Using a 6 year old 1200W PSU for a new build

[toobladink]

4 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

so if it kills the card, we know it's bad?

From what I understand, tripping OCP shouldn't kill the card. It should just cut off power to the card. It's an over-current protection - so when it goes over the specified current (it trips) it would make sense for that current to be cut off, because it's designed to be a protective measure?

 

And how significant is the load difference then? Around 150-200 Watts? I was not aware of this because I am unfamiliar with older GPUs - sorta figured cards of the same class would attempt to draw the same amount (or less) power from previous gens

[LukeSavenije]

10 minutes ago, toobladink said:

From what I understand, tripping OCP shouldn't kill the card. It should just cut off power to the card

if it works properly that is, yeah

 

but then again, we can discuss this all day long, but the conclusion will be the same: buy a new one, if you can spend 1000 dollars on a gpu, then 100 for a psu is not a problem