HOT Power supply.

[S4M33R]

Sissoft Sandra says my power supply reads is 61 degrees C and 142 degrees F... I know my room is damn hot seeing as my parents are too cheap to air condition, but isn't this a bit ridiculous? Is Sandra lying to me? The PSU is a RAIDmax 400 watt aluminum and I'm runnning a 1700 XP, GFti4400, 2x7200rpm HDs, a DVDCombo driver, and 6 fans including the two in the PSU itself. Right now All I have open is IE though. Should my PSU really be this hot? Should I take it apart and clean the vast amounts of dust I bet I will find? I wanna mod this with a blue LED fan neway so I'm willing to do that even if it voids a probably null warentee.

 

[mechBgon]

Do a reality check. Put your hand on the PSU. If it's at 60C inside, you'll know it quickly. I don't see how SiSoft Sandra can purport to be detecting the PSU's temperature in the first place.

(by the way, SiSoft Sandra is generally regarded as a real loose cannon... it causes a lot of needless alarm to people. BIG grain of salt with anything it tells you, ok? )

 

[beer]

If you hear the fan spinning at all, you're probably fine. Most fans that are dying are quite loud from the bearings being off, they'll usually shake too. Anyways, if your fans are spinning and not grinding, you're probably fine. I don't know how they cna return a tempature reading since there aren't thermal probes there, and if there are...they're probably broken, which may also explain the temp reading.

 

[S4M33R]

My fans are running just fine, I had a hunch Sandra was a lying bia*ch. Thanks guys.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: S4M33R
My fans are running just fine, I had a hunch Sandra was a lying bia*ch. Thanks guys.

The thermister is a device whose resistance increases dramatically with tempature. The mobo runs a potential across it and reads the current, and reports that to the pinout that sisoft sandra is looking at. If the thermister is broken, it's not going to read any current at all, which is probably why it's giving you the upper bound that the software can handle. That would be my assumption at least.