How is my Voltages?

OulOat

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I just installed MBM5 and by messing around with it, I got the voltage on the lines to show up. Some of them look pretty off so I'm wondering if it is bad. My comp runs smoothly, but I going to mod my case a lot more and I want to know if I can add more components.

My Voltages on a K7S5A XP 1700+ with generic PSU:
Core 0 (I have no idea what this means): 1.76 V
Core 1 (no idea about this either): 2.46 V
+3.3: 3.33 V
+5: 4.93 V
+12: 12.27 V
-12: 12.55 V
-5: 0 V

I'm a little worried about the -5 line, 0 V????

Edit ---
Also, Sandra says my +12 line is actually 11.86. Which should I believe?
 

rogue1979

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I would believe the bios reading first. Your 5v reading is fine, but if you add a bunch of devices and plan to overclock that XP1700, I might consider upgrading. Open your case and check the rating of the power supply. A cheap 350 or 400-watt should do fine, a 300-watt cheapo is asking for instability. If you are gonna put in a bunch of fans, a ton or RAM, big hairy video card and multiple IDE device and pci cards I would invest a little more on a quality 350-400 watter.