REMOVING COVER OF DELL OPTIPLEX 210L INSTALL
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REMOVING COVER OF DELL OPTIPLEX 210L FULL
REMOVING COVER OF DELL OPTIPLEX 210L PC

REMOVING COVER OF DELL OPTIPLEX 210L FULL

(I was greedy and I wanted all of the ports available on the full length version.) If you don't want this challenge/hassle, use the ( mini ITX) version of this card. Be very careful when installing this card. It will cover ALL four of the SATA connectors! It just comes shy of the USB 3.0 header connector. Installing this RX570 is a challenge, because the card is so long. As an added step, you could drop two very small drops of super-glue on the clamp portion, as long as you've decided that this solution is permanent and you won't want to change out the ribbon cable for a shorter length in the future (which is after all a nice feature of this excellent PCIe 1x extension cable). Once inserted, and clamped, the ribbon is flexible enough, and low enough, that the graphics card will no longer have leverage upon the connector/clamp. I very carefully sanded, with sand paper, the pvc covering from the side of the rigid portion of the connector to expose the metal. I cut the exposed, tinned part of the ribbon cable, reducing the very rigid portion so that it fit entirely into the connector/clamp. I solved this problem by using sharp, strong scissors to trim away about 1/4' of the rigid portion of the ribbon cable at the PCIe 1x slot end.

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IF you use it as delivered, unmodified, it is very likely that when you install the RX570, it will press down on the ribbon cable/connector enough to pop open the connector clamp which is sitting in the PCIe 1x slot, thus releasing the ribbon cable. That being said, even this PCIe extension cable is barely going to fit. Don't choose any other, as all other alternatives are too TALL to fit underneath the graphics card. The PCIe extension cable IS THE BEST out there. NOTE! THIS WILL BE VERY FRUSTRATING with regards to the covered PCIe 1x slot. Now to install the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX570! I mounted it upside down so that the PCIe extender cable does not have to twist or flip in order for the connector at the WiFi card-end to be in the correct orientation. As is seen from the exterior photos, the card is between the power supply and the rear fan. I found that if I used the rubber washer alone, the antenna fully engaged and was too loose not holding the card snuggly against the case, hence I added the steel washer. The antenna themselves are enough to hold the card tight, however, in order to ensure that the antenna fully engages, the rubber washer is necessary because it is compressible. Nothing is holding the wifi card on the interior of the case. I used a steel washer, 1/4' ID, and then a rubber washer, also 1/4' ID. I also drilled a whole for the LED indicator to show through. Then drilled starting with the smallest bit and increasing to the final size. I chose to mount the Fenvi WiFi+BT card next to the rear fan, by drilling 3/8' holes in the case.ДЇirst, I removed the full-height backplane. ( Micro SATA Cables AWM 20624 Ribbon Flex Cable 0.50mm Pitch 36 Pin ZIF 30 cm Reverse). HOWEVER, I needed still a LONGER length than that which was provided, so I ordered the longest cable I could find, which as it happens was JUST barely long enough, at 30cm. That extension cable comes with two lengths of ribbon cable, and has really nice latching connectors on both ends, making it easy to swap out to which ever length you need. I found many others suggesting working solution for utilizing the 1x slot under the graphics card by using a ( PCIe 1x extension cable). I chose to put the Firewire card in that slot. As mentioned, the RX570 covers the 1x slot, leaving only the 4x slot, nearest the edge of the motherboard, free. I have a ( Fenvi FV-T919 Wireless AC1300 Dual Band PCI Express Wi-Fi Adapter), and a ( Syba SD-PEX30009 Low Profile Firewire 800/400 PCIe)card that I wanted to keep. I wanted to preserve all slots, and yet also not block too much of the airflow for the RX570 ( Sapphire Pulse Radeon 570 4GB), so I chose not to put any cards into the PCI slot.

REMOVING COVER OF DELL OPTIPLEX 210L PC

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This is a quick physical build modification to a Dell Optiplex 9010 MT to allow installing full size RX570 and still use the PCIe 1x slot that is covered by the double-slot width of the RX570, and in my case, custom install a Fenvi FT-T919 PCIe card by mounting next to the rear fan. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide

Removing cover of dell optiplex 210l