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Power Supply Question

episodic

episodic

Lifer
I'm using a trial of Everest, and checking my computer, I see the following. Notice the bolded reading. I was concerned about this, but can't even find it in the bios health monitor.

I'm using a 400 watt Codegen Powersupply. I have a sempron 2600 - 1 gig of memory - 2 7200 harddrives - 1 dvd burner - and onboard 6100 nvidia video with a biostar 6100 m7 board.

What is the bolded reading about?

Temperatures
CPU 26 °C (79 °F)
Maxtor 6Y200P0 36 °C (97 °F)

Cooling Fans
CPU 3068 RPM

Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.38 V
+2.5 V 1.18 V
+3.3 V 3.26 V
+5 V 4.97 V
+12 V 11.97 V
+5 V Standby 4.92 V
VBAT Battery 3.06 V
 
If it's not in the Health Monitor I wouldn't worry about it. The only voltages you really have to worry about are the 12. 5 and 3.3 voltr rails. Modern mobos really don 't use anything else.

3rd party mobo monitors like Everest and Mother Board Monitor are notoriously unreliable.

 
What is the accepted 'difference' between ideal and ok? Meaning is 4.97 on 5 bad? Is 3.26 on 3.3 bad, etc? How far off can it deviate and be ok?

 
The reason I'm bringing this up is that I was using firefox on adobe's exchange site and all of the sudden I had a random reboot.

I've got a gig of crucial ram that has passed memtest.

I was thinking powersupply next, of course.

 
Originally posted by: FlyingPenguin
If it's not in the Health Monitor I wouldn't worry about it. The only voltages you really have to worry about are the 12. 5 and 3.3 voltr rails. Modern mobos really don 't use anything else.

3rd party mobo monitors like Everest and Mother Board Monitor are notoriously unreliable.
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I have not found that to be the case at all with Everest...sorry!!
Everest matches up exactly with all my other tests I do!!
 
Am I the only one that has something showing up under 2.5v?

I've got a biostar 6100-m7 motherboard if that makes a difference.
 
If you want to know, use a DMM. The software monitors are notorioously inaccurate or use the latest software from your mobo mfr. - it will usually be as good as the 3rd party stuff and report the correct voltages. You don't know for sure what Everest is reading to report that voltage.

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: Zepper
If you want to know, use a DMM. The software monitors are notorioously inaccurate or use the latest software from your mobo mfr. - it will usually be as good as the 3rd party stuff and report the correct voltages. You don't know for sure what Everest is reading to report that voltage.

.bh.
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Zepper always makes good points!
 
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