Should I replace my PSU immediatly?

[NathanielCE]

For about 3 years I've had a Sentey MbP750-HM 750W PSU. I'm aware that this is not a particularly high quality or reliable choice, but it has served me well. Recently, I have been experiencing random-shutdowns and black screens. I'm not sure that this is due to my PSU but it certainly seems like a possibility. I'm definitely going to replace it soon, but I was wondering if this is an urgent matter. I was planning on getting a new one in January, but if it could fail any day now then I would be willing to order a new one today. What do you think? Is this an immediate risk or is it probably ok to wait a couple of months?

 

Thanks!

[aisle9]

Do you have access to a different PSU you could test with, even borrowing one from a friend's PC? That could just as easily be a problem with your GPU or motherboard.

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, NathanielCE said:

For about 3 years I've had a Sentey MbP750-HM 750W PSU. I'm aware that this is not a particularly high quality or reliable choice, but it has served me well. Recently, I have been experiencing random-shutdowns and black screens. I'm not sure that this is due to my PSU but it certainly seems like a possibility. I'm definitely going to replace it soon, but I was wondering if this is an urgent matter. I was planning on getting a new one in January, but if it could fail any day now then I would be willing to order a new one today. What do you think? Is this an immediate risk or is it probably ok to wait a couple of months?

 

Thanks!

That's actually not a terrible PSU.  Probably one of the few Sentey products I'd tell you I'm okay with.

 

 

[NathanielCE]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

Do you have access to a different PSU you could test with, even borrowing one from a friend's PC? That could just as easily be a problem with your GPU or motherboard.

I don't have an extra PSU to test with. I know that it could just as easily be a problem with another component, but if the PSU fails its the only thing that could actually damage my PC. I've been wanting to upgrade my PSU for a while despite the random-shutdowns, so I thought that this would be a good excuse to do so. If we assume that these problems are a sign of a failing PSU, how urgent would it be?  

[NathanielCE]

1 minute ago, jonnyGURU said:

That's actually not a terrible PSU.  Probably one of the few Sentey products I'd tell you I'm okay with.

 

 

That's actually quite a relief. I got pretty worried after reading low quality PSU Horror stories.

[it_dont_work]

I'd probably do a clean install of the os from scratch before worrying about hardware. See if the problem persists

 

If it's intermittent and  new, unless you've made any recent hardware changes it's more likely to be software. 

[NathanielCE]

16 minutes ago, it_dont_work said:

I'd probably do a clean install of the os from scratch before worrying about hardware. See if the problem persists

 

If it's intermittent and  new, unless you've made any recent hardware changes it's more likely to be software. 

I did do a clean install, updated my bios, and rolled back my gpu drivers. I was mostly worried due to the fact that I've read some pretty bad things about sentey PSUs.