Got two of those fans from Platinum Micro on eBay. Faster shipping them Amazon.

I’d still be waiting if I bought fans on Amazon.

I’m in no shape to fix computers, I’m dripping sweat. You have to pull the front off, either unplug the stuff for the front, or set it off to the side, I set it to the side still attached by wires. You then have to remove both side panels, to get to the fan controller plug, it’s on the other side, not the same side as the fans.

The fans work. Not sure they are blowing the right way. I can feel some air where they are, I wanted them blowing in, I might of failed. Lots of dust in it, you won’t get it all with a can of air, it’s coated on. But, I did get the dust bunnies out. Or most of them.

The easiest way to get all the dust out, is a new case. Or remove everything and hose the case down, and wait days or weeks for it to dry.

They aren’t quiet. Not sure if they are supposed to be. Don’t hear any rattling. The other fans didn’t always make a rattling noise. The fans it replaced were cheaper. Probably louder too. I don’t care about loud fans, so loud or not doesn’t matter to me. I don’t like hearing rattling though. Probably means the fan needs to be replaced, if it’s rattling.

It was a pain to plug everything back into it too. I guessed right on where to plug the soundbase into. I can’t read the small print on it. Maybe with a fleshlight flashlight.

I have a different NVMe SSD I can put in my laptop, to replace the SATA M.2 SSD it came with. I have an old Intel one. I should probably buy a new NVMe SSD for my desktop, the Crucial P1 kind of sucks. I might way to do that, until tomorrow. Don’t feel like getting all sweaty again. And I have to back it up, so I can restore it to the other SSD.

And some claim dust will heat your computer up. The CPU got up to 72C when running Geekbench. Either the same or more then before I did anything. That’s on the performance CPU governor. Don’t think games make it that hot.

The NVMe SSD goes under the GPU, will a NVMe SSD with a heatsink on it fit? I’ll probably buy a SSD without a heatsink, and buy a heatsink separately. And it probably won’t be a Samhung SSD either. If it came with a heatsink maybe.

The fans might actually be louder then the old ones. They might not be facing the same way. Probably are, and you can barely feel any air, that means it’s probably sucking air in, like I wanted.

Making a custom Manjaro ISO, didn’t look like Timeshift was installed. In the Packages-Desktop file, it had >extra in front of Timeshift, I removed “>extra”, don’t know what that means, Manjaro’s Wiki is useless, it doesn’t say what that means. Said there’s a conflict, oh well. Probably put something in it, that is a conflict.

That dump hurt too. At least a bunch came out.

Deleted the ISO Profiles, and redownloaded them, to get rid of any old modifications. Going to put the newer NVMe SSD in the first slot, and the old budget Intel in the second slot. I’m guessing the new one is faster, but I could be wrong, I don’t remember the advertised speeds. The first slot is x4, second is x2.