Mod: Daughter's Dell XPS 400

[ScOuT]

So...I wanted to upgrade my daughter's Dell XPS 400 for a while now. I have her interested in Folding and she really likes the concept and enjoys watching our points get higher I have been running a CPU Folding client on it for a while. I also wanted to run a GPU client. I finally got the Corsair 450w PSU I ordered and a special thanks to voyagerfan99 for selling me his Asus 9600 GSO

First it's gotta run cool under full load with a slight overclock of the shaders while Folding. I took off the heatsink and WOW...good ol Asus had about a teaspoon of TIM applied.

Cleaned that up in a hurry

OCZ Freeze That's more like it!

I gave it a good cleaning and installed everything. Fired right up and did not even skip a beat. Installed the driver and GPU client. Running smooth as silk:good:

Oh let the points roll in! Easily broke 15,000 PPD

Dell XPS 400
Intel Pentium D 840 @ 3.2GHz w/ 2 processing cores
2 x 1 GB Kingston @ 800MHz
Asus 9600 GSO
Corsair 450w
2 x Samsung 160 GB in RAID 0
Windows XP Pro

 

[mac550]

i hate it when companies put so much thermal paste on the heatsinks, my 6800GT that i used to have was lagged in the stuff, it was everwhere. needless to say i removed it and did it properly, it ran like 10c cooler on idle and full load

 

[voyagerfan99]

Glad I could help you with your folding! It helped me fold a lot, even though I didn't overclock it

 

[bomberboysk]

i hate it when companies put so much thermal paste on the heatsinks, my 6800GT that i used to have was lagged in the stuff, it was everwhere. needless to say i removed it and did it properly, it ran like 10c cooler on idle and full load

My 790i had enough TIM on the SPP and MCP to use on 10 cpu's....im not kidding either.

 

[ScOuT]

My 790i had enough TIM on the SPP and MCP to use on 10 cpu's....im not kidding either.

Every time I have pulled off a stock heatsink on anything (NB, SB, GPU, CPU, Mosfit...ect.) in the past 5 years...there has been at least 5 x the amount necessary

The companies need to hire a few people that only apply TIM! They are experts...8 hours a day nothing but small drops of TIM!

 

[CardboardSword]

You'd think companies would be all for it. They'd save money on that kind of thing:S and their products would get better reviews for better temperatures and longer life span. Funny how the world works.

 

[ganzey]

The companies need to hire a few people that only apply TIM! They are experts...8 hours a day nothing but small drops of TIM!

i would blow my head off if that was my job, seriously. putting one tiny drop on for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. i would proly end up just squirting the whole tube on one, lol

 

[Sheringan]

You'd think companies would be all for it. They'd save money on that kind of thing:S and their products would get better reviews for better temperatures and longer life span. Funny how the world works.

Profit, profit, profit. That's what every company is thinking.