Hi,
I had a PC with mainly the following components:
By a lot of testing I found out that the PSU is totally damaged and also the motherboard. I'm not sure about the other parts (like HDDs... which I hope they are still OK).
So now, after learning my lesson, I'm buying a new PC with protection from power surges & spikes that could be made by the air conditioner, since that my air conditioner is probably the cause for the power surge.
Only thing is that I don't know of which protection to buy and which component is considered a quality power surge/spike protector.
I've read about Metal oxide varistor (MOV) and UPS, but not sure which one of them is sufficient to protect from the power surges/spikes made by the air conditioner (which is connected to the same single power outlet with my PC).
Please help me on this with some examples of recommended UPS/MOV.
Also please write the configuration by which to connect the PC and UPS/MOV and air conditioner to the single power socket outlet (should I connect the MOV to the power outlet, and the UPS to the MOV, and then the PC to the UPS?)
Thank you!
Edit #1:
I draw a picture of the current power configuration:

I've named each single power socket outlet (prefixed with 'U') and each multi-socket (prefixed 'M').
'M1' is connected to the single power outlet that's on the wall.
I had a PC with mainly the following components:
■ Motherboard Asus P7H55-M PRO
■ RAM KINGSTON 2GB/1333MHz
■ HDD WD 500GB, 7200RPM
■ Graphic Card GV-R575D5-1G
■ Chassis HEC 7328
■ Power Supply HEC 550TE
■ CPU Intel Core i5-750 2.66 8M LGA115
By a lot of testing I found out that the PSU is totally damaged and also the motherboard. I'm not sure about the other parts (like HDDs... which I hope they are still OK).
So now, after learning my lesson, I'm buying a new PC with protection from power surges & spikes that could be made by the air conditioner, since that my air conditioner is probably the cause for the power surge.
Only thing is that I don't know of which protection to buy and which component is considered a quality power surge/spike protector.
I've read about Metal oxide varistor (MOV) and UPS, but not sure which one of them is sufficient to protect from the power surges/spikes made by the air conditioner (which is connected to the same single power outlet with my PC).
Please help me on this with some examples of recommended UPS/MOV.
Also please write the configuration by which to connect the PC and UPS/MOV and air conditioner to the single power socket outlet (should I connect the MOV to the power outlet, and the UPS to the MOV, and then the PC to the UPS?)
Thank you!
Edit #1:
I draw a picture of the current power configuration:

I've named each single power socket outlet (prefixed with 'U') and each multi-socket (prefixed 'M').
'M1' is connected to the single power outlet that's on the wall.