decided to upgrade our video-card but found out that the RTX 980 is pretty much the highest supported GPU. From our research, it looks like the only way to proceed is by upgrading the motherboard to a more modern one. It looks like only very specific micro-ATX boards would work with controllers for the fan and lights. From what we know, the CPU pump might potentially not be compatible with the new board. Does anyone have any suggestions? It would be a shame to have such a good rig go to waste. There are random lag spikes in games where it will freeze for a good second then do it again every 3~ seconds. While it works flawlessly on some highest-settings on War Thunder, it can lag pretty much in any game, on any settings. This didn't happen before. Any ideas, reconmondations, or possibly anyone knows what motherboard would work?

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