Redjake

Ok guys (and gals), time for some PSU fun! I have an Enermax 410 watt PSU (best PSU ever!!). I am running quite a bit of stuff on it. 4 hard drives, 6 LED fans, cd-rom, Abit NF7-S, Barton 2500+, GeForce 4 Ti4200, soundblaster live! 5.1, IDE controller card, and a rheobus. It powers everything without shitting out on me, which is a good thing. But my "Hardware Doctor" program that came with my Abit NF7-S is showing some interesting voltage levels on some of the rails.



Look at the -5V. Is that low? Do I have too much connected? Just wondering.

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Redjake

Forgot to mention: I changed the -5V low limit down some, because it was getting dangerously low to going over the aforementioned low limit. So technically, it's going past the stock low voltage -5V limit.

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tehblaed

Until it starts rebooting randomly and/or not turning on, there's no problem.

WarWagon

I wouldn't be particularly worried about less than a half volt discrepency.

teseniarkc

You are going to have some small variations in voltage depending on how the power supply is made. .5 volts is not that much so I wouldn't worry about it

Redjake

ok thanks guys. I'm just gonna crank the low limit down to the bottom so it doesn't system beep every other second when the .5v drops too low

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aarchaon

Its all good as far as I know. If it dropped out of the bottom limit what would happen?

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yotta

voltage tolenences are usualy at least 10%.....

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Dilbert1234567

all of my voltages are a bit low as well, as ling as it is stable its fine.

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