Recent content by Nyphrodel

I got my daughter a DELL XPS 8940 Desktop PC in 2021. It's an i7-10700 CPU and the other day, it just went dark. This, of course, would have to happen just before Christmas. She's driving me crazy because she feels totally unconnected to the world without it. After looking it over, I'm about 99%...

Well @COLGeek , as I've said before, I can't thank you enough for your help. I was so relieved when I first saw that it was you that responded to my thread... If it wasn't for your suggestion, I would never have had the nerve to try this mod. I don't quite have the confidence that I did once...

Before I close out this thread, I thought that I should respond to this so that others will know what to expect when reaching out to Noctua for support for one of their products. At least this is what to expect if you've got a Dell system with proprietary components. I was really hoping for more...

Yes, as much as I don't know about this type of thing, it is unfathomable to me that ANY company would use such underhanded tactics. I'm just so pleased that we have forums like this and like the one at DELL where we can discuss these things openly. If not for the other users and their...

Of course @Darkbreeze I apologize for not including it before, here it is: I'm working my way through the responses... I hope you can figure a few of them out...I'm at a loss.

@COLGeek @Darkbreeze I can't begin to explain how grateful I am to the both of you for your help. I posted on DELL's boards and I'll let you know as soon as I hear any decent responses. If you're interested in checking it out, I posted it under 'After Market Cooling for Aurora R7' and I'm the...

No, it is considerably smaller. I believe the original is an 80mm and the Noctua is 92mm. I was going to try to put it on the Noctua heatsink even though it is one of the main reasons for the noise. So I'm glad it doesn't fit, I'd hate to put it on there in a weak moment.

Here's the original cpu cooler. The heatsink and fan are still attached. Like many before and after me, I thought that I was getting that 'wonderful' Alienware liquid cooling, but this is what I got instead. I didn't get a chance to get through all of the threads yet, but I will - one...

@COLGeek Would you mind taking a look at this discussion for me? It has me kind of creeped out: Proprietary fan header issues Could this be true and could this be my issue or at least partly so? The audacity of something like this is mind boggling...

There are no fan settings in the R7 Bios & I don't feel too good about just ignoring the messages. And, won't the Dell fan be loud all over again? This is one of the main reasons I swapped it out to begin with and what a bummer, this means that's a good chunk of my investment down the drain if...

Yes, I forgot to mention that...I went into the Bios and I couldn't find anything. I thought maybe I needed to change the fan settings from DC to PWM? I'll look again...! Oh yeah, and @COLGeek? Thanks for responding :hihi:

UPDATE: I've since been running my system open to see what the fans are doing. All are running accordingly. The top fan turns on/off as needed, which isn't much since the chassis is open. The bottom intake is running pretty consistently. The cpu fan is running fine as well. I did go into the...

@COLGeek By the way, here's a link to my Alienware Aurora R7 Folder. It shows everything that I did, Step-by-step with a brief explanation of each of those steps: Step-by-step installation of Noctua NH-L9i in Aurora R7 Can anyone help?

@COLGeek It took me a few days (we got hit by Hurricane Eta) but it's finished! Unfortunately, things did not turn out as planned. On my first startup after installation, these are the messages that I received: I've triple checked ALL of the fans, including checking to see that they were...

Hi COLGeek, here's my Dremel and it just so happens that I have a little "wheel of death!" :kikou: Actually, I have 5 of them (they come 5 to a pack) Now, on my backplate, is this where you think I should cut the tabs off? Just the 4 pieces, right? I've been very uncomfortable with the idea of...