How to know if your PSU is working fine?

[colescottFTW]

I have had suspicions for over a year that my PSU is running under what it should be. Without reading Omhs, is there a way i can view any potential problems in the bios

 

[nukemaster]

I do not see why the one you had would not have worked.

Do you have an ECO tile in the bios?

MSI has several designs for the bios. any chance I can get a screen shot?

 

[colescottFTW]

I do not see why the one you had would not have worked.

Do you have an ECO tile in the bios?

MSI has several designs for the bios. any chance I can get a screen shot?

Yea there is a ECO title i believe. Let me get you a picture

 

[nukemaster]

Does the eco tile happen to show voltages in the center when selected?

Image from Anandtech.com

 

[colescottFTW]

Does the eco tile happen to show voltages in the center when selected?

Image from Anandtech.com

Yes I found it! failed to take a screen shot, because said i needed some sort of USB, but i wrote down the results. 5v 5.087 12v 12.232

 

[nukemaster]

Well within 2% seems good to me. Now these are idle numbers, but as I figured above, 8 volts would give a non functional system.

You can grab the monitoring software from the MSI website if you want to see the actual numbers in Windows and while playing games.

Again, I think you may be loosing some performance with dual screens(or at least it looks that way with the report you posted above), try with a single screen or at least with games in fullscreen mode(not fake fullscreen or boarderless window ect.)

EDIt.

Yeah bios screen shots need a fat32 formatted flash drive(I am sure a hard drive would work, but Windows uses NTFS so that is out). I have even seen some flash drives not work from time to time.

 

[colescottFTW]

Well within 2% seems good to me. Now these are idle numbers, but as I figured above, 8 volts would give a non functional system.

You can grab the monitoring software from the MSI website if you want to see the actual numbers in Windows and while playing games.

Again, I think you may be loosing some performance with dual screens(or at least it looks that way with the report you posted above), try with a single screen or at least with games in fullscreen mode(not fake fullscreen or boarderless window ect.)

EDIt.

Yeah bios screen shots need a fat32 formatted flash drive(I am sure a hard drive would work, but Windows uses NTFS so that is out). I have even seen some flash drives not work from time to time.

My second screen is always idling and is my tv. I use it for audio. Does it still take away from performance?

 

[nukemaster]

Running 2 screens generally has some performance hit. Try to just switch it off in the Nvidia control panel or even Windows to see if it improves things.

Its worth a shot.