So an update on shipments of parts today. Nothing new to report on the Mushkin ram, just says that it left LAX @ 7:02 yesterday, kinda disappointing but to be expected considering I went with the cheapest Purolator shipping. Will probably be here middle of next week (or sooner if I get lucky). Power supply should also be here any day, then I can start putting some of the hardware into the Reiter rig. By the way, from now on I will be referring to computer cases as rigs simply because I can get carried away where I use case when I am referring to a situation rather than a computer case, so it will cut down on a bit of confusion.
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Got a new 140mm Xigmatek XAF fan in black. They're decent fans, kinda make a bit of noise if you don't put them in carefully. It could possibly be the technology specific to the XAF fans (uses a "Copper Bushing Axis Bearing") that may be causing slight tilting during the spin that may be the cause of the vibration, or it could be that the 90 CFM (amount of air flow) may be causing the fans to warp causing a slight vibration (only really seems to be happening to the one that had a slight defect which may be the culprit). In terms of overall noise when it's not vibrating, you're mostly hearing just the sound of a fast large volume of air with a tiny whine from the motor (which is fine in my opinion). Really any fan under 24dB isn't going to be a huge burden on gaming experience unless you want an absolutely quiet system (in which case you're most likely going to be looking at pricey liquid cooling instead of air cooling). Unfortunately I didn't get around to taking any pictures of the install because I completely spaced out and got 2 hours of sleep since last night so everything is a bit overwhelming right now. Anyway, got a nice optimal airflow path going now in my rig with excellent CFM fans installed that should be fairly reliable (unless that one fan decides to have a catastrophic failure due to the slight defect). I used to be all about Silenx fans, but recently some of them have been giving me a bit of grief (one of them has literally locked up and overheated to the point where it was actually transferring some of the motor heat to the heat-sink, opposite of what it should do), and the old Xigmatek fans were in the system prior to the Silenx fans and they're still running strong (but are covered in dust right now), however they have been removed from the rig and replaced with XAFs (with the exception of the side panel fan which is a CLF 120mm Blue LED fan).
When looking at fans, there's several things to consider, LED vs non-LED, CFM per dB (can become a fair bit important if you want maximum cooling with the most minimal dB), price, CFM vs static pressure (or sometimes labeled as air pressure), and size of the fan.
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