My Proc-Mobo Combo Choice......

[grss1982]

Re: My Proc-Mobo Combo Choice......

@ grss: I didn't reply before because I was really busy. Change your psu, this behaviour is far from being normal. As astech pointed out, voltages should recover in a small time (a couple of second or less) otherwise your psu is faulty.
If Speedfan doesn't recognize your hardware monitor (which is different from your chipset), then you should try RMClock or Notebook Hardware Control: the former is very detailed, showing both load and temperature of the two cores and allowing you to undervolt the cpu; the latter is notebook oriented and is recommended only if RMClock should crash.

Zandrax

Already did Zandra.

I am the proud owner of a Silverstone ST-400 (400W PSU) OEM: SPI. It has dual +12v rails, and since I've changed to it my +12V reading under the same application I used above for detecting voltages reads a solid 11.98.

My orginal PSU, an Enermax EG-465P-VE 431W, could'nt handle the load when it was stressed to the limit. THe PSU also became so warm at times that I could feel a hot spot on the top part of my ATX case were the PSU was generally located.

My theory is since the PSU only had a single +12v rail with beefy amps, it was still not enough for my setup when it was'nt running on idle.

Thanks for the concern.