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Dell XPS 710 BTX to ATX Conversion

Great job schmidty169. Thanks for updating your image links and welcome to the Dell XPS 700-series ATX club!
- John Tauwhare
- Post #58
- Aug 21, 2017
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Dell XPS 710 BTX to ATX Conversion

Moved images from photobucket to postimage and setup new links. Hoping postimage stays stable and $free for a long time! Would love to see your images schmidty169 - hope you can restore them? My record of the front panel pins is earlier in the thread but I don't know what the sense function is.
- John Tauwhare
- Post #53
- Aug 9, 2017
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

Which is exactly what's intended.. It doesn't have to be great Excel, in fact it shouldn't be; the objective is to assess CPU performance in a typical highly single threaded Excel workload, and for that it has proven to be fit for purpose.
- John Tauwhare
- Post #210
- Jul 29, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Dell XPS 710 BTX to ATX Conversion

Hi Face2Face Yes, still using that case for my main machine. Finished a demanding job so I've got a bit more time now.
- John Tauwhare
- Post #49
- Jun 5, 2017
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Dell XPS 710 BTX to ATX Conversion

Completed CPU stress testing and got up to 30C reduction after relidding with CLP. ']Need to stress the GPUs next to really assess the effect of the cooling changes..[/URL]
- John Tauwhare
- Post #46
- May 12, 2017
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Dell XPS 710 BTX to ATX Conversion

Everything installed now. And much more airflow. This is with my new setup: i7-7700K (relidded wih CLP) @5.0/1.30V, ASUS Z270 PRIME, ID Cooling FrostFlow 240 AIO, 16Gb G.Skill TridentZ@3200, Zotac GTX970 SLI, 2xWD Black PCIe 256Gb M.2 in RAID0, 256Gb OCZ Vector150, 2xToshiba 1Tb in RAID0...
- John Tauwhare
- Post #45
- May 12, 2017
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Dell XPS 710 BTX to ATX Conversion

Then, with a bit of cutting, I fitted a 140mm Phanteks fan into the back of the front drive bays cover. And clipped it back into the case. Removing the drive doors left void which I covered with horizontal bars cut and trimmed from a spare part and stuck on with epoxy. So the top of the...
- John Tauwhare
- Post #44
- May 12, 2017
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Dell XPS 710 BTX to ATX Conversion

The CPU radiator would take most of the incoming airflow so I needed another source. To provide this I vacated 3.5 drive bays, but still leaving me with a DVD drive. And this meant moving the 3 LED switches off the dedicated blank box and onto the On/Off/Reset + USB 3.0 box.
- John Tauwhare
- Post #43
- May 12, 2017
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Dell XPS 710 BTX to ATX Conversion

I waited until the Kaby Lake release to upgrade my 2700k. As part of the project I decided to add AIO watercooling for the CPU and went for a twin-fan 240mm unit which would just fit behind the front case fan. This was easy to attach using 4 90deg brackets riveted to the Dell's original base plate.
- John Tauwhare
- Post #42
- May 12, 2017
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

Nice. Consistent with my 22.6 @4.3. Nothing wrong with Office 365 - I've had good results with it on laptops.
- John Tauwhare
- Post #206
- May 11, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

I got this with my 4670k
- John Tauwhare
- Post #204
- May 11, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

Agreed, consistency of OS and Excel version is an issue with this. The model was originally written in Excel 2003. I was using Win7 and Excel 2007 when I started the thread. Now I'm using Win10 and Excel 2010. Did you turn off hyper-threading in the BIOS or Excel Options (HT is a big drag on the...
- John Tauwhare
- Post #202
- May 11, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

Still alive. I just finished rebuilding my Dell XPS710 rig replacing the 2700K with a 7700K and have completed CPU stress testing. The 7700 is a very solid cool running chip. Fastest run in the Excel benchmark at 5.2G 1.400V is 17.31. That's a 23% IPC improvement over the Sandy.
- John Tauwhare
- Post #199
- May 10, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Haswell overclocking discussion.

No, did not lap either.
- John Tauwhare
- Post #178
- Jan 8, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Haswell overclocking discussion.

I'm not familiar with LinX or Linpack and I've only had a few minutes to do this but I've downloaded LinX. Initial run at 40/38 gave 178Gflops. Quickly discovered that the stress is increased by the problem size and memory. Maxxed out the setting to 6Gb memory and started it. Stopped when power...
- John Tauwhare
- Post #173
- Jan 7, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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