Will broken power supply damage other components?

[braveheart0808]

Using a 8 year old Seasonic that has a 5 year warranty. 

 

I am thinking this thing will go down any day now so just wondering if it will damage other components?

 

Is it safe to use it until it breaks or its better to swap it out now?

[Perrin]

It shouldn't but it can. Seasonic is a good brand and should have safeguards to make sure it doesn't catch fire or fry components. It's obviously less risk to go ahead and swap it instead of waiting for failure

[--SID--]

What exact model Seasonic and what CPU and GPU are you powering with it?

[Guest]

1 hour ago, braveheart0808 said:

Using a 8 year old Seasonic that has a 5 year warranty. 

 

I am thinking this thing will go down any day now so just wondering if it will damage other components?

 

Is it safe to use it until it breaks or its better to swap it out now?

Depends on how it dies if/when it does.  If something fails on the secondary side, or if the caps are swollen and not filtering properly anymore, than yes.  You can damage your PC parts.

 

[braveheart0808]

2 hours ago, --SID-- said:

What exact model Seasonic and what CPU and GPU are you powering with it?

SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W

5600X/RTX 3060.

[--SID--]

Replace it. It's a bad PSU nowadays because it's groupregulated and lacks OCP and OTP.