Possible Faulty PSU or Nothing to worry about?

Burned_Alive · 1 Jun 2008 at 17:24

Just built a new system with a Corsair HX620w, its currently powering an Asus P5E, C2D 8400, 8gb ram, samsung 500gb, an ati 3650 and an ati 3450 with 4x750gb drives soon to be added in raid.

In the bios hardware monitor the voltages are currently (idle):
3.3v - 3.200
5v - 4.896
12v - 11.984

Is this something to worry about or "within tolerances" ?

PSUs have always been somewhat of a grey area in my knowledge!

Thanks in advance

neoboy · 1 Jun 2008 at 17:31

Those are fine. If you want you can install motherboard monitor which can record your average, load and idle voltages.

Burned_Alive · 1 Jun 2008 at 19:43

Good stuff, thanks

BassPwr · 1 Jun 2008 at 23:31

Thought I would jump onto this topic instead of making a new one.

Sometimes my hiper 580w type r makes a squeeling noise from inside the psu - it's not really loud, but audible, I don't think it's the fans, more like components inside the psu, but it's weird because usually it does it on game menus rather than when in the game worlds.

do you think it's a sign it should be replaced before it fails and damages any of my other pc components?

Burned_Alive · 15 Jun 2008 at 22:51

Can anyone recommend a voltage monitor for Vista 64bit ?

Uriel · 15 Jun 2008 at 23:01

BassPwr said:
Sometimes my hiper 580w type r makes a squeeling noise from inside the psu - it's not really loud, but audible, I don't think it's the fans, more like components inside the psu, but it's weird because usually it does it on game menus rather than when in the game worlds.
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Just search Hiper Type R 580w on this forum. It's safe to say I wouldn't tolerate anything out of the ordinary with one of those PSUs.

Tuvoc · 15 Jun 2008 at 23:37

Burned_Alive said:
Can anyone recommend a voltage monitor for Vista 64bit ?

Everest

waveydave79 · 16 Jun 2008 at 13:01

those voltages are fine.. seen a lot worse..

Burned_Alive · 14 Sep 2008 at 19:44

I am now suffering problems with my pc shutting off completely. No shutdown, just complete power off and then it procedes to go into a boot/power off loop. I have since booted up in an essentials only configuration (disconnected extra 4 hard drives + raid card) and the rails have dropped even further and this is only at idle;

3.3v - 3.17
5v - 4.82
12v - 11.93

Everything else seems fine, temps, performance, etc. So I can only presume the psu is starting to struggle under more load/at load? Could anything else be causing a complete power off?