Buy New PSU vs Keep the Old PSU?

I bought this PSU (Corsair 1000HX) in Dec 2009. About 8 years old.

Question:

I have no issues with it yet, still going strong. But in 2015/2016 I upgraded FROM a i7-930 cpu, x58 mb, 2 480s SC, and 16gb DDR3 ram to i7-5930k cpu, x99 mb, 2 980s classifieds, 32gb DDR4 ram. I am wondering should I replace the PSU? Is there a need, unless it not working right? Will I benefit from a new PSU?

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Check with a voltmeter if it's still putting out volts within specs. i believe std is 5% of spec. If you can visually inspect the capacitors for swelling without opening it up that can be a good indicator if it's about to die.

It is long since out of warranty so why not open it up and have a good look.......blow out the dust but checking....Testing is the icing on the cake........

bikerkip said:

It is long since out of warranty so why not open it up and have a good look.......blow out the dust but checking....Testing is the icing on the cake........

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Just don't touch anything inside the power supply, there is enough residual power in some of the capacitors to stop your heart.

I get this below, instead of 12v I get 9.240v and with speedfan which is not below says 10.47v. Bios does show 12+v.

Sensors can be inaccurate. For your best results use an actual voltmeter on a 4 pin molex connector. Black lead on black. You should read near 12v from the yellow wire and near 5v from the red wire.

bikerkip said:

It is long since out of warranty so why not open it up and have a good look.......blow out the dust but checking....Testing is the icing on the cake........

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At efiloon - do not open up your Power Supply. If you have to ask this question, you probably shouldn't be messing around inside a power supply.

after 8 years it's just time to retire it to spare status, the older it gets the higher the risk of failure........

EarthDog said:

At efiloon - do not open up your Power Supply. If you have to ask this question, you probably shouldn't be messing around inside a power supply.

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Excellent point EarthDog makes.......unless you have a good idea of what you are looking for probably best to stay out of the PSU......but you could still test as Blaylock says above....

Blaylock said:

Sensors can be inaccurate. For your best results use an actual voltmeter on a 4 pin molex connector. Black lead on black. You should read near 12v from the yellow wire and near 5v from the red wire.

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This ^^^^ You'll get the information you need by following these directions. You can't hurt anything doing this.

Thanks everyone, yea its weak 12v, I have ordered a new PSU should be here in a couple of days. Sucks that I have to do cable management again as I just got done on a rebuild, guess I should've just gotten a new PSU to begin with....

Good choice. It's always better to play it safe.

Fortunately I'm still running 11-year old Corsair modular HX520's on my two Intel E7500 and E8500 machines and their 12V sides haven't wavered more than .1 volt (still about 11.92 - 12.16 respectively) with overall light usage. I'm not a power user and a modular fanless Seasonic 460W powers this 6600K and its light overclock. I had always wanted to try one of the top-tier fanless units.

I went ahead and got the Corsair HXi1200 with blue sleeve cabling

1200! What are you powering that needs that many Watts?

Blaylock said:

1200! What are you powering that needs that many Watts?

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Specs:
EVGA X99 Classified Motherboard
Intel 5930 overclocked to 4.329GHz (watercooled - Ek-Supremacy EV0 - (Original CSQ) Full Nickel)
32Gb Corsair Platinum Dominator 2800MHz
2 EVGA 980 Classified's (EK WBs), will be changing to 4 cards in the future, but in the meantime will be overclocking these cards
512 Gb Samsung 850 Pro
512 Gb Intel SSD
4 TB Western Digital HDD
4 TB Western DIgital HDD
K70 RGB RAPIDFIRE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard — Cherry MX Speed RGB
Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
Sound Blaster Z PCIe Gaming Sound Card
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
2 NZXT Sentry 3 Fan Controllers
2 Koolance Pump Controllers (From an old build, they still work great)
1 SilverStone PWM Fan Hub System Cables, Black (CPF04) - Using Speedfan
ATTAV RGB Magnetic LED Light Strip Full Kit for PC Computer Case, Fixed by Powerful Magnet, Multi Function Remote Control, Color Changing, 12-Inch 18 LEDs(Included 2 LED Strip)
PrimoFlex Advanced LRT Tubing - 7/16in. ID X 5/8in. OD - Brilliant UV Blue
2 Loops - (CPU and GPUs)
Bitspower Fittings
2 Swiftech Pumps MCP355
2 XSPC Reservoirs (Siver Coils and Petra's Tech Nuke PHN Concentrated Biocide (10mL) - this is probably overkill )
Distilled Water
4 Radiators, Radiators for 120 mm Fans(Swiftech, don't remember the model number either MCRx20-QP or MCRx20-XP)
17 Corsair ML120 Pro LED, Blue, 120mm Premium Magnetic Levitation Cooling Fan CO-9050043-WW
Mountain Mods Case
3 Acer XB270H Abprz 27-inch Display Full HD NVIDIA G-SYNC (1920 x 1080) Widescreen Monitor 144hz 1ms - Got these like year and half ago. I like them alot.

Damn brother. That's a hell of a set-up. Vury nize!

Under cases and mods, and pics of leet systems I have pictures there of my machine.

Got the Corsair HXi1200 in, love Corsair Link software and the blue sleeve cabling . Problems look to be gone Thanks guys for the help.