Upgrade necessary??

MaineFlame · April 7, 2021

Country: Austria (so I am sorry for my probably not perfect english)

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: all types of games except all kinds of battle royals...i just don´t like them...sorry

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I am working/playing on a prebuild Lenovo Legion T730 (Lenovo Motherboard with Intel Z370 Chip, 32 GB RAM, Intel i9-9900K CPU, a Lenovo AIO Cooling with a 120mm Fan, RTX 2080 Super, 500W PSU).

Hey everyone,

so I listed my prebuild Setup that I got from my wife to our 2nd Wedding Day (almost 1 year ago). I am doing really well with it and I am more than happy to have it. Recently i had the feeling, that I needed to change the front fans of the chassis. It has one fan prebuild on the front and the one fan on the back from the AIO. I changed the front fans from the prebuild single fan to two "be quiet Shadow Wings 2" because it sounded to me like the single fan on the front was getting really loud an the Airflow was kind of bad imo. Another reason why i did that was because i had some short freezes once in a while when i was gaming. And when i had a youtube video from Linus ( ) running on my second monitor - while gaming on my own - i noticed that the freezes (somewhere around 5 or 6 seconds) take over the whole system BUT the sound was still running fine. First i thought that maybe the poor airflow was not doing so well for my other components but its still happening after changing and adding the front fans. It´s not like all the time but it is annoying.

Also I don´t know if the Motherbord, the PSU and the AIO are keeping up with the temps of the CPU and GPU longterm. And i kind of dont want to "waste" too much money since my wife spend 2K on that PC but i also don´t want the PC´s live span to be shorter than it should be. I was thinking maybe in the next 6-12 months to just change to a new Chassis with a 700W PSU grab a better/other Motherboard and maybe a new AIO too. And hopefully my beloved wife isn´t ripping my head of or being sad wich really don´t want to

But because of all that thinking my head just hurts and i don´t want to overthink this (or maybe I am already paranoid...who knows) and so I thought I ask YOU nice people here and see if you have any suggestions, advice or solution for my....lets call it "problem"

thank you very much already