PSU Voltages

[regg187]

Just a quick question,as I am having some strange things happening in my rig. My psu voltages according to M/B monitor are 3.3 =3.24 , 5=4.8 , 12=12.48. Yes I know that M/B monitors are notoriusly inaccurate, but for sake of simplicity lets assume these #'s are pretty close. are these numbers bad? ie low powering the 3.3 and 5 v line and overpowering the 12v line. thanks

 

[Snipe0876]

while on the subject of power supplies im intending on moving from great britian to belgium love is terrible thing but i have a philips 19 tft monitor with its own built in power supply it uses standard power supply lead but the voltage here is 240 in belgium its 110 i think or 115 will it be ok i ran my external hard drive over there it was fine just used adapter and my pc uses 240 v should i buy a power supply unit over there or can i change it on the power supply unit

 

[INSTG8R]

Snipe if you check the current rating on the sticker on the back of the TFT(or in the Monitors Manual) it will give its power rating if it says 110-230V your fine running it as it will use the current available my 19" TFT is rated as such
Power Supply : AC 90~264 V (47 ~ 63Hz)
means I can run it pretty well anywhere in the world and it will be fine(of course unless the Plug is different)

 

[Snipe0876]

nice 1 thanks alot man saves me alot of worries

 

[W1zzard]

i would say those voltages are ok .. not great, but nothing you should worry about. your best bet is to get a multimeter and check them to be sure

 

[INSTG8R]

I agree with Wizzard kinda looks like my Wifes Rig (GA-8IG1000MK) and how it reads High on the 12 and low on the 3.3 and 5v and have 3 PSU's to choose from 2 high quality and 1 low Qaulity(Tagan 420 Sparkle300W and Q-Tec400w) they all read about the same according to the sensors on that MoBo and on my ABit IS7 read perfectly normal.Don't worry I freaked out a bit too when I saw Voltages like that too and tryed a bunch of different MB monitors to try to see what was right

 

[wtf8269]

Atleast your 5v rail doesn't jump anywhere from 2.2-5.3. I'm gonna get a OCZ PowerStream in about a month probably.

 

[regg187]

Thanks to all! I'll stop freakin now, and thankyou w1zzard for advice and all you do here. my only problem is my multimeter is analog!

 

[stordoff]

my power supply give 11.76 volts on the 12v line

is this acceptable?

 

[INSTG8R]

As Wizzard said the only real way to know is to use a Multimeter and pick and empty Molex and run the machine under load and see how much its moving around. software wise Motherboard Monitor 5 can monitor High/Low for you but again is only showing it what the sensors tell it.Everest for example: