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[pashalis777]

I just bought this. Would one of these work instead of the one you attached?

 

[lexluthermiester]

I just bought this.

Perfect!

Would one of these work instead of the one you attached?

One of the following would be better because of the power connector;

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The one below is the best of them;

Arctic P8 PWM PST Case Fan 80mm με Σύνδεση 4-Pin / 4-Pin Molex

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[Susquehannock]

Here is how to attach the fan. Slip one zip tie through fan mount hole, then between the fins. Use a second zip tie, as shown in green, to draw it tight. Cut off loose ends. Do that two more times are you're done. Looks better and holds more securely than wrapping them around.

 

[pashalis777]

@lexluthermiester

I bought this (I'm sorry, I simply had no choice) and the best fan you suggested. GPU and RAM next.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I bought this (I'm sorry, I simply had no choice)

No need to say sorry. That's actually a good deal!

Here is how to attach the fan. Slip one zip tie through fan mount hole, then between the fins. Use a second zip tie, as shown in green, to draw it tight. Cut off loose ends. Do that two more times are you're done. Looks better and holds more securely than wrapping them around.

This! Though use some snippers or scissors on the extra plastic leads.

Edit;
I used metal tape at one point;

But I since changed it and have done a bit of ghetto-modding for my T3500;



I'm using the same heatsink referenced earlier, just with a custom made shroud and a ThermalTake 120mm fan to keep the cooling extra solid.

See edit..

 

[pashalis777]

Hello! Would an RTX 2080 with three fans at 286mm fit in my case? Some T5500 videos show a 266mm (two fans) fit barely.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hello! Would an RTX 2080 with three fans at 286mm fit in my case? Some T5500 videos show a 266mm (two fans) fit barely.

Keep in mind, you might have to remove some of the plastic shrouding from inside the chassis, but it should fit. However, my EVGA 2080 was a Black Edition and was of the two fan variety. So there was plenty of room for it.

 

[Susquehannock]

Hello! Would an RTX 2080 with three fans at 286mm fit in my case? Some T5500 videos show a 266mm (two fans) fit barely.

You should be fine. MSI RX 480 in mine is about 276mm. And triple fan cards installed in some, like the ASUS strix, are 300mm long. Likely need to remove the small square piece of the swing out panel and eliminate one hard drive mount. Personally, I remove that panel completely and move all the drives up top. Any panel ducting affect is largely negated by the aftermarket CPU fan we have afixed to the sink.

One thing to consider is card width and air movement. These cases were made for much smaller Quadro cards. Large non-blower type gaming cards dump heat into the case and can create a wide side to side barrier between top and bottom - a dead flow area near top except for the PSU. Especially if two bottom 80mm case fans are used making air flow just from front fans out the lower back.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Likely need to remove the small square piece of the swing out panel and eliminate one hard drive mount.

I removed that as a rule. The expansion bays have enough room for drives.

 

[pashalis777]

Hi fellas, one problem here.

Just replaced my rams with the new ones. From (4x2) 8 to (6x4) 24. System does not find a boot device/hard drive, on PCI slot 1. Can not boot. Probably because I removed the cable from the bootable SSD to install the rams.
Some research says I may destroyed my SSD (his health was at 43% last night).
Any ideas?
I suspect if I put the old rams back, the problem will persist.

I did the full diagnostic test, too, which lasted for hours. New rams passed it, they even show as 24gb of six slots on bios setup, though I could not find my hard drives there! No SSD neither my two HDDs.

Thank you!

edit: 'error initializing pci express slot 1' 'not boot device found' are the exact quotes

SOLVED UPDATE: There is a card which is in PCI slot 1, I don't know its purpose but it connects with the SSD, the hdds and the CD ROM(which I thought was not connected, but it is, and I am curious if that cable is working, to connect a hard drive in the future). It has a black and white connection next to each other. Its cable goes to the drives I mentioned. It was connected to the white one, where there was this error I made this post about. Now I connected it to the black one and the system booted, with the hard drives showing and all. I hope the difference of the colors does not mean anything significant for my solution and the pc will continue working as good as before.

 

[pashalis777]

Hi, could I add a sound and a USB 3 cards on my motherboard? I don't think I have these slots this guy is talking about. Could you please help me out?

Would these work?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hi, could I add a sound and a USB 3 cards on my motherboard? I don't think I have these slots this guy is talking about. Could you please help me out?

Would these work?

To answer that, please take a photo of the motherboard inside of your case and attach it here.

 

[pashalis777]

To answer that, please take a photo of the motherboard inside of your case and attach it here.

It is that one, if it's no bother. Thanks.

edit: picture

 

[lexluthermiester]

It is that one, if it's no bother. Thanks.

edit: picture

Was hoping for a photo of what GPU you're using. However, let's presume you're using a 2 slot card.

This is how you set them up. You could easily switch the PCIe USB & Sound cards places if you wish, but this is the general card placement you want to follow. The blue slot is for a GPU. As you have a standard PCI slot you could buy and use a SB Xfi or Audigy 2 as long as you use DanielK's Driver set.

