1. I said that your 850w PSU upgrade from the original Dell 460w is nicer and better regardless in referring to the comment above about the fan inlet. I wouldn't advice to get overpriced Dell OEM for upgrade.
2. You will need optical power cable only IF you are going to use one. New PSU doesn't provide a mini SATA cable.
3. The curious question was meant to give you idea for better thermal management. You can move the hard drive to the bottom cage, next to your SATA SSD. Your current 120 mm front case fan will provide better cooling than leaving the drive in its default space. That drive cage is a dual purposes and it has a 92 mm fan mount built in. Drop a fan it there and it will bring in more cool air to the CPU area.
Thanks for the suggestion of moving the SATA drive, though I do not have a SATA SSD, I only have an m2 NVME drive (main OS drive), plus the 4TB SATA drive. The cable that goes into one of the bottom drive bays is just a (6+2) GPU cable for when I purchase a new Graphics card.
Chino de Oro
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January 9th, 2023 21:00
It's a nicer and better upgrade from Dell OEM regardless. You will also need a mini SATA adapter to power your optical drive if you use one.
On another note, just curious why you put your hard drive in the fan cage when the bottom cages have better airflow?
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January 9th, 2023 22:00
1. I could not get a dell OEM drive. Dell would not supply one, and were absolutely useless. I needed an alternative. Did you not understand that?
2. I don’t need an optical drive lead.
3. What you see is the default install from dell. I never put any drive in a fan cage, period.
Chino de Oro
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January 10th, 2023 00:00
I think you misunderstood my post entirely
1. I said that your 850w PSU upgrade from the original Dell 460w is nicer and better regardless in referring to the comment above about the fan inlet. I wouldn't advice to get overpriced Dell OEM for upgrade.
2. You will need optical power cable only IF you are going to use one. New PSU doesn't provide a mini SATA cable.
3. The curious question was meant to give you idea for better thermal management. You can move the hard drive to the bottom cage, next to your SATA SSD. Your current 120 mm front case fan will provide better cooling than leaving the drive in its default space. That drive cage is a dual purposes and it has a 92 mm fan mount built in. Drop a fan it there and it will bring in more cool air to the CPU area.
Darkmoon5
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January 10th, 2023 00:00
Thanks for the suggestion of moving the SATA drive, though I do not have a SATA SSD, I only have an m2 NVME drive (main OS drive), plus the 4TB SATA drive. The cable that goes into one of the bottom drive bays is just a (6+2) GPU cable for when I purchase a new Graphics card.