Would you use a PSU for 10 years?

Cyber-Mav said:
Lot of psus made by seasonic and delta seem to last forever. Got old servers with 15 year old delta psus still going at it.

A good quality unit will have protection circuits so if it pops its just the psu that goes and not the rest of the hardware so let it keep on chugging.
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Sure as hell hope this is true. New PSU comes tomorrow hope the 3080 survived!
 
Would use a PSU for any length of time, so long as it doesn't show signs of major trouble. Minor niggles and I'd start to look for a replacement and shift the troubled PSU down the chain of systems it can occupy. Major would get an immediate replacement.

Last year or so, found issue with existing Corsair HX650 Bronze as system had instability issues when pushed (an issue it's had since it was built with a lower GPU) and fan noise has finally become noticable despite clearning it out, and so wanted to grab a new PSU since then. Was looking for a fanless solution so I could attempt to push the limits of silence and performance for (very limited) air cooling. Only just got it now from availability (finally, in the UK) and on offer. But the HX650 has had an 8 year operation time now, with a rig that's just adding more stuff to it all the time since then, so I imagine it's about right to up the PSU a bit efficiency wise and get a new and stable PSU going. If it didn't show signs of trouble, I might have left it there in service longer.
 
I think as long as it's a decent PSU you could easily use it for 8-10 years before you'd think about upgrading.

My 850w thermaltake toughpower I used for around 8 years and that's still going strong elsewhere and it's now about 11 years old I think.
 
JasonM said:
Things to consider. 1) Was the PSU high quality? 2) Was the PSU under high load for long periods of time?

If yes to 1, and no to 2, then I would keep using the PSU.
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Exactly this.

I have a Corsair RM750 that’s 7 years old and only ever powered a single GPU. Doubt it’s ever had to deliver much over 400W in its entire life and that will have been playing with overclocks on my old R9 290. Casual gaming machine that pretended to be the home office for years.

No plans to replace it, though I would put a new PSU in any new PC I built in the future.
 
In exactly the same boat, my TX750 has been faultless for nearly 10 years and bought it a year old on the MM then from memory

Runs well still and don't think my system is running it to its limits by any standard but just bought a nice new MATX case so the temptation to get a decent modular unit is very high.

Trying to work out what would be a good replacement of the similar quality is the hard bit!
 
Decent branded PSUs shouldn't pop and take the PC down with it, only badly (cheap) designed ones. I had an old Seasonic 500W ATX went pop/smoke, everything lived, at the time it was out of warranty, so got a Corsair replacement (maybe all I could afford at the time, I forget my reasoning :)). I gave that Corsair PSU to my Dad who's still using it, that's now 11 years old, I just checked :eek: I'll just remind him how old that is :)

I'm on a Seasonic 520W fanless PSU that's 5 years old now. I was going to change it for a SFX PSU for more room in my ITX build and for a 3070 or 3080. A 3070 FE will fit ok and I really want to wait and see if the new ATX12VO standard becomes a thing (or how quickly).

update: It almost sounds like my Dad wants it to fail so he can do a big upgrade :)
 
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Still running a Corsair HX520W PSU in my wife's PC that I bought second hand on the MM in here in 2011, assuming it was already 2/3 years old when I bought it, it's still doing just fine.
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Still running a HX520 here too. It has to be 14 years old at this point. Opened it up a few times to clean it out over the years.

Have just bought a HX750i though as I'll be doing a new build next year and thought a decade and a half is probably a good time to relegate it to a spare :p
 
I have like 3 PSUs from back when I bought a 500W, a 650W then a 750W... BeQuiet, EVGA and some other one. I'll use them till they pop if they meet my reqs. of the day.
 
Paracelsus said:
Still running a HX520 here too. It has to be 14 years old at this point. Opened it up a few times to clean it out over the years.

Have just bought a HX750i though as I'll be doing a new build next year and thought a decade and a half is probably a good time to relegate it to a spare :p
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That's good going that is! I'd imagine mine is a similar age. They're good PSUs.
 
My Coolermaster 700Watt Silent Pro Gold will turn 10 in February. For the past 2 years it's had the occasional fan rattle noise but otherwise still going strong. Might replace it soon.
 
My Enermax Galaxy 1Kw is over 12 years old and is still running strong.. though i've been reducing the footprint of my builds, it's only used for testing.
 
I just built a PC for someone else with a 3080. The 1K PSU he ordered took longer to ship and I had to get everything up and running using my very-old Corsair TX750. (Maybe 8 years old now?)

It was only back in service for the weekend, but it handled the system (including the power-hungry 3080) like it was nothing.
 
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