Hard turning off of my gaming computer

[Srihari Krishna]

I recently built my gaming PC with 5800x and 3080 GPU.

Is it ok when the system turns off completely when there is a power surge? these per surges are really rare

 

 

 

 

 

[Ezel]

Most of the time it's fine, but since it's expensive hardware you might wanna get a surge protector (they're relatively cheap anyway), if anything it'll at least give you some piece of mind.

[Srihari Krishna]

35 minutes ago, Ezel said:

Most of the time it's fine, but since it's expensive hardware you might wanna get a surge protector (they're relatively cheap anyway), if anything it'll at least give you some piece of mind.

By power surge I also mean frequent power offs too. Do I have to worry about that?

[Arika]

3 minutes ago, Srihari Krishna said:

By power surge I also mean frequent power offs too. Do I have to worry about that?

Power going out doesn't matter, it's essentially the same thing that happens when you turn your PC off the "normal" way, the issue comes from when the power comes back on.

[Analog]

14 minutes ago, Srihari Krishna said:

By power surge I also mean frequent power offs too. Do I have to worry about that?

 

Hardware wise, probably nothing to worry. Most decent power supplies can cope with power surges. Windows, on the other hand can get corrupted overtime if there are frequent surges, especially if updates are in progress while the power goes out. Might ton be a bad idea to invest in a UPS.

[Freakwise]

Invest in ups, it's don't have to be a big one, just a small one so you can shut off your pc properly, I once experienced windows 10 gets corrupted after sudden shut down on my modified laptop ( it's run from power brick not battery)

[LogicalDrm]

The instant power-off harms mainly software side of things. Like files being moved/copied, unsaved files and so on. At worst, whole drive can get corrupted.