Weird voltage reading
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not really anything to worryabout, if it was x2 or 1/2 voltage out, your computer would be a little more screwed and notice.
It's probably a software error somewhere along the line, check you've got the latest bios and the software supports your bios.
It's probably a software error somewhere along the line, check you've got the latest bios and the software supports your bios.
Been having a refresh issue recently and i thought i got rid of it, but it seems to come back after prolonger periods, which is normally a good indication theres some heat or power issues.
Fit new cpu cooler tomorrow and will also unplug any non-essentials and see if that clears the issue up.
I was thinking, when you're in the bios, nothing is really running to draw much power, once it windows you got more drawing from it.
Board is on latest bios btw.
Couldnt get any liberty issues come up on google, well not much, but there was the odd one or two issues with people have failing ones in the first few months.
I'm running the following on the 500W liberty.
3 x 120mm Akasa Ambers
4 x Sata drives
1 Cathode
x1800xt
floppy
4 x usb devices (kb, mouse, gamevoice, gamepad)
Run it through the psu calculator and it wanted 27amps on the 12v line, and i'm pretty sure that psu does a bit higher.
Grasping at straws here, because its bascily stuttering in any games, where the FPS is high. V-sync on or off, same really(1-2fps variance).
I'll let you know how the testing goes tomorrow.
Fit new cpu cooler tomorrow and will also unplug any non-essentials and see if that clears the issue up.
I was thinking, when you're in the bios, nothing is really running to draw much power, once it windows you got more drawing from it.
Board is on latest bios btw.
Couldnt get any liberty issues come up on google, well not much, but there was the odd one or two issues with people have failing ones in the first few months.
I'm running the following on the 500W liberty.
3 x 120mm Akasa Ambers
4 x Sata drives
1 Cathode
x1800xt
floppy
4 x usb devices (kb, mouse, gamevoice, gamepad)
Run it through the psu calculator and it wanted 27amps on the 12v line, and i'm pretty sure that psu does a bit higher.
Grasping at straws here, because its bascily stuttering in any games, where the FPS is high. V-sync on or off, same really(1-2fps variance).
I'll let you know how the testing goes tomorrow.
Plopped the new cooler on and its keeping at 35C even clocked at 2.5.... 
Since the overclocking has no effect on the stuttering issue i decided i'd go 2.5 again and try independant sticks of ram.
So far, i've reseated the graphics card cooler with arctic, dropped my temps down already, i was 63C idle, now i'm 51C idle.
I reseated the chipset cooler on the motherboard and applied some arctic.
Also unplugged anything i don't need in, bare essentials, and this hasnt helped either.
So its not memory, its not a heat issue with the x1800 or the cpu, and hard drives seem fine, temps also done on those since i repositioned them.
So its either a problem with the HDD, mobo or PSU as i see it. Unless the cpu is playing up, but its the same only the slower at stock (slower meaning boot times and speed of loading aps/games).
Just installed the latest ati cats again and they've given me better fps then they did last time.
Going to try some different mobo drivers next, then switch around the audio drivers to.
I had about 10 mins the other night where it worked perfect, which is another reason to suspect power or heat, but my temps are all awesome right now, better then before and its made no difference at all.
Since the overclocking has no effect on the stuttering issue i decided i'd go 2.5 again and try independant sticks of ram.
So far, i've reseated the graphics card cooler with arctic, dropped my temps down already, i was 63C idle, now i'm 51C idle.
I reseated the chipset cooler on the motherboard and applied some arctic.
Also unplugged anything i don't need in, bare essentials, and this hasnt helped either.
So its not memory, its not a heat issue with the x1800 or the cpu, and hard drives seem fine, temps also done on those since i repositioned them.
So its either a problem with the HDD, mobo or PSU as i see it. Unless the cpu is playing up, but its the same only the slower at stock (slower meaning boot times and speed of loading aps/games).
Just installed the latest ati cats again and they've given me better fps then they did last time.
Going to try some different mobo drivers next, then switch around the audio drivers to.
I had about 10 mins the other night where it worked perfect, which is another reason to suspect power or heat, but my temps are all awesome right now, better then before and its made no difference at all.