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3.0 out of 5 starsDied just after the 5yr Warranty window. I worked it hard but it's still EVGA's fault.
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2022
I'm only rating it so high because I know I pushed it near 1000W. The Warranty window closed in April. It died connected to a 900W load that could peak above 950W. I'll put some of that down to me running the device too tight to margins and some of it down to the device failing to live up to spec. The death happened while connected to a quality battery so it was definitely an internal fault and not a surge.
I should have replaced it when a clicking noise started that didn't seem to be the PSU fan. And the PSU may have been connected to other PC problems, but I don't know what correlates.
Moral: Buy a lot more wattage if a build might be upgraded later. Buying a PSU 20% above your expected peak load isn't ideal if you are keeping space for an upgrade that puts your peak load within 10% of taxing your PSU.
Details:
While this was installed I had an increasingly finicky ASUS motherboard that may have caused instability in a GPU. The GPU became stable in SLI though. The SLI refit put this system running over 900W when it was below 700W beforehand. Then the motherboard finally died and I replaced that. Now the PSU died. In retrospect, this PSU at low load could have contributed to issues involving the mobo I disliked. At high wattage the PSU was loud (as everything is) and died after two years of rare use, under 1,000 hours total. The PSU was definitely less than 20,000 hours runtime.
