Noob needs help

[Cartin_Mash]

I have recently acquired a Ailenware aurora r4 as a 1st gaming pc project to upgrade. I need help in knowing what parts will fit.

1st all will a
SAPPHIRE RADEON RX 6600 PULSE GAMING 8GB GDDR6 PCI-EXPRESS GRAPHICS CARD
Fit?

Any other advice will be appreciated

Thank you

(All components are standard I believe and its a 850w power supply)

 

[varkanoid]

I have recently acquired a Ailenware aurora r4 as a 1st gaming pc project to upgrade. I need help in knowing what parts will fit.

1st all will a
SAPPHIRE RADEON RX 6600 PULSE GAMING 8GB GDDR6 PCI-EXPRESS GRAPHICS CARD
Fit?

Any other advice will be appreciated

Thank you

(All components are standard I believe and its a 850w power supply)

Did you check your specs ? According to Dell website it should be fine.

Video card support is defined by the following technical considerations:

• Bus Support
  • Two PCIe™ x16 Slots
• Dual Video Card Support
  • NVIDIA SLI
  • AMD Crossfire
• Supplementary Power Connectors
  • 2 6 pin
  • 2 8 pin
• Power Consumption
  • Dual Video Cards: Up to 300 Watts per card
  • Single Video Card: Up to 600 Watts

 

[The_Arbiter]

Yes that GPU will work fine. The manual for that computer is fairly comprehensive and is worth a read. I couldn't see anything listed about static eletricicity on a brief look at it, so have a search on this forum to help you there.

 

[Cartin_Mash]

Thank you so much also do u think it would be worth changing the mother board?

 

[The_Arbiter]

No point in changing a motherboard. Typically you only change board when you are moving to a new processor that your board no longer supports. It's a poor financial investment even if your board has poor cooling or even has say faulty sata ports for example.

I hate to say it, but starting with a new case and building up from there is probably best. See it as a new project to work on over half a year/ a year. A good case will last a decade, fans are variable but cheap anyway, drives can be reused and replaced, a good(!) PSU will last as long as its warranty or longer, motherboard, ram, cpu will last till each on isn't compatible with each other. GPUs currently last as long as they don't break and your happy with performance. There are variables in all of this however.

Buy your new GPU and see if you are happy with the performance increase.

Though there's no harm is tinkering with your system and working with what you got.

 

[Cartin_Mash]

Thank you so much for your advise I was going to just tinker with this and see what I was doing as never built a pc before. I will keep your info in mind thanks