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Are modern PSU's good at dealing with power outages?

WeedIsMySin
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My PC crashed during a game and was unresponsive, i held the power button for a few seconds to force it to shut off.

How damaging is this to modern hardware?

 

Not software related, i know it can corrupt files

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It won't care at all hardware wise, no difference from a normal power off.

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4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

It won't care at all hardware wise, no difference from a normal power off.

Oh okay, great. Thanks

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SSD can die if they're doing tasks when the power outage occurs

 

but im not too sure about soft powering down like holding power button

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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If it’s a regular thing for you, a basic UPS with software integration that’ll shut the pc down for you is a possibility. APC and CyberPower both make units worth looking at. 

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2 hours ago, rickeo said:

If it’s a regular thing for you, a basic UPS with software integration that’ll shut the pc down for you is a possibility. APC and CyberPower both make units worth looking at. 

Please read the question before replying. A UPS only protects against power loss. If your computer freezes and you switch it off to reset it a UPS isn't going to do anything to help.

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8 hours ago, WeedIsMySin said:

Are modern PSU's good at dealing with power outages?

 

8 hours ago, WeedIsMySin said:

My PC crashed during a game and was unresponsive, i held the power button for a few seconds to force it to shut off.

How damaging is this to modern hardware?

That are two different things.

 

If your PSU actually shut down using the front power button, then your PSU is responsive and doing this has nothing to do with your PSU and has no impact on your PSU.

 

And it doesn't matter if a PSU is "modern".  There are still cheap PSUs out there that aren't good with power outages, but it sounds like you're not actually talking about a power outage here.

 

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How the PSU is supposed to 'deal' with you telling the PC to shutdown ?

Tag or quote me so i see your reply

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