Yet Another Noname PSU

[ziddey]

I was just reading on the net and saw someone complaining about his 5v rail being only 4.6v to 4.8v. I then checked my 5v and noticed it was about 4.83v. My 3.3v is about 3.5v most of the time. I haven't really had stability problems except when I run my video card at 4x with fastwrites. But upon disabling fastwrites, the problem goes away so I doubt this is to blame. Anyone know? Also, why can't I use fastwrites? It works in 2x but not 4x. Damned VIA. Also would the low 5v be due to my upping the bus to 140mhz? I didn't up the vcore...

 

[Buz2b]

As the tired old saying goes, "take a chill pill". Seriously, your voltages are OK; not that far off to be of great concern. Fastwrites is known to be a "stability problem" for a large number of video cards; yours is no different. The fact that it worked in 2X is just because the card wasn't being used to it's potential. Using 4X w/o FW is better than 2X with FW. Don't look for problems that don't exist. Enjoy your system for what it does.

 

[ziddey]

thanks. iv seen what you have said before but at overclockers.com, some guy said that he had 4.8v on his 5v rail after o/cing his athxp so i became a bit interested. thanks again

 

[ziddey]

hrm if i set 4x agp in bios and disable fw, windows will only recognize it as 2x. if i do 4x w/ fw, itll do 4x w/ fw. why wont the 4x not yield a 4x?

 

[ziddey]

also worth noting is that i saw the viareg to enable 4x but i looked at the file and it inserts into nv4. nowadays, its just nv. anycase i manually added the line and rebooted without luck. i know that if i do 4x w/ fw, i can disable the fw with powerstrip, but thats another prog i gotta run at startup. any other way?