It's an understatement, but yeah... Scythe fans are very good. I have four of the 1900 RPM version, and while they're very expensive for 120mm case fans, they move a TON of air (~75 CFM). 37-38°C idle temps, and full load just around 60°C. Now a few more days of stable operation @ stock speeds, and I'll bump BCLK up to 160 for my first overclock testing on this machine.

The machine's been great so far. Not a lot of performance gain in EQ2, since EQ2 is an aging engine and relies heavily on CPU for performance, versus leaning on the GPU like most newer games do. Old CPU was 2.93 ghz, new is 3.06 ghz, so makes sense not seeing a big performance jump. Oh it's noticeable of course, but I'm expecting much more after the overclocking is done.

When my LOTRO account was active, yeah, HUGE performance jump with the new rig as LOTRO does lean on the GPU (and I have 4 of them in the new machine...haha).