Would you use a PSU for 10 years?

I bought my Seasonic X-Series 1050w in March 2013 and I've been having some stability issues. I've moved the GPU to another socket on it and it seems fine now but I'm debating about replacing it.
 
If you've moved the power cable to another socket on the PSU and it's now stable again, I'd hold off on doing an immediate replacement right now.

Not only is the good PSUs stock in fluctuation, but prices may be funny too. What I'd do, is make a list of the PSU's you'd be OK to replacing it with. Then, using that list, keep an eye out when any of those potential replacement PSU's come in stock or has an offer on them and quickly pull the trigger on them there and then. Dawdle too long and it could go out of stock quick, so you want to shortlist any PSU's you're OK with first to cut that research time needed out.
 
Meddling-Monk said:
If you've moved the power cable to another socket on the PSU and it's now stable again, I'd hold off on doing an immediate replacement right now.

Not only is the good PSUs stock in fluctuation, but prices may be funny too. What I'd do, is make a list of the PSU's you'd be OK to replacing it with. Then, using that list, keep an eye out when any of those potential replacement PSU's come in stock or has an offer on them and quickly pull the trigger on them there and then. Dawdle too long and it could go out of stock quick, so you want to shortlist any PSU's you're OK with first to cut that research time needed out.
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The one I want is £280; I paid £160 I think in March 2013 for the current one. I have just found out however it's got a 12 year warranty so I'm tempted to borrow a PSU from a mate and send it in to Seasonic and see what they say. Thing is, it's single rail so I've no idea how moving the plug location would make any difference.
 
ChrisD. said:
The one I want is £280; I paid £160 I think in March 2013 for the current one. I have just found out however it's got a 12 year warranty so I'm tempted to borrow a PSU from a mate and send it in to Seasonic and see what they say. Thing is, it's single rail so I've no idea how moving the plug location would make any difference.
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If you can grab a spare test unit for now, that's a way to go. It might be the connection itself is part of the problem you're experiencing, but no real way to know without extensive testing. But yeah, if it's got 12 year warranty, if you do some further testing and it shows that port on the PSU giving trouble, ring it in.
 
It crashed another couple of times last night. Frustratingly after double checking, the warranty is 7 years on Seasonic X units and not 12 years so it's a year out of warranty.
 
That bites. :(

Given that your system is now effectively unstable, if you can't borrow a stable PSU from someone for potentially a few months until you can get a proper replacement, I'd start making a short list of "acceptable" PSU's that can keep your system up within a price range you'd be happy to stump up extra for whilst you wait for the one you really want if that's not available now. And if those "accetpable" PSUs are in stock or on offer (and you can't get a loan PSU for acceptable time frame), grab it now. I doubt they'd stay in stock for long periods of time at this moment in time. Nearly everything is flying off the shelves and stocks aren't being replaced as fast as we'd like.
 
I've found a Corsair AX1000 Titanium for £230 so I've ordered one for delivery tomorrow. It probably wouldn't have been my first choice but there really isn't much in stock anywhere with quick delivery.
 
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