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Damn, need help/advice!

JoyPadJedi

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Calling all Dell Dimension 5000 owners or anyone familiar with them:

Recently sold someone a 7800GTX with the heatpipe cooler. He owns a Dimension 5000. He's just tried to fit it only to find out that (in typical Dell fashion), things don't slot in like 99% of other PCs out there. As far as I can tell, the card slots in with cooler facing up, hence it won't fit due to a CPU cooling duct and I *think* the CPU heatsink :(

Found a pic here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/zwaq/forums/dell5000.jpg

Am I/is he screwed? :confused:
 
he could fit a single slot cooler to the card (hopefully someone makes a decent one) or he could hack the corner off the shroud and use black tape or superglue+the old plastic to patch the hole ?
 
hmm that is sucky. tbh airflow might be a bit of a concern also, if he can get the card in there. there's not a whole lot of case cooling going on in one of thoses, is there?
 
VF700 and VF900 are single slot, grab one of those.

Addition: As for airflow can't you get custom side panels for Dell systems that you can stick an exhaust fan on?
 
james.miller said:
hmm that is sucky. tbh airflow might be a bit of a concern also, if he can get the card in there. there's not a whole lot of case cooling going on in one of thoses, is there?
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yea the case will lack airflow, i cant see anywhere for a fan to go either, maybe at the bottom front?? or makes some holes in the side panel ?
hopefully the guy doesnt overclock his pc so it shouldnt be really hot in there.
 
VF700 sounds a good idea I may suggest it - how easy are they to fit? Moreover, how tricky are those heatpipe coolers to remove? Don't want to suggest this to him and have him get into a mess and destroy the card (as I don't know his ability).

Nightmare!

Keep the suggestions coming - I've told him I've got the best at OcUK working on it ;)
 
These coolers are very simple to swap out it's just a matter of screwing really. No harder than taking the side panel off the case and putting it back on. :) I wouldn't worry.

With the lack of airflow in that case, it will increase ambient temperatures, but it'll keep the graphics card core extremely cool. As long as there's adequate cooling on the CPU too then an increase in ambient temperature won't even be a problem. :)
 
Yeah from what I can tell the CPU duct isolates the CPU from the rest of the case anyway so the extra heat shouldn't matter. I think he's going for a VF900. Hopefully he'll be sorted and happy soon!
 
I'm glad he's probably going for the VF900-Cu, it's only a few quid more than the VF700 but is a much better cooler. The VF700 isn't as good value for money as it used to be.
 
Okay, the nightmare continues. He has installed the Zalman, no problems, everything fits...but apparently there are no 3 pin fan sockets on the motherboard :mad:

I thought the Zalman would just use the fan socket on the graphics card?

Any way around this? Some sort of adapter cable that can plug into a spare molex perhaps?

REALLY appreciate continued assistance here! :)
 
Sigh...

Nightmare continues!

The VF900 doesn't include that adapter, only the VF700 does. I've pointed him in the direction of the sort of adapter to buy though (only about 2 quid). I'm just waiting for the email to say there's no spare Molex connectors on the PSU. I also have some fears that he'll need a PCI-e power cable too - Dell make it almost impossible to upgrade don't they? :(
 
For the fan, I would just cut off the 3-pin mobo connector and attach the smaller one that was on the stock cooler.

Dell PSUs tend to have just enough molex's to power what's already there, so he'll have to share a molex with the gfx card.

Bottom line is it's his fault for not checking that his PC can accept a modern gfx card, so don't beat yourself up over it.
 
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