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Hello, I placed my power supply fan face up, as it has an RGB on it, however right above it is my GTX 980 Classified overclocked, which goes to around 79-81 degrees, and it seems the power supply exhausts most of that air as there is a lot of warm air coming out of it when I am gaming, mind you, it's just lukewarm, not hot or anything, but certainly warm, and my question is, is this dangerous for the power supply which is rated to at 40 degrees of optimal operation?

FYI it's a 750W PRO RGB by Thermaltake, and my system doesn't draw more than 350-400W of power so I am far from stressing it but still. Should I flip the power supply or is it fine?
THANKS!

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14 minutes ago, superpentium said:

Again the PSU has an led around the fan, don't really wanna loose that.

The PSU is designed to take some abuse from heat. You can leave it flipped up.

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19 minutes ago, superpentium said:

One more question.. My ambient temperatures are quite high due to it being summer, does that matter too much?

Not really, just keep things as cool as you can without breaking your power bill into the sky

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