Replacing faulty PSU with an older PSU

[Olivier]

Intro:

After having to do an RMA on my Seasonic S12II-520Bronze a couple years back due to coil whine, my PSU has become faulty once again. But instead of coil whine, it just straight up failed.

 

I went through the entire checklist and after that resulted in nothing I disconnectd my PSU and connected an old one to the motherboard and CPU. Turns out, my PSU is faulty and Seasonic does not accept another RMA because the warranty of the first PSU is over.

 

Question:

So my question is: Can I replace my S12II-520Bronze with the EMINENT EM3900 I have laying around or is it too risky because of its age or some other problem?

 

This PSU was salvaged from an old but beefy desktop with high end components at the time and supplies 550W (30W more than my faulty one). I checked if the old pc still worked before testing the PSU to my mobo and everything worked, so I'm not affraid that the old PSU is bad. I'm just questioning it's reliability.

 

I have attached images of my faulty (Seasonic) and possible replacement (EMINENT) PSU.

 

My specs: i7-5800k with AIO, Gigabyte GTX 1070 and MSI x99s GAMING 7 motherboard.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Psu is trash cause dual rail, sell it off and get another psu thats single rail like your dead seasonic cause dual or more rails kneecaps your psu effective wattage cause if one of the rails max out then ocp gets triggered

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

11 minutes ago, Olivier said:

Intro:

After having to do an RMA on my Seasonic S12II-520Bronze a couple years back due to coil whine, my PSU has become faulty once again. But instead of coil whine, it just straight up failed.

 

I went through the entire checklist and after that resulted in nothing I disconnectd my PSU and connected an old one to the motherboard and CPU. Turns out, my PSU is faulty and Seasonic does not accept another RMA because the warranty of the first PSU is over.

 

Question:

So my question is: Can I replace my S12II-520Bronze with the EMINENT EM3900 I have laying around or is it too risky because of its age or some other problem?

 

This PSU was salvaged from an old but beefy desktop with high end components at the time and supplies 550W (30W more than my faulty one). I checked if the old pc still worked before testing the PSU to my mobo and everything worked, so I'm not affraid that the old PSU is bad. I'm just questioning it's reliability.

 

I have attached images of my faulty (Seasonic) and possible replacement (EMINENT) PSU.

 

My specs: i7-5800k with AIO, Gigabyte GTX 1070 and MSI x99s GAMING 7 motherboard.

 

Thanks in advance!

That second psu is really really bad my man

[Olivier]

Damn, thanks for the answers.