well, the general spec, its suitability for antec P180 use and user reports on here convinced me to take a chance and take the plunge. Ordered one from Amazon and whilst it does seem to work well with a 7v Nexus in a P180, mine is intermitently making a very high pitched whine or buzzing which is just so loud... its like some sort of smoke alarm or something !
Question is, does this go away ? It sounds kind of like the sort of noise you'd get from new electrical components... maybe thats just wishful thinking. Thing is I spent over 4 hours today untangling and tidying all the cables and putting hose and heatshrink around them. Shall I just RMA this thing 1st thing monday morning and go with the Corsair ?
another Phantom 500 buzzing ?
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well
its going back to the shop
buzzes as soon as you push the switch over to position 2 or 3 and its not just audible because i have a quite system, its VERY loud...
also my lower chamber is VERY cool and my readings of the phantom heatsink show its always well below 40C but even on position 1 I see the fan coming on
I don't doubt that many people have samples of these things that work well but I really cant be ar*ed trying another. Its a poor show in my opinion. Looking on the net the amount of people who have experienced this buzzing is quite alarming and given that its a low volume specialist product, it points to quite a high failure/fault rate.
The other thing is, i find that a 7v nexus in front on the phantom ends up making a lot of noise. Its the noise of air being pushed.. a constant whooshing sound and thats my most hated form of noise. Id much rather have the sound of 5 hard drives seeking than any of that whooshing.
Corsair HX520 it is. And hopefully i can run it using just its inherent fan and that also that fan will not exhibit and air displacement noise.
its going back to the shop
buzzes as soon as you push the switch over to position 2 or 3 and its not just audible because i have a quite system, its VERY loud...
also my lower chamber is VERY cool and my readings of the phantom heatsink show its always well below 40C but even on position 1 I see the fan coming on
I don't doubt that many people have samples of these things that work well but I really cant be ar*ed trying another. Its a poor show in my opinion. Looking on the net the amount of people who have experienced this buzzing is quite alarming and given that its a low volume specialist product, it points to quite a high failure/fault rate.
The other thing is, i find that a 7v nexus in front on the phantom ends up making a lot of noise. Its the noise of air being pushed.. a constant whooshing sound and thats my most hated form of noise. Id much rather have the sound of 5 hard drives seeking than any of that whooshing.
Corsair HX520 it is. And hopefully i can run it using just its inherent fan and that also that fan will not exhibit and air displacement noise.