PSU Killin' my performence?

[flippe]

Hello, I've been on here beforce about my performence issues in games and reinstalling windows xp on a fresh formatted hd helped on normal loads and becnhmarks for games. But my performence under loads is still the same, really crappy. I noticed that when I run prime 95 and put some stress on my cpu my whole comp bogs down a bit and even my fans begin to slow down by a good 400 rpm's. I was wondering if this would be the same in games when you get into a heated battle or w/e in ut2k4 it slows down into the 45 to 38 fps range almost instantly and it should be there even on my o/c'd intel (i know they don't suck THAT bad). So all i'm wondering if my psu could be the source of this issue (alot of ppl said my psu sucks) and if replacing it with something like a TT SPP would fix it.

 

[BadThad]

What is the cpu temp under 100% load? Sounds like Speedstep is jumping to me.

 

[flippe]

The temp is about 50 which isnt close to the prescott slow down temp which is around 67 or 66 from what i've heard and read.

 

[Fern]

If motherboard monitor 5 can be setup on your rig, I suggest using it to monitor your PSU output underload.

There is a feature called "sys log", you can set it up to record the voltage rails at intervals (one second, ten seconds w/e) and have those readings recorded to a text.doc. You can elect to have as many readings as you like recorded (100, 1,000 etc).

After some intense gaming, go have a look at the text.doc (will be in the MBM5 folder) and see how the rails held up under load.

Fern

 

[flippe]

I've already used my asus probe to do that and my 12 volt rail drops to like 11.5/11.5 and my 3.3 volt rail is at like 3.2 or 3.133 but thats always low at 3.2 for some random reason. This codegen wasn't bought by me, it was put in by the system builder and i'm alreadyn pissed off cuz he did a half ass job, didn't get the components I asked for and charge me 1,100 bucks for something i could've built for like 800 bucks. The stuff I got now, cept this psu, is all good and I'm gonna go onto to newegg when i get some cash and by a quality Thermaltake psu.