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XPS 8920, upgrade CPU cooler
Help!
I know the 8920 is not the best at staying cool...I just upgraded my CPU to a I7-7700K with the stock cooler. While running some stress tests, etc, the CPU went all the way up to 90 C (not overclocked)...way too hot! Here's my problem: I'd really like to find a more efficient cooler (either liquid or air) to keep my CPU cooler in case I do overclock. However, with the proprietary case, I don't know what my options are. Will a different low profile air fan help? Should I go liquid? Is there room to mount a radiator for a liquid cooler? I really really don't want to change out my case, especially since I'm a big believer in IO shields (backplane) and won't have one for this motherboard. Any one else thought of a solution for this? Thanks!
Vic384
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February 19th, 2020 03:00
I suggest you look at these discussion: https://www.dell.com/community/XPS-Desktops/XPS-8930-SE-Exhaust-Fan-and-PSU-Upgrade/m-p/7466978#M31353
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February 20th, 2020 12:00
@schroederokc I'd really like to find a more efficient cooler (either liquid or air)
Think outside the box.
XPS-8930-CPU-&-GPU-Water-Cooling-External-Rad
. . . even further outside the box.
XPS-8930-Liquid-Cooling-II
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February 23rd, 2020 10:00
forget low profile and all that
what matters is CFM , cubic feet per minute flow, (air) some fans larger can move more air. sure.
Physics, large blade fan area, need less RPM to get more CFM, but gee 1000s of fans made.
what matters 2nd is not causing DELLS BIOS TO F1 fail the fan as most alien fans do, (I have cure but too long answers)
What matters is this and this alone, get the heat out of the case, nothing else matters if the stock fan is ok.
savvy2
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February 23rd, 2020 10:00
you can see the silly hinged PSU covers the CPU fan, making changes never easy there,
it has top fan right, and optional front fan ever consider 1 more fan.
can I ASSuME the room is 72f not 95F? (not at your Equado cabana>?) right,>? I never like to GUESS that.
you can see the cpm fan sucks are from inside case and blows it OUTSIDE fully. see that?
ahh blows to top fan then it blows out.
upgrade the BIOS so fans act smarter (pray)???????????????
add the front fan yet seen at DELL here
did you use top brand, TIM from heat sink to CPU top? intel and me we use SHIN Estu. it is the best. not hype.
have proof of that and never do I go to any hype sites. I test my own TIM, using DOW Chem base line TIM. 340
Did you put on too much TIM, seen this (last photo). vast times, and is so WRONG. (more is better is a lie)
TIM = heat sink grease (tech slang,for over 40 years) even back to 1968 I used 340 . not now. not here !!!
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February 23rd, 2020 10:00
at 90c CPU, is the GPU in 3d overload, you never said all test conditions. and that matters too.
CPU is 91watts waste heat at full tilt.
some GPU cards barf out 250watts of raw heat, to the inside of the case some do, outside case 10x better.
90c the PCU is already slowing down and near here it self shut down. you need to fix that fast
if that unstated GPU card is huge power burner say so, even give full make and model card here.
even better a URL to it for sale.
A PC has things that you work here, power budget and heat load budget (where to send it and how.
not knowing all things in your box makes that impossible be accurate.