Bottom line? Nobody can predict how long it will last.
At your current load-vs-limit scenario -- and keep in mind the heat factor, which is dependent not only on ambient temperature, airflow, humidity, and also dust and how much 'effort' you're making the box go to (gaming, for example), and which dramatically affects power consumption -- you will have a failure, and it will likely be related to the PSU. If you need expansion on this point, see Exhibit A, the same box pre-"It's Dead, Jim".
If you want my experienced and somewhat cynical, IMO-only take on it... it'll fail somewhere between ten and thirty days after the warranty on the PSU expires
. Typical warranties are for 90 days or a year, depending on manufacturer. Some don't have one at all. You have to look at the docs that came with it.
Whether it takes your mainboard, memory, CPU, or graphics card with it is the question. Again IME, the fail order is usually mainboard->graphics->memory->CPU, once the PSU starts dying.
I think I'm going to try and take pictures tonight of my poor little breadbox, the one with the PSU That Could(n't). As I said, it lasted for a good long time, until things started mysteriously failing and I opened it up to discover scorch marks.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
At your current load-vs-limit scenario -- and keep in mind the heat factor, which is dependent not only on ambient temperature, airflow, humidity, and also dust and how much 'effort' you're making the box go to (gaming, for example), and which dramatically affects power consumption -- you will have a failure, and it will likely be related to the PSU. If you need expansion on this point, see Exhibit A, the same box pre-"It's Dead, Jim".
If you want my experienced and somewhat cynical, IMO-only take on it... it'll fail somewhere between ten and thirty days after the warranty on the PSU expires
. Typical warranties are for 90 days or a year, depending on manufacturer. Some don't have one at all. You have to look at the docs that came with it.Whether it takes your mainboard, memory, CPU, or graphics card with it is the question. Again IME, the fail order is usually mainboard->graphics->memory->CPU, once the PSU starts dying.
I think I'm going to try and take pictures tonight of my poor little breadbox, the one with the PSU That Could(n't). As I said, it lasted for a good long time, until things started mysteriously failing and I opened it up to discover scorch marks.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs