Damn, need help/advice!

[JoyPadJedi]

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?

 

[JoyPadJedi]

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

 

[JoyPadJedi]

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!

 

[JoyPadJedi]

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

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!

 

[JoyPadJedi]

Cheers I'll let him know. Hopefully this will be sorted soon.

 

[JoyPadJedi]

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?