Re: Power Supplies advice ?

From: BAR (BAR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:01:04 -0800

1. For reassurance: does your PC run properly?

OR

2. Does it crash frequently?

If the answer is YES to 1 then don't worry.
If the answer is YES to 2 then PANIC and buy anything that you think is
going to fix it, well not really: but if you haave lots of RAM you need to be
sure that you have a Power SUpply that puts out >300Watts.

It's the power that helps the PC do it's work, not the volts.

"RonK" wrote:

> 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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