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LemonFace

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Hello,
I bought a prebuilt acer desktop PC a year ago. The excact name of it is "Acer Aspire X3-710".
Here are the specs:
GTX 1060 6gb (Used to have a 745 4gb)
500W Corsair CX Psu (Used to have an Oem 220W)
8gb DDR3
i5-6400 (skylake)
Acer Motherboard which name is "H11h4-AD2".

I was wondering if it is possible to swap out the Cpu for an i7. I found the motherboard on a website where the motherboard was named "Acer Motherboard to support low voltage - 1.35v.
I was also planning to upgrade my Ram to a 16gb DDR3, but i'm not quite sure if the motherboard can handle the power since it was made for low voltage components. And the motherboard chipset is Z97 and LGA1150
If it is possible to upgrade would it be possible for a SkyLake or KabyLake CPU?

 
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Ecky
Your board is not Z97 / 1150, because you claim to have an 1151 CPU and the model name suggests it's an H110 chipset. If this is correct, it will not support any 1150 chips, but should take any 6xxx CPU (which are all 1151), and an i7 6700 should drop in and work great. If Acer has provided a new BIOS revision since Kaby Lake came out, any 7xxx CPU should work too after updating your BIOS.

If you upgrade the RAM, you need to get a low voltage DDR3 kit. It needs to be 1.35v or lower to run safely with a Skylake or later CPU.
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Honestly, with a poorly documented OEM motherboard, your best bet is simply to call Acer and ask. I would guess it does, I'm pretty sure it's a customized H110 motherboard (I doubt the BIOS support is good enough to be thinking of Kaby Lake instead of Skylake), but I can't be absolutely sure.
 
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Your board is not Z97 / 1150, because you claim to have an 1151 CPU and the model name suggests it's an H110 chipset. If this is correct, it will not support any 1150 chips, but should take any 6xxx CPU (which are all 1151), and an i7 6700 should drop in and work great. If Acer has provided a new BIOS revision since Kaby Lake came out, any 7xxx CPU should work too after updating your BIOS.

If you upgrade the RAM, you need to get a low voltage DDR3 kit. It needs to be 1.35v or lower to run safely with a Skylake or later CPU.
 
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LemonFace

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Yeah sounds right, because the 6400 is a LGA-1151 which confused me. So i guess the specs for the motherboard that i found on that website wasn't updated before skylake came out.
Thanks alot for the help
 
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