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Power Supply Voltage - Problems?

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veemaks

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I have had a lot of problems with lockups after installing a Geforce 6800LE in my computer. I have an old Codegen 300W PSU and I beleive that this is the root of all evil 😉

Look at the +5.00 V. The Codegen 300W only seems to distribute 4,08V!!!! Should I just throw it away, stomp on it and burn it.... or? What do you others think?


|Sensor | Current | Low | High | Average |
+-----------------------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
|Case | 34° C | 34° C | 34° C | 34° C |
|CPU | 51° C | 51° C | 51° C | 51° C |
|Sensor 3 | 0° C | 0° C | 0° C | 0° C |
|Core 0 | 1,72 V | 1,72 V | 1,72 V | 1,72 V |
|Core 1 | 0,00 V | 0,00 V | 0,00 V | 0,00 V |
|+3.3 | 3,25 V | 3,25 V | 3,25 V | 3,25 V |
|+5.00 | 4,08 V | 4,08 V | 4,08 V | 4,08 V |
|+12.00 | 11,86 V | 11,86 V | 11,86 V | 11,86 V |
|-12.00 | -0,10 V | -0,10 V | -0,10 V | -0,10 V |
|-5.00 | 0,00 V | 0,00 V | 0,00 V | 0,00 V |
 
Stomp
Burn
Burn Ashes
Burn Remains of Ashes

Buy New PSU From:
Antec
PC P&C
OCZ

There are other excellent companies, but these are what I think about off the top of my head when I think about PSUs.
 
Codegen PSUs are extreme low end. Could put in closet for emergency backup, but burning and flushing ashes is OK too... 😉
. Yes, Fortron or Sparkle FSP series are very good PSUs. But I think the best PSU for least money right now is XClio 450 from Newegg (less than $60 shipped). Made by Channel Well (as are most Antec branded PSUs). IDK how they are selling them for that but take advantage if you can.
.bh.
 
Originally posted by: Zepper
Codegen PSUs are extreme low end.
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Actually, they're not that bad, they're mid-range of the low-end, not at the bottom. IMHO,

I'd put them above PowMax, Allied, L&C, Deer, etc. I wouldn't exactly call them high-end either, but I've had the Codegen 350W powering my mid-range AXP rig for about two years or so. I wouldn't attempt throwing in a high-end P4/A64 rig or anything containing a 6800 in there, but for a mid-range system with 3 HDs and 4 opticals and a R9200, it's (minimally) fine, and the combined +5V/+3.3V meets AMD's recommended guidelines for an XP system. Some of those others that I mentioned, do not. I think that the +5VSB is 2A, and the +12V is 15A or 18A too, which isn't horrible. My +12V is rock-solid, the +5V wavers a tiny bit, but doesn't swing out of spec. (The CPU in my board draws from the +5V line.)

Weight-wise, I took it out of my case, and it's somewhere in-between my old (now dead) 300W ATX Deer, and my 250W AOpen (FSP) PSUs. The exhaust air coming out isn't "cool", but it isn't "hot" either (which would generally be a bad sign).
Originally posted by: Zepper
Could put in closet for emergency backup, but burning and flushing ashes is OK too... 😉
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Hey, at least you'd have to burn it yourself, instead of it burning up on you. I wouldn't use one of these for powering a high-end system these days though, or something with a 6800 card in it. Codegen's overall quality isn't that bad, for "budget"-market stuff, their case even came out on top of AT's review comparison, although I took issue to the "no sharp edges" comment. The reviewer just didn't look hard enough.
 
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