Seasonic X650 Failing

dienan47 · Nov 12, 2013

Hi! I've been using a Seasonic X650 PSU for an year with a 7950DCII along with other components. I have used the named power ports on the PSU to power the components (ex-PCI-E/CPU-8). Recently my hard drive started to make noises and failed at copying new data. I thought the drive is dying. The system would boot up fine but would get stuck if I copy a file. As someone said, I removed my GPU from the PSU and suddenly all the noise was not there and the drive was topping charts at 85~90mb rate on Windows 8. I realized the rail that was powering the GPU was not giving enough power to the drive. It was connected like this for 5,6 months and it never happened. Is this a sign of my PSU failing?

sheag123 · Nov 12, 2013

yes, send it back to seasonic as they have a 5 year warranty on most of their drives.

ko888 · Nov 12, 2013

Have you proven whether or not the graphics card was or wasn't causing the problem?

dienan47 · Nov 12, 2013

Is it possible for the GPU to draw 500+ watts from the PSU? That's not possible and the GPU works totally fine. I have only one ODD and a SDD attached to the system with two fans. For the GPU to cause a problem, the power is plenty and would require over 50A or 60A from the 12V rail. I don't see that. My guess is that the 12V rail is degrading or something. A guess isn't an option to RMA something so for now I'll swap my Asus 7950 with an MSI 7950 and try it on the same setup to see if the drive would still fail. Under that I think there's a higher chance to safely say which component is the cause. Kind of answered my own question there.

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