Age when its time to question your power supply?

[Evil-I]

Hi All,

Soon about to do a big upgrade from my heavily overclocked (on water) i7 3930k and dual GTX970's Also heavily overclocked) to Ryzen 9 5950x and whatever new era graphics card wins out as far as performance, price and availability is concerned.

My PSU is a Superflower leadex platinum 1000Watt and is probably nearly 7 years old? It's been spot on the entire time I've had it, running a 3930k at up to 4.8Ghz (I won the silicon lottery hence why I've kept it running so long) and at one point 3 x gtx 970's all with modded bios and heavy overclocks.

I haven't had any reason to doubt it, but also wouldn't like it to go pop and take out expensive new components...

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

E-I

 

[Evil-I]

Thanks guys, helpful.

To be honest even with the load I've had on it I don't think I've ever particularly stressed it, I'm guessing it never went much above 800Watt even with all the overclocks, the fan rarely even kicked in and I'm massively impressed with the quality of the engineering from SuperFlower. I'm not sure many other PSUs would have got a stock 3.2ghz i7 processor to 100% stable at 4.8ghz (well 4.7Ghz 24/7) for over 7 years...

So I'm leaning towards the wait and see as per mattyfez's suggestion, and if anything starts looking a little dodgy or unstable then I'll change it out quick.

Funnily enough a VERY old psu I bought over 20 years ago (Tagan 480 watt I think) only just died in a hand me down bits build I did for my mum a few years ago. Solid workhorse and didn't damage anything else when it finally gave up.

Certainly got my moneys worth from that!

Thanks again guys!

E-I

P.S. just did some online PSU calculation and even when it was running 3 x GTX970 and the 4.8Ghz overclock it was probably pushing just over 900Watt, the bulk of its life its just run the 2 x GTX970 and 4.7ghz CPU which according to the calculator is probably nearer the 750-800 Watt mark.