help with voltage readings

[bibitop]

hi

is it normal or ok to have 5,400 or 5,440v on the 5v ?

i did experience few shut downs folowed by "power surge" detected from mother board during reboot

psu ~ 6 years http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/hx620w

asus sabertooth z77, cpu i7 3770k, aio cooler lepa 240, msi gtx 970, 4x 4gb ddr3(@1600mz), 2x raid0 ssd, 2x hdd, 3x 120mm fan, 3x 140mm fan

do i need to buy a new psu?(if yes an corsair AX 860W will it be good to have for future changes?), can i do something to lower the 5V values?

 

thx

 

[STRMfrmXMN]

AIDA64 isn't a good thing to measure voltage with. You'd want something like the Corsair Link hardware in an RMi or a really expensive Sunmoon machine to measure the rail voltage. If your system is working fine don't worry about it.

[Guest]

Disable power surge detection in the BIOS.

 

If you want to know your PSU voltages, you need a DMM probing an available connector.  Not software that reads the voltages from an IC on the motherboard.

 

[alexhelvetica]

Yeah, probably about time you get a new PSU. Your PSU will be fine, motherboard anti surges are awful, because they are just not calibrated correctly, but HX620 is old. That's the 1st gen HX, circa to 2008.

[bibitop]

well the corsair hx620 just died while watching online video...

lucky me i did had another i5 pc not used and replaced the psu  http://www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00002714

my previous question still remains: do i need to buy a new psu?, something like Corsair AX 860W ( http://www.corsair.com/en-eu/ax860-atx-power-supply-860-watt-80-plus-platinum-certified-fully-modular-psu ) will it be good to have for future changes/upgrades ?

 

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