As mentioned above, a while back I bought a generic Acer ATC- 710 - UR52 prebuilt computer, (seemingly now discontinued,) and recently have been able to upgrade its graphics card from a 2gb gtx 970, to a gt 1030 a while back, and am thinking about upgrading its cpu to the latest skylake Socket 1151 LGA i7 the motherboard can properly support this December or so, except I can't find any proper upgrade documentation of the mother board, (or rather anything,) online since it's discontinuation, outside of old advertising pages on the stuff regarding the initial sale of the device.

As I'm gathering most of what I can find about the internal components from CPU-Z I was wondering if that information alone, (both code name and socket package,) are enough to go on to upgrade to a better socket 1151 LGA since not much of the internal documentation otherwise on this product is seemingly actively available to tell me otherwise.

Any information anyone could tell me otherwise in this regard for the acer tower, or how to determine the potential of cpu upgrading would be greatly appreciated, as it would save me a lot more in the long run for upgrading my pc, without completely investing with an entirely new motherboard, thank you in advance.

Below are screenshots from CPU about my current CPU specs and Motherboard Specs.

https://pasteboard.co/IKmvne7.jpg

https://pasteboard.co/IKmvDZE.jpg

In theory, http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Intel_...ets)/H110.html should show what processors would be supported by that board, since it's an H110 chipset. The custom firmware on it may mean they won't actually work, though.

If it's got a fully enabled firmware, you could upgrade to the 7700, however that's an EXTREMELY minor upgrade and not worth the $$. Also the whole "not guaranteed to work" makes it that I wouldn't risk it, personally.

How likely would you suggest that any of the K models would "fit" into the motherboard itself at least? As I was looking to upgrade to a 7700k, albeit given the previous proprietary drives, (something I'm certain I can flash the motherboard to receive, or install drives for manually otherwise?)

All of the K models in 6th or 7th generation should actually fit, since they're all the same socket. Physical and electrical compatibility shouldnl't be an issue for anything, it will come down to the firmware. It probably doesn't support overclocking (thus the K wouldnl't really give an advantage), and it may not have been updated to support the 7th generation chips at all.

This is not an "upgrade" at all. It is actually a downgrade as the 70 series is three or four models up from the entry level 30 series. Although the 1030 is a generation newer it is four models lower than a 70 series. A true upgrade would be from a 970 to a 1070.

A gtx970 has 1664 stream processors. The entry level gt1030 has only 384 ! Therefore the older 970 has over 4X the processing hardware.

The 970 is still available on some sites and sells for more than $500. The gt1030 is an entry level $100 card. Going from a 970 to a 1030 is a major downgrade. This page compares a 1030 with a 4 GB 970 and finds the older 970 230% better.

https://www.game-debate.com/gpu/inde...oc-4gb-edition