I picked up the red and black cyberpower pc with 8g ram and 1t hard drive from best buy. I know it is set up to expand the ram etc. Can I add a blue ray drive to it? Is the drive and sata cable all I need? Brand new to the whole pc thing. Thanks for your help.
Can I add a blu ray drive to my cyberpower pc C series?
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The SATA Power cable coming from the power supply should look like this:
Your motherboard appears to have four SATA ports (2x6Gb/s and 2x3Gb/s) (lower left corner of the image):
One of these needs to be available (doesn't matter which, but I'd recommend using a 3Gb/s port).
If the four-prong plug you're looking at looks like this:
That's a molex connector and of this is all you have available from your power supply, you'd need an...
Your motherboard appears to have four SATA ports (2x6Gb/s and 2x3Gb/s) (lower left corner of the image):
One of these needs to be available (doesn't matter which, but I'd recommend using a 3Gb/s port).
If the four-prong plug you're looking at looks like this:
That's a molex connector and of this is all you have available from your power supply, you'd need an...
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Yes, you'll need a Blueray drive (funny enough) and a SATA cable for the drive.
Before you buy it you should open your cabinet and check if you have a power cable free for your drive and a SATA input.
The cable looks like this:
http://www.image-tmart.com/images/C/CL082/2-IDE-to-Serial-SATA-ATA-Hard-Drive-Adapter-Power-Cable-03.gif
Before you buy it you should open your cabinet and check if you have a power cable free for your drive and a SATA input.
The cable looks like this:
http://www.image-tmart.com/images/C/CL082/2-IDE-to-Serial-SATA-ATA-Hard-Drive-Adapter-Power-Cable-03.gif
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Assuming you have an available 5.25" drive bay for it, yes, you can add a Blu-Ray drive. However, addition to the drive itself and a SATA cable you will need an available SATA Power cable from the power supply and some sort of software to play back Blu-Ray movies. I've heard that VLC works, but any other software option comes with a cost.
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I'm not sure what I'm looking at. It has a turbolink power supply model atx-tl500w-bk and an msi h81m-e33 motherboard if that helps. There appears to be an open port next to the sata 6g/s plug but I'm not sure if it is sata. I'm guessing that the 4 prong plug is the power cable? I'm clueless Lol. Thanks for the help guys.
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The SATA Power cable coming from the power supply should look like this:
Your motherboard appears to have four SATA ports (2x6Gb/s and 2x3Gb/s) (lower left corner of the image):
One of these needs to be available (doesn't matter which, but I'd recommend using a 3Gb/s port).
If the four-prong plug you're looking at looks like this:
That's a molex connector and of this is all you have available from your power supply, you'd need an adapter like this:
Hope this helps
-Wolf sends
Your motherboard appears to have four SATA ports (2x6Gb/s and 2x3Gb/s) (lower left corner of the image):
One of these needs to be available (doesn't matter which, but I'd recommend using a 3Gb/s port).
If the four-prong plug you're looking at looks like this:
That's a molex connector and of this is all you have available from your power supply, you'd need an adapter like this:
Hope this helps
-Wolf sends
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