Worried about power supply heat

[Hello man]

Hi! My power supply is a rocketfish 900w and it's 140mm fan seems to be pulling cold air into the case, but the back grille with the air intake is still pretty hot. Is there any explanation for this? I'm running an ASUS p5nsli motherboard, with a 2.13 ghz Intel core 2 duo overclocked by 20%, two GE force 7800 GPUS at 256 MB each with 2 GB of DDR2 at 800MHZ.

 

[Skeefers]

I'm going to assume that this PSU is the same as any other, in which case the back of the PSU is where the hot air is exhausted, not where it takes in cool air. The fan should be pulling air from inside the case, and sending it out the back of the PSU. Sounds like it's working correctly to me.

 

[rojodogg]

I'm going to assume that this PSU is the same as any other, in which case the back of the PSU is where the hot air is exhausted, not where it takes in cool air. The fan should be pulling air from inside the case, and sending it out the back of the PSU. Sounds like it's working correctly to me.

I agree.

 

[Hello man]

Oddly enough, when a hand is waved infront of its fan, hot air seems to be coming out from it, not in and out through the back.

 

[Hello man]

I'm going to assume that this PSU is the same as any other, in which case the back of the PSU is where the hot air is exhausted, not where it takes in cool air. The fan should be pulling air from inside the case, and sending it out the back of the PSU. Sounds like it's working correctly to me.

Oddly enough, when a hand is waved infront of its fan, a large amount can be found exhausting it's self from the power supply and into the case, but the back grille is still hot.

 

[smellysmeagle]

That power supply is a bit... excessive

But it sounds like it's working properly