Who has still has a working Antec Phantom used regularly?

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Is your Antec Phantom still working?

My Phantom is alive and kicking!
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She's dead, Jim.
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Edwood
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Who has still has a working Antec Phantom used regularly?

Post by Edwood » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:32 pm

Knock on wood, my Antec Phantom 350 is still alive and kicking.

It powers an Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz), 4GB RAM, ATi X800 Pro, one 7200rpm HDD, one notebook slim DVD-rom drive, and two 120mm Fans.

It will soon power an Intel E8400, 8GB RAM, Nvidia 8600GT, two 7200rpm HDD, on notebook slim DVD-rom drive, and one (or two) 120mm Fans.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will still stay alive longer.

Anyone else still have an Antec Phantom alive and kicking? And what it is powering?
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Mankey
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Post by Mankey » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:34 pm

I have two that have been running 24/7 for over 2 years now. No problems. Love the things.
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HueyCobra
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Re: Who has still has a working Antec Phantom used regularly

Post by HueyCobra » Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:21 am

Edwood wrote:Anyone else still have an Antec Phantom alive and kicking? And what it is powering?
My Phantom 500 is a year old, powering the system in my sig for a few hours everyday. I think the fan still hasn't ever started yet.

Edit: She's dead, Jim. A mere 18 months.
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Airshark
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Post by Airshark » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:55 pm

I've had two Phantom 500s fail.
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cmthomson
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Post by cmthomson » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:02 pm

I had a very early P500 die after a few days (the standby 5V circuit failed). A second one failed during a very nasty power bump last summer (one of the 12V circuits failed) after running about 2 years 24/7, much of that at 250+W. The third one is running fine 24/7 at about 200W. The only time the fan on any of these P500's started was when I was deliberately cooking it to determine the activation temperature.
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mr_plow_king
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Post by mr_plow_king » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:18 pm

I bought the Phantom 500 review sample from MikeC. It lasted about 18 months then POOOOF! Big light in my room just as I'm about to go to bed. Fortunately, it did not fry my motherboard or any other component. Changed it for a Corsair HX520.
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