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The R8 doesn't come with spare data cables. You can use the one for the optical drive, buy one on amazon, use the one from your R3 that you used for this drive, or get one on amazon.
The spare power cables are located behind the psu in the swing out metal box.
Fixing the Fan in the HDD cage space.
Adding ties to hold it in position, a bit fiddly for the one deep down inside the cage to bend back round and thread back out. Top one was easier.
Plastic Ties trimmed down
The fan is well wedged in on the scrw at the bottom, just slightly inclined.
Close up look to the ties on the fan and a bit of cable tidying.
For the test before 75°, Top fan offset +35%, front fans offset 67%, the Noctuas are so quiet, the Top fan really covers it. Overall the noise levels are acceptable, a headset is a must for gaming.
AWCC max offset setting for front fans cannot exceed +67%, otherwise the front fan will spin down and stop.
I pushed Top and front fans to max, ran Timespy, 72°C, a gain of 3°C, overall up to 27°C less than before the fan existed.
I am keeping the front bezel off for now, while I think about how to drill/cut/sabotage it 😄
Big thanks still to @Anonymous and @r72019
@markburv do you think that hose will go up (red) or cause serious problems in this maybe not so great idea of a cheap man's mod
I'm confused (again) 🤔 Why do you think the hose will go 'up' if the radiator is coming 'down' 25mm? You will have additional slack in your hoses with which you may need to contend. Rotating the water block was the @GTS81 method. Your results may vary . . . just do what is necessary to make the hoses 'kink-free' and 'comfortable'.
It is an OEM fan. Very sharp eyed observation of my tardiness. I was so exhausted after trying to rotate the 👽 head that I didn't want to change the fan that time. Actually there's an ML120 Pro sitting on the other side of the radiator doing pull duty.
The Asetek OEM cooler made for Dell features a standard "toothed" design that lets you rotate and grip the pump based on the notches as seen below:
As you have mentioned, rotating the head will cause the rubber tubes to exert rotating force on the pump mounts. You have to hold the pump with one hand to counter the force while tightening/ loosening the screws. I made the mistake of not doing so while unscrewing the pump leading to a stripped screw and taking hammer to rig.
First off get 2 of these fans, a Y PWM fan cable, 30mm 6-32 screws and washers, I bought a Corsair fan screw kit.
Remove GPU, side panels, top panel, and the cooler assembly, refer to service manual.
Before replacement of card (Fan already replaced)
Removal of GTX 1060
Installation of RTX 3080
Just an update to show what this does for 3DMark on a 2 year old machine with i9-9900K.
And here are the perf indicators during the test, CPU GPU Memory
Hi @Anonymous
It does look big compared to the R8 case and airflow is something I am focusing on. Thanks for the tip. I shall take out one soon, just which one would be better to remove HDD3 (left) or HDD2 (right) if the other has an SSD?
Adding this card has now triggered th need for more storage 😄
Call of duty (free from Nvidia) needs 100GB storage and I only have 90GB left available on my NVMe 512GB (C: OS), I do have a 4TB HDD but I use that for backing up my NAS and do not want to havevery slow loading or bad performance.
As said above, I am planning on adding an SSD and distributing installed games between SDD and the NVMe depending on performance and loading times.
I rediscovered my 1To SSD in my desk drawers 🙂 previously used for about a year in my R3. So here goes, I shall try the HDD3 slot for now, easier to tidy cables until I remove a slot :
Now I remember why it was in the drawer, I couldn't install it 2 years ago when I first opened my R8 :
No cables for SSDs came inside the R8 😞
I have to look in the box, and if not, other boxes related to computers/storage.
Time to visit the loft LOL !!!
The R8 doesn't come with spare data cables. You can use the one for the optical drive, buy one on amazon, use the one from your R3 that you used for this drive, or get one on amazon.
The spare power cables are located behind the psu in the swing out metal box.
