Thinking about Greg’s post, as well as some posts at Dell’s XPS 8930 community forum, led me to try a different solution. In my case I have twin front fans blowing cool room air over the HDD cage, a top fan and a rear fan to vent the case as needed.Īs I said, sorry if I have stated the obvious but your post about replacing a smaller fan with a larger one caught my eye as odd, unless of course the top fan location is in some way a variable sized hole and can be made larger to accommodate such a larger fan than is currently in place?
Plus & sorry if “I am teaching my grandmother to suck eggs” to quote that old expression:-Ĭase venting is all about airflow and the front fan should blow into the case and all other fans should suck it out. IMO putting larger fan on a hole suitable for say an 80mm fan is more likely to cause back pressure causing (a) more noise and (b) maybe higher case temp because you are actually restricting the airflow You are aware that a fan needs to vent through a hole(aperture) of a size suitable for it. Sorry to ask/state the obvious but when you say the 120mm fan is to replace a smaller top venting fan. One will replace the smaller OEM top case fan the other will be a new front case fan While importing some photos, average CPU temps reached the very low 80s.ġ20mm fans. Although temperatures never got as high as Photolab, just starting LR elevated average CPU temps into the low 70s. Drive temperature is not a factor because Photolab runs from and stores images to my NVMe SSD boot drive.įWIW, I imported photos into LR 5.7.1.
Third, using Speccy, I saw that the highest temperatures by far come from the i7-8700 CPU: before exporting a raw photo from Photolab 3.2, my average temperatures ranged from 59-65 celsius while exporting, CPU temperatures reached a high of 92. Second, the computer already is on my desk with space between the back of the computer and the wall.
I’m also awaiting mounting brackets bought on eBay. One will replace the smaller OEM top case fan the other will be a new front case fan. Accordingly, and because they’re comparatively inexpensive, I’m awaiting delivery of two Noctua NF-12A PWM 120mm fans. Thank you, everyone, especially for the suggestion regarding Speccy, which I already had, but hadn’t thought to use as suggested.įirst, from my reading about the XPS 8930 generally, I already had inferred that heat is an issue, maybe the primary issue.
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