8 year old Seasonic S12: time to change?

Superlevure

Superlevure

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Hi everyone,

I bought a beautiful S12 600w on OC UK a bit more than 8 years ago. I was just wondering if it was a wise move to keep such an old PSU, even though it seems to run perfectly fine. It might not deliver 600w anymore?

Also, I'm about to change my rig for a i7 4790k+Z97-pro gamer: I'm not sure cables will all fit, that's quite a generation gap.


If I changed it, what should I take? What would be the equivalent modular PSU? Shall I go for more than 600W? (I'm not interested in SLI)
 
After a few years the psu can start breaking down, I personally would probably look at going for a new psu.

A 550w would be ample with your setup.
 
That PSU may not support Haswell sleep states, need to check, if not the new sleep state can be disabled in BIOS.

Was the PSU running hot in previous build? The hot air degrades the capacitors, if it always ran cool it should be fine.

Paying extra for quality PSU's can actually work out cheaper as often they can be reused in next build.
 
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Well built PSUs (like yours) can easily last 10 years with no hitches at all, there's no real evidence to support significant energy loss over such a short period of time for PSUs. Especially if you're not riding it 24/7. On Seasonic's own site they say the mean time between failure is 100,000 hours at 25 degrees C under full load. That's 11 years of full load non-stop.

Spend that money on a beer instead and relax. ;)
 
JasonM said:
That PSU may not support Haswell sleep states, need to check, if not the new sleep state can be disabled in BIOS.

Was the PSU running hot in previous build? The hot air degrades the capacitors, if it always ran cool it should be fine.

Paying extra for quality PSU's can actually work out cheaper as often they can be reused in next build.
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Good point. I don't even know about Haswell sleep states - that's typically the kind of thing I need to bear in mind: even if the PSU still works fine, connectors and functionalities may need a big update.

That PSU saw three or four different builds (8 years sounds like an eternity in computing!) Well, on another thread I enquire about changing a 10 year old Antec Sonata, which is just a metal box, but still.
 
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Poneros said:
Well built PSUs (like yours) can easily last 10 years with no hitches at all, there's no real evidence to support significant energy loss over such a short period of time for PSUs. Especially if you're not riding it 24/7. On Seasonic's own site they say the mean time between failure is 100,000 hours at 25 degrees C under full load. That's 11 years of full load non-stop.

Spend that money on a beer instead and relax. ;)
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That's a lot of beers :-)
 
My mother has an old PC thats at least 10 years old with some no-name brand PSU in it and its still going strong. With such ancient hardware its not worth replacing when and if it goes pop the whole lot will be binned. I've had TV's that are more than 10 years old had no trouble with them they just got out of date when they were chucked out.

But if you have some modern hardware you might want to look at a new one if only for piece of mind's sake.

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Do you recommend EVGA because it's a good deal at the moment or because it's particularly good? Is Seasonic not that good anymore?
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EVGA's are rebranded SuperFlowers which are about the best bang for your buck in terms of quality vs price right now. Nothing wrong with Seasonic but they're certainly not cheap either.
 
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