Can I trust the voltage readouts on my motherboard?

[Terrh]

Trying to figure out a stability issue with my computer. HWmonitor offers a nice voltage readout, and I noticed my +12V can drop pretty significantly under load. Here's a screenshot after running a stress test (gpu and CPU):


Power supply is a "new model" TR2-600. 80+ bronze, should be more than enough. My kill-a-watt says the computer never draws more than 315 watts from the wall.

So is that +12V too low? Or can I even trust these numbers?

[Pentium4]

Re: Can I trust the voltage readouts on my motherboard?

Software monitoring is useless. A multimeter is always the best option If it was dropping to 11V then your computer would freeze or restart.

[Terrh]

Re: Can I trust the voltage readouts on my motherboard?

it is freezing, and I'm trying to figure out why.

[shovenose]

Re: Can I trust the voltage readouts on my motherboard?

What power supply you using?

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Can I trust the voltage readouts on my motherboard?

What power supply you using?

Ummm... you had the answer to that if you'd bothered to read the whole post.

Power supply is a "new model" TR2-600. 80+ bronze, should be more than enough.