Dell power supply dying?

[toymachineman19]

My dell PSU I think may be dying, it was acting flaky before, and I just took it out, tested it, and it runs 11.83V on the +12V rail (nothing connected, I shorted the PS_ON on the ATX connector), which I thought was strangly low because my Fortron BlueStorm PSU runs at 12.08V when my computer is connected to everything. Maybe the dell PSU is dying?

 

[[Spectre]]

11.83 is within spec complaince of +/-5%

 

[toymachineman19]

ok thanks, I forget to check with the range that it may run at..hmm, I'll figure it out eventually.

 

[larrymoencurly]

Many PSUs actually put out less than normal voltage without a load on them. For example, one I had by a Dell supplier put out < 11V unless the +5V rail was loaded with at least 2-3 amps.