Dell 2

About a week after putting the X1950 into the Dell, I noticed the X1950 was running quite hot - almost scalding hot - and decided to remove the cover to the heat-sink:


Yep, It was pretty much clogged with dust. I cleaned it out and put it back in, and it was running a lot cooler afterwards.

Recently, the Dell's been taking time to boot again, like when the X300 was in it, so maybe it is the power supply? Then again, I also did remove the PCI wireless card to put into the G5, so that my best friend can connect it to the internet to install stuff, and it's after that when it started doing it, so maybe that's it (as weird as it would be). I'll find out once I get the wireless card back.

One of the other things I've done is attached a couple of the tear-off 5.25" bay covers to the hard drive to elevate it, positioned the front stock fan at the back to blow onto the hard drive, and attached another fan (from the retired ASUS Triton 77) to the front to blow the air out. I haven't really checked the temperature, but I'm sure it keeps it under 60C.