I think this PSU is dying D:

I've had my Seasonic for 6 years or even more now! Still going really strong with voltages dead on! Only had to replace the fan as the old one started to tick.
 
A few years back I used to think on of my GTX460s was faulty... until the instability got to me and I splashed on a new PSU.
 
Guys, I'm looking for a replacement for this PSU - can anyone recommend something very reliable? Perhaps modular :) budget around 60-80 but preferably lower! has to be able to power the rig in blue in my signature safely
 
Been there, done it! paid the price etc :rolleyes:

Had an Antec earthwatts psu burn out and take the board with it. Another two non-standard Antec units in mini-atx cases popped, one flamed up and made the place stink for days.

I also had an FSP Bluestorm 500watter. It had a fancy led power switch and over the course of a week start to fizzle and pop. Lots of funky electric smell (ozone? not sure what you call it) and then finally it melted. I initially tossed the psu into a box, left it until I put in a new switch so has been working fine ever since. I would not have bothered if it had been a really cheap psu.
 
pastymuncher said:
Sorry chap but that's not a valid excuse. They are crap. The psu is the single most important component in a pc and is not the place to skimp. A extra fiver would have got you a far superior 650w XFX (built by Seasonic). Buy cheap, buy twice!!
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If it takes out components then it may cost you even more than that
 
Sounds like a relay is engaging, then disengaging. Maybe a relay is how PowerCool have designed in protection and instead of just cutting power and refusing to start again this one just comes back on again, and then trips again. I particularly like the way the fan spins up and then slows down repeatedly through the video.
 
Tealc said:
Sounds like a relay is engaging, then disengaging. Maybe a relay is how PowerCool have designed in protection and instead of just cutting power and refusing to start again this one just comes back on again, and then trips again. I particularly like the way the fan spins up and then slows down repeatedly through the video.
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The fan speeding and slowing was just how it looks on video :P strange trick of the light
 
Another strange query with this, I've built a frakenstein PC out of the parts I have left. The only PSU i have hanging around is a basically crappy 230watt grey thing - I'm using the cheapy asrock board from my sig, the phenom ii x6, 4GB ddr3 2x2gb -card - geforce 630GT and 3 sata hdd's.

I've reinstalled a fresh OS temporarily, but the PC will randomly shutdown by itself, I reinstalled folding at home and was running it, then all of a sudden the PC totally died, no blue screen or freeze up, just went off totally - it turned back on and booted absolutely fine, then the same thing happened again 3 times in a row, is this because folding is drawing too much load from the PSU to supply the CPU and GPU?
 
satanicguardian said:
Another strange query with this, I've built a frakenstein PC out of the parts I have left. The only PSU i have hanging around is a basically crappy 230watt grey thing - I'm using the cheapy asrock board from my sig, the phenom ii x6, 4GB ddr3 2x2gb -card - geforce 630GT and 3 sata hdd's.

I've reinstalled a fresh OS temporarily, but the PC will randomly shutdown by itself, I reinstalled folding at home and was running it, then all of a sudden the PC totally died, no blue screen or freeze up, just went off totally - it turned back on and booted absolutely fine, then the same thing happened again 3 times in a row, is this because folding is drawing too much load from the PSU to supply the CPU and GPU?
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Lol, please for the love of god throw that PSU out and buy something better before you do some damage to your parts :rolleyes:

One of these will do the trick if you are after something cheap and reliable. I have one in my backup rig (in sig).

YOUR BASKET
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £34.99

 
acme15 said:
Lol, please for the love of god throw that PSU out and buy something better before you do some damage to your parts :rolleyes:

One of these will do the trick if you are after something cheap and reliable. I have one in my backup rig (in sig).

YOUR BASKET
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £34.99

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I had an OCZ Stealthstream 650watt for about 6 years :D

Hmm, do you not think I should hold on till I buy my new rig? Reckon that the current PSU will kill it? :P
 
satanicguardian said:
I had an OCZ Stealthstream 650watt for about 6 years :D

Hmm, do you not think I should hold on till I buy my new rig? Reckon that the current PSU will kill it? :P
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The current PSU will probably do some damage to something. :rolleyes:

It cant provide enough power... If it's a cheap grey-box, it might not even output 230W. Lets say for arguments sake that it is actually outputting 200W, the system you are trying to power needs a tad more than that. A quality 350W PSU would do the trick. And that 500W CoreXstream will give you some headroom for if you wanted to add a slightly more power hungry GPU for folding. (like a 460, 470, 560TI etc)
 
acme15 said:
The current PSU will probably do some damage to something. :rolleyes:

It cant provide enough power... If it's a cheap grey-box, it might not even output 230W. Lets say for arguments sake that it is actually outputting 200W, the system you are trying to power needs a tad more than that. A quality 350W PSU would do the trick. And that 500W CoreXstream will give you some headroom for if you wanted to add a slightly more power hungry GPU for folding. (like a 460, 470, 560TI etc)
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Would the 500watt corestream psu run flat out folding on a 6970? :O
 
The CoreXstream can only deliver 444w on the 12v rails, suffers from high ripple and in the one review i could find, got a less than stellar rating. I would never recommend one even for a budget system.
 
Not sounding great is it, saying that need to jump on and grab a XFX supply for the aging celeron family pc. Just teared open the case and its a Sumvision Power X 500W, not sure I trust that thing as far as I could throw it. Then again it is still going after 4+ years.
 
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