Re: Power Supplies advice ?

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From: RonK (I'mhere_at_home.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:10:47 -0500

If you are not having any problems, your power supply is doing fine. Probe
shows my voltage at 11.685 but when I check it with a real voltmeter it is
delivering 12.12 volts.
You can't trust some of the monitoring programs.

"Joseph" <Joe@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:9tSdnWGvFcVJ_offRVn-rg@giganews.com...
> I just built a new Asus A8V Deluxe, running a AMD 3500+, two SATA Hard,
> and one Ultra ATA. Running the two SATA as STA IDE mode 7, (No Raid), Win
> XP sp2.
>
> Anyway I bought the power supply localy, and now they don't even carry
> them. All the box says is it's a SP power supply. And I notice it puts out
> 11.612 Volts (+12) constantly, and the + 5 volt has spikes on it.
> This is what I'm seeing with the Asus Probe program.
>
> Thinking about getting a Antec True 480,.
>
> Would I gain anything on the +12 being up there where it shold be, and
> could that +5 constant ripple be bad news ?
> I'm looking at it here, the +5 goes from 5.107 to 5.134 constantly.
>

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