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Upgrading an old school 2007 Alienware Area 51 7500 P2 chassis

SenorPoopyPants
By SenorPoopyPants
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Love the case but it's time to upgrade the insides.

Alienware P2 Chassis: Alienware® P2 Chassis with AlienIce™ 3.0 Video Cooling - Space Black 
System Lighting: Alienware® Standard System Lighting - Fusion Red 
Power Supply: Alienware® 750 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply 
Graphics Processor: Single Graphics Processor - 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GT 
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz 4MB Cache 1333MHz FSB 
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 2 x 1024MB 
Motherboard: Alienware® Approved NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard 
System Drive: Single Drive Configuration - 250GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 16MB Cache 
Optical Drives : Single Drive Configuration - 20X Dual-Layer DVD±RW 
Enthusiast Essentials: Dual High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Ports 
Sound Card: High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio 

 

Downside: 

- There are very few cable pass throughs currently so cable management might be an issue.

-  The Power supply is at the top of the case and there is no top venting so no H100i dual fan register

- Looking at getting all new innards:

ASUS Z97 Pro Gamer motherboard

Intel i7-4790K

32 GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3 1600

Cooler Master 80+Gold Semi modular 750W Power supply

250GB SSD + WD Green 3TB

 

I am stuck on the CPU cooler. I watched Linus' fan testing so gave up on the Corsair H80i.

I don't think there is any room for H100i dual fan register.

 

Can anyone recommend a good air cooler. We have never overclocked but would like to give it a try if we could get cooling sorted out.

Thanks for any tips or suggestions.

| CPU Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5GHz Yorkfield     | Motherboard: Dell 0M017G LGA775 45nm P45/P43 333MHz bus / 1333 FSB 
| GPU: EVGA GTX950 SOC 2GB                   | RAM: 8GB DDR2 400MHz 6 6 6 18  1.8V     | PSU: Seasonic 400W  
| Display: Dell ST2410 1920 x 1080  +  DELL 1905FP 1280 x 1024  +  Samsung 42" 720P                          
| Storage:  SSD 256MB  +  WD Black 1TB  +  WD Green 3TB 

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The dark rock pro 3 from be quite! is pretty nice. 

3 tips to have a good time on the LTT forums | 1. When you reply to someone please quote them | 2. Please follow your threads | 3. Follow the C.o.C 

If you follow these 3 tips you should have a blast.

i'm rather proud of this for some reason. http://imgur.com/6ttS5XZ

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The dark rock pro 3 from be quite! is pretty nice. 

Apart from the mounting, right?

Sig under construction.

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Cooler master geminII s524 ver 2?

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Apart from the mounting, right?

yeah. took Linus like a hour to install. 

3 tips to have a good time on the LTT forums | 1. When you reply to someone please quote them | 2. Please follow your threads | 3. Follow the C.o.C 

If you follow these 3 tips you should have a blast.

i'm rather proud of this for some reason. http://imgur.com/6ttS5XZ

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