Taking old components into new rig

[Eric06]

Hello Linustechtips community,

 

It is my first time posting something and I really appreciate your attention and support. 

Now to the topic: I have an old Acer Z3750 All-in-one Computer and I was wanting to now, if I could take the internals and place them into a different case. You are probably thinking why I am intending to do that? Well I bought this Computer in Germany and I moved to Canada a couple of weeks ago. Because of that the computer will not run anymore since the voltages are different (in europe 220-230 V and northamerica 110 V) and frequencies are different (in europe 60 hz and northamerica 50 hz). 

It is a shame that it won't work anymore, but I was thinking of reusing the internals. Now this is the main question I have:

Is it possible to take the internals (motherboard, processor intel core i5 650, 8 gb of Ram, Raedon 6450 graphicscard and harddrive) from my Acer All-in-one pc and put them into a new case with a new powersupply?

 

Again, thank you very much for your attention. I really appreciate it.

 

Have a great week.

 

Sincerely,

 

Eric06

[Cyracus]

Should be fine, just make sure you don't do it on carpet. Welcome to the forum

[asdf2061]

I don't think you can reuse the MoBo, as it is usually designed by the OEM and designed for that system only. Also, if you were to buy a MoBo that actually fits that CPU, good luck. I would just get a new system altogether.

[RS2007GOD]

Lol i got given a hp aio which wont power up was thinking the same. Not really worth it for me as its only a 2c amd chip forget which one and unsure if its even got a graphics card.

 

Be intetesting to find out if its possible. 

[brob]

20 minutes ago, Eric06 said:

Hello Linustechtips community,

 

It is my first time posting something and I really appreciate your attention and support. 

Now to the topic: I have an old Acer Z3750 All-in-one Computer and I was wanting to now, if I could take the internals and place them into a different case. You are probably thinking why I am intending to do that? Well I bought this Computer in Germany and I moved to Canada a couple of weeks ago. Because of that the computer will not run anymore since the voltages are different (in europe 220-230 V and northamerica 110 V) and frequencies are different (in europe 60 hz and northamerica 50 hz). 

It is a shame that it won't work anymore, but I was thinking of reusing the internals. Now this is the main question I have:

Is it possible to take the internals (motherboard, processor intel core i5 650, 8 gb of Ram, Raedon 6450 graphicscard and harddrive) from my Acer All-in-one pc and put them into a new case with a new powersupply?

 

Again, thank you very much for your attention. I really appreciate it.

 

Have a great week.

 

Sincerely,

 

Eric06

 

Check the psu, you may well be able to plug into N.Am. power with the appropriate cable. Most modern psu are either auto sensing or have a switch. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-power-supplies/2/. But if the one in the Acer Z3750 is neither, you can probably buy a replacement psu for the unit.

 

Edit: you may need to open the case to find the switch on the plug end of the psu.