Good budget PSU for this rig?

[Kriptonac]

Hello folks!

About a 2 months ago, my pc started being weird. When I press the power button, my startup has 3-8 sec delay each time. Basically, when I hit that power button my pc need few second to start rolling fans and start the boot process. I think that is PSU fault, but I did not experience something like this before.

My CPU was overclocked from 3.2 to 3.6Ghz (FX 8320E), was stable for months and now, in the end, I was experiencing bigger temperature and suddenly this error with powering on.

I have LC POWER LC500H 12 500W PSU which is 2.5 years old
FX 8320E CPU
RX 470 ASUS STRIX O4G GPU
1x8GB & 1x4GB DDR3 module
Gigabyte 970 Gaming MOBO
2 HDDs
Wifi card
and no fans except one on CPU and one inside PSU.

Maybe it's overloaded because I know for sure this '500W' cant supply 400W stable.


Does anyone know if this delay caused by bad PSU, or something else?
What PSU I should buy under 60$?
Is there any way I can troubleshoot this PSUs health?

I need the stable system for big Photoshop & Illustrator load and gaming for near 18 hours per day.

 

[henryjamesguest]

If you're using the system that heavily, and you're PSU is more than 2 years old as you mentioned then I would recommend just buying a new one to be on the same side. Personally, I would go with the CoolerMaster MasterWatt 550W, although it is being released in the next couple of months. It has a very good efficiency and is from a reputable brand, all while being sub-60 dollars and semi-modular. It's a great deal.

 

[geofelt]

I doubt that your psu is the cause of your increased delay.

What might have changed in the past two months?

A startup delay is sometimes caused by the bios trying to find a workable ram setting.
Your ram configuration is strange.
Test your ram with memtest86.
You should be able to complete a full pass with NO errors.

Possibly windows has pushed out a less than optimal update.
Can you use system restore to reset back two months when all was good?

What is your cpu cooler?
Is it mounted well?
I might expect that you might see 10-15c. over ambient at idle.

Your psu is not considered to be a quality unit.
I might replace it regardless.
The danger is that if it fails under load, it might not have the protective circuitry to keep from damaging other parts.
About the only way to diagnose a bad psu is to replace it with a known good unit.


Your RX470 will run on a good 450w psu.
The Seasonic focus 450w is an outstanding gold rated modular unit for $62 with a 7 year warranty.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151204

Better, yet is the 550w unit for $55 after a $15 rebate.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817151203

 

[Kriptonac]

I doubt that your psu is the cause of your increased delay.

What might have changed in the past two months?

A startup delay is sometimes caused by the bios trying to find a workable ram setting.
Your ram configuration is strange.
Test your ram with memtest86.
You should be able to complete a full pass with NO errors.

Possibly windows has pushed out a less than optimal update.
Can you use system restore to reset back two months when all was good?

What is your cpu cooler?
Is it mounted well?
I might expect that you might see 10-15c. over ambient at idle.

Your psu is not considered to be a quality unit.
I might replace it regardless.
The danger is that if it fails under load, it might not have the protective circuitry to keep from damaging other parts.
About the only way to diagnose a bad psu is to replace it with a known good unit.


Your RX470 will run on a good 450w psu.
The Seasonic focus 450w is an outstanding gold rated modular unit for $62 with a 7 year warranty.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151204

Better, yet is the 550w unit for $55 after a $15 rebate.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817151203

I will try memtest86 and update thread, but I'm skeptic because an error occurred before I added an additional module.

I didn't try restoring, but I will do a clean install of windows these days.

I have my stock AMD cooler with one-year-old cooler master paste and its 28c on idle and never more than 63 in gaming. Max temperature 66 after 8 hours burn test.

For PSU I am mostly scared because my old PC died (10-year-old gaming pc for that time) before 2 years cause of bad PSU failure.


Unfortunately, i don't have this PSUs available in my country so i was thinking to get one of these:

https://www.emmi.rs/napajanja-i-dodatni-ventilatori-napajanje-600w-raidmax-rx-600ae-m.11.html?productId=69595
https://www.emmi.rs/napajanja-i-dodatni-ventilatori-napajanje-700w-raidmax-cobra-rx-700ac-b.11.html?productId=45038
https://www.emmi.rs/napajanja-i-dodatni-ventilatori-napajanje-735w-raidmax-rx-735ap-r-modularno.11.html?productId=69593

list of available PSUs is here, 1$~100RSD just to know aspect of price

https://www.emmi.rs/konfigurator/proizvodi.10.html?categoryId=219

 

[Kriptonac]

UPDATE 1:
After running memtest86 after 16 minutes i got 112 errors...
Then i decided to stop the test and pull off my 'new' ram from 4gb and repeat test. After 40 minutes i passed 70% test and got 0 errors...
My delay on boot disappeared, now it's in milliseconds.
I think problem was that my 1st module was DDR3 1866Mhz HyperX 8GB and second was DDR3 1333Mhz MT8JTF51264AZ 4GB some shitty stick with different specs and latency.