Testing PSU with "Power Supply Tester"

[zakariel76]

I would like to test the power output of my PSU (EVGA G2-850W) as my PC has stability issues when running BF1 (the PC totally freezes and even the sound gets locked; the only way is to hard reset).

I have been looking around for multimeters however the one used in this tutorial costs north of 200 Euros. Then I happened across a tester called "Power Supply Tester", though i'm a bit suspicious as to whether it works or not (it only costs like 6 USD on ebay).

Any thoughts on if "Power Supply Tester" works or if there is a cheaper multimeter alternative than the one used in lifewire that I should be using instead?

 

[DSzymborski]

A power tester will only tell you if the PSU works on the most basic level. It's not a multimeter or a load tester.

What are the complete specs? There are a number of causes for freezing.

 

[zakariel76]

A power tester will only tell you if the PSU works on the most basic level. It's not a multimeter or a load tester.

What are the complete specs? There are a number of causes for freezing.

Here are my complete specs.

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  GPU: ASUS Radeon R9 290 4GB DirectCU II OC (R9290-DC2OC-4GD5)
  MOBO: ASUS X99-DELUXE
  CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K, Socket-LGA2011-3
  PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 850W
  RAM : 4x Crucial Ballistix DDR4-2400 SP QC - 16GB
  SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 512
  HD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
  CASE: NZXT Phantom 410
  HSF: Noctua NH-U12S

Even though I should be way below my max PSU capacity with my single AMD R9 290 I thought it might be worth looking into. I used to have total lockups on a previous PC, and found out that my PSU (which was top rated) was part of a bad batch so i'm a bit paranoid.

 

[geofelt]

A simple psu tester in the $15 range is good for only one thing.
If your psu fails the test, you can be certain it is bad.

Otherwise, a simple tester has no value in determining the proper operation of a psu, even if all the "tests" are good.

For the ordinary user, the only way to confirm a bad psu is to test with a known good unit.