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Should I get a new PSU?

222feb23

I bought an Aorus AP850GM (it Gigabyte but not the exploding brand) around November last year, a month after buying it have issue with loud noise so i send it back for warranted, when i came to pick it up a week later, told them to plug it in for a test, new issue happened so it took another week, after broken down 2 times, it work fine till now, planning to upgrade in a few months, should i re-use the PSU or buy a new one when upgrade ?

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@222feb23 I have split your question out into its own thread. 

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16 hours ago, 222feb23 said:

I bought an Aorus AP850GM (it Gigabyte but not the exploding brand) around November last year, a month after buying it have issue with loud noise so i send it back for warranted, when i came to pick it up a week later, told them to plug it in for a test, new issue happened so it took another week, after broken down 2 times, it work fine till now, planning to upgrade in a few months, should i re-use the PSU or buy a new one when upgrade ?

Hi. We have the same PSU. Although it is now powering my son's system with a 3800x and a strix 2080ti with maxed power limit. No issues so far aside from a buzzing sound which were deemed normal. 

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