Help me !!! Need part # for my 1330...

Hey,
Bought my 1330 in april, and used ik8 fan to tell the temps until august (when i went to x64). The max heat he processor ever hit was 180 f and the gpu peaked at 190 f. After some mods (I opened the case and put a ton of artic silver on the chips and the heatsink , and cut larger holes underneath the fan) the tempertures peaked at 140f and 170f. I even got the cpu down to 80f and gpu to 115f once! However, I was watching a video on my tv the other day (via) hdmi, and sudenly the ****ed thing shut down and the screen went nuts. So obviously i let it sit and unplugged everything for a little. When i booted I was so happy to see that vertical lines growing in shape and color had replaced my LEDs otherwise great picture. So obviously this sucks.
Already spoke to dell and they sent me a box, so its all ready to ship. Tok out my hard drive and turbo memory and wiped off all the thermal paste including the original crap. Cleaned up the external appearnce and all so it looks almost like new. However, those cuts i made under the fan. They are noticiable. After running tests, it appears that the fan stopped running (unless that is the after effect of the gpu failure) and now I dont feel like getting blamed for the breakage.

TL;DR
I need a new cover for the cpu,gpu, heatsink, fan area. Help me find one (bonus points if i can do rush order !)
or
Should i send it in as is ?

 

Do you have accidental warranty? If so, don't sweat it. Even if you don't, I think you should probably be okay. Once repaired, check out my copper mod (links in sig)

 

okay thanks. However, let me reitterate that the fan is fully visible as the holes are not simply small...pretty much a 1"x1" gash.

 

Talk to Dell Parts. They should be able to ship you the cover, you just need to figure out what the part number is...

 

IF you have the accidental damage on it you can step on it and throw it in a lake and they will take it

otherwise hhmmmmm


Try finding a piece on ebay??? or maybe even from dell