How To Upgrade NVMe ACER NITRO 5 PCIe4 980 Pro Firmware and Clone
Watch me install and fit the Samsung 980 Pro PCIe4 NVMe with 7000MB/s with a heatsink. good price https://amzn.to/3RcwKaB
I show what software I used to copy partitions of my original drive to the new drive.
Also, Samsung Magician 8 to benchmark and manage settings of the NVMe.
Pressing F12 when you start the computer will bring up the ‘Boot menu’, allowing you to choose your desired drive. Pressing F2 at boot takes you into the BIOS, the drive should be UEFI.
Remember to see a drive, especially in Windows it needs to be initiated first by creating a partition. This can be the whole drive. GPT is the current standard. Even though I found Windows install from USB failed to see the drive, I’m relieved I cloned it in the beginning. This meant I could run Windows 11 setup inside the operating system.
How To Upgrade RAM ACER NITRO 5 AN515 or AN517
How to add more DDR4 RAM to the Acer Nitro 5. RAM speed is 3200mhz.
Faster RAM can be used by it will default to the speed mentioned.
RAM can be upgraded to 32GB DDR4-3200mhz, although some say 64GB. I got mine from amazon