Hello Everyone,
I'm looking into the prospect of overclocking my old socket 939 rig and have run into some peculiar inconsistencies in the data being reported by some of the monitoring software I have been using. While testing to see if my current HSF would be up to the task of a mild overclock, I was monitoring my temps using Speedfan while running Prime95. The temperature data seemed to be fine, however I noticed that Speedfan was reporting the +12V voltage on my power supply as only +11.3 volts.
Since this voltage out of spec, I stopped the test in Prime95 to see if that had any effect on the voltage, but it did not. I then opened up that monitoring software that came with my motherboard (AbitEQ) to double check the voltage, but found that this program showed the +12V voltage a fluctuating between +12.03V and +12.07V. I then checked in BIOS and found that the voltage listed there was +12.04. A quick check with my multimeter verified this result.
I guess my question would be why is Speedfan giving a result so much different than the other monitoring software when they should both be getting data from the same place? I'm somewhat hesitant to believe any of the data I'm getting from these programs now.
Anyone have an idea what might be causing this discrepency?
Thanks.
I'm looking into the prospect of overclocking my old socket 939 rig and have run into some peculiar inconsistencies in the data being reported by some of the monitoring software I have been using. While testing to see if my current HSF would be up to the task of a mild overclock, I was monitoring my temps using Speedfan while running Prime95. The temperature data seemed to be fine, however I noticed that Speedfan was reporting the +12V voltage on my power supply as only +11.3 volts.
Since this voltage out of spec, I stopped the test in Prime95 to see if that had any effect on the voltage, but it did not. I then opened up that monitoring software that came with my motherboard (AbitEQ) to double check the voltage, but found that this program showed the +12V voltage a fluctuating between +12.03V and +12.07V. I then checked in BIOS and found that the voltage listed there was +12.04. A quick check with my multimeter verified this result.
I guess my question would be why is Speedfan giving a result so much different than the other monitoring software when they should both be getting data from the same place? I'm somewhat hesitant to believe any of the data I'm getting from these programs now.
Anyone have an idea what might be causing this discrepency?
Thanks.