Repairs moving forward bit by bit…

I received the battery and fan that I ordered. Battery looks good (though  I haven’t yet installed it in the laptop).

The 200mm Fan that Thermaltake suport suggested to replace my broken case fan turns out to be too small. Looks like 220mm perhaps…kind of irritating that the company I bought the case from pointed me at the wrong size replacement fan.

Here’s a ‘fan on fan’ picture…the 200mm fan clearly won’t fit this case.

and here’s the case
I’ve now ordered a 220mm fan from Amazon…we’ll see if that one fits.

A little itchy at the moment as I took the free shipping option from NewEgg for my replacement video card and it doesn’t arrive till next Tuesday. Currently running an old GeForce 770 card in the system. Works but is not particularly inspiring.

It is clear that my old GeForce 970 was dying before it fully failed though. Lightroom had been acting up for some time…I had just put it down to software issues, but the 770 card is much more responsive than the 970 was. Clearly something was up before the end…

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