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Strage voltage readings with speedfan

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edm

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I've been having some problems with my computer recently (mostly when gaming) with Artifacts, freezing, etc..

I figured the problem was the video card because it's been over heating with the gpu fan reaching 100% occasionally. Temps have been hovering around 85c. Peaking at 90c under load. Other times however, it's stays below 60c when playing the same game. Sometimes I idle at 40c. Other times it idles at 60c. Which seems odd.

I was told to check the +12v reading in bios, which show a normal level at +12.09.

However, when I checked the readings using speedfan it shows two +12v readings. One is normal but the other is above 16v! Obviously that's too high!

So how trustworthy are speedfan readings? Should I replace my power supply?

Specs (I know its ancient. Please no judgement 🙂 My plan is to upgrade everything this fall.)

GTX 260
Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition
ASUS M4N82 Deluxe mobo
8 Gig ram (4x2)
Corsair CMPSU-650TX 650-Watt
Antec 900 case
Win10 home 64 bit

Air flow in the case is good and everything was air blown for dust about a month ago.
If you need any more info please let me know.

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I would look for another way to access the situation.

As seen above -

-12V is -1.42V

5V is 1.83V

temp3 is -128C


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Yeah. The numbers on the far right are the ones I'm seeing in bios. Not sure why the other ones are so out of whack,

As for the -128C. I had done a google search and apparently there's a bug with speedfan that tries to read a sensor that doesn't exist, and gives a false high or low reading on temp3.

Does anyone know of another program that would show the voltages?
 
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Thanks for the link. I ran both hwinfo64 and hwmonitor. Both are close to what I get in bios. With the +12v, +5v, and +3.3v all within acceptable ranges. hwinfo64 does show two readings for the +3.3v however? And neither have all of the readings shown in speedfan however. Maybe they don't exists, hence why the readings are so out of whack in speedfan?

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Speedfan is ancient. I believe I stopped using it sometime around 2006 or 2007, when some of its features seemed to stop working.
 
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