i got a new one, a corsaire 650 which will replace the 450w one
but i would like to make some kind of stress test on them, with gpu+cpu
what is the best software to monitor the use of my psu ?
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I have a couple of Corsair PSUs that can be monitored (over USB) for power usage and while I am happy with it as a PSU, I am not too charmed by Corsair Link, iQUE, etc. In fact I can't really figure out what is their recommended solution, and what is being depreciated, how to configure things without it constantly being a PITA about upgrading, etc.
I also find it odd that I can't seem to find many other vendors with that kind of monitoring capability - seems like ThermalTake has it, although I couldn't be sure. Surely Seasonic must have something? Ideally, I'd like something with just a device driver that can be picked up by HWInfo or something.
I guess USB is the only viable solution today, though it seems like a bit of a waste of a socket, shouldn't there should be some kind of wireless IoT protocol for motherboards yet for this kind of non-critical low bandwidth infrastructure?
Anyone have any suggestions for a decent PSU with a lightweight monitoring solution?
Not without adding hardware.
the TP link kp115 can monitor a single outlet.
The hs300 is an outlet strip with 6 outlets individually monitored.
A python script exist to collect power consumption stats for TP link kasa devices.
These can be monitored from the app on a phone or you could setup external monitoring like homeassistant OS.
A very small number of computer power supplies do offer this feature. I have a corsair power supply that reports how much power it uses. Only a few models they make even support this option.
Here is the one I have. This is a power supply for a desktop PC.
Here it is graphed in homeassistant via kasa hs300
There is no way to tell this accurately without additional hardware as there are no connections from the PSU which send that data (and indeed I doubt its being monitored in the PSU). You may be able to estimate it based on state of charge of the battery and consumption but it will likely be crude.
There must be multiple ways to externally monitor power draw using a device on the input to the PSU. One way would be to use an ESP8266/ESP32 based power controller that includes power draw monitoring. I've had good success using Shelly 1pm devices (https://www.shelly.com/en/products/shop/shelly-plus-1-pm) which can be easily read using http requests and/or MQTT. I have no doubt there are other cheaper brands which do exactly the same thing or can be made to do so using Tasmota - but I use Shelly's because they are easy and permitted in my country. Welcome to the world of IOT devices.
Note there is almost certainly a level of disconnect between your usage and what the battery is doing - so depending on your use case (ie the why) and your hardware this may be an XY problem. Its noteworthy that USB-C and even many older laptops have a negotiation of maximum charge rate between the laptop and charger - maybe you can take advantage of this and use a lower amp charger that negotiates max charge rate?
Hi All,
Since I built my new pc, sometimed I get random reboots (kernel power error 41). I checked everything and my conclusion is that my PSU could be faulty. I would like to monitor the voltage rails over time (12,5, 3.5 volts) and get a report, so I can check if there are any fluctuations in the voltage. Can RGB leds cause such issue?
Specs
CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K
ASRock Z690M PG Riptide/D5 (CPUSocket)
3726GB Seagate ST4000DM004-2CV104 (SATA )
32 GB DDR5 ram
931GB Samsung SSD 980 1TB (Unknown (SSD)
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