Will these low voltages cause me problems?

Mullzy

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My voltages seem a little low, do you think they'll cause any problems? Could my bios be reporting them lower than they are? I used the same PSU in another system for a couple weeks and the voltages were always a little higher than spec.

Hopefully this link works (please post if it's not and I'll move my pic to another location).

Antec TruePower 430W PSU
Abit IC7
P4 2.8C @ 2.8C
Zalman CNPS7000-AlCu

MBM5 Picture

(in case the picture isn't working; +12 is averaging 11.64v, DDR 2.54, +3.3 3.22, Core (set to 1.525 but averages 1.48)

As you can see things are low but fairly stable. This picture was taken after about 18 hours of 100% CPU utilization. I have an IC7 so don't worry about the CPU temps, I'm pretty sure they're 5-10 degrees lower (I hope). I've had this system as high as 3.22 with a stable Prime95 run, but I had some problems with my ti4200 and decided to back off a bit and find the problem. It looks like my ti4200 is on the frizt but I was concerned that a low AGP voltage might be to blame. When I set the voltage to 1.5 in the bios it reports as 1.45 (so I have it set at 1.55 now, but maybe my bios is just reporting it low?)

Comments? Thoughts? Is this common? Could my PSU be bad?

cheers,
Mullzy
 

Fern

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Sep 30, 2003
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11.64 is in within spec for the 12v rail, s/n be a prob.

As for your vcore and vdimm, that's prolly more of an issue with the voltage regulators on the mobo. My nf7 undervolts vcore by .025 to .04, vdimm is overvolted by .01. At least according to MBM5. But this is normal for my mobo.

Maybe somebody with ur mobo can confirm theirs does the same