 

[pashalis777]

Was hoping for a photo of what GPU you're using. However, let's presume you're using a 2 slot card.
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This is how you set them up. You could easily switch the PCIe USB & Sound cards places if you wish, but this is the general card placement you want to follow. The blue slot is for a GPU. As you have a standard PCI slot you could buy and use a SB Xfi or Audigy 2 as long as you use DanielK's Driver set.

In the USB slot, there is presumably a RAID card, where my hard drives are connected (I mentioned it a couple of days ago). I am looking into putting a new GPU, which should take the two slots you mentioned. I apologize, I don't understand what you said about the DanielK's Driver Set. What about the connectivity of the sound/usb cards? The motherboard has different slots than what these cards I linked above can connect to, right? For your consideration, I want a sound card with an optical output, and usb 3 card that has reasonable price. I found one that could presumably fit, but is pricey.

Edit: My PSU has a double 6 pin connectors. Could I buy a double 6 pin to 8 pin adapters, to power my new rtx 3080 Gigabyte Turbo 10 GB, as it requires two 8 pin cables? Is it ideal, or I should look into new cables or new PSU?

Thank you!

 

[elfoam]

Hey how are you guys, I haven't checked in for a couple of years and randomly remembered this forum. I'm still running my T5810 as my daily machine. My T7500s and T5500s are retired. Well.. one T5500 is still being used. Next time I buy a workstation it'll be a Lenovo P900 but that's a way off yet as they are pretty rare to find for sale.

 

[imrazor]

I had a question that will have many possible answers, but I’m still interested in everybody’s opinion. Question being, what would the best all around GPU to put in a Tx500? Granted there are many possible CPUs one could put in a Tx500, but since almost all are cheap nowadays let’s suppose we have an upper tier CPU (or two) like an X5670.

Any thoughts? Sorry if this has been answered before, but this is a really really long thread. I’m also interested in hearing people’s real world experiences with various video cards.

I currently have a 1050 Ti in my dual X5687 T5500, though I haven’t benchmarked it thoroughly. I did do more extensive testing with a Vega 56, and performance seemed to lag about 10% - 15% behind a Vega equipped modern system. But that was mostly in synthetic benchmarks. I did experience some serious glitching in one modern game (either Cyberpunk or Red Dead 2 IIRC.)

 

[lexluthermiester]

X5670

Got with an X5680 or W3680. They're cheap and worth it.

what would the best all around GPU to put in a Tx500?

I had an RTX 2080 in my T3500 paired with my W3680. Depending on the game, there was some CPU bottlenecking going on, but not to any severe degree. However, best value would be a GTX 1070/1080. Solid level of performance for a price that is currently very reasonable.

I currently have a 1050 Ti in my dual X5687 T5500, though I haven’t benchmarked it thoroughly. I did do more extensive testing with a Vega 56, and performance seemed to lag about 10% - 15% behind a Vega equipped modern system. But that was mostly in synthetic benchmarks.

The above mentioned X5680 would be excellent in a pair for that system. Combined with a GTX1080 and you have a solid gaming system.

I did experience some serious glitching in one modern game (either Cyberpunk

Current version of CP2077 should be glitch/bug free on an X5680 based system.

 

[uco73]

I have GTX 1080 Ti paired with one xeon E5-2690. Maybe CPU is bottleneck but every game on max details running with 150+FPS.

I had an RTX 2080 in my T3500 paired with my W3680

W3680 is still a monster CPU.

 

[frigider]

hi guys, small issue here:

T7801 has 2 x 6 pin for GPU power.

GTX 1070 has 8 pin power IN.
It needs 150w.
so PCI-E gives it 75w so i can use 1 x 6 pin cable to convert to 8 pin for 75 extra w.
So all is well, using this:

BUT what if i put in a GPU with 1 x 6 + 1 x 8 power requirement?
will it not kill the 1 x 6 wire used to power both 6 and 8 pin power inputs?
^this is a theoretical issue, have not reached it yet.
nor do i know if i will reach it.

 

[lexluthermiester]

BUT what if i put in a GPU with 1 x 6 + 1 x 8 power requirement?
will it not kill the 1 x 6 wire used to power both 6 and 8 pin power inputs?
^this is a theoretical issue, have not reached it yet.
nor do i know if i will reach it.

Depends on the wiring. Better quality copper wiring will be fine. Cheaper steel wiring will not work well. Can you tell what you have in your adapter?

 

[Shrek]

Steel wiring?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Steel wiring?

Yup. A lot of PSU's and adapter cable makers use it. Dell doesn't use steel wiring in their PSUs, but that adapter @frigider bought might.

It's a PITB to do soldering work with. If you can avoid it, do!

 

[Shrek]

I know about aluminum wiring but didn't know about steel.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I know about aluminum wiring but didn't know about steel.

Yup, it's a thing.