PSU Advice

[dienekes]

I've had a Corsair VS 550w orange label psu for the last 5 years, and have had no problems powering my i5 4590 and gtx 970, but I recently upgraded the gpu to a RTX 2060. I've been hearing bad things about my orange label psu, which has me worried. Any decent suggestions for one in the £80-£90 region? I was thinking about upgrading my i5 to a i7 4790k at some point, but the psu perhaps ought to be changed first? Thanks for any suggestions. I was thinking about the Corsair TX650M 650W 80 PLUS Gold psu as it falls right on budget at £89... Currently there doesn't seem to be any problems with the psu, should I change it only when it shows signs or is it a good idea to protect my new card and potentially an i7 4790k (or a 4770k) depending on price of the cpu?

I was wondering if it had the right cables for a ssd and a hdd?

Thanks for your time!

 

[dienekes]

That card doesn't really consume much.
But Corsair VS serie is very low end serie.
Meaning outdated already decade ago efficiency, generic cheap components, minimal 3 year warranty...
So definitely good to change it if it has seen lots of daily usage hours.

And looks like TX650M has jumped £15 in price...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...lar-power-supply-cp-9020132-uk-ca-234-cs.html
Making it more expensive than fully modular 10 year warranty Seasonic Focus Gold.
Seasonic Core serie has some well priced 7 year warranty models, though they're now out of stock.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seasonic-core-gold-gc-650-650w-80-gold-power-supply-ca-070-ss.html
Bitfenix Formula would be another better of cheaper PSUs.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/bitfenix-formula-series-650w-80-plus-gold-power-supply-ca-22z-bx.html


Anyway there's no sense to buy new CPU for that, unless it costs pocket money you would use to buy candy.
It's completely dead platform with every possible CPU being DOA in power and about half the CPU of new consoles coming out in fall/before Christmas.

Yeah, it's seen a lot of use - I will look to upgrade it - the TX one I linked has come in at £69.99 elsewhere, so I can purchase for even cheaper than originally planned.

I know the cpu is old tech, but I won't be able to afford a new motherboard, cpu and ram for a good while (and may end up getting one of the new consoles), so am going to try and squeeze a bit more life out of the old girl (I only really play Total War games on it and want the current line up to look as good as I can get them on my old system at 1080p on my 60hz monitor, and the RTX 2060 is performing terribly, currently worse than my GTX 970 - massive framerate drop in extreme settings: 970 over a hundred - 2060 down to 17 fps at times - drivers removed properly and installed - maybe it is a windows 8.1 thing as I don't believe it's properly supported on the OS?)

Thanks for your advice!