Dell Optiplex GX620 SFF - a heat dispersement fix

[flipicaneze]

I have purchased 5 SFF GX620 Optiplex computers. I don't even have a floppy in there, just the cover. Wonder how a 3.5 to 2.5 drive adapter would work instead of all this work?

[Scorpwanna]

I like the idea of the fix, however I just don't like that the drive isn't screwed in a bracket. I thought about an idea if I could find some metal that would be easy to work with, shaping it to fit the floppy holder itself (not the drive) and then manipulating some of it to actually screw in a 2.5" hard drive. Then perhaps finding a floppy filler panel.

[heiseheise]

@Scorpwanna I had the same fear; but it's held in quite tightly by the optical drive above it. The fix has been in place for almost 9 months now and we haven't had any issues. With an SSD it would fully alleviate any vibration issues.

[DALE97DSM]

Has anyobody tried this mod? Its 2012 video is few months old and planning to buy one of these. Are these good for gaming like Diablo3 or MW3.

[heiseheise]

@DALE97DSM As I'm the one who came up with this mod, I can tell you that it works well with these systems. We've had no burnouts since modding the systems 7 months ago (a first for our GX620s, which normally fried either a PSU or a mobo every 3-4 months).

Good for games like Modern Warfare 3 and Diablo 3 (which hasn't even been released yet)? No, you're better off buying a new(er) system. A GX620 never was built for gaming, and especially not new major studio games like that.

[DALE97DSM]

@heiseheise Thankyou for the reply, appreciate it. I do plan on buying a GX620 and doing this mod in your video, this newer computer would work great for my needs. I dont play pc games, was just asking about it. Was reading up on the specs other night, the gx620 would be great for a recording guitar or music.

[TheCatMilton]

You can turn the front fan around and the system stays alot cooler.

[Pawnoskriptanje]

Maybie is litle of the heat that burn out from the hd!

[carifyme]

hey, at 0:30 bottom right that black thingy, is it a plug or something you can add?

[heiseheise]

@carifyme - I believe it's a diagnostic plugin; not something that anyone outside of the Dell factories have anything that fits into. Kind of like a lot of modern cars have things like these inside of them that aren't for regular consumers, or even regular technicians like me, to use.

[carifyme]

@heiseheise ohhh i thought it was like for a media card reader or something , my dell has that too

[TheCatMilton]

@carifyme Its a serial port... You can get cords that connetct to it and give you one extra serial port

[heiseheise]

@TheCatMilton yes, you're correct. I hadn't read the text on that; it says "SER2" underneath it. There is also a white port that says INT_SPKR which is self explanatory if you need to add a new piezo-electric buzzer (I don't believe it will work with an actual "speaker").

[TheCatMilton]

@heiseheise Mine has a small internal speaker and it sounds like crap...You could probably attach a speaker to that clip if you figured out the polarity. In my gx620 I turned the front fan around so it blows out the front and i use speedfan to keep the fan at 65%. Everything at full power is around 47-52C so that worked for me (I have a huge ass Nvidia in there that gets a little warm though)

[Knuckles1111111111]

Disconnect the Blue Wire Going the Fan.

[IntraxProductions]

I Dont have an floppy! Where to get one that fits?

[dautubeadmin]

thanks bro i thought of that tooo but i dont have a floppy so i am going to use a 3.5 media card reader shell. I hope it works. Already lost 1 mainboard. If u have a board that can be send to me let me kno!

[heiseheise]

@dautubeadmin - we had quite a few of these systems, so we didn't have any problems contacting Dell directly, emailing them a list of 50 service tags, and we were sent the motherboards at no charge - even though they've been out of warranty for years. They didn't even want the old ones back. It's worth a try.