Good thing you swapped the thermal paste, the old one was done since it was dried. I bet your heart was in your throat when you pushed the power button and nothing happened. Thanks for sharing.
Does it light up like my 16 year old sons , like ET’s space ship in his bedroom 😂, currently on our holidays so will catch up on videos , , well done for fixing it Fred 👍🏻🇬🇧
@@FrederickDunn very expensive as well ,when he wanted one we about fell off our chair at the price , keeps them quiet though , soon be 17 and wanting a car , so glad Eva age 7 is just happy being outdoors,
We use a Dell 8930 with an i9-9900 for our RUclips studio video camera recording PC. We needed a little more beef for the GPU recently as we've kept adding cameras, so I can confirm that a Gigabyte 4070 Ti Eagle OC will fit just fine into the Dell 8930 case and I also put in a new Segotep 850w PSU after watching this video. We're recording in 4k from (4) Sony cameras to an Elgato Cam Link Pro PCI-E capture card and the 4070 Ti Eagle fit and work just fine together! I also just put a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB m.2 upgrade into it as well to have some more recording space. It's a great little PC that I intend to keep using for quite a while.
Thanks for this video! No other video on upgrading 8930's shows the brass-tubed heatsink that you have (and I have.) I wouldn't have dared to open mine up if I hadn't seen your video. It did look like your original PSU was installed upside down so its fan was facing the inside rather than the outside where it should have been facing. Or did you just accidentally turn it around during the video-making?
My day job is a computer tech support guy. I think you did a nice job documenting your work. I would be worried about that amount of thermal paste it could cause issues. This is more of a Goldilocks situation instead of a more is better.
Thank you for this entertaining and educational video...well done and absolutely saved me! Just successfully swapped out with EVGA 750 PSU on my XPS 8930 SE. Pigtail to CD/DVD drive didn't work for me, but will order a cheap external drive and be done with it. Have no idea if I put on the thermal paste to spec, but cpu isn't smoking (yet). Was able to shove the panel on in the end, but not sure how long it will stay under the pressure 😁. Thanks again!
Disk burners are good. One thing I learned early on is that things don't stay up on the web forever. It is unreliable as a reference source. Stuff that you like to refer back to suddenly disappears forever unless you own the original... or have made a disk copy for future reference.
I've been wanting to upgrade my gpu for a while now since my GTX 1650 is starting to fall behind on performance on newer games, but I've never been able to because I've always thought the PSUs on the xps 8930 was non-replacable and I would need to get a new case and motherboard. Thanks alot Fred.
Get a can of compressed air and blow that dust away, specially from the heatsink, thermal paste won't do much if heatsink can't get the airflow and extract the heat from them...
Hello my friend, I have the same computer without the RAM parts. I bought it from the scrap market for $10. It had a slight problem. It did not show the screen, it was just black. I fixed it. After that, the main lunch box burned. Now I only have 1 GB RAM.I don't have a good thermal paste for the processor I hope you can send me these parts, please, if you can, because I need them. Your friend is very poor.
Hello my friend, I have the same computer without the RAM parts. I bought it from the scrap market for $10. It had a slight problem. It did not show the screen, it was just black. I fixed it. After that, the main lunch box burned. Now I only have 1 GB RAM.I don't have a good thermal paste for the processor I hope you can send me these parts, please, if you can, because I need them. Your friend is very poor.
I'm sorry about those challenges, I don't sell computer components and don't stock any parts. You can find good deals on used or out-dated parts on Ebay.
Good thing you swapped the thermal paste, the old one was done since it was dried. I bet your heart was in your throat when you pushed the power button and nothing happened.
Thanks for sharing.
What's this!? Fred Dunn doing Computer Tech work?
Fred can do anything!
Let's do a water pump next. Timing belt?
Let's just say I have three computers that don't have side panels on them at the moment :) I just need to keep the workflow going :)
Does it light up like my 16 year old sons , like ET’s space ship in his bedroom 😂, currently on our holidays so will catch up on videos , , well done for fixing it Fred 👍🏻🇬🇧
Nope, but I have three sons, and that's definitely a thing :) with water-cooled systems and I'm not a gamer at all.
@@FrederickDunn very expensive as well ,when he wanted one we about fell off our chair at the price , keeps them quiet though , soon be 17 and wanting a car , so glad Eva age 7 is just happy being outdoors,
We use a Dell 8930 with an i9-9900 for our RUclips studio video camera recording PC. We needed a little more beef for the GPU recently as we've kept adding cameras, so I can confirm that a Gigabyte 4070 Ti Eagle OC will fit just fine into the Dell 8930 case and I also put in a new Segotep 850w PSU after watching this video. We're recording in 4k from (4) Sony cameras to an Elgato Cam Link Pro PCI-E capture card and the 4070 Ti Eagle fit and work just fine together! I also just put a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB m.2 upgrade into it as well to have some more recording space. It's a great little PC that I intend to keep using for quite a while.
