BadDisciple
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Hail folks,
I just built a new PC with all new parts, except the PSU. The PSU is a good one from an older PC but left for few years aside (not being used at all). It's a "Blue Storm" brand, 450W (peak 500W), with PFC, +70%, super quiet (<23dB). It works fine in my new machine but... just for not more than an hour, then it... shuts the system down! When I take off the power cable and swithc it off and on (it has such a switch) and connect back the power cable from the back side, it restarts, but again soon it shuts down. Also, when it will come to shut down it makes more noise - obviously its fan. Is that because my other components demand more power? My Graphic card is a Radeon R7 260X and I made calculations on the Web and they give me +/-365W for the whole, while the PSU provides 450W (peak 500W) - so sounds ok to me but...
Does anyone have an idea what's the trick behind that?
Should I buy a new PSU?
Thanks in advance.
BD
I just built a new PC with all new parts, except the PSU. The PSU is a good one from an older PC but left for few years aside (not being used at all). It's a "Blue Storm" brand, 450W (peak 500W), with PFC, +70%, super quiet (<23dB). It works fine in my new machine but... just for not more than an hour, then it... shuts the system down! When I take off the power cable and swithc it off and on (it has such a switch) and connect back the power cable from the back side, it restarts, but again soon it shuts down. Also, when it will come to shut down it makes more noise - obviously its fan. Is that because my other components demand more power? My Graphic card is a Radeon R7 260X and I made calculations on the Web and they give me +/-365W for the whole, while the PSU provides 450W (peak 500W) - so sounds ok to me but...
Does anyone have an idea what's the trick behind that?
Should I buy a new PSU?
Thanks in advance.
BD
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