PSU on its way out?

GreenMint

GreenMint

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Hi guys, I've had my Corsair 650W modular PSU for about 7+ years now! all flawless but have had some power issues the last few days! I'm hoping it's the PSU rather than the board! but just wanted to run through what happened:

(generally turn pc and plugs off at night as gf prefers that...)

All fine on monday

Tuesday, get home from work, put PC on, log on Win 10, came back to the room 10 minutes later and it is off, power switch does nothing, turned off the PSU in/off switch and left it for about 30 minutes, came back, turned it on, it worked fine all evening, turned off after use (Was in for about 10'hours)

Weenesday: Same as Tuesday but I had the do the power switch on PSU twice, but after that it worked fine all night.

Thursday: started up first time, into windows, came back 2 mins later, PC was off, PSU off for 30 minutes started PC, went out, checked teamviewer remotely an hour later, PC not online, got home, turned PSU and plugs off for 2 hours, PC on, and off within 5 seconds.

I'm assuming it sounds like a knackered PSU, like I said, I really can't be doing with the extra cost like now, let alone the cost and hassle of a new motherboard.

Spec is:
Gigabyte D3H Z-77 w/ I5 4850K (stock)
16gb Teamgroup Elite RAM
2 x Mechanical HDD
2 x SSD
GeForce 560ti

Not had an issue with this setup in the 650W PSU until this week, any ideas in a replacement? I'd probably want to stick with modular unless they are vastly more expensive, I don't want to spend for the sake of it, but also would like to try and keep costs down without going cheap and low quality..

Thanks!
 
By the way, why are you looking for such a high capacity PSU? Assuming by I5 4850K you mean i7-4820K, I would guess your system uses no more than 400 watts when gaming, possibly closer to 350 W.
 
joeyjojo said:
By the way, why are you looking for such a high capacity PSU? Assuming by I5 4850K you mean i7-4820K, I would guess your system uses no more than 400 watts when gaming, possibly closer to 350 W.
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Its an I5, I forgot the precise number tbh :)

I'm looking at a grphics card upgrade in the near future and want to cover that & more, all I seem to keep seeing is "Power Supplies are under what they're labelled as, devices consome more than they say" tbh I'm just tempted by the Corsair 650W to stick what I know which has been a good brand for me for 7+ years!
 
You've got the 4670K like me I presume?

650W is plenty and will run any single card setup just fine. Until recently I was using a 520W seasonic to run my build. The EVGA G2 650W has a 7 year warranty, the G2 750W has a 10 year warranty. The internals are superflower but minus the leds on the leadex units.

I've got the 750W, my dad's got the 650W. Very well made, can't complain at all and definitely better than the budget OCZ unit he was using.
 
Good stuff.

TimBrad said:
all I seem to keep seeing is "Power Supplies are under what they're labelled as, devices consome more than they say"
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This is only true for PSUs from questionable suppliers. Actually many good PSUs work over their rated load. Some PSU reviews do these overload tests, and sometimes in a hot room to really stress the unit.

Check this out for example, the 750 W version of that PSU will quite happily provide 824 W (110% of rating) at 89.5% efficiency.
 
Thanks for that, hopefully it should be fine, it's been on for 30 hours, near a wall behind and has to have a few books stacked on top cause the cats like to jump behind, and one likes sleeping on top, hope that didn't overheat the last one!!
 
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