How do these voltages look?

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Komataguri

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This is right after an extensive 4 hour gaming stint, Soon as I was done I rebooted and grabbed a screen shot out of the bios.
 
You need to take the voltages as you're running a stress test (ie Prime 95, Super Pi). As soon as you shut your game off (like the very instant it shuts off), the system load plummets. So taking your photo after a reboot doesn't help. Give us volts as you're stress testing. Although from what it looks like, your +12v is a little low for idling. If it dips any lower than 11.4 when you're gaming, you may experience stability issues.
 
Opinions? Ok.

Your 12V is low... but you're testing that in the BIOS, so you've got a lot of variables there (resistance, etc.) so I don't trust it. The only real way to test voltage is with a multimeter.

Also, like DaLurker is saying, you need to get voltage readings DURING something stressful like gaming, stress test, folding, etc. MBM5 lets you do this. It'll keep track of low and high voltages on a given rail.

Funny thing about electricity... it moves at the speed of light. ;) Even if your 12V was down to 10V, you would never see it on a reboot. Your votlages would immediately bounce back up to whereever they came from.

And although you've introduced extra heat to your power supply by performing a mega-game-fest, this heat only effects how well your power supply is going to perform under load and on a reboot and pop into the BIOS, your PC is no longer under load.

May I ask why are you asking? Are you having problems that you think may be power supply related?
 
while bios voltage readings are more accurate than the readings provided by software, you still should use a multimeter.. cause your 12V line does look low... what psu do you have?
 
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