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Disappointed in Smart -> TruePower switch....

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KevC

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I swapped my 300W SmartPower for a 380W TruePower and my rails have stayed relatively the same :(

Still very low...

3.12 +3.3
4.87 +5
11.67 +12

There are these "mutant mods" PSUs from Best Buy.... the amperages seem really high. Anyone tried them out?

Might switch to a 430W TruePower to see if it works better...
 
Perhaps that is because you are getting your readings from an inhearently inaccurate measurement source like mobo sensors ;) Get a multimeter!
 
Yeah, the readings you get from software tend to be incorrect. Only way to know for sure is to measure them yourself with a multimeter.
 
True. I don't have a multimeter.

However, my views on this change have looked up a little. I'm running at 12x200 without any problems. I mean even demo1 works well! :D

Priming for 3 minutes and counting....
 
KevC said:
3.12 +3.3
4.87 +5
11.67 +12
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If i've seen these flawed bios readings once, i've seen them a hundred times. I'd be willing to bet that your voltages are in-spec if you measured them with a multi (as the others suggested).
 
they aren't flawed, infact they are correct. The reason they change from psu spec is because of a little thing called resistance.

And ther eason ur rails are the same is because the resistance is the same and the rails are still pumping 12v, 5v, and 3.3v ... so basically you upgraded for no reason.

~Adam
 
CleanSlate said:
they aren't flawed, infact they are correct. The reason they change from psu spec is because of a little thing called resistance.

And ther eason ur rails are the same is because the resistance is the same and the rails are still pumping 12v, 5v, and 3.3v ... so basically you upgraded for no reason.

~Adam
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Eh?

I'm confused.

I upgraded because there were more amps pumping into the rails. I dropped out of the physics specialist program and I don't recall ANY electromagnitism lessons from highschool so I don't know exactly how it works. But I had the idea that the more amperage the better the rails will be...
 
the rails are as high as they are supposed to be if you factor in resistance (any system having watts pass through it reduces the watts apssing through it due to resistance of the lines)...

thus the reading is correct, just with resistance factored in.. which is very normal.

And yes the amps are important for how many things you can run on a certain PSU, but not to the rail readings unless your previous readings were waaaay low... like mine was 12v @ ~9v... in that case mine went up to about 11.something because it's passing 12v through the system, it's just the resistance of the system lowers the reading between the psu and the sensor.

~Adam
 
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