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5V line very low

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Rav

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Apr 25, 2001
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Philthadelphia
I have a nice 330W Enermax PSU thats worked great with my Athlon 800 for over a year. Now I have an Athlon XP 1800+ in there, and it seems like my 5V line is dipping dangerously low. It used to only drop to 4.95 at the most under full system load, but now with my new CPU and MB I'm seeing 4.8 and 4.7. I've been having system problems which seem to be related to hard drive performance (they run off 5V right?). I had a voltage mod hooked up, but disabling it didn't change anything. 12V is a solid 12.30, and 3.3V stays around that or 3.25. Sadly, my -5V is a 5.25 :p CPU vcore stays around 1.84-1.86 (w/o mod)

Is something wrong or do I actually need a bigger PSU? I have 2 HD's, 2 CD's, 6 fans and a livedrive hooked up.

Thanks,

-Rav
 
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