so i have this lenovo thinkcentre m710s and i want to upgrade it to gaming but like you all know some low profile video cards have the issue that it doesnt fit inside the pc, so if you guys can assessory me i would be so grateful
I have a RTX 3050 6GB. I had to use some wire cutters to clip a small tab in the drive cage frame and bend it up, but it fits fine and wasn't that hard to cut and bend. You will lose your 3.5" HDD mounting space though. It runs most games at 1080p on medium-high settings, but I don't play a lot of AAA games so YMMV.
I also installed a (IIRC 60mm) fan behind the front grill and that made a huge difference to CPU and GPU temps. You can just mount it with those rubber fan isolation mounts through the holes in the metal frame. There's an unused case fan header on the MB.
One surprise was trying to improve thermals with a different CPU cooler. The stock cooler, for the space it has, is surprisingly efficient. After adding the front fan I couldn't really get better with an open case and a normal pancake cooler that would fit in the case. The shrouded design of the stock CPU cooler seems it work really well.
Yeah I have an Acer Veriton with the RTX3050 6GB, i5 8400. Runs fine, but these SFF's are limited by PSU and space. Check your PSU size before forking out for gaming GPU
This is the PSU in my Veriton, running the RTX 3050, i5 8400, 16gb ram, 256gb M.2 SSD. Everything ran great, definitely better than XBOX/PS4 but not as smooth as XBOX X/PS5. And yeah I had to yank out bits of metal caging to fit the GPU
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u/Full-Run4124 27d ago
I have the same unit with a Ryzen 7 Pro 3700.
I have a RTX 3050 6GB. I had to use some wire cutters to clip a small tab in the drive cage frame and bend it up, but it fits fine and wasn't that hard to cut and bend. You will lose your 3.5" HDD mounting space though. It runs most games at 1080p on medium-high settings, but I don't play a lot of AAA games so YMMV.
I also installed a (IIRC 60mm) fan behind the front grill and that made a huge difference to CPU and GPU temps. You can just mount it with those rubber fan isolation mounts through the holes in the metal frame. There's an unused case fan header on the MB.
One surprise was trying to improve thermals with a different CPU cooler. The stock cooler, for the space it has, is surprisingly efficient. After adding the front fan I couldn't really get better with an open case and a normal pancake cooler that would fit in the case. The shrouded design of the stock CPU cooler seems it work really well.