How does your PSU voltage look?

[Áedán]

Ok, I figured it might be worth looking into these PSU voltages a bit more.

I'm looking for the value of your +12V, +3.3V and +5V lines. You can post two sets, idle and non-idle, but I'll settle for either one!

[Áedán]

Here goes.

Line    Idle    CPUBurn
 3.3V   3.36V    3.36V
 5V     4.91V    4.83V
12V    12.07V   12.25V

[mrpcman]

my 3.3 is high, and my 5 is low.

[Áedán]

From the limited data so far, it looks like most ppl are suffering from the same problem...

Too much 3.3V and not enough 5V!

Wonder if it's time to try and document a mod that'll bring the 5V up to 5V, but also increase the 3.3V stuff. Hmmm

Figure I'll try it myself first. (;

Áedán

[Aphex]

im gettin a sparkle 300wer psu morrow aidy, i think i can change summit inside to raise the 5v line?

[Áedán]

Originally posted by Pc-Critic
im gettin a sparkle 300wer psu morrow aidy, i think i can change summit inside to raise the 5v line?

See how it performs first! (;

It's always possible to change summit inside, as long as you don't mind 3.3V being too high...

Áedán

[Kaitain]

Just been testing mine out w/ a multimeter (I don't trust motherboard voltage monitors) - I had a dull night in, last night

Line to ground (central heating system )

+5V -> 4.97V
+3.3V -> 3.31V

Line to psu earth

5V -> 4.83V
3.3V -> 3.26V (nb my bios thought it was 3.34V)

PSU earth to ground: +0.2V

Looks like there could be some earthing problems - on my case at the very least

[Áedán]

PSU earth to ground: +0.2V
Looks like there could be some earthing problems - on my case at the very least

Quick question - what made you check to see how it compares against your central heating? The local ground is generally more important. (;

Áedán

[Kaitain]

The local ground is generally more important

I know, which is why I wanted to compare local ground with an isolated ground.

Sharing the same multistrips as my computer are the monitor, speakers, TV, coffee pot and guitar amp. All of these are going to have a certain amount of earth-leakage (since some will use the earth wire as a reference potential).

If the computer PSU is using a noisy earth-line as a reference then its voltages are going to be wrong. I wanted to find out by what margin. My guess is that modern PSU's are built and tested on test-beds with a truly clean ground connection.

[Phiber]

this 400W antec keeps them perfect

[dimmreaper]

My 3.3 and 5 were both a hair high, but I twisted a trimmer down(took some fiddling to find the right one) and brought them both down very close to spec.


Now they are:
5v- 5.01v multimeter 5.01v motherboard monitor
3.3v- 3.32v multimeter 3.3v motherboard monitor (should this discrepancy worry me?)

[Áedán]

Originally posted by dimmreaper
5v- 5.01v multimeter 5.01v motherboard monitor
3.3v- 3.32v multimeter 3.3v motherboard monitor (should this discrepancy worry me?)

No, it's expected! (; Motherboard monitors don't do a great job of getting the voltage exactly spot on. OTOH, they were never meant to replace a multimeter (and cost less too)!

AidanII

[Walter:-)]

3,3V is 3.46V
and
+5V is 4.56V
Under full load.

[mrpcman]

Originally posted by Pc-Critic
im gettin a sparkle 300wer psu morrow aidy, i think i can change summit inside to raise the 5v line?

I've owned a sparkle 300W psu for about a year and a half now, and would have to say they are awsome.

[Ridenow]

Sparkle 350W using VIA HWM:

3.3 = 3.56
5 = 5.3
12 = 12.19

[mrpcman]

yup...there good. I'm getting a sparkle 400w soon enough.

[Áedán]

Originally posted by Ridenow
Sparkle 350W using VIA HWM:

3.3 = 3.56
5 = 5.3
12 = 12.19

3.3 and 5v are a bit high, if these figures are accurate!

AidanII

[Da Whip]

Enermax 450watt
3.3 = 3.37
5.0 = 5.02
12 = 12.01

I had to do a volt. mod for the 3.3v for my AGP slot. Since then everthing is good.

[kat]

heres mine

sparkle 400

1 gig axia @ 1400

full load folding@home

[sonny]

I always get a +.1V to whatever I set in the BIOS. The 3.3V is set at 3.5V. The 5.V isn't adjustable so it reads +.2V or so but when she's at load it drops like a rock. 1st one is at idle & the 2nd one is at load. Weird 12V too