Still issues with Antec Phantom 500 and ASUS mainboards?

Webmonkey · Post by **Webmonkey** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:23 am

About 6 months ago, I bought an S12-500W. At that time I had my 3 year old big tower case, but now that I have a P180, I wonder if it is time to get a Phantom 500.

But I have read about the Phantoms problems with some ASUS mainboards and I am the owner of a A8N32-sli.

Has the issues been fixed? Anyone know if it applies to the A8N32 too?

thanks,,

pcweltz · Post by **pcweltz** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:57 pm

I know the NeoHE's have issues with some Asus boards, but I'd never heard of any issues with the Phantom 500. I've been using an A8N32-SLI with a rev1 Phantom 500 since last fall....I've never had any issues of any kind. BUT... it is a pain in the butt to fit a Phantom 500 in the bottom of a early model P180 which has the 120x38mm bottom fan. If you have one of the new rev 180s with the 120x20mm you should be fine.

Powering this off of a Phantom 500:

A8N32SLI
Athlon 64 4800+
ATI Radeon X1900XTX with Accelero X2 installed
2GB Corsair 3500C2
2x WD1500ADFD Raptors
1 Liteon DVD burner
SB X-Fi Extreme Music

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:21 pm

pcweltz wrote:I know the NeoHE's have issues with some Asus boards, but I'd never heard of any issues with the Phantom 500. I've been using an A8N32-SLI with a rev1 Phantom 500 since last fall....I've never had any issues of any kind. BUT... it is a pain in the butt to fit a Phantom 500 in the bottom of a early model P180 which has the 120x38mm bottom fan. If you have one of the new rev 180s with the 120x20mm you should be fine.

Powering this off of a Phantom 500:

A8N32SLI
Athlon 64 4800+
ATI Radeon X1900XTX with Accelero X2 installed
2GB Corsair 3500C2
2x WD1500ADFD Raptors
1 Liteon DVD burner
SB X-Fi Extreme Music

does the fan ever come on?

pcweltz · Post by **pcweltz** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:33 am

Yes, the fan does come on during peak loads but it is drowned out by the Arctic Cooling Accelero on my X1900XTX. If you have a passively cooled video card, you might be able to hear it.

Shadowknight · Post by **Shadowknight** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:39 pm

pcweltz wrote:Yes, the fan does come on during peak loads but it is drowned out by the Arctic Cooling Accelero on my X1900XTX. If you have a passively cooled video card, you might be able to hear it.

That's why I ditched my Arctic Cooler... after awhile, it became the loudest thing in my system, even at 5v. I switched to a Zalman cooler with an undervolted 92mm Nexus, never looked back.

nici · Post by **nici** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:50 pm

By putting a fan in the lower chamber runing at 5V should stop the fan from turning on.. I know my Phantom 350 gets to about 50Â°c on full load without airflow in a very open space, with a 500rpm 120mm fan its barely even warm under the same load. And its powering an A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo.

Full load being about 190W AC draw from 230VAC.