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I haven’t looked into power supplies for over four years, but there’s always been a decent amount of reviews on them. I used to use the tomshardware psu tier list as a starting point a lot back in the day, but it’s been a few years for me too.

I used to go for 80+ silver quality that were as good as gold or platinum for what I wanted to do with it, but even then I’m probably exaggerating the importance of that standard when there’s other things to review with these units.

Probably best to replace in the next six months if you can find a good deal so you can keep the old PSU as a back up instead of waiting until it fails.

New PSUs should have support for about three generations worth of newer sleep state standards too if that’s helpful to you in any way.