How to make Alienware Aurora R10 thermals suck less

[Zinn]

My husband bought an Alienware Aurora R10 to get a 5950x / 6800 XT and then shucked the components into his existing Corsair case because the Alienware Aurora R10 thermal performance sucks balls.

To give an idea of how godawful this case design is, here is a photo from PC Magazine:


Fun facts about the Alienware Aurora R10:

• The power supply swings out on a hinge when you open the case.
• When closed, the case power supply sits right on top of the CPU / VRM area and blocks all meaningful intake or exhaust airflow
• The silver VRM heatsinks pictured in units sent to reviewers are not present in our retail machine. Again, there is no VRM cooling whatsoever on our retail machine.
• The front intake fan is mostly blocked by plastic crap, the 120mm AIO top exhaust is mostly blocked by the PSU
• Both 120mm fans are very high RPM and loud

The totality of all these stupid design decisions means that under any load, or even just browsing YouTube, the fans will spin up to high RPMs, the PC will sound like a jet taking off, and it still thermal throttles to all hell.

With all this in mind, I will be doing a build in this case because it was shucked and it's otherwise just sitting in a closet. It has a decent B550 motherboard with PCIe 4.0 NVME support, a nice brace for supporting big graphics cards, and a high quality 1000 watt power supply. So I will be adding a 5800x / 3090 FE.

This is as much of a statement as a question: how will I make the thermals of this case suck less? Or put another way I will make the thermals of this case suck less.

It might not be pretty but surely there is something that can be done. Any ideas are welcome.

 

[FearTheCow]

More powerful fans running at full speed all the time, still going to suck almost as bad as stock.

 

[pendragon1]

cut up the bottom and top and add more fans. extend the aio tubes and external mount it or upgrade to 240+. its gonna take chopping and its not gonna be pretty.

 

[kirbyrj]

Undervolt the CPU (if the motherboard allows it).

 

[pitingres]

With the PSU mounted where it is, I'd say it's hopeless. Give it up.

 

[3dprophet]

You may be able to remove the hard drive cages and install fans at the front. On Dell's official forums there is a lot of info on how to improve the computers.

https://www.dell.com/community/Alie...addy-to-install-second-front-fan/td-p/7700622

Some people only see the negatives, but these Dells seem like fun modding projects and a good way to get a GPU.

 

[mnewxcv]

Fe card will at least exhaust some heat out the back. If it fits.... I don't think it will based on that pic. 3090 fe extends away from the slot a lot more than that card.