Amacrox Calmer 560: Silence is Golden
by Christoph Katzer on April 2, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Opening this unit was quite difficult because there are more screws to remove before we can take off the top mounted heatsink. The inner heatsinks connect to the top heatsink with a heat conducting material that is quite adhesive and makes it difficult to remove the heatsink. Lifting it up with a screwdriver finally reveals the inside of the power supply. Since the other sides still block the view, we took it out of the case. The manufacturer uses large heatsinks inside to hold and help dissipate the generated heat. Small holes in the heatsinks allow some air to pass through, though obviously the airflow would have to come from system fans.
Above is part of the incoming filtering stage and it has all the necessary components. The other part of the filtering is located on a small sister PCB that is connected to the case.
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Super Nade - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - link
Interesting concept though. I wonder how this will hold up with an 80mm fan?yyrkoon - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - link
I use the Antec EarthWATTS 500 which also uses a 80mm fan, and i works fine. Matter of a fact the fan is barely audible most of the time.I do have do agree with the OP here though. At first I thought he/she was referring to the outside of the PSU, which I think does not look bad(except that ugly red button). The innards of this thing looks like it was put together by preschool children with construction paper, elmers glue . . . So . . . One cannot help but wonder if child labor is involved here.
They sent this thing out looking like it does(including the heat sink that looks like it was cut out of an aluminum block with a rock) knowing that you would take it apart ?
sprockkets - Thursday, April 3, 2008 - link
Well, since those heatsinks have to touch the external one, that is probably why they look like that, big and covered with thermal interface.