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Submitted by groggycl on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 18:14
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Hi, story short, I´ve been having some trouble with my pc, maybe with my video card, so I went and downloaded some software to watch my components temperatures, so I downloaded CPUID pcwizard and noticed that my +12v line is showing 8,38v.

So my question is, as I don´t have a voltmeter now, Is that measurement possible (knowing my pc works relatively fine) or could it explain some of the failures? My current power supply is a generic chinesse power supply and my pc is a core2duo, nvidia 9800gt.

When playing starcraft 2 temp get up to cpu +-45, gpu +-64.

Thanks, sory for language mistakes, I´m from Chile.

Temps are fine, but if that

Submitted by Rodney Reynolds on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 10:00.

Temps are fine, but if that PSU reading is correct it's not great.

Regards, Rodney Reynolds (www.Support3GM.com) www.RodsRig.com


Those are great temps! GPUs

Submitted by Dj Neta on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:09.

Those are great temps!
GPUs and CPUs don't consume allot of power while running in idle, maybe thats why your voltages are lowered.

PSU isn't great, but i wouldn't upgrade it...
just save up some money and then invest it in a future build.

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If Celsius, 45C for the CPU

Submitted by Razear on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 19:47.

If Celsius, 45C for the CPU and 64C for the video card is completely fine under heavy load.

Might want to consider upgrading your PSU though, generic PSUs cause a ton of instability issues with your system.

- Razear