[SOLVED] Can a power cut or multiple poweroff damage a gaming pc

Sadz_Mas

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I just bought a new gaming pc about three to four months old,I am using about an year old ups,My ups batteries has gone bad and is not able to power my pc when power cut.I confirm about no power flactutions or power surges.My pc goes off about three to four times a day,I just need to know will these multiple power off can damage my cpu, motherboard etc(components).I am really worried about my pc,Can anyone help me regarding this i am just super worried about my pc.I am really concerned about my cpu and motherboard coz they are new
My specs are:
R5 5600x
Asus Tuf b550 gaming motherboard
2070 super
M.2 nvme 500gb SSD
Corsair vengeance 32 gb ram(3600 MHz)
 

EyyMunchian

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I just bought a new gaming pc about three to four months old,I am using about an year old ups,My ups batteries has gone bad and is not able to power my pc when power cut.I confirm about no power flactutions or power surges.My pc goes off about three to four times a day,I just need to know will these multiple power off can damage my cpu, motherboard etc(components).I am really worried about my pc,Can anyone help me regarding this i am just super worried about my pc.I am really concerned about my cpu and motherboard coz they are new
My specs are:
R5 5600x
Asus Tuf b550 gaming motherboard
2070 super
M.2 nvme 500gb SSD
Corsair vengeance 32 gb ram(3600 MHz)
If you experience power outages around 3-4 times a day then I can grantee some system malfunction is waiting to happen . With newer hardware there are some small preventatives but 3-4 times a day is not a quantity this hardware was designed to protect. I busted my old hard drive from a power cut. Just a quick question though, are you talking about power outages or are you referencing your PC sleeping and shutting off? Because if the system is sleeping and shutting off then that is completely normal.
 

Sadz_Mas

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Power outages but is about more than 2 times a day and what kind of damage will it be,Will the damage be on cpu or the drives
 
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It's not power cuts that can do physical damage but when power comes on as very often voltage jumps for a second although good PS should soak that up. Power cut can damage OS and/or file system if it comes at time when something is written to disk.
 

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