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I have a 650w Corsair PS. I am currently running an X2 6000+, 4gb ram, 160gb WD SataII OS drive, 500gb WD SataII DVR drive, watercooled w/7 total 120mm fans (4 yates, 3 TT) and an 8800gtx, 1 Hauppage 150PVR. 1 IDE DVD+/-rw. Plus I'm about to add 2 1TB Samsung drives for backup and media serving purposes.

I've recently wiped and reinstalled everything. Before my clean install I was slightly o'cing at 3.185ghz but did not o'c the gtx. Now as I am checking my temps and setting things back up, I am seeing only about 9.68v reported on my 12v in both Speedfan and OCCT.

Do you think this is an issue with my PS or MB? Or is it not accurately reporting? TIA
 
The TX650 is plenty for those components. And I can tell you right off the bat that those readings are completely off, because if the voltage was that low your computer wouldn't be running. The only way to properly check your voltages is with a multimeter. Software readings should not be trusted or even considered altogether.
 
yeah voltage that low is so out of spec the PC wouldn't even post and the drives wouldn't spin up etc.
Check the voltage in the bios, and check to see is there are issues with the board's sensor giving bad readings.
 
undermined said:
yeah voltage that low is so out of spec the PC wouldn't even post and the drives wouldn't spin up etc.
Check the voltage in the bios, and check to see is there are issues with the board's sensor giving bad readings.
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Even BIOs voltage reading is inaccurate. Multimeter is the proper way to check voltages.
 
Danny Bui said:
Even BIOs voltage reading is inaccurate. Multimeter is the proper way to check voltages.
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yes it is, that is why I said see if there are known issue with that boards sensors giving strange readings. Obiviously if the sensor is faulty the bios still uses it to get readings.

But I wouldn't tell someone to grab a multimeter and start probing the molex connectors of their PSU while the pc is running unless I know that they could handle that safely versus entering the bios to double check what it says in there first.
 
undermined said:
But I wouldn't tell someone to grab a multimeter and start probing the molex connectors of their PSU while the pc is running unless I know that they could handle that safely versus entering the bios to double check what it says in there first.
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Generally, I assume that if that person has or know what a multimeter is, there's a fair chance that the person knows what he's doing. With that said though, you're right, shouldn't assume that a person is intelligent enough to know how to use a multimeter on a PC correctly.
 
undermined said:
yes it is, that is why I said see if there are known issue with that boards sensors giving strange readings. Obiviously if the sensor is faulty the bios still uses it to get readings.
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Even sensors that aren't faulty won't read the voltages properly. Because of the way the circuits are built and the filtering components used, the voltage reported by software will always be different from the actual voltage provided by the PSU. The only way to properly measure voltage output is by taking it straight from the PSU leads.
 
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