Too much voltage????

[scandalous]

My 5.0 and 3.3 rails have always ran at about .05 below spec(and sometimes up to .08 less), so I decided to crack it open and see if I could turn up the 3.3 and 5 rails. As you can see I was successful.. I this too much though??? If it is, what would be the ideal values????

My system:

ECS K7S5A
XP 1700@1652 1.89v (150 FSB, unstable at times)
256 megs 2.5cl DDR 2.7v Don't know the brand, but the chips have "elixir" on them..
GF2Ti
SB Live

My PS is a Fortron/Source FSP 350-60BN. (same thing as Sparkle I am told)

 

[Monaco]

hi scandalous, welcome to the forums!

your 3.3V looks fine to me- my system runs the 3.3V line at 3.53 by default, and it's never been a problem. Makes the RAM more tolerant of an OC.

The 5V, tho- that looks to be way to high to me. Mine as never gone higher than 5.05V. Can't say for sure if it is bad, but personally I would try to lower it.

How did you go about 'turning up' those rails?

 

[scandalous]

Thx for the welcome...

I just opened up the PSU and found 3 small pots. 1 has a direct effect on the 5v and 12v rails, another has an effect on the 3.3 and the third seems to do nothing at all...

Turned down the 5v to this...

 

[Monaco]

right on, I'll have to look in mine and see if I can find a way to adjust it...my 5V line sags a bit.

5.29 looks better than it was- what I would do is adjust it so that under full load it drops to exactly 5V, that would probably be safest. but 5.29 is probably close enough.