Power outages are very common in my country, 99.9 % of them are not provoked by storms, so there are no spikes or surges when the electricity comes back. The electricity usually comes after 2, 5, or 20 minutes later, it can take even hours. Sometimes it doesn't take a second for coming back.
My problem is that every time there is a power outage , my pc restarts itself when Im playing BF3 or crisis 2, my pc is plugged to a 300w ups but it seems like my ups is not enough for my PC consumption . When there is a power outage and I'm just surfing on the internet or watching movies my PC doesn't restart.
My PC:
Core 2 quad q83002.5 ghz
MSI gtx 550 ti OC edition
4 gb ram ddr2 800
ecs g31tm7
PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 550 w
So, Can a power outage damage my pc?
Im planning on buying this ups in two months :
APC Power Saving Back-UPS 750
http://www.apc.com/products/resource...otal_watts=200
Is this a good ups for my pc?.
6 months ago, my pc was:
Dual core e5800 (now I have a core 2 quad q8300)
HD 5670 (now I have a gtx 550 ti oc editon)
4 GB DDR2
ECS G31tm7
Generic PSU 525W (Now I have an OCZ Fatal1ty 550w)
Every time I was playing BF3 and there was an outage, my pc restarts itself, but when I got my actual setup, my pc didnt restart itself again, probably because of the higher efficiency of the ocz 550w , it uses less energy.
I dont know why but, my pc began to restart itself again 3 months ago every time there is an outage.
PD: My pc has restarted itself about 10 to 20 times in this year, does this means that it has received a lot of damaged and it could stop working at any time ?, now is running fine but that concerns me.
Thank you in advance
My problem is that every time there is a power outage , my pc restarts itself when Im playing BF3 or crisis 2, my pc is plugged to a 300w ups but it seems like my ups is not enough for my PC consumption . When there is a power outage and I'm just surfing on the internet or watching movies my PC doesn't restart.
My PC:
Core 2 quad q83002.5 ghz
MSI gtx 550 ti OC edition
4 gb ram ddr2 800
ecs g31tm7
PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 550 w
So, Can a power outage damage my pc?
Im planning on buying this ups in two months :
APC Power Saving Back-UPS 750
http://www.apc.com/products/resource...otal_watts=200
Is this a good ups for my pc?.
6 months ago, my pc was:
Dual core e5800 (now I have a core 2 quad q8300)
HD 5670 (now I have a gtx 550 ti oc editon)
4 GB DDR2
ECS G31tm7
Generic PSU 525W (Now I have an OCZ Fatal1ty 550w)
Every time I was playing BF3 and there was an outage, my pc restarts itself, but when I got my actual setup, my pc didnt restart itself again, probably because of the higher efficiency of the ocz 550w , it uses less energy.
I dont know why but, my pc began to restart itself again 3 months ago every time there is an outage.
PD: My pc has restarted itself about 10 to 20 times in this year, does this means that it has received a lot of damaged and it could stop working at any time ?, now is running fine but that concerns me.
Thank you in advance