How old is your PSU?

TruffleShuffle

TruffleShuffle

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I've recently gone through a big upgrade with my PC, but i kept the existing PSU. It's a good'n, a Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 650w. But it's 10 years old now.

Looking at it it's rated to Gold standard only, i see there is now up to Titanium. I've also recently started using a power monitor plug with my PC and, a 'good' day with the PC on, sometimes idling, several hours at full power playing a game, it costs me about £1.00 per day.

So i'm curious whether a new Titanium rated PSU of similar wattage (would probably go upto 750w instead), would help? Then i got to thinking about the age of my current PSU and whether it would 'blow' sometime soon given its age.

How old is your PSU?
 
Tetras said:
If you can tell me the:
- typical hours (per day) you're using the PC at idle & the hours you're using the PC at load
- the idle and load wattage (at the wall, preferably)

then I can run the numbers for a titanium PSU.
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This i can do!

4 hours at load, 1 idle
460-480w showing on the monitor at the moment playing The Long Dark
90w it seems sat in windows (idle).
 
Odd development. I havent replaced the PSU yet, but the PC isnt trying anywhere near as hard when playing The Long Dark today. the only difference is that i INCREASED the graphics settings last night. I noticed that V-Sync was off, and that even on 'Ultra' a number of the sliders for draw distance and detail get set to mid-points. So i maxed them out to see how it would affect the FPS. No affect on FPS, game looks better than ever now obviously too, and i dont know how but the GFX card seems LESS used.

Will keep monitoring, but at the moment the plug is showing a draw of 218w while i'm running around in TLD, same as before when it was drawing 400+w.
 
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