Replace 7 year old PSU?

AMDPower · 30 Jul 2018 at 11:45

Hi

I was wondering if its worth changing my PSU? I currently have a Antec HCP-1200w psu and it has been nothing short of amazing, to be honest I have never used more than 250-260ww from this thing at any one time and that is under load. Like i mentioned never had a problem with it and I am about to do a new Ryzen build and was thinking it might be best just to replace is as a precaution just encase it goes boom.

I was thinking of getting a Seasonic Prime Ultra titanium but this is £260 almost

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seas...-titanium-modular-power-supply-ca-063-ss.html

but for £50 less I can get Seasonic prime platinum

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seas...-platinum-modular-power-supply-ca-05y-ss.html

I cant seem to figure out what the difference is between the Prime Ultra and just normal Prime series apart from titanium? Not sure if its worth buying titanium and 300w less or get platinum with 300w more and £50 less?

I do leave my computer on 24-7 mostly in sleep mode but generally never shut down. I really need something that will give me room to expand to thread ripper type platform and dual GPU with water cooling in the future.

Thanks all

Kelt · 30 Jul 2018 at 14:08

I bought my PSU (in sig) on 22/11/2007.

It works fine so I keep using it.

Why replace something if it works?

EsaT · 30 Jul 2018 at 14:48

It's good PSU made from quality components so no need to replace it.

AMDPower said:
I do leave my computer on 24-7 mostly in sleep mode

Using sleep mode is good thing, because efficiency during idling could be below 75%.

AMDPower · 31 Jul 2018 at 16:59

Thanks guys

Yeah you are both correct, was just worried if thing went boom one day and take out my shiny new equipment. But will keep it for a while longer. The only real reason i want to upgrade is because its not fully modular and I really want a neat and tidy case this time round. But will now wait for sea sonic to release a 1300w version of the Ultra Prime Titanium.

AMDPower · 31 Jul 2018 at 17:00

Kelt said:
I bought my PSU (in sig) on 22/11/2007.

It works fine so I keep using it.

Why replace something if it works?

wow that is amazing working for almost 11 years.

smsmasters · 3 Aug 2018 at 16:32

I have a PSU from 2001 still working fine.

Doogles · 3 Aug 2018 at 18:30

I'd just use it until the warranty runs out, if you get a 10 year warranty then it should be capable of doing so, otherwise the manufacture would get far to many RMA's. If you have cheap hardware then continue using it, if you get a new build replace IMO.

Wingz · 4 Aug 2018 at 14:11

still using the Seasonic M12-600W which i brought in 2007 and Will also buy the Seasonic focus plus 750w for my next upgrade.

Hades · 10 Aug 2018 at 08:54

I have a seasonic from about 2008. It was second hand then. It's been used several hours a day ever since. Still running fine. I am looking for another one simply because it's not modular.

GWANGY · 11 Aug 2018 at 11:03

Antec earthwatts ... a really good supply .. just seemed to ooze quality.
With an old supply isnt there some probability of incompatibility with haswell ++ and sleep mode ? i.e the cpu draws sp little power the system shuts itself down?? iirc

Doogles · 11 Aug 2018 at 12:02

GWANGY said:
Antec earthwatts ... a really good supply .. just seemed to ooze quality.
With an old supply isnt there some probability of incompatibility with haswell ++ and sleep mode ? i.e the cpu draws sp little power the system shuts itself down?? iirc

Yeah there can be but I think most BIOS have the option for older PSU's, personally I never use sleep so that wouldn't bother me.

EsaT · 11 Aug 2018 at 16:03

GWANGY said:
With an old supply isnt there some probability of incompatibility with haswell ++ and sleep mode ? i.e the cpu draws sp little power the system shuts itself down?? iirc

Only bad to start with PSUs would have had any problem with that.
Idle consumption of CPUs dropped to few watts already during Core 2 era and if that lowering further was enough to destabilize PSU it was total crap already then.

Skorpion · 12 Aug 2018 at 13:22

Corsair AX1600i is a good psu