Aurora R10, upgrade from 3080, does any 5070 ti fit in?

Question

Thinking of upgrading the 3080 in my R10 this year, started to find 10g of VRAM struggle with some AAA games. 5070 Ti looks like a promising upgrade, the issue is that the R10 case does not have an awful lot of space to work with (mainly the length). And I wonder if i need any cable mod for any of the new NVidia cards.

I believe this is the OEM 3080 spec in the R10:

Card dimensions = Length: 267mm, margin: 0;">

I had done a couple fan mods in the past, and the front fan was replaced with a thinner cosair fan, I wonder if that can give me some extra room.

Vanadiel · Answer

267 mm is usually the determining factor. Power requirements is another thing to consider as the 5000 series uses a 12V connector that is different than the one that comes with the R10.

The 5000 card will come with a convertor cable, but the PSU will not be able to support the 4 pins that are used to sense feedback from the card.

wil_lee · Answer

@Vanadiel​ Thanks for the reply, even though by comparing spec of the OEM 3080 and 5070 ti, both are listed as 2x8 pins (and similar power draw around 300w), but I had to be honest that I do not know an awful lot about the 12V connector since ada lovelace. is the 5000 series any different from the 4070 super FE?

Vanadiel · Answer

@wil_lee​ link If you do not use a PSU with native 16 pin power connector you have to use the included adaptor, in which case you will be missing out on the 4 sensing pins that are used to send feedback to the PSU regarding power draw.

MikePham84 · Answer

Have you found one & done the upgrade? I'm planning the same with 5070 Ti or 9070 XT to my R10. Currently I've found MSI 5070Ti INSPIRE PLUS (288 x 112 x 50 mm) and GIGABYTE 9070 XT (L=288 W=132 H=56 mm) which are fitable into R10 (max ~300mm) with the condition that the front fan most be removed, HDD tray must be removed also to place the front fan.

ProfessorW00d · Answer

@wil_lee​   this is an example of an ATX 3.1 PSU with the 16-pin PCIe Gen 5 cable port Seasonic GX ATX 3.1 The linked PSU is the exact same size as your current OEM PSU and would be a direct drop in.

MikePham84 · Answer

@ProfessorW00d​ so this Seasonic GX ATX 3.1 can be used in R10 with new RTX 5000/Radeon 9000 series? Any other brand?  I saw some article on Reddit some tech guy metioned it's the Dell's propriatery PSU in the tower & we must use the Dell's only. Please give advice. Thanks a bunch.

ProfessorW00d · Answer

@MikePham84​  some newer Aurora models have proprietary PSUs . . . but the Aurora R10 PSU is standard ATX format. The linked Seasonic should work in the R10 with nVidia RTX 5000 series graphics cards. I don't know anything about Radeon. There are other brands of ATX 3.1 PSUs . . . do the google.

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