Consair TX750M how to tell its bad?

Been having some minor to huge issues with my new ASUS R9 290 card, i'm back on the 5870.

how can i tell if the PSU is bad? I bought the mobo, cpu, ram, psu at the end of 2009. its about 2 years old now. Speccy can read some of the volt reading off the motherboard and etc. is there any tools out there can tell through windows? i'm kinda stuck with no funds until a week from now.

thanks

http://i.imgur.com/b2pX7rK.jpg

what about this PSU tester?

http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/ATX-Power-Supply-Tester.php

What are the minor to huge issues?

A tell-tale sign of a bad or incapable PSU is a sudden shutdown especially during load (assuming all other settings are stock).

Voltage readings through software of any kind are usually not to be trusted.

Suprfire said:

What are the minor to huge issues?

A tell-tale sign of a bad or incapable PSU is a sudden shutdown especially during load (assuming all other settings are stock).

Voltage readings through software of any kind are usually not to be trusted.

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minor were artifacting video card. major, bsod

That points to a GPU problem rather than a PSU problem, though the PSU cannot completely be ruled out. The only way for a normal person to rule it out is to swap a PSU from a known good working computer in. A multimeter might tell obvious problems like too high or too low voltage, but it won't show things like voltage ripple and spikes. That requires hundreds to thousands in specialized equipment.

But again, your symptoms do not seem to indicate a PSU problem. PSU problems rarely cause BSODs. It may cause instability and a hard crash (shutdown or reboot with no BSOD), but you're not experiencing that.

bloodhawke83 said:

Been having some minor to huge issues with my new ASUS R9 290 card, i'm back on the 5870.

how can i tell if the PSU is bad? I bought the mobo, cpu, ram, psu at the end of 2009. its about 2 years old now. Speccy can read some of the volt reading off the motherboard and etc. is there any tools out there can tell through windows? i'm kinda stuck with no funds until a week from now.

thanks

http://i.imgur.com/b2pX7rK.jpg

what about this PSU tester?

http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/ATX-Power-Supply-Tester.php

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i think it be an ok tool to have in your toolbox but it wont by any means take the place of a mulit meter which can tell you the exact voltage and sometimes current value being drawn.....for 5 bucks its a nice quick check if not complete when troubleshooting

bloodhawke83 said:

Been having some minor to huge issues with my new ASUS R9 290 card, i'm back on the 5870.

how can i tell if the PSU is bad? I bought the mobo, cpu, ram, psu at the end of 2009. its about 2 years old now. Speccy can read some of the volt reading off the motherboard and etc. is there any tools out there can tell through windows? i'm kinda stuck with no funds until a week from now.

thanks

http://i.imgur.com/b2pX7rK.jpg

what about this PSU tester?

http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/ATX-Power-Supply-Tester.php

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its not a multimeter but hwinfo64 under sensors will try to give you any setting,level possible in your bios...i find it to be a very well made app that you can double check with a multimeter when your able to

Artifacting would point to the GPU first for me. It theoretically could be a voltage issue, but if the system is fine with your old video card installed, I'm willing to bet the 290 is borked. That PSU, if properly functioning, should handle your system with a lot of headroom.

The PSU tester you linked will basically only tell you if it turns on, which we know it does. Your issue is likely under load, which that tester doesn't do.

Jorona said:

Artifacting would point to the GPU first for me. It theoretically could be a voltage issue, but if the system is fine with your old video card installed, I'm willing to bet the 290 is borked. That PSU, if properly functioning, should handle your system with a lot of headroom.

The PSU tester you linked will basically only tell you if it turns on, which we know it does. Your issue is likely under load, which that tester doesn't do.

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ok, thanks