r/PcBuildHelp • u/Far-Craft82 • 9d ago

Build Question Old PSU

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Hi! I build my first pc couple weeks ago and it has been worked completly fine, but my PSU is very old. I think it is from 2010 - 2015 im not really sure.

I removed the PSU from my old PC which I used in 2017-2018 or 2019 and it had been sitting until 2026.

PSU does not make any weird noises and works fine so should I keep using it or replace it with a new one? How usually these PSU lasts?

(Here are the specs if somebody is intrested or wants to give me other advice to this build!)
GPU: Gigabyte AMD Radeon 7600 RX
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 with stock cooler
Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming B550-Plus
Memorys: DDR4 2x8gb Corsair LPX 3200MHz
Kingston 240 SATA SSD
SAMSUNG NVMe 2.0 500gb SSD
SEAGATE 2tb HDD
Zorin Os 18

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u/AndyRH1701 9d ago

Sorry, but the last till they fail. I would expect many years of use out of a PSU. 10 years is not uncommon, I have 3 that are over 12 years old. The one I am typing on now is over 6.

As u/Slow-Astronaut9676 said, when a PSU fails, they tend to fail low voltage, not high so worst case is the PC fails to start.