Am I overstressing my PSU? Help please

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Wirlliam

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I've had some minor issues last couple days and got worried whether I might be overstressing my PSU or not

My rig:
The PSU is a 520W Seasonic S12II Bronze 80PLUS

Core i5-3470@3.20Ghz with Arctic cooling freezer 7 on it
Mobo GIGABYTE z77-d3h rev 1.1
AMD Radeon HD7970 double dissipation with gelid icy-vision aftermarket cooler (1000/1425)
-it was overclocked to 1025/1500 but I took it back down, just in case
2x 4gb kingston hyper-x fury
1x WDC WD10EZRX
1x Kingston Hyper-x SSD
120mm front fan
80mm exhaust
USB Mouse
PS2 Keyboard
XBOX 360 controller
USB WebCam
USB Headphones
5.1 Speaker system, although I dunno if that counts
Oh and 1 HDMI 1080p screen and an old DVI 19inch LCD

I hope that is enough info for you guys to help me out. Any suggestions and advice will be highly appreciated. Thanks
 
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i would look in your motherboards manual or call the manufacturer to ask what that particular board's beep codes mean first. i would take it easy, but the psu might not even be the issue. wouldnt be a bad idea to replace it if that's what you suspect. buy one from amazon. 30 day return policy if that turns out not to be the issue. might just have restock fee. i'd recommend 650w+.
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its definitely a possibility. 520w is below the 550w recommendation for a system like that. overclocking is just pushing your wattage up higher so i'd drop any overclocks on that gpu quick.

at least that is a good quality psu. what kind of problems are you having?
 
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After I installed the SSD on monday, first boot with it took 2 tries. The PC booted half way through and then just turned itself off, after about 10 seconds it turned itself back on and proceeded to boot normally. Yesterday I restarted the PC after about 12 hours of interupted running (Mostly work, and some movies), screens didn't turn on and mobo gave me 1 beep followed by 2 quick beeps wich ofc I thought my GPU is toast. I've unplugged one screen and everything went back to normal. No issues as for today, running both screens again, played some games and also ran a GPU stress test for about 20 minutes @97% usage. Yeah and the clocks on GPU are back to default for now. Do you think I shouldn't stress the hardware too much b4 I'm able to get a stronger power suply or was it all just some fluke .. ?
 
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i would look in your motherboards manual or call the manufacturer to ask what that particular board's beep codes mean first. i would take it easy, but the psu might not even be the issue. wouldnt be a bad idea to replace it if that's what you suspect. buy one from amazon. 30 day return policy if that turns out not to be the issue. might just have restock fee. i'd recommend 650w+.
 
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OK so I've just found out that 1 long beep followed by 2 short beeps means GPU error. I think I will definitely lay of the overclocking before I can diagnose the problem in more detail. I sure hope my GPU is not dying :( as I cannot afford a new one atm .. anyway thank you for all your help, I really appreciate it, and it always helps to get a second opinion :). Thank you !
 
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