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Needing a replacement.....

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Gibby82

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Ok, here is the setup:

Aspire X-Qpack
Biostar T-Force 6100 (Socket 754)
AMD Athlon 3700
2 x 512MB Team Xtreem BH-5
74 GB Raptor
XFX 7600GT XXX Ed.
Audigy 2 Value
CD-RW

My Antec Truepower II 430 is failing-tonight when I gave up on my OC project and backed it down to stock setting the 12V rail was dipping to 10V. I believe this may be due to the fact its really warm in there as well as the fact it's not the best PSU for OC'ing. So, here's what I need:

A power supply that can give me enough juice to overclock to 2.6 from 2.4 (Clawhammer), survive the heat of the SFF environment, not cost more than $80, and fit into the Qpack.

I appreciate any help given. I'm currently looking at a few different units, but want to see what the good folks in this forum had to say.
 
did you measure with a digital multimeter? if not try using that instead. software readers are very inaccurate, dont trust bios either. and if you dont want to bother, go ahead an oc until its not stable. worse that can happen if your psu doesnt provide enough volts is that it will shutdown. i do not believe an antec will kill your comp. keyword "believe." :D
 
Both Everest and the Biostar monitors (not perfect I know) previously have shown around 12 (11.XX). I've had it for about a year or so, and it's always been around that number. Now it is no where near it. At times it dropped in the high 9's. Some of this was at idle. So, better safe than sorry, I'm looking to replace it.

Oh, and it's unstable, at least when it was OC'd. Rebooted twice today while playing BF2.
 
After testing like David said things looked ok. I then wondered about the different 12V rails and whether or not they were separate....so when looking for a place to reach the next thing I wanted to test I noticed something wrong, very wrong. I'm not going to go into detail because I feel dumb enough already, but it fixed the problem.

However, I'd like to upgrade this PSU one day, so any suggestions meeting the original requirments are appreciated.
 
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