Corsair SF600 aging

theagilecoder

Disciple
Completely unrelated to this, my 5 year old Corsair SF600 with has recently started OCP tripping owing to GPU transient spikes only at around ~300W. With research on reddit, it seems PSUs also age like lithium batteries and their "celing" comes down with time. So my SF600 is now SF300 :p
 
^really? the corsair has a 7yr warranty, you can rma, I have gone through a sf450, sf600, powerful little psu's
 
Isn't SF600 80 plus gold certified PSU with Japanese capacitors (best in class). Depending on your GPU model this shouldn't happen, at least not this soon. May I ask what your PC specs are ? Also what you are saying can very well be true because I recently found out below ATX 3.0 PSUs such as yours ATX 2.4 don't handle power spikes very well. ATX 3.0 standard was introduced just to counter this issue (for better or worse they do).

What you can do is to RMA this PSU and/or undervolt your GPU in the hopes it fixes such spikes.
Surprisingly my cooler master rs-600-acab-b1 (tier C-D PSU with ATX V2.31 standard) that I bought new in JAN 2015 is able to handle load of 5700x3d + 3070 OC'd without any issue. Don't worry im planning to change it in the near future (hoping for a 750W gold since they are cheap now).