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Originally Posted by Atmo
My air-cooled Dell XPS desktop has only one large case exhaust fan in the rear and temps under load are always in the green. Clever air ducting there. .
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My current primary computer is a Dell XPS 8300 i7-2600 and you are correct it is whisper quiet, even under load. I got a steal of a deal on it in (oh my God I just looked) 2011!
It's had 3 OS upgrades, 3 video card upgrades, and is on it's 3rd power supply (had to upgrade the PSU when I upgraded the video card the first time).
It is just starting to not be able to keep up with modern games, although I did play Just Cause 4 on it with no issues at HD. It might even be able to keep going if I could do a GPU upgrade but it has a BIOS not UEFI so no current card will work with it. I had to buy a specific card last time to get around that, not all worked at that point.
Just goes to show how processor has finally reached a point where it isn't much of a factor. It's all about the GPU.
It's definitely time to move on though. I've never gone more than 3 years with a computer before this one.