Low PSU Voltages

[pjure09]

Dear Forums,

 

I was wondering if my power supply is dying and if my hardware is in danger.

I noticed that since a few weeks I get warnings from the asus utility on my chia plotting rig.

Specs are:

i7-4930k@stock with Noctua NH-U9DX i4

4*4GB+4*8GB=48GB 1866mhz DDR3

ASUS P9X79-E WS

Corsair HX1000

9*500GB 7200rpm WD Enterprise dirves, some in raid 0

One NVMe and one SATA SSD

No GPU

 

Now the 12v readings sometimes go down to 11,7 oder even 11,6. The 3,3 go to 2,960 and the 5v to 4,8. The red Dr. Power LED on the Mainboard flashes as well sometimes...

I read on some other forum that these readings can be inaccurate and should be confirmed by a multimeter.

The PC didnt crash or bluescreen yet, can these lower Voltages hurt my Hardware?

 

[akio123008]

1) software voltage readings may never be trusted, they're almost always FAR off.

 

2) assuming these readings are correct (which again, they aren't) the values are perfectly fine and within spec.

[Guest]

HX1000 doesn't support software voltage readings.  You want the HX1000i to do that. 

[pjure09]

Thank you for the reassuring I will leave it running and see how long it survives. I guess 100% CPU all the time is not optimal anyway. I reduced the energy saving plan to balanced so it doesn't overclock as much, maybe that helps.