Does anyone know if there are aftermarket fans (mainly the GPU fan) for the Dell XPS m1710?
I originally bought my XPS with the 7900 GTX but after having memory parity errors constantly happen after a year of ownership, Dell Support replaced my memory 4-5 times (errors in memtest86 on all new replacement ram. After finally getting a good set of refurbished ram, the problems continued to happen. So after another call with tech support, they decided to replace my motherboard. The motherboard was replaced and the problems still continued to happen. Eventually I realised it was the video card so we got that replaced (Luckily they upgraded me to 7950 GTX) and the problems went away.
Ok, so now 3-4 years of ownership and the problem occassionally happens when I play intensive games again... My 3 year warrenty has ended so I don't exactly want to buy another video card. I have the Notepal laptop cooler with aftermarket higher CFM fans then what came with the unit and if I turn that on when playing games it doesn't happen but sometimes I forget and parity error.
I realize the GPU fan hardly blows any air at all compared to the CPU one. So I was wondering if we can install higher aftermarket fans. I've already opened the laptop up to swap the CPU to a better one and cleaned out all the dust in the process with can of air so that is not it. This was a year ago so I just sprayed can of air through al lthe ports to clean it up.
Anyway, I don't remember how the fans are configured and was wondering if anyone knew if those fans could be changed and what size. Has anyone does this before? Thanks.
thewird
I originally bought my XPS with the 7900 GTX but after having memory parity errors constantly happen after a year of ownership, Dell Support replaced my memory 4-5 times (errors in memtest86 on all new replacement ram. After finally getting a good set of refurbished ram, the problems continued to happen. So after another call with tech support, they decided to replace my motherboard. The motherboard was replaced and the problems still continued to happen. Eventually I realised it was the video card so we got that replaced (Luckily they upgraded me to 7950 GTX) and the problems went away.
Ok, so now 3-4 years of ownership and the problem occassionally happens when I play intensive games again... My 3 year warrenty has ended so I don't exactly want to buy another video card. I have the Notepal laptop cooler with aftermarket higher CFM fans then what came with the unit and if I turn that on when playing games it doesn't happen but sometimes I forget and parity error.
I realize the GPU fan hardly blows any air at all compared to the CPU one. So I was wondering if we can install higher aftermarket fans. I've already opened the laptop up to swap the CPU to a better one and cleaned out all the dust in the process with can of air so that is not it. This was a year ago so I just sprayed can of air through al lthe ports to clean it up.
Anyway, I don't remember how the fans are configured and was wondering if anyone knew if those fans could be changed and what size. Has anyone does this before? Thanks.
thewird
