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    Circuits overpowered

    Hello.

    I have a question. Is it normal (this may look silly) that my motherboard circuits are overpowered a bit?

    Code:
    +5V:         +5.03 V  (min =  +2.12 V, max =  +0.83 V)   ALARM
    +12V:       +12.10 V  (min =  +7.24 V, max =  +4.68 V)   ALARM
    -12V:        +1.46 V  (min =  -6.77 V, max = -14.50 V)   ALARM
    -5V:         +2.29 V  (min =  +0.88 V, max =  -0.48 V)   ALARM
    V5SB:        +5.54 V  (min =  +6.26 V, max =  +3.44 V)   ALARM
    VBat:        +3.49 V  (min =  +2.50 V, max =  +2.82 V)   ALARM
    I have an ASROCK P4I65G

    Aroll605

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    Re: Circuits overpowered

    Yes there is a little tolerance, and often the PSU provides a little above, which is good because it may go down a little under heavy load.

    but those min/max values look odd...or I am not reading it right at this time of night... is that list from the BIOS setup for setting an alarm?

    Also the negatives aren't of so much concern. -5v has been somewhat discontinued in the last few years, I think was mainly needed for legacy ISA slots. And -12v I don't think is too important anymore unless you have serial ports, but I could be wrong on that
    "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." --Yogi Berra

  3. #3
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    Re: Circuits overpowered

    I used 'sensors' from ubuntu repository to access the temperature sensors.

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