Upgrading my Dell XPS 730X

[Jim Kallinen]

Decided it was time to make some changes and upgrade my computer. First was memory. Had 6gb installed on 3 sticks and went to Crucial. com

and used their computer configure tester and they showed me that I could upgrade to 12gb with 3/4gb Ballistix 1600 DDR3 chips. Have them wrapped

and sitting under the tree. Then I decided it was time to upgrade the GPU to, Had a BFG GTX 280 installed and just purchased http://www.nothingbu...=164817&ai=1550 this morning, Should be here next week in time to put it all together.

X-Plane should work even better now, not that i had any problems.

Edited December 23, 2011 by Jim Kallinen

[Jim Kallinen]

Fed Ex arrived at 9am with my Zotac GTX 580 AMP2 3gb. So shut my computer and got it ready

for the big upgrade. Everything went smooth until getting it all back together and firing it

up for the first time. God aweful noise from the new Zotac. Fan blade hitting on the outer

cage that protects the blades. Shut it down, pull it out. Take apart the out shroud and discover

one of the plastic fan hold downs into the Zahlman fins was loose, there fore letting it pull

up into the cover. Warmed up my hot melt glue gun and pulled it apart a bit and dropped a bead

into gap that was suppose to hold it down and then pressed it all back together. Problem solved.

Put it all back together and spun the fans first to make sure. No noise. Now its running like

a champ and quieter then my BFG GTX 280.

Slideshow of the upgrade