fanless PSU in LL A05N???

[dougri]

considering a Sandy Bridge build in the Lian Li A05N case. My only real concern is cooling the HDDs. My ideal build will use an SSD for the OS and select applications, with twin 2 or 3TB in RAID1 for data and lesser used apps. The Seasonic fanless PSUs are 80+gold, but something about putting a fanless PSU below my HDDs concerns me. In general, I will have a fairly low power system (no gaming, so will likely go integrated graphics and H67 mobo). The CPU will get a workout with transcoding HD material, and I may consider overclocking the CPU for that reason, but even at that, a 400 or 460W PSU should suffice. Somehow, I'm still very concerned about a fanless PSU under the hard drives. Anyone with experience and/or advice?

 

[frostedflakes]

I wouldn't worry about it, X-650 seems to run very cool in my PC-A05NB. Fan doesn't even come on unless I open up Furmark or something really demanding on the GPU, and even then it just cycles on for a second or two every 15 seconds, it doesn't stay on. Feeling the side of the PSU it isn't even warm.