SSD install on Lynx level 1? Also a few issues.

Your motherboard is equipped with an M.2 slot which will allow for a super-fast M.2 NVMe SSD. You can shop for any capacity you need. Just plug it into the slot and have your BIOS recognize it. No cable, no wiring. It runs off the PCIe bus like a video card, and should be up to 5 times faster than the SATA SSD you have. I don't recall exactly what came in the Lynx 1 back then, but your SSD may not even occupy that slot. If it does not, then just plug and play. You will want to clone your Windows drive to the faster SSD so all your operations from there are speeded up.

If the SSD you have is in the slot, You will have to copy everything on it to an external drive, pull it, install the new M.2 drive, and re-install your Windows drive "C" on the new SSD. There are plenty of instructions online how to do that. You also have lifetime support from DS. It may take a little time to coordinate with tech support, but they can walk you through the process.

If that seems too much, the other way to go is simply buy and add a 2 1/4" SATA SSD to your system. Any capacity you want. Some motherboards come with an indent in the back where you can attach an SSD. The cabling you need: a power cable you plug in and a SATA cable that goes from the new drive around the front to a SATA connection on the mobo are found back here. If you don't have an indent, then there is also a "drive cage"-some slots where your regular mechanical hard drive is located. The HDD has the same two plug-ins the new SSD will have, so just wire it the same. Again, lots of online help. If you get another SATA drive, you won't have to move your "C" drive. If it suits you, it might not cost a fortune if you bought the SSD at Best Buy or whatever and had them install it.

It does sound like you may have a bad bearing on your GPU. Not much you can do about that AFAIK. Get in touch with DS support and see what they say. It's a terrible time to go shopping for a new GPU, but it seems to be in your future. The longer you can wait on that, the better it should be pricewise and supply-wise.

The remote has a disk battery inside that may be dead. You should know the light strip is just a very inexpensive strip of LEDs that DS used to just give away, it cost them so little. They inevitably give up. They are available in the marketplace, but I don't think I'd bother. The RGB fans should have lasted at least this long, though. Have they? You can replace those quite easily if you need to.   

Jags,

Cretea is an excellent technical resource! This is also true of most Digital Storm Forum members that are Verified Owners. He helped me get my configuration laid out the way I wanted it.

I am watching this thread as I learn a lot just watching the Pros in the Forum help their fellow Gamers!

Thank you for your help, I defiantly be waiting for prices to come down, no way am I spending $500 on a graphics card that is not worth that.

By the looks of things this motherboard does not have the SSD slot, It does say it support's an SSD but does not have a slot.