r u sure?u also experienced this prob?afraid of this things..may ruin my rig

its not my mobo. coz i'm using nvidia 680i mobo and most of them reached 475fsb easily but in my case i only get 395fsb.

Its normal, the monitoring chip that reads the Vcore is nowhere close to super accurate. Sometimes you can even get some really riduculous readings which are obviously wrong.

Not necessarily. AM2 and C2D systems are trickier to overclock than previous systems, hitting high FSB or HTT often requires tweaking a lot of settings. C2D systems are well known to have FSB 'holes' due to chipset strap settings and AM2 systems are notoriously sensitive to memory settings.

Don't worry about it
It's normal that it fluctuates.

hi all,

i want to ask, issit that lower mutiplier, fsb and voltage better in terms of stabilty?

Well that question should be asked elsewhere..but I'll answer it anyway.
For an overclocked system, the lower the multiplier, fsb and temp, the more stable the system is. More voltage to the processor core will stabilise it more, but if there's too much voltage and it overheats, it will become unstable, perhaps even be damaged; heat + extra voltage is a very bad combination for a processor. More voltage means cooling must be better. Keep in mind processor voltage is not controlled by the PSU, but by the motherboard.

yes. You are right which i already knew that fact. Let me explain. For my setup/CPU i got 400fsb hole but when straight to let say 410Fsb it will boot but unstable. Actually i managed to OC the board upto 450FSB but its not stable. i already tweaked some BIOS settings ie loose memory timings/overvoltage. I also knew that too much overvoltaging will make it unstable so i'm very cautious when increasing the voltage. i've done 4 months experimenting the board but i cant get it stable more than 395fsb. So i figured it might be my PSU. If you think that at some point i'm missing, your comments are welcome.

This post has been edited by campsol2k: Dec 8 2007, 01:46 PM

Do these values look ok ? I don't really understand what these values mean actualy. When it displays 12.19 , does it mean my system is drawing 12,19 volts from the psu ? Is this something i should worry about ?



This post has been edited by tZZ: Dec 10 2007, 03:28 AM

12.19 is what your 12v rail value is and from your screenshot, everything looks fine. I can see that you're running CPU/RAM at stock voltage so no overclocks

Thanks ! I just got a GTS card....i was afraid i had not enough juice to power it at full load. Mind explaining what the value means ? As in, is my system drawing too much power from the 12v that is why it is at 12.19 intead of under 12 v??

Here you go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_supply_rail

What are the differences between zf and op/da series? From the link on first page.zf 560w is already in tier 1,whereas op/da must be above 700w to be in tier 1 psus. However,zf are comparitively cheaper compared to op/da series. Why is this so? Thanks.

Firstly ZF is comparatively old compare to teh DA and OP series, seondly the zeus is a very very very solid psu. made by etasis, basically an almost true server class level psu. The op series imo the goods ones are onyl hte 1kliwat and the 1,2k . same geos to DA ( preactically teh same except its modular ) , for pricing im not so sure.. but u look at the age of the units the zeus have been around for quite some time. OP and DA relatively young.

Hmmm so ZF is better and more stable? So if we compare 500-800w psus,not the 1k or 1.2k ones,ZF more stable den OP/DA?

imo personally yes.. but in this range i would go and et the corsair hx620.

need help,
i want to buy a modular psu for my new rig..fit well in the case..which one should i go for
Enermax Liberty 500W Modular
or
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular

the corsair hx 520w is better...
single 12v rail of the corsair is good

Generally, the higher the number, the better it is but having lower numbers doesn't mean it's bad (unless we're talking about terribly low numbers).

I've tested both Gigabyte Superb 720W and Odin GT 550W. Although the Odin GT 550W is a quad 12V rail PSU, the +5V and Vdimm gives a lower reading compared to the 720W.

So what do you use now ?

Which PSU is cheap and good to power up my comp.
i wanna a good one
LGA775 MoBo (no SLi),
Pentium D 3.2GHz 2X2MB L2 Cache,
Planning to get a Ge8XXX or HD2XXX GPU,
2X 512MB XMS2 DDR2 RAM, (4 RAM slots available)
250GB SATA HDD,
2 DVD / DVDRW ROMs

how many watts i would need for this PC ??
i wan to know the minimum Watt my comp require

This post has been edited by general_odin: Dec 19 2007, 12:01 PM