Is my PSU ok? Asus anti-surge

JPS

Hi guys

So I have just built a new PC consisting of:

Asus M5A78L-M USB3
AMD FX6100
Crucial Ballistix 8GB DDR3
120GB SSD
1.5TB HDD

I installed everything and it was all running fine. Then it rebooted, with a message on the bios screen stating

"power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable psu...."

My PSU is a 650W CiT psu which ran fine in my old machine (which still had a AMD Phenom x4 etc) so I would have thought the PSU is fine. It kept restarting with the same message. After a bit of googling I read it should be ok to turn off Asus anti-surge in the bios as it can be very fussy. Since I turned it off my PC has been fine!

Do you think my PSU is ok for my system or should I still be looking to get a better one? My vcore seem very low at 0.91 on idle then goes up to 1.38 when in use.

Thanks

jayme1

JPS wrote: »

Hi guys

So I have just built a new PC consisting of:

Asus M5A78L-M USB3
AMD FX6100
Crucial Ballistix 8GB DDR3
120GB SSD
1.5TB HDD

I installed everything and it was all running fine. Then it rebooted, with a message on the bios screen stating

"power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable psu...."

My PSU is a 650W CiT psu which ran fine in my old machine (which still had a AMD Phenom x4 etc) so I would have thought the PSU is fine. It kept restarting with the same message. After a bit of googling I read it should be ok to turn off Asus anti-surge in the bios as it can be very fussy. Since I turned it off my PC has been fine!

Do you think my PSU is ok for my system or should I still be looking to get a better one? My vcore seem very low at 0.91 on idle then goes up to 1.38 when in use.

Thanks

I personally would say get a better PSU something trusted like a Corsair,
CiT it will do it's job but it is a cheap brand and I personally would not want it anywhere near any half decent PC mainly because of the risk of failures and unreliability.

JPS

jayme1 wrote: »

I personally would say get a better PSU something trusted like a Corsair,
CiT it will do it's job but it is a cheap brand and I personally would not want it anywhere near any half decent PC mainly because of the risk of failures and unreliability.

Cheers mate. My pc has just had BSOD and restarted, so I am guessing the new mobo /cpu really isn't liking this psu?!

JPS

Went and bought this and now PC is flying!