Solve : Are these voltages safe??

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Answer» Hi guys, So I have speedfan open right, and I look to the bottom of the window and it has the voltages... Needless to say I had a double take here. The 3.3V was hovering around 3.2V and the 12V was 11.37 (and as im typing this it reads 11.25V :O ) 5V was 5.00-5.03 and Vcore is safe in the 1.6-1.65V range Are these voltages anywhere near safe? the only thing I can think of is one or two fans in parrellel but even then they should still share the same Voltage and split Current... Is this what I get for having 4HDDs 1 DVD burner, Radeon 9700 Pro, 3 12cm fans and CPU+fan on a 500W PSU? [attachment deleted by admin]Some deviation can take place. How high or low do the voltages drop when you put considerable stress on your hardware? Ok I opened my case and re-constructed the Rails so there are 2HDDs on a 2 molex Rail each, and reserved the 2 rails with 2 molex plus the FDD connector for the DVD drive (1 rail) and the other for fans + gfx card. The Voltages are closer to their proper values now, some within .02-.05 which I'm happy with The 12V rails still only report 11.5V at the highest Quote from: Raptor on December 18, 2008, 03:59:47 PM How high or low do the voltages drop when you put considerable stress on your hardware? when I RUN Milkdrop (Winamp VISUALIZATION) on highest and in full screen on 2nd monitor, plus the calculator thing on the first, the 12V rails can drop to 11.3V but doesn't GO any lower. I mean I have no problems with stability or whatever I can run my computer for 3-4 days before I reboot just because I feel weird not having my computer crash lol (plus clearing RAM, you never know what XP keeps for days, wasting RAM...) Just wanting to know if those voltages will effectively damage my components. EDIT: Just tried the calculator on its own and it never dropped below 11.25V and as soon as i clicked stop it went back up to 11.43VWhat kind of power supply do you have? It was free so not 100% sure on it's specifics but it is a 500W PSU, the guy who gave it to me said it is a good one, and it feels like it is, it's quite heavy and I have looked, there is no lead weight in it. Last time I CHECKED I think it was an iCute PSU - To go with the iCute case of course You should do some research on its particular model. Read some reviews, see if anyone reports problems with it for the sake of your hardware... OK willdo...any way that I can find out what it is without pulling open my case?

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Hi guys,

So I have speedfan open right,
and I look to the bottom of the window and it has the voltages...
Needless to say I had a double take here.

The 3.3V was hovering around 3.2V and the 12V was 11.37 (and as im typing this it reads 11.25V :O ) 5V was 5.00-5.03 and Vcore is safe in the 1.6-1.65V range

Are these voltages anywhere near safe? the only thing I can think of is one or two fans in parrellel but even then they should still share the same Voltage and split Current...

Is this what I get for having 4HDDs 1 DVD burner, Radeon 9700 Pro, 3 12cm fans and CPU+fan on a 500W PSU?

[attachment deleted by admin]Some deviation can take place. How high or low do the voltages drop when you put considerable stress on your hardware? Ok I opened my case and re-constructed the Rails so there are 2HDDs on a 2 molex Rail each, and reserved the 2 rails with 2 molex plus the FDD connector for the DVD drive (1 rail) and the other for fans + gfx card.

The Voltages are closer to their proper values now, some within .02-.05 which I'm happy with
The 12V rails still only report 11.5V at the highest

Quote from: Raptor on December 18, 2008, 03:59:47 PM

How high or low do the voltages drop when you put considerable stress on your hardware?

when I RUN Milkdrop (Winamp VISUALIZATION) on highest and in full screen on 2nd monitor, plus the calculator thing on the first, the 12V rails can drop to 11.3V but doesn't GO any lower.

I mean I have no problems with stability or whatever I can run my computer for 3-4 days before I reboot just because I feel weird not having my computer crash lol (plus clearing RAM, you never know what XP keeps for days, wasting RAM...)

Just wanting to know if those voltages will effectively damage my components.

EDIT: Just tried the calculator on its own and it never dropped below 11.25V and as soon as i clicked stop it went back up to 11.43VWhat kind of power supply do you have?

It was free so not 100% sure on it's specifics but it is a 500W PSU, the guy who gave it to me said it is a good one, and it feels like it is, it's quite heavy and I have looked, there is no lead weight in it.

Last time I CHECKED I think it was an iCute PSU - To go with the iCute case of course You should do some research on its particular model. Read some reviews, see if anyone reports problems with it for the sake of your hardware... OK willdo...any way that I can find out what it is without pulling open my case?

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