No, it is not worth upgrading ... Too small to cool i7 CPU (or hold it's Liquid-Cooler) Too small for nice GPU and be able to keep it coolled. No NVMe SSD possible (for All Windows, All Apps, and a few of your favorite games). Power-Supply system uses a DC-DC converter ... basically a low-power laptop-style PS setup. No nice GPU is really possible My (kinda old now) Aurora-R6 (Intel-i7 and LC, 16gb ram, GTX-1070, NVMe-SSD, 850w PS) plays WoW just fine. Guild Raids, questing or whatever for years now ... at 27inches 1440p high-graphics-settings and never a slow-down or glitch for hours on-end.
Hi folks. I've got an X51 I am assuming a R1, when I do the service tag, it doesn't show what version. But I have an I5-3330, a 240 watt power supply and a Geforce 640 video card. I don't play a lot of power hungry games, but I do play WoW. My issue has been the system freezes for several seconds. When I am not playing it doesn't freeze often (once daily-ish), but I did recently open it and clean it out and reapplied thermal paste on the CPU (it was totally dried out) It doesn't freeze as often during normal use (which can be 50 tabs, and streaming shows) but it's still freezing when playing WoW. It's one of the reasons I stopped playing, it just got too frustrating. In 2020, would it be worth upgrading to to the i7-3770 and the Geforce 960 card (perhaps the upgraded power supply as well?) Would that help to eliminate the issues, and should also upgrade the RAM? [IMAGE]dxdiag of system [IMAGE]sysinfo [IMAGE]Ram speed     
X51 R1 (guess) worth upgrading in 2020?