ILIA_93 wrote!!!
What the....!!
You're first post yasamoka was AMAZING, made me know what I'm facing, but now it's o.O !!!!
Who's leaving a PSU without a UPS! I have a 1200VA UPS for my case only, and other to monitor and speakers. And why should my HDD burn in 30mins. And what's up with the moderation edit!!!
All I'm saying is I had a PSU ( let's call it slow ), when the electricity cuts out, and the power is switched to the backup power ( UPS ), the PSU turns off, and the PC restarts. I want to know if the PSU I'm planning to get has the same problem.
Haha I'm sorry! I apologize, I thought you were running without a UPS! Well that happens to me too. The thing is, PSU wattage is not all that matters. I got a 1200VA UPS, even replaced its batteries which had gotten weak after time, yet the UPS cannot handle above 400-500W load. I can probably run full load on the UPS without it restarting, with a single graphics card and CPU, but once I put my PhysX card in, which consumes 70W max, the UPS cannot hold the load and restarts. So it's not only about how much a PSU can give you in terms of time, but how much power load it can sustain.
That aside, the moderation edit was for nested quotes. It means that I was quoting something that somebody else, or you, quoted something else in. It looks messy and adds confusion, and I didn't pay attention to it.
And about the HDDs. I calculated it like this. Last time I read, modern hard drives were able to withstand 40000 start/stop cycles according to the manufacturers like Seagate (or Samsung). Now if you have a power cut every 30 mins, you have 48 cuts every day. Had the HDD even been able to hold 40000 start/stop cycles, the HDD would last you around 2.28 years, disregarding the anecdotal evidence that most HDDs tend to fail while spinning up (not scaring you, you should always have a backup. I learned the hard way...almost.). You're placing your HDD in grave danger had you been running without a UPS, or an unable UPS at that. Other than that, a more critical problem even is filesystem corruption. If your HDD's get too much interrupted power, the chance of getting filesystem corruption increases greatly. Then you'd have to reformat and go through file recovery. Not too exciting.
I mean, I had only placed my system on an open bench for a few days. One of my sucker friends who came over for LAN play kept vibrating the table, and kept crashing the system. I restarted multiple times so that I could get into the game, and after he left (if not the same day, a day later), my HDD's partitions were appearing as RAW (they WERE NTFS :D). Recovered for few days, ran it for a day, then bam! again!
Now I got a Western Digital WD1002FAEX HDD. Let's see how that one goes. So far I'm loving it <3
Now again about the PSU: PSU startup time is in ms, I don't think it even breaks the "second" barrier. That property should be listed in the PSU's specs. I don't think it should even be a slight problem.
One thing you could do for overheating is to get thermal paste, remove the coolers on your CPU and GFX, and apply new paste after removing the old one. You may be surprised at the temp difference you get. AvoK95 can second that :D Be careful though, if you don't apply correctly, you may get higher temps (usually GFX cards do this if applied improperly). Of course, you can reapply and test again, but the issue is wasting the paste. You could get 10C-20C difference with better thermal paste compared to stock paste!
