3% is prime (& TPB was rated here), 6-10% I thought
was common for ATX 1.x PSU?
It had been skirting 4.7ish for the longest time so I
chalked it up to crap PSU
not thinking it would get worse, duh!
Well these particular Antec's (True Power) are now
infamous for failing within a
year or so due to bad caps. Sadly my system sat for
just over a year after the
PSU RMA in November 2005 (just long enough to be out
of warranty) until I could
afford a AGP video card to power it up in January
2007. Hence a year, 1 month
later in 2008 I have another dead Antec with less than
3yrs run-time total
between them.
Worse, Antec frakkers wouldn't do anything for me
given the unit was bought
9/2003 despite the described total run-time and the
massive failures of this
model. No more Antec's for me regardless of who ODM's
for them.
At some point I will replace the caps with new ones &
save this as a backup PSU.
DHSinclair wrote:
> j,
> I agree. You did get it half right! LOL! The antec
is toast.
> I know we can bench-race the 3% of the 5v rail
(~4.85v).
> I will let you win. I change psus when I see the 5v
rail reading
> 4.98v, or the 12v rail reading 11.97v. 5v is 5v and
12v is 12v.
> I use the canned asus probe utility. Suppose MBM
works good
> also, but I've problems with much of its' added
features.
> When the psu can not regulate to the stated voltage,
it is toast.
> Perhaps just me.
> Best,
> Duncan
>
> At 14:05 03/10/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>> 1st boot both would not be there, reboot only the
>> second missing, then both show
>> on 3rd boot kind of thing. As far as errors go both
>> the SATA's threw new bad
>> sectors daily to the point I was cursing Sleazgate
>> again as I run over 20hrs of
>> Seagate DST testing wondering how 2 seagates could
be
>> such junk. No reprieve on
>> that until I swap PSU & have no more bad sectors!.
>>
>> Problems didn't start until I added the 2 SATA's to
>> the 2 IDE's + CD + DVD in
>> the box. Guessing the load was just too much for
the
>> poor antec. MBM was telling
>> me my 5V was over 3% out of spec, I've just been
>> ignoring it thinking "false
>> positive on shitty Antec PSU". I was half right,
lol.
>>
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