Hello. I recently bought a used Dell Precision T7600 on ebay that's running two Xeon E5-2660v1 CPUs. It was bought as is and warranty from Dell is expired, but it was really cheap and it's not running anything mission critical - it's my home photo and video editing PC. I had some parts left over from server upgrades at the office - so I decided to recycle some parts and build a frankstein PC for minimal cost, using parts that came with the workstation as much as possible.
I noticed that pictures of the internals of the T7600 online show two memory cover shrouds (Dell HN-621), which my workstation is missing. I was wondering if this would cause significant airflow/heating problems or if it really doesn't matter or if it depends on usage. It would stay on almost all the time, sharing out the photo folder to the home network. I do run online and local backup. I know I said it's not running anything mission critical, but I would like it not to fail anytime soon if possible. Any hints from the experts here would be appreciated.
In case I didn't provide enough information, here are some more specs:
16 GB 12800 RAM 4x4GB sticks
Nvidia Quadro 600
Perc H310 RAID Controller
4x Samsung 840 Pro 256GB in RAID5
4x Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 1TB in RAID5
It's got a 5.25 DVDRW drive
OS is Windows 10 Pro
OS: Windows 10 Pro
I noticed that pictures of the internals of the T7600 online show two memory cover shrouds (Dell HN-621), which my workstation is missing. I was wondering if this would cause significant airflow/heating problems or if it really doesn't matter or if it depends on usage. It would stay on almost all the time, sharing out the photo folder to the home network. I do run online and local backup. I know I said it's not running anything mission critical, but I would like it not to fail anytime soon if possible. Any hints from the experts here would be appreciated.
In case I didn't provide enough information, here are some more specs:
16 GB 12800 RAM 4x4GB sticks
Nvidia Quadro 600
Perc H310 RAID Controller
4x Samsung 840 Pro 256GB in RAID5
4x Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 1TB in RAID5
It's got a 5.25 DVDRW drive
OS is Windows 10 Pro
OS: Windows 10 Pro