Hi everyone,

So upon several recommendation I just purchased a Ender 3 Pro.

And with that I was doing some research into the upgrades that people claim are must haves and should get eventuallys but I have some questions that I am hoping I can find some answers to here.

So I figure to start I should say what I did get.

-I got the glass print bed with the printer directly from the manufacturer. I read that with the glass print bed I would not need to worry about warping or distortion in the print bed so auto leveling wouldn't be AS big of a need (though I do intend to look into some kind of auto leveler in the future). Also apparently it eliminates the need for tape/glue? Confirmation?

-I also got the all aluminum extruder

-The capricorn bowden tube.

-A set of nozzles that includes 2x .1 2x .2 2x.6 2x.8 2x1.0 and 10x .4 nozzles (I intend to mostly print miniatures and after doing some reading I determined that the .2 and .1 nozzles would be good some some things I may want to do while the .8 and 1.0 would be better for some of the larger structural things I may want to print that have nothing to do with models and .4s would likely be best for most things in general).

- The upgraded springs for the print bed.


All pretty easy to just install when I am putting the thing together.

So whats giving me hang ups is mostly the Mainboard and upgrades that relate to it. In some places I saw that any newer produced/shipped out machine (mine) should come with the latest mainboard (The 1.1.5 silent Mainboard) and I tried to contact the company to get clarification but no answer yet.

So here are some questions...

First, lets say it DOES come with the silent mainboard.

1) How useful are TL Smoothers then? I have never seen anyone in any video I am watching with the silent board and TL Smoothers while every 1.1.4 has them as must have upgrades. This would determine what I do if it does not ship with the 1.1.5.

2) How useful are the Stepper Dampers? If the Mainboard configuration is already taking care of a lot of the noise are the stepper dampers going to improve print quality still?

Then lets say it comes with the 1.1.4. Then the smoothers are a cheap upgrade but maybe that money is better put towards a mainboard upgrade, at which point maybe I should be getting the MKS Gen L for when I want to start adding more things to the printer since it comes with more expansion slots? Again, Stepper Dampers?


All and any help would be really appreciated. The single physical upgrades are easy to get my head around at this point because they are an upgrade more or less in isolation. But these other upgrades that may be redundant or doing the same job and more is giving me hang ups on compatibility and/or redundancy.