Interesting. Looking forward to those temperatures.

Vanadiel the PHANTEKS fan is really worth a look at. Slightly thicker at 30mm but push a lot of air. I’m considering removing my Notua’s and fitting these all around. 

I am very impressed with the case fans that came with my Lian Li case. They are virtually silent and push a lot of air. I was expecting having to replace them.

Interesting. the cable connectors on the top of the motherboard look interesting. Some kind of OEM standard? Never seen connectors like that before.

What were your temps prior to the mods?

I just got my fan and was wondering if you had to take off the front fan to do the mod or can you do it without taking it off? 

Hi mate, the existing fan stays on the radiator at all times. If in doubt, down load the R13 Manuel.

Honestly it’s straight forward, Alienware have made it extremely easy to mod.  

I’m going to be posting temps when I get time  

This is the comparison as done by Noctua: Comparison 

The difference is in the center oval labeled 2 in that picture, which is due to the NF-A12 flat curve (Black solid line). 

It creates very good airflow for both radiator and heat sink application.

I have both used NF-F and NF-A on a NH-U12S Noctua air cooler, and currently use them in push-pull. The NF-A as push and the NF-F as pull.

I completed the mod not too long ago and you were 100% right. Easy to do and makes a big difference as the system runs cooler.  I noticed you went with the Noctua NF-A12x15 PWM for case fans. I have the NF-F12 Ippc-2000 PWM and was wondering what I am missing because everyone seems to want to go with those when the industrial series move more air and have the higher static rating. Is that fan just better for some reason? I notice they are a bit quieter but that's about it when I compare them on the Noctua website.