Power supply question...

[Abhoth]

May need more power here... even though all seems to run quite well. Serious Sam SE loves to lockup but that's common with that game, or so it seems.
Have a 350w Antec TruePower PS so quality is there, running 12.416 - 4.865 - 3.28 w/Vcore at 1.68. Mostly just curious if that's within specs, would be nice to see the 5v and 3.3v running a bit higher.
4 or 5 fans running in there besides the CPU and some OC'ing going on... considering jumping it up to a 480w... Just thought I'd see what you folks thought. thx...:beer:

 

[rogue1979]

I would highly recommend the Allied 450-watt at newegg. It was much stronger than my Antec 400-watt which croaked. This is the third Antec 400-watt that I have seen die in a one year period in my family. Antec used to be an excellent product, but quite frankly with todays 2.0GHz and higher Athlon systems being quite common, I wonder if Antec quality is up to the task...

On a side note, I had an old 300-watt Allied powering my AXIA thunderbird a couple of years ago. I figured out that 1400MHz was killing my power supply, it was barely stable. After upgrading to a 400-watt (Antec that died later), I was able to hit over 1500MHz. The 300-watt tortured and overheated Allied is still running strong with a Duron 750@1000MHz to this day.

 

[mechBgon]

Antec doesn't make a TruePower in a 350W. Could it be the SmartPower 350W? Or perhaps the TruePower 330?

There is only one real way to know your voltages, and that is with an actual voltmeter or multimeter. Software or BIOS readings may be accurate, or they may not, and the PSU is only responsible for supplying the correct voltage to the end of its cables... what the motherboard does to them from there is not the PSU's problem Eh?

 

[Abhoth]

You win the prize... it's a Smart power.

 

[stardust]

wow, knowing that from the top of ur head...good job! haha
350watts is good enough for most...as cpu doesn't go above 150watts in regular usage..
watch out tho if ur running RAID, multiple ATAPI drives, SB audigy 2 ex, or geforce4+/radeon95000+...those drain lots of power and may cause that fluctuation
it may also be the motherboard, the P4P800 and other asus motherboard have been known to overvolt to extreme levels but i don't know if it'll affect ur +5V or +3.3V

 

[Corporate Thug]

that PSU is more than sufficent, maybe bad ram?