Could you reply with the full specs for your PC build? Like what motherboard and all..
It is a good pc but I think mobo is limiting speed of my m.2 drive everything transfers slower than I would expect I've had faster SSD's
loved the narration on this video! content was very helpful too :)
Awesome, thank you!
Great video! Did you manage to put the side lid on the computer?
I left if off... didn't feel like working so hard to cram the cables all in.
Thanks for the video 😊
Any time!
Thanks for this video! No other video on upgrading 8930's shows the brass-tubed heatsink that you have (and I have.) I wouldn't have dared to open mine up if I hadn't seen your video. It did look like your original PSU was installed upside down so its fan was facing the inside rather than the outside where it should have been facing. Or did you just accidentally turn it around during the video-making?
I didn't turn the fan around. Reinstalled the same way it came out.
My day job is a computer tech support guy. I think you did a nice job documenting your work. I would be worried about that amount of thermal paste it could cause issues. This is more of a Goldilocks situation instead of a more is better.
Thank you, if the paste oozes past the plate what are the potential hazards? Thank you very much for chiming in :)
a mouse may crawl in there and use that hamster wheel😅
I hope not! ==
Thank you for this entertaining and educational video...well done and absolutely saved me! Just successfully swapped out with EVGA 750 PSU on my XPS 8930 SE. Pigtail to CD/DVD drive didn't work for me, but will order a cheap external drive and be done with it. Have no idea if I put on the thermal paste to spec, but cpu isn't smoking (yet). Was able to shove the panel on in the end, but not sure how long it will stay under the pressure 😁. Thanks again!
I am so glad this helped you out :) Being able to do these things without bringing your computer in to a tech center is a big bonus :)
Your gumption is commendable!
:)
Disk burners are good. One thing I learned early on is that things don't stay up on the web forever. It is unreliable as a reference source. Stuff that you like to refer back to suddenly disappears forever unless you own the original... or have made a disk copy for future reference.
I do use extensive digital storage, I burned the discs for clients. I agree, backups are important.
I've been wanting to upgrade my gpu for a while now since my GTX 1650 is starting to fall behind on performance on newer games, but I've never been able to because I've always thought the PSUs on the xps 8930 was non-replacable and I would need to get a new case and motherboard. Thanks alot Fred.
I'm so glad to help :) Thanks for taking a moment to comment :)
Good video. Answered a lot of questions.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good job and as far as the paste for cooling I agree with the other guy I’m not a computer expert but mechanical is my thing again good job
Thanks!
Thanks!
Wow, thank you very much for your kind support! :)
How did getting the case cover back on go? Just a bend in the wires? Thank you.
Yes, you have to do a lot of careful wire bending and organizing.
I'm in the middle of a very similar upgrade, what cable did you get for your Blu-ray burner as my new power supply is also missing that one
The link for that adapter cable is in the video description.
I think the old power supply was on backwards, the fan was on the wrong side
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, the screws only go in one way and on one end. But that would be Dell if it was incorrect.
Get a can of compressed air and blow that dust away, specially from the heatsink, thermal paste won't do much if heatsink can't get the airflow and extract the heat from them...
Hello my friend, I have the same computer without the RAM parts. I bought it from the scrap market for $10. It had a slight problem. It did not show the screen, it was just black. I fixed it. After that, the main lunch box burned. Now I only have 1 GB RAM.I don't have a good thermal paste for the processor I hope you can send me these parts, please, if you can, because I need them. Your friend is very poor.
me im fixing a pressure washer carburetor, and oil change,
The more you can do yourself, the better it seems to get done and at a bargain! :)
@@FrederickDunn… I work for beer and shear pleasure of self accomplishment!
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Hello my friend, I have the same computer without the RAM parts. I bought it from the scrap market for $10. It had a slight problem. It did not show the screen, it was just black. I fixed it. After that, the main lunch box burned. Now I only have 1 GB RAM.I don't have a good thermal paste for the processor I hope you can send me these parts, please, if you can, because I need them. Your friend is very poor.
I'm sorry about those challenges, I don't sell computer components and don't stock any parts. You can find good deals on used or out-dated parts on Ebay.
@@FrederickDunn OK