Question RIP OCZ PSU

[HDN]

Today my 600 watt modular OCZ PSU died. It was 12 years old and powered two systems and five GPUs across CAD work, video editing, and gaming. It was a ModXStream-Pro 80 Plus unit.

I hit the power button as I usually do every morning, the lights flashed for half a second, then nothing. Repeated attempts at pushing the power button failed. I pulled the PSU and did the green-black paperclip test and nothing spun up. That's all she wrote!

It's going to be replaced with a Corsair RM750 silent PSU. I had no idea OCZ was bought by Toshiba in 2016 until I was looking for another OCZ PSU today 🤣

Thank you for all the fun years OCZ! May your parts live on in my electronics scrap bin!

 

[AntonyLovric]

If you're confident with a soldering iron you might be able to save it. (However 12 years is a really long life for a PSU.) Not sure what you're looking at for a replacement.

Good Luck!

 

[HDN]

If you're confident with a soldering iron you might be able to save it. (However 12 years is a really long life for a PSU.) Not sure what you're looking at for a replacement.

Good Luck!

I'm putting this PSU to bed for good! I got a Corsair RM750 PSU from the local Best Buy that I'm going to install tonight. I'm also taking the opportunity to thoroughly vacuum out my case and improve my cable management, especially where the cooling fans are concerned!

I think I spent about $70 on that old OCZ PSU in 2010. I got it from Newegg on a sale.

I'm looking forward to seeing if this PSU makes a difference noise-wise. My desktop is pretty noisy with all its case fans anyway 😛

 

[HDN]

Update: New PSU installed and my computer sounds... different. Maybe it's my improved cable management, or that I vacuumed my Cryorig H7 heat sink for the first time in maybe four years. Or maybe it's the RM750 not running its fan at 100%. Let's hope i get another decade-old PSU in ten years! 😀 Now back to working/gaming

 

[Karadjgne]

or that I vacuumed my Cryorig H7 heat sink for the first time in maybe four years.

1 year. Tops. If living in a dusty environment, maybe as little as every month. If you keep the dust managed, it doesn't build up, build up decreases the efficiency of all cooling ability, which necessitates higher rpm on the fans to compensate, which increases noise output.

It's one thing to purchase 'silent' equipment, it's a whole different story keeping them silent.

 

[AntonyLovric]

1 year. Tops. If living in a dusty environment, maybe as little as every month. If you keep the dust managed, it doesn't build up, build up decreases the efficiency of all cooling ability, which necessitates higher rpm on the fans to compensate, which increases noise output.

It's one thing to purchase 'silent' equipment, it's a whole different story keeping them silent.

All depends on the environment. If the old PSU made it 12 years I would expect the new PSU to be fine with an annual cleaning.

 

[taeioum]

If you're confident with a soldering iron you might be able to save it. (However 12 years is a really long life for a PSU.) Not sure what you're looking at for a replacement.

Good Luck!

Please, for the wellbeing of all people on this forum, don't ever randomly suggest people to try and fix PSUs themselves. Opening and touching the wrong parts in PSUs can be very deadly. You might know your way around in PSUs (presuming that you do), but the average PC user doesn't. I'm not talking down to you, please don't misunderstand me, I'm just trying to raise awareness.