Hi there all!
A while back on here I found a post about modding a DELL INSPIRON 9400 / E1705, I purchased one with an ATI x1400, and seperately purchased a GEFORCE 7900 GS GO DUAL Heat Sink card.
(2 GHZ T7200), 2 GB RAM.
I installed the card myself, (had to send it back to DELL due to one GPU screw refusing to come out), and didn't even play the one game I bought the system for, due to life circumstance. (how things go sometimes).
Since then I've noticed, the system runs hot, I have l8kfangui, fans turn on often, I do use the Island Breeze Arctic (I think it's called) cooler that you prop it up on in back, and it blows underneath (2 BLUE LED fans that blow air underneath).
I will still be at temps of 70+ degrees (just now checking, no gaming, the peak overnight is 78 with cooler off, on CPU, 57 GPU), not sure what overheats first but playing some games such as Mass Effect, I will get visual artifiacts, and as it heats up more, crashing of the system, (moreso in that one demon slaying RPG game where you have long hair and look sort of like a warlock, oh yeah, "Witcher" .
I have read other people getting WAY better temps. I have blown out the fans with compressed air.
What else can I do? Add thermal paste? Could my heat sinks be installed improperly? I chipped out the "extra" material that was in this one, and had to open it up again to make it fit nice. The underside gets HOT. Playing those games I need FULL fans on externally and internally.. And even then it's not enough sometimes....








