Antec Phantom 350 - Temps?

mo786 · Post by **mo786** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:27 pm

Hi

I have had an Antec Phantom 350 fanless PSU for a whiel now.

I have upgraded my set up and most importantly I have gotten rid of 1 fan in my PC - the CPU fan (went for a fanless Ninja) - I now only have a case fan running at very low speeds (a Nexus orange thingy!)

I am now running a Core2Duo E6400, 2gb Ram and a 7300 Geforce graphics card (thisi s passive cooled and gets very hot - but I assume its OK as the manf sells it liek that)

I have noticed my Phantom is now gettign much hotter - hot enough to touch for a few seconds - when I had the CPU cooler in there before (at least generating soem airflow) I could touch it for ages and it was fine..

Question: how hot hot shoudl the Phantom be allowed to get and is it still suitable for my system? (I heard C2D chips were meant to use LESS power)

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:35 am

Question: how hot hot should the Phantom be allowed to get and is it still suitable for my system? (I heard C2D chips were meant to use LESS power)

They do; what I think is happening here is the heat from GPU+CPU is rising up in to the power supply; remember, with a fanless PSU you need to think very carefully how heat will escape from the case; probably one Nexus @ ~500rpm isn't enough (less than 10CFM at that speed).

nicoliani · Post by **nicoliani** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:30 am

Try to have your PSU outside your case, that way you won't need any fans to cool it and your case temp will get much lower.

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