Voltage Issues

[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.

[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.

[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

[aarchaon]

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

[yotta]

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

[Dilbert1234567]

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