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Masterdog

Masterdog

Masterdog

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Hi all,

My venerable old system is getting a bit long in the tooth now and I've finally decided to give it a spruce up. My budget is about £600-700 for cpu, mobo, ram, gpu + a little bit more storage. My heaviest usage is gaming at 1080p, I don't do any video processing or other intensive tasks like that.

My current config is as follows:
Intel i5 4460 3.2ghz
8gb 1600Mhz RAM
Radeon R9 270X 2gb
120gb SSD (and various storage drives - I'm going to keep the faster one and move the other RAIDed two out to a NAS)
620w PSU

Taking inspiration from this thread, I've decided to go with the following:

Total: £622.90 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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How does that look? It's been a while since I've done anything hardware related so please let me know if it needs changing :)

Thanks,

MD
 
Thanks! The PSU is a Corsair HX620w so it's coming up for a decade old now. It's been pretty faultless though, I don't know what the lifetime is on those kind of things?
 
Think it's best to err on the side of caution and replace once warranty expires - if the PSU goes it can take components with it
 
bagel said:
Think it's best to err on the side of caution and replace once warranty expires - if the PSU goes it can take components with it
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With that Corsair, I doubt that would happen. It's a Seasonic based model & it got a Ton of good reviews upon release. Having said that I owned 2 Corsair HX PSU's & both went pop (520 & 650) neither one of them didn't take any hardware with them when they expired.
 
Grimley said:
With that Corsair, I doubt that would happen. It's a Seasonic based model & it got a Ton of good reviews upon release. Having said that I owned 2 Corsair HX PSU's & both went pop (520 & 650) neither one of them didn't take any hardware with them when they expired.
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No matter what brand, if it's a decade old, its caps will have degraded. Agree with @bagel.
 
/\/\/\ Wont that depend on how hard a life its led over 10 years? I would understand cap degradation if it had been on at full load everyday a least 8 hours a day, but if it was on for only for a few hours with a light load on the PSU that would make a difference? I also thought that Capacititors would have nothing to do with taking out other hardware when a PSU goes bang, unless them doing so releases a large current surge with the PSU's own overvoltage protection unable to cope with said surge.

Doesnt Ryzen have something similar to intels own sleep state (Introduced with Haswell) that older PSU's could not cope with. In which case a new PSU would be needed anyway?
 
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