I forgot to update the shipping address on the heatsink I bought from Scan so it was delivered to my home address, and there was me thinking I had another day to wait!

Here’s what it looks like fitted to my motherboard:

I spent most of last night installing the heatsink, motherboard, one of the new fans, the hard drive and the DVD burner into the Lian Li PC-7B. Unfortunately I am still waiting on a power supply so it’s not finished.

I found that I’m unable to use the other fan I bought on the front of the case where I’d wanted it to go because it’s not designed to be placed there, which is rather frustrating. So I may just leave the existing fan there for now – I don’t know how loud it is until I turn the PC on, and it just wasn’t ready last night for that. I may also have to leave the side fan as it is, I haven’t worked out a way to attach another fan to it yet, due to it having a thread embedded in the plastic.

The case came with rubber mounts for the hard drive to reduce vibration noise, I wonder how much of an effect they will have. I did notice that the hard drive cage itself rattles a little, I’m sure that can’t help! You can see the rubber mounts in the bag on the left.