PSU died?

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Hi, I have a 600w OCZ PSU that ive had since 2007. It seemed to be working fine until last night. The following day I went to turn on the system and the blue leds of the case lit up but were flickering and the cpu and case fans started spinning but my monitor wasn't recieving any signal. After checking cables I had a look inside the case and my gfx card fan wasn't spinning, I tried re-seating it etc to no avail. I tried another gfx card that is running fine in another system and that also wouldn't work.

Lastly I tried a 400w Corsair PSU from my other computer and the fans on both gfx cards work and the computer boots fine.

I don't know much about PSU's - could the rail that feeds the gfx card have died?
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz
Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI
OCZ GameXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel
 
Well i'm planning to get a new computer at some point - will most likely buy a bundle of mobo/ram/cpu from overclockers as this current computer is knocking on a bit now, so I want to get a reasonable one so that I don't then have to buy yet another PSU when I do get round to it.

Saying that though I don't intend to run 2 gfx cards at the same time so I also don't need a powerhouse. If I could be pointed to a reliable best bang for the buck PSU for around £40-£70 I would grateful :)
 
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