Ok so I'm testing my second PSU on this new system I have. The first one I used was a 350watt iCute which was pretty low quality in terms of components and was cheap, so I wasn't surprised to see MBM displaying values within 10-15%+ variance on the different voltage lines. However, right now I'm using a 400watt Zalman ZM400A-APF. Just from sheer weight and components used I can tell this is a much higher quality PSU, with a lot more available juice (and significantly better combined voltage lines). However, MBM is still giving me some pretty ridiculous high/low readings, such as 1.34v and 1.6v on the 1.5v CPU line. My system isn't even that loaded:
Biostar mATX nforce2
2x256mb crucial PC3200
100gb WD SE HDD
GF3 Ti200
DVD-ROM, 12x burner
audio + lan onboard
The 3.3, 5 and 12v lines aren't as bad but still similar to those of the iCute PSU. So do voltages really jump that much? Or is MBM even after all these revisions still inaccurate? Or does the motherboard have something to do with it?
fyi the only other review I've seen that uses MBM5 claims to have used a much more powerful system yet the readings aren't as wild. any ideas?
I'll try and run some tests with my multimeter to confirm some of the readings.
Biostar mATX nforce2
2x256mb crucial PC3200
100gb WD SE HDD
GF3 Ti200
DVD-ROM, 12x burner
audio + lan onboard
The 3.3, 5 and 12v lines aren't as bad but still similar to those of the iCute PSU. So do voltages really jump that much? Or is MBM even after all these revisions still inaccurate? Or does the motherboard have something to do with it?
fyi the only other review I've seen that uses MBM5 claims to have used a much more powerful system yet the readings aren't as wild. any ideas?
I'll try and run some tests with my multimeter to confirm some of the readings.
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