how is my psu performing?

[treepop]

I amusing setup as in sig....also I have one cdrom and 6 fans 1 is tornado 80mm and one is smartfan2 80mm and one has 4 blue leds rest are reg 80mm's 1 hardrive and one sound sensitive neon light.......mbm is readin as follows
+3.3 = 3.28
+5 = 4.97
+12 = 11.98
-12 = -12.03
-5 = -4.94

am I ok?

[glock19owner]

is that at full load or idle...if idle...run toast for about 10 to 15 minutes...I find that to really put a stress on the PSU and the CPU...and then see how your voltage is doing and post your load volts...

[treepop]

well is that good at full load or idle? eother or both?

[glock19owner]

not bad for idle...but the full load voltage is what will matter...

[treepop]

aight thanks :D...actually stunned my temps flew up since I brought this computer to my girls place...went from 43 to 46 so I am now skepticle to take it to it's full load just yet :D

[glock19owner]

just run toast for about 5 minutes or so then...that way the CPU wont get too hot...but will still put a load on the CPU...

[treepop]

sweet folding at same voltage at 100% load...but temps are 49!!!!!!!!! eek

[glock19owner]

Here's mine at idle...this is running a Tt420w and 1 80G Matxtor, 1 48x16x48 CD0RW and 1 52x CD-Rom...with AOHELL and Yahoo and 3 IE browsers running...running at 12.5x167...the 8KHA+ doesn't like to run past 171FSB...

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/voltage.JPG

Here it is at full load with both CD's running and transfering a 100+MB file while running toast...

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/load.JPG

[glock19owner]

Originally posted by treepop
sweet folding at same voltage at 100% load...but temps are 49!!!!!!!!! eek

Folding doesn't put as much of a load as running toast does on a PSU...try toast and see how your voltage drops ;)

[treepop]

I think sandra's burn in proggie would be fine wouldn't you think? I suppose I will try that for 5 min :Das I don't have toast and am curren;ty at girls place using dial up :(

[glock19owner]

Toast Download (http://majorgeeks.com/article.php?sid=867) only 256kb...

and no...Si Sandra doesn't even compete with toast on putting a stress on the PSU and CPU...

[treepop]

aighty will do right now :D

[treepop]

should I do normal or high priority..in settings options?

[glock19owner]

either or...both are going to put a good load on the CPU...go with high...that way you can test the stability of the CPU at the same time...but using high will slow everything else down big time...

[treepop]

ok WOWSAS! 52 c thats insane!....I am used to my computer running at 32 lol this is nuts I gata reseat this baby and turn my fans up!.....or my voltage down...heh anywho yeah first time I was multi tasking at high priority and crashed my computer hehe....but I restarted and left it alone and it got hot but was stable and so where my voltages:D so are they good at full load?.....I gata get some watercooling you can see my setup in my sig :D...it's nice but I think I gata do something drastic if I am gunna run my fans this low and at 2.3 full time :D

[treepop]

hmmmmmm...should I return this psu....I think I should get a multimeter before jumping to conclussions heh..since I here mbm aint the greatest way to tell what voltages your getting

[glock19owner]

if they are staying pretty much like you posted above...or close to mine...then I wouldn't worry about the PSU...

Thats what I love about toast...if your system can do a few hours of toast at high, then you are pretty rock stable...

[treepop]

yeah and for a small download it's a great program :D

[glock19owner]

gotta love the devil pic on it also...I am sure you know the reason behind it now after you ran it just for a few minutes...lol...

[star882]

I use distributed.net to load the CPU and Fear Factor to load the GPU.
I am running the following on a stock Dell 250w PSU(the Britney Spears of PSUs):
Pentium 4 2.4GHz w/ 533MHz FSB
Dell mobo
640MB DDR333 SDRAM
2 60GB 7200RPM HDs
GeForce 4 MX 420 w/ 64MB RAM
48x24x48x CD-RW
16x DVD-ROM
PCTV Pro
Voltages(measured using DMM with Fear Factor(to load the GPU) and distributed.net(to load the CPU) running):
12v: 11.99
5v: 5.02
3.3v: 3.30
Besides the rails being almost perfect, the PSU is very quiet(I cannot hear it over the CPU fan(which is very quiet, too)), so I think the Dell PSU is a modified Antec Truepower(it is WTX instead of ATX(I have heard some rumors that a 250w Dell PSU is a relabeled Antec Truepower 330w)).