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  • Enlight 250-watt -5V issue

    I have an Enlight 7237 case with a Enlight 250-watt PS. I don't have any lockup problems but with my Abit BF6's Hardware Monitor I get an alarm on the -5V. It's running -5.5 to -5.8. Is this ok? Is my G400 baby gonna blow up and burn? huh? huh?


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    Last edited by dneal; 20 May 2022, 08:55.

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    I highly doubt it. typically the power supplies are fine if withing 10% of their spec. Just turn off monitoring it'll be fine.
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    • #3
      I have one of them Enlight 250W's at home... Running my athlon at 1.7V. That one works fine. But when I ordered 3 more PSU's to work with Athlon 700's they didn't supply enough power.

      The 700's are as i undestand the most hungry athlons, but still i didn't have anything else than a gfx card and a hd in them. The Enlight 250w's have 25A on +5V and 14A on +3.3V. That's too low for most athlon's and maybe even for other cpu's? The bottom line, if you hook on a lot on +5V stuff (hd's etc), it might lower the 5V enough to mess up the -5V calibration aswell.

      That Enlight PSU is even recommended by AMD. Straight up bull, i say. I had to replace them on 3 of my 4 Enlight cased machines.

      Be Well!


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      • #4
        Hamlet, is your's listed here? If so return them as defective. It's more of a quality issue involving them than amperage. I have a 300w (Powerman) PS for my Athon500@850 set to 1.9v. and it runs fine. This one was choosen due to the very high current draw mine exibits. He shouldn't worry as his P3@630 doesn't draw anything close to the current an Athlon draws.
        "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

        "Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark Twain

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