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February 4th, 2021 17:00
XPS 8930, adding more case fans & possible power issues
Hi there!
I've had my XPS 8930 for a little over 2 years, and I've added some components over the time I've had it.
Old Specs (specs bought with):
- CPU: i5-8400
- GPU: GTX 1050 Ti
- 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz
- 1 TB HDD
- 450w power supply
New Specs:
- CPU: i5-8400 (unchanged)
- GPU: GTX 1660 SUPER
- 32 GB DDR4 2666 MHz
- 500 GB M.2 NVMe SSD
- 1 TB HDD (unchanged)
- 460w power supply (unchanged)
I've recently started playing some heavier games like Apex Legends, Call of Duty, etc. Playing them normally is a breeze, 1080p 60fps, no problem. But when my computer starts to heat up, I get lag spikes every 5-7 seconds and it gets really annoying. And sometimes games that aren't hard to run at all can cause lag spikes, even if I made the sacrifice of turning down some of the graphics settings.
I also believe that I may have power consumption issues because my computer will occasionally (but not very frequently) bluescreen whenever it's running heavy games as I mentioned earlier. This started happening when I upgraded my GPU from a GTX 1050 Ti to a GTX 1660 SUPER. I am thinking about upgrading my power supply to something around 550-600 watts because I might want to upgrade my CPU in the future.
If any of you with the XPS 8930 has upgraded their power supplies and/or case fans, please tell me how it may or may not have helped you.
Thanks so much!


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February 4th, 2021 18:00
Lots for threads about upgrading fans and PSU in XPS 8930, so search for them.