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Any certain way to test if a PSU is going bad?

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My PC has been restarting without warning lately. That could be a sign of the PSU of course, but I'd like to know for certain before potentially wasting about a week of waiting to get a new PSU.

My 4670k has been getting ~70C max lately, and I haven't really been paying attention to the voltages, not really sure if those could be relevant or not though.

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measuring the electricity and if there is any coil wine and the temp of the PSU. 

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My PC has been restarting without warning lately. That could be a sign of the PSU of course, but I'd like to know for certain before potentially wasting about a week of waiting to get a new PSU.

My 4670k has been getting ~70C max lately, and I haven't really been paying attention to the voltages, not really sure if those could be relevant or not though.

Unplug all drives from the system and watch it do its thing. I know my old PSU was fine working with a laptop HDD but not a desktop one before when it was dying.

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My PC has been restarting without warning lately. That could be a sign of the PSU of course, but I'd like to know for certain before potentially wasting about a week of waiting to get a new PSU.

My 4670k has been getting ~70C max lately, and I haven't really been paying attention to the voltages, not really sure if those could be relevant or not though.

Is it restarting without warning all the time? Or just under heavy load?

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