Dell XPS 8960 Experience

[@52Drew]

Great looking desktop computer. Cheers for the video. Very informative and well presented.

[@rangerrickles]

I've been researching this new desktop from Dell, and about to order. Your video was very helpful covering the fan noise, as this is important to me. Not a gamer, but use cad/visualization apps which utilize the gpu and cpu heavily for rendering. Great information, thanks!

[@ibobeko4309]

I would not buy anything like that, you cant replace the motherboard and power supply with a normal one. And the case airflow is a joke.

[@BsianTech]

Glad the video was helpful and hopefully very practical @rangerrickles. It has been a while since I have looked at a tower desktop as most computers these days has been Mini desktops pc or laptops/tablets. OEM desktops do get a lot of hate for the proprietary parts they use like motherboard and power supplies. Dell isn't the only OEM that does this, in truth I understand sometimes why OEM design their own boards which should work with their cases as a whole system there has been a number of times where some parts (eg. daughter boards needed for parts to work). I do wish for the power supply to be universal standard rather than the proprietary PSU so other components can be upgraded like graphics card or PCIe/SATA devices in the system. My advice is look at your own lifestyle and computer habits, do you in the past have just brought a computer and just used it till it no longer works or too slow for your task and buy a whole new pc or do you upgrade things in parts slowing in time. Only you can really answer this, for me who deals a lot of commercial/enterprise computer purchases and a lot of business run like this, they just buy once and never upgrade any components till warranty finishes and goes to second hand market or eWaste program. The XPS desktop range is marketed to both consumer and commercial market.

[@rayvanacore4889]

I bought it when it first came out had all kinds of problems. New MB, new pcu, new power supply, but after all that it's a great PC. I'm waiting for the newest one coming out in Nov, or Dec.

[@SFBenjaminK]

I bought this 2023 XPS 8960 DESKTOP ...But upgraded few tings, 32 to 64G/1TB to 2TB/ 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900K processor (24-Core, 32MB Cache, 3.0 GHz to 5.4GHz/NVIDIA(R) GeForce RTX(TM) 4070 Ti 12GB GDDR6X paid little over 3 grand for it , THE FIRST one i got was defected some of the hard drive or was graphic card don't know which didn't work right , i couldn't even put the PC to sleep after i work on it or almost 30 days even throw DELL they don't know shyt about technical support they are just bunch a call center, read from transcript in front of them for trouble shoot no wonder all 1 star reviews all over the internet about DELL DUH.. in the end send it the back, the second one i got works GREAT no issues

[@BTC909]

That is the Advanced CPU Air Cooling. The liquid cooling option has a noisy pump.

[@headcas620]

Screw dell for using a proprietary motherboard in order to not have to use a daughter board for the front IO. The front IO could easily get damaged and then you need a whole motherboard instead of a $20 part.

[@Yandarval]

Plus power supplies and none standard cabling and ports. PSU dies. Gotta go back to Dell. Off the shelf will not work.

[@Davidorino]

Yeah, I needed to buy a PSU adapter when I bought a new PSU when I wanted to put a GPU in a Dell Inspiron, which didn't have a GPU (of course, its original PSU had no PCI power)....

[@BsianTech]

Dell isn't the only OEM who uses proprietary parts. I have to agree with you all I'm not a fan of the proprietary PSU, motherboard I can deal with and also understand OEM doing their own boards since they also make their own cases but the PSU is one headache I with OEM just use standard universal PSU so we can replace and upgrade.

[@RedStarSQD]

With only 2 memory banks, i don't see dual channel being supported. I see no heat spreaders on ram and ram is populated single side. I can't determine if it is single or dual rank memory. At 4800 MT/s, i9 performance is greatly impacted. Not sure why Dell offers that option for i9 in this setup. But proprietary psu is a deal breaker. It looks to be half height of a regular one ...is it? Limited cabling options. Interesting video. ty

[@dualillusions156]

Does the desktop include 8 Pins or 6 Pins for the GPU? And where can I find adapters for them?

[@silenttob497]

Hi, one question about the two 3.5 hdd caddies. Were them in the box or rather installed or have you order and buy them extra? Hoping for an answer!

[@pranjalgupta5785]

How do I setup a dual montior set up on XPS 8960? Would buying HDMI adaptor or DP to HDMI cable help?

[@user-ix3yh8yt7r]

Do you need to remove the stability slot or can you leave it on?

[@BsianTech]

It can be removed the stability slot

[@garfieldthomas8118]

​​@@BsianTech At 5:45, I'm assuming the holes on the inside of the metal case at the front allow for breathing through the plastic side exterior. Do you remember if that was possible?

[@Somatom_Man]

Are both M.2 slots gen 4

[@BsianTech]

Both M.2 slots are PCIe Gen 4 @Retired_Medic

[@pauldeutsch2044]

I have the 8950 and now the 8960. The newer model is junk compared to the 8950. Side panel hard to remove and put back. Front ports are difficult to use, too tight. Have to force a thumb drive in to connect it. I'm getting ready to notify Dell that the machine is unacceptable and that I want to return it for a refund.

[@BaluSrinivasan]

I am disappointed that you have not provided links for the benchmarking SW that you are using. Also, it would have been immensely worth mentioning that you cannot put even a single PCIE Cards like Video Capture cards, as these slots are underneath the Graphics Card. Stupid design. Except for such small shortcomings, a good useful video.

[@w06]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@BsianTech]

Thanks @w06

[@Aman1984]

Please don't lie. I changed 3 Dell Xps 8950 and 8960. Liquid cooling + 750 watt psu = loud humming noise. Only the models with 460 watt psu and aircooling are moderately quiter.

[@albertwesker4266]

Never prebuilt dell... it has cut off preformance by dell... bios is bad...overall better to build yourself a pc or buy legion tower

[@LordMitac]

[@BsianTech]

LOL @LordMitac, I don't know how to interpret your emoji forgive me for being old from the previous millennium.

[@lukebornemann9556]

1:39 ports. That is a small amount of ports for a +2000 computer. How come non OEM motherboard have more ports ??? Once again Dell cant make a PC worth buying over custom built. Not to mention that crap motherboard layout. Cheep cooler on a CPU that's $500. Which should be water cooled. Cheep everything looks cheep like a typical Dell computer. Probably has a bunch of stupid software that slows the machine down. Not to mention the worst Anti-virus in the world included with the PC McAfee.