Case upgrade for a 2011 Dell XPS ?

Vinny C

Vinny C

Vinny C

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Evening all,

Son has decided that rather than clothes for Xmas, he fancies having a go at replacing the case on his 2011 Dell XPS (full tower job) with my help.
I've got a budget of £150 to get a case with as many fans as is possible - the XPS has no front fans and if I remember just one at the back and that's it. He upgraded the Graphics card last year and now the temps need to come down !
Any suggestions/pointers would be really appreciated as we want to have a go at this come xmas but I want to try get the case now based on advice from you folks rather than buying anything and finding it don't work :eek:

This is the PC case style https://www.amazon.com/dell-xps-8300-desktop-graphics/dp/b0058fqfl0?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_marketplace#

Many thanks,

Vinny
 
From the service manual:
- the PSU appears to be standard ATX and has the same pins and screw positions as a standard case
- the motherboard looks like M-ATX, so the screw positions seem alright
- the front panel connector looks like it has the same number of pins as any other motherboard, but I'm not sure where you'd find the pin config to check
 
Thanks for the heads up on this :)

Tetras said:
From the service manual:
- the PSU appears to be standard ATX and has the same pins and screw positions as a standard case
- the motherboard looks like M-ATX, so the screw positions seem alright
- the front panel connector looks like it has the same number of pins as any other motherboard, but I'm not sure where you'd find the pin config to check
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Thanks for sending this - I didn't realise we could use a midi tower setup think I wrongly assumed that the XPS was a full tower so would only fit a full tower !

It's all about the boards eh ? mATX motherboard, the graphics card is a PCI-express 1060, other than usual HDD and wireless card etc nothing fancy added to it.

Will look at midi cases as well as the one you fired across on the link !

Digital X said:
How about this? https://www.overclockers.co.uk/frac...lack-light-tint-tempered-glass-ca-097-fd.html

It can hold 7 fans.

3x120mm on the front
2x120mm on the top
1x120mm on the bottom
1x120mm on the read

  • PSU max length - 200mm (with HDD cage and front fan)
  • GPU max length - 341mm (360mm without front fan)
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Another n00b question - the existing case has just the one fan at the rear- if the new case comes with two or three fans already, do these need to all be powered from the mobo using a y splitter or are they all connected to each other and the mobo just connects to one of them ?

Vinny

Digital X said:
How about this? https://www.overclockers.co.uk/frac...lack-light-tint-tempered-glass-ca-097-fd.html

It can hold 7 fans.

3x120mm on the front
2x120mm on the top
1x120mm on the bottom
1x120mm on the read

  • PSU max length - 200mm (with HDD cage and front fan)
  • GPU max length - 341mm (360mm without front fan)
Click to expand...
 
Take a look at the Thermaltake Core V21 cube case and spend the money you save on a decent CPU cooler and extra fans.


You only need one!
 
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