A:AnswerThere are two empty SSD tool-less bays in the bottom of the PC. Squeeze the blue tabs to slide the bracket out, install SSD in bracket (no screws required), insert new SSD. Purchase a SATA ribbon cable 1.5ft to 2ft long. This computer will accommodate cables that are straight or that have a 90 degree bend, but I like the bend. Plug them into the motherboard in SATA slots 2+3. Note: Slot 0 will already be populated with a hard drive running your OS (operating system) and that may be paired to a 16GB Optane module. Slot 1 will be your slim DVD writer. Don't mess with SATA 0 or 1 it unless you are willing to research the process of disabling Optane with Intel RST, cloning your image to the SSD using software, possibly re-enabling Optane if prerequisites are met, and formatting the original drives for data (or you can remove it and set it aside as an OS backup and install a larger 3.5" HD in its place - I did a 3.5" 4TB data drive). The BIOS will want to default boot to slot 0, so if you leave the original and cloned drives both installed with Windows 10 and you want to use the new SSD as an OS drive without formatting the original windows partition, move the SSD cable on the motherboard to slot 0. After installing the drive and booting to WIndows, in Windows Search type "disk management" (do not type the quotes) - create and format disk partitions - press enter - find the new unallocated disk -probably disk 2 or 3, right click in the unallocated space and create a new simple volume. Assign a drive letter and voila - you have a drive that can be used. The size of the drive you pick should probably match the size of the partition you are cloning from for simplicity. You get a tit-for-tat partition cloning that way. You can go go smaller with the SSD but if you do, try utilizing a 3.5" Hard Drive drive for photos, videos, and music as to not clutter your 250GB SSD which will already be swimming with a rather large OS and applications. Remember, SSDs don't like to be utilized much past 80% capacity (leaving 20% of the drive unallocated ensures you maintain a healthier drive). SSDs will work when full, but they have garbage collecting algorithms that move blocks of data around in the free space. Spinning platter drives should be utilized even less because the cylinder velocity varies about 50% between the outside (beginning) of the drive to the inside (end) of the drive. Personally for this R7, I raided two 500GB SSD's to run my OS and Games, I have a 3.5" data drive for storage and OS backups, and an external USB 3.0 backup drive basically mirroring what is on the data drive. You should try to maintain backup integrity where the OS/application drive and data drive are separate entities, and each entity is backed up. As a result of my choice, I cannot use the m.2 slot for Optane module because it only accelerates an OS drive, and Optane does not support raid configuration, but my payoff with raid 0 SSDs is over 1000GB/sec read/write throughput vs the stock throughput in the 150MB/sec range with a hard disk or 550MB/sec with a single SSD. I avoid the raid-0 naysaying issues by having multiple OS backups, and not placing critical documents or pictures on the raided drives - if I do, say in order to edit a large video as quickly as possible, I wait to wipe the original source media from the cameras SD card until the files make it into my data and backup drive. Hope this helps.
A:AnswerAbsolutely brother!! LOL... You have to be kidding right?... This is a Powerhouse beast and absolutely without a doubt blows away the PS4 Pro and/or the Xbox One X !! I'm talking light years Beyond brother!!!! :~)
A:AnswerIt does have a M.2 slot, however, it is currently being used by the intel optane memory, so you would have to remove that if you wanted to add an M.2 SSD. There is 2 HDMI outputs, 1 from the system, and 1 from the graphics card.
A:AnswerDoes not have an SSD. I added one and made it the boot drive,. It is VERY tricky to get it to boot correctly.
I did this:
1. Disabled Intel Optane in the system settings first
2. Removed internal HDD
3. Installed SSD on same SATA port as the original HDD
4. Booted from USB windows installer
5. Installed windows on SSD
6. I tried putting the other original HDD back in and even reformatting it, but I could never get it NOT to boot from it, so I gave up and just removed it
A:AnswerAccording to my research it is a Dell Proprietary (Intel Z370 chipset) motherboard. Not a huge computer guy so not sure if this is good or not but so far meets expectations for what I paid. I know I probably could have built a better for cheaper myself but just wanted something out of the box and this has the ability to be upgraded quite a bit.
A:Answermost of the time it will be running at 4.388 because of the turbo! It runs games very well trust me! But you might want to wait new nvidia cards coming out soon!
A:AnswerIt's ran almost every game I have thrown at it on max settings. Games such as The Witcher 3, PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege, Guild Wars 2, Dark Souls 3. The only game I have come across that I did not max out on was Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but even that was at a very high settings, and the devs themselves say the ultra setting is for future PCs to prolong the game life. I have not done any media editing but with a gtx 1070 and I7, and 16gb ram I think it will do well. Can easily update video card at a later date if needed.
A:AnswerDesktop is very quiet. It will not be an issue. During heavy gaming the fans will kick on but it's not loud. If all your doing is editing then you will never hear it.
