MD_Willington
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So basically what I posted on this thread above is the answer...get the Performance heat sink from DELL...that is it.
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I don't know what kind of heatsink they are going to install now. Hopefully a better one than what I have now!MD_Willington said:So basically what I posted on this thread above is the answer...get the Performance heat sink from DELL...that is it.
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The ONLY reason your fan isn't as loud as it was is that it's not cooling the CPU very well and is drawing cooler air from other parts of the case...The shroud is there for a reason.1c3d0g said:Does the case have a green plastic shroud covering the CPU? If so, remove it. Trust me, I did that to the rig in my sig below and now it's blissfully quiet.
1c3d0g said:Does the case have a green plastic shroud covering the CPU? If so, remove it. Trust me, I did that to the rig in my sig below and now it's blissfully quiet.
Yeah, it's there for a reason, and a stupid one at that. Dell is so cheap they won't even supply a standard CPU fan... WTF!?! Instead they rely on one pathetic CASE fan to do the job of an independent CPU fan... this is another reason I hate Dell. Why skip such an important cooling device? What would a CPU fan cost a big OEM? $2? Maybe less?Mr_Evil said:The ONLY reason your fan isn't as loud as it was is that it's not cooling the CPU very well and is drawing cooler air from other parts of the case...The shroud is there for a reason.
DiscoStu said:I work for a school district and we have about 100 of the little mini GX280's in our CAD classrooms. Those fans all get super loud when under load. Luckily Dell finally moved to BTX so hopefully the new model we're buying this year isn't as nasty.
MD_Willington said:Make sure you have the "Performance" heatsink, it has more heatpipes, the insane spinning fan noise issue was common on the GX270's with the stock heatsinks..
Found this post just now in the dell forum about GX280 noise...fixed with performance heatsink...
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfo...other&message.id=16708&query.id=291671#M16708