Voltage Sensors

[nheather]

Can voltage sensors be relied on. I don't get it - I thought there was an on-board sensor which may be accurate and may not.

But I thought that all the applications Everest, AbitEQ, SpeedFan would just read from that sensor and therefore display the same thing, accurate or not.

But for +12V I get

Volt Meter reading = 12.18
Abit EQ = 12.08
Everest = 9.06
SpeedFan = 6.4

Don't understand - what is happening?

I have a problem with my PC somewhere it is very difficult to track down when you can't get sensible info.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[EsaT]

What else can you expect from software?

Obviously last two can't be true because then you couldn't use that computer.

 

[nheather]

Indeed, but how can it be that bad.

Software can't measure voltage. So hardware sensors on the motherboard do that and present the results to a driver (in the firmware I presume or part of the chipset).

All these tools read from that driver - so how can they possibly come up with different values.

Or alternatively, if they are present values that are upto 50% inaccurate then that is a major bug which I would have thought would be fixed by now.

Cheers,

Nigel