Question How do people deal with damage to their rigs?

[ethan.crabtree45648]

Anyone else have anxiety over their rig's output? I spent lots on mine and im worried about power abnormalities i dont notice damaging it slowly over many months till my rig is a fraction of what it was. It seems like nobody on earth has discovered if this is possible or if all failure would be obvious and all at once if something is damaged by electrical means. I keep thinking my pc is performing worse even though the times looked at proof for sure im wrong. How do i stop worrying about this? Is this a real thing that people actually have happen to them or is this my anxiety? I am in therapy but i like to have real logic to work with when calming myself down. Anyonr else been through this? If so how did you stop worrying about this?

 

[USAFRet]

From a backyard lightning strike a few years ago, the only thing on my PC that died was the ethernet port. Obvious and all at once.
A few other components, or parts of components, in the house were also damaged.
But nothing affecting "fps", or nothing a"a little degraded".

Talking to my son (mid 30's) about this, he said that was the he had seen this, with him, or any of his friends over the years.


Anxiety? Stress? Worry?
That is a whole different problem, and NOT related to just the PC.
I'm in no position to suggest therapy for this, but.....

 

[Lafong]

Most likely you don't stop worrying............subject to whatever medical help you can get...that may or may not help at all.

Most people worry about things they can't control every day. I do. It has nothing to do with "rigs".

 

[DaleH]

Anyone else have anxiety over their rig's output? I spent lots on mine and im worried about power abnormalities i dont notice damaging it slowly over many months till my rig is a fraction of what it was. It seems like nobody on earth has discovered if this is possible or if all failure would be obvious and all at once if something is damaged by electrical means. I keep thinking my pc is performing worse even though the times looked at proof for sure im wrong. How do i stop worrying about this? Is this a real thing that people actually have happen to them or is this my anxiety? I am in therapy but i like to have real logic to work with when calming myself down. Anyonr else been through this? If so how did you stop worrying about this?

There are too many variables to say that a component(s) are changing with time. It's likely that other parameters are changing all the time, e.g., emails and the disk space that is allotted for them, disk space being used from other programs, software updates, etc. I suspect one could make a career out of trying to analyze these kind of changes.

 

[DSzymborski]

Anyone else have anxiety over their rig's output? I spent lots on mine and im worried about power abnormalities i dont notice damaging it slowly over many months till my rig is a fraction of what it was. It seems like nobody on earth has discovered if this is possible or if all failure would be obvious and all at once if something is damaged by electrical means. I keep thinking my pc is performing worse even though the times looked at proof for sure im wrong. How do i stop worrying about this? Is this a real thing that people actually have happen to them or is this my anxiety? I am in therapy but i like to have real logic to work with when calming myself down. Anyonr else been through this? If so how did you stop worrying about this?

There's no use worrying about things you can't control. Worry about the things you *can* control. That means having a well-designed system, with a quality PSU, grounded electricity at your home, and a PC case which you keep as clean from dust as possible. That means keeping your file system orderly, keeping your OS from becoming a cluttery mess, and having a proper backup regimen which keeps multiple backups of your important data in different places.

Once you take care of all the things you can, you can't control the things you can't. And you'll find the nasty surprises with the things you can't happen less often and be less damaging.