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December 11th, 2020 07:00
XPS 8930, cooling question, #2
I recently bought a used XPS 8930 (i7-8700 and 16gb ram) and I've been reading over these forums the last couple weeks reading up on how to better cool the pc. I've taken the advice of many users on here and ordered the brackets off of an auction site to install 120mm fans at the top and lower front of the case. I've also ordered two 4-pin Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM fans. I have the smaller stock cpu cooler on there right now (the non-blower style) and saw some people had good results with the Scythe Shuriken 2 cpu air cooler so I plan on ordering that.
When I got this pc it didn't have any kind of ssd installed and only a 2tb hdd that sounded like a coffee maker percolating coffee nonstop so I figured the drive was going bad and added in a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1tb NVMe M.2 and removed the hdd and the lower cages. This thing still makes an awful lot of noise when the fans ramp up to full speed. The fan on the psu sounded a bit squeaky so I replaced the psu with a Gigabyte P750GM. After doing that it seems as though the fans don't roar as loud as they were originally......one of them sounded like a jet engine before.
I'm still waiting on all the parts to show up but until then I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to cool down the GPU. Right now there's an Nvidia GTX 1080 in there with the blower style fan for cooling. I'm wondering if the lack of airflow in the 8930 makes this kind of card more desirable or less desirable. I've seen there are conversion kits that can change a blower style GPU to an air cooled GPU. One I came across was the Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV. I'm not sure if adding one of these to this graphics card would help keep everything cooler or end up making it worse. The card is big at 10.5" and blocks off most of the bottom of the case so I'm thinking 3 fans under the card might help push the air from the bottom and route it up towards the top of the case a lot easier. Any thoughts on this or info before I order one up? Thanks for any input or suggestions. I'll post a couple links to the items I mentioned earlier.
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December 11th, 2020 12:00
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December 11th, 2020 18:00
I'm still debating on the cpu cooler. I'm still not sure if the Dell blower style one will be quiet enough. I want to keep it all cool but don't really want to sacrifice keeping it quiet at the same time. I'll wait and see how the bigger fans do once they arrive. I'm also going to add fresh thermal paste to the cpu and gpu and see if that drops the temps a bit to help keep the fans from revving up so high and keeping it quieter. I've never applied thermal paste before but I spend the last couple days watching videos on it so feel confident doing it.
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December 11th, 2020 19:00
I ordered some of the Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste. I won't have to do a complete teardown on the gpu to get to it. Take the top cover off and undo the 4 screws on the underside and it comes out easy.
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December 12th, 2020 04:00
This video shows what I mean. It's a GTX 1070 but they come apart the exact same way.
https://youtu.be/n10_ThxftI4
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December 12th, 2020 04:00
Here's a video showing how.....they are using a GTX 1070 but it's the same for the 1080.
https://youtu.be/n10_ThxftI4
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December 15th, 2020 12:00
Once you have the top cover off.....yes I know it's slightly different in the video.....all you have to do is remove the 4 spring loaded screws on the back and that will release the heatsink. It's not necessary to disassemble the entire card if you're just going to apply thermal paste. I did however do a complete teardown so I could make sure the thermal pads were ok and to do some deep cleaning on the fan.