I have Super Flower Golden Silent 500W PSU which is probably not powerful enough for my system (3900x, RX5700, rated 480W ish on most calculators), however it's supposedly a very efficient/high quality power supply and has been absolutely fine in demanding games, so I was hoping to leave upgrading until the prices fall a bit after covid, as I want total silence and fanless PSUs are very expensive at the moment.
A couple of times recently however the system has started to suddenly reboot - no BSOD, just a black screen like I'd pressed the reset button - in fairly undemanding tasks. Event viewer shows a kernel power error 41. I've run memtest and no problems found.
The easy answer would be to replace the PSU, but it this was issue why would it be happening during moderate use and not in demanding games? Just want to check as I don't want to spend hundreds replacing the PSU only to find it's something else, I'm suspicious of the GPU as I've heard RX5700s have had issue with black screen and reboots. Any advice appreciated.
A couple of times recently however the system has started to suddenly reboot - no BSOD, just a black screen like I'd pressed the reset button - in fairly undemanding tasks. Event viewer shows a kernel power error 41. I've run memtest and no problems found.
The easy answer would be to replace the PSU, but it this was issue why would it be happening during moderate use and not in demanding games? Just want to check as I don't want to spend hundreds replacing the PSU only to find it's something else, I'm suspicious of the GPU as I've heard RX5700s have had issue with black screen and reboots. Any advice appreciated.