Could this be a PSU Fault?

Daston

Daston

Daston

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Hey guys,

It feels like I must have a secret hobby of smashing mirrors at the moment as nothing appears to be going my way!

The last few weeks I have noticed my PSU fan going to full speed and then dropping off to nearly zero, it repeats this cycle every couple of minuets.

Temps inside the case are OK, the cpu is running at 78c and the GPU isn't going over 75c, the PSU fan is nice and clean as is the exhaust port on the back.

Last night it was doing the same but would crash any game, black screen and then reboot. The event log only records a Kernal Power error.

The PSU is just under 3 years old and is a OCZ ZT 1250W

Time to RMA the PSU?
 
Yeah it is chucking out a fair amount of heat.

Postage dosnt bother me too much as it'll still be cheaper than spending £200 odd on a new one... Of course that's if they will honour it.
 
I did think that myself, I originally got the 1250 as I was planning on running more GPUs but never got round to it.

Would 750W be enough for SLI (just a bit of future proofing)
 
Ah yes forgot to say lol. Got a 780gtx at the moment and plan on swapping that to a 980gtx next year.

EVGA sounds great will take a look :)
 
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