Question Dell XPS-8300 and a PCIe to SATA Adapter

[tcsenter]

Yeah I hope you'll be glad you did finally retire that dino.

 

[In2Photos]

Yeah I hope you'll be glad you did finally retire that dino.

I just upgraded to that a few years ago from an Athlon 3000 1.9GHz with 2GB of RAM. 🤣

 

[tcsenter]

You get all that transplanted into the ATX chassis?

 

[In2Photos]

You get all that transplanted into the ATX chassis?

Oh yeah. It's been up and running for a few weeks now. Even added a couple of SSDs I had sitting around in old laptops as cache drives. So I now have 9 drives in it. 1 parity, 5 data, 2 SSD drives in raid 1 for the app data and Dockers and 1 SSD drive as a regular cache drive for writes to the server. Been working great! My idle CPU temp is a little higher than I thought it would be with the new cooler, upper 40s. I'm not sure if that's due to bad air flow in the case and all the drives causing heat soak or what. Kind of expected low to mid-30s.

 

[tcsenter]

Sweet! That could be just lesser volume of cool air flowing through, more recycling of internal warmer air. Did the new cooler fit? Have you tested transcoding with Intel vs. P1000?

 

[In2Photos]

Sweet! That could be just lesser volume of cool air flowing through, more recycling of internal warmer air. Did the new cooler fit? Have you tested transcoding with Intel vs. P1000?

The case I'm using is definitely not good for airflow. 1 intake, 1 exhaust and the intake is mostly covered. I can drop temps about 5C by removing the side panel. 😂 I've been looking for different cases and right now the Fractal Meshify 2 is looking like a possibility.

The cooler did fit. It's about 1/4" from the side panel.

Transcoding with the 8700 so far is doing the trick. But I also picked up a couple of onn 4K streaming boxes that play most of the files natively so I don't even have to transcode to my TVs. I was trying to use the apps natively on my TV but an 8 year old Android TV is just too slow to use anymore. So just the phones get transcoding right now for some stuff. I do occasionally find a file that gives me trouble with playback. Not sure if they were bad rips or if they were damaged when I had a couple of drives fail a few years ago. I thought I recovered everything ok but maybe not. So I might need to re rip them. The upgrades are definitely noticeable though. Much better responsiveness overall.