EMP Proof PC?

[Vivilacqua1]

of all the games in the world... you pick minesweeper lol  :lol:

1- Does not require internet

 

2- Requires thinking, something that will be important in a warring world.

 

3- It's fun 

[TIM74UK]

1- Does not require internet

 

2- Requires thinking, something that will be important in a warring world.

 

3- It's fun 

 

Agree on all points apart from the last one, but hey each to their own

[A_Train]

If it comes to that, I think my PC would be my least concern, besides, if they detonate EMP then there will be no power anyway, and you will have no fridge for food, no cooker, no lighting, 

 

Also, you are probably at war.......

 

doubt you are gonna fire up counter strike

Gotta get that GE grind. Plus CS is good for spray control

[ShadowCaptain]

Gotta get that GE grind. Plus CS is good for spray control

 

Shame it doenst help ACTUAL shooting 

[TIM74UK]

The system name would have to be 'The Cockroach' lol 

 

After all aren't they supposed to be able to survive a nuke?

[Diederik_Gr]

The system name would have to be 'The Cockroach' lol

After all aren't they supposed to be able to survive a nuke?

I believe Mythbusters busted that one, the roaches can endure more radiation than a human, but will also die from the radiation of an atomic bomb, if I remember that all correctly.

[TIM74UK]

I believe Mythbusters busted that one, the roaches can endure more radiation than a human, but will also die from the radiation of an atomic bomb, if I remember that all correctly.

 

hahahaha those guys... honestly

 

Then just perhaps 'The EMPPPC'

[Azgoth 2]

Hm...an interesting thought experiment.

 

As people have mentioned, an EMP burst would essentially send a massive surge of current through the power grid near where it happened, which would just fry most any electronics plugged in to it.  There's nothing you can do about that short of having probably the world's largest surge protector, which would be prohibitively expensive.

 

As for protection from the direct effects of an EMP--a massive electric/magnetic field flux--that's a bit more possible.  But no less impractical.  You'd need a way to more or less completely isolate your system from external electric and magnetic fields, which would require some metal with very high conductivity and permeability.  High conductivity/permeability --> subtance can react quickly to external electromagnetic fields and create one inside itself --> due to resulting charge/dipole distributions, this can cancel out large portions of the magnetic field inside a hollow cavity in the object, which you want, because a huge magnetic or electric flux through your system could generate large currents in the circuitry even without being connected to the wall socket, which could ruin everything yet again (if close enough to an EMP detonation).

 

I don't know enough about typical strengths of EMP blasts or typical effectiveness of EM shielding, but if you wanted to be fully EMP-proof, you'd probably need a lot of, probably, iron, copper, nickel, and other highly conductive materials to shield your rig with.  The cost would probbly be significant--building a solid metal cage of multiple different metals (probably layered) with the right dimensions for your computer isn't cheap or easy.  And it might not be guaranteed to work without a hell of a lot of shielding, if you wanted the compuer to survive the direct effects of an EMP.  That said: it's not impossible.  Just very improbably and impractical.  And kind of fun to think about.

 

Addendum: some quick Googling (and me remembering my physics classes) lads me to conclude that a series of thin layers, rather than a single very thick one, would be far more effective.  But you'd need to make the layers out of a few different materials for maximum efficiency, since different metals are better at shielding from different frequencies of EM radiation, some are better against static fields, some are better against changing fields, etc etc.  This would again increase the time/effort/cost associated with building the case, as you have to nest layers inside layers inside layers.  With enough layers, you should be pretty safe, but I don't know how many layers that would take.

[typographie]

Build a giant tinfoil hat for your PC. If you're someone who is actually worried about an EMP blast, I assume you already have. You might even believe it would work.

[App4that]

Just put Vault-tec on the side of it.

[A_Train]

Shame it doenst help ACTUAL shooting 

I'll have you know I am trained fully in conventional aiming thanks to C9 n0thing's CS:GO tips 

[ManWithBeard1990]

Satellite connection. Change of globe wide EMP is slims with modern technology.

I like that answer.

[BrianS]

BKB

 

Any DOTA players in here?

[xgn]

My guess is if you had a UPS with good grounding the pc MIGHT make it

[Coaxialgamer]

Just download emp resist pro from thisisascam.com

100% virus free!

*insert sketchy pc optimizer pro salesman voice*

[TheRandomness]

Wikipedia is more hours than that, mate.

  

Still 60% of it is a complete lie

You could still download it all for about 9GB~

[Guest]

Faraday Cage + Lead Box + Gold Box + No Active power to the computer.

[Miguel Batista]

Actually not that simple. Satellites have farady cages and yet their maximum litography (for now) is 65 nm (andvmost of them are dtill on 185 nm). Anything bellow that and they fry.

True it is pretty much constant bombardment by solar radiation but a strong enough nuke could render the system useless. Best bet would be a reinforced bunker underground. Like 20 meters bellow should suffice (as in a number pullet out of my ass based on the fact that 20 meters is a lot of rock and an emp would be troubled to cross it.

[T3CH_Notifier]

Hmmm , large Get a PC cages in eBay then put your PC in there then , spray paint inside the cage with primer.

[Lethal Seraph]

Wrap your pc with tinfoil and now watch it burn from the inside. Lol

[vanished]

so I'm getting that I need to protect a power source as well as the pc.... 

 

and absolutely it would be about information store....

 

If the fit hit the shan then information would be very very valuable....

Only way I know to store data that's truly safe is actually good old optical media.  HDDs, SSDs etc all can be wiped by intense enough fields I think but optical should be safe

[byalexandr]

It'd help to have the smallest PC possible, something smaller than a wrist watch. Those aren't big enough to receive the EMP and be fried, so that along with probably some lead plates making a large box around it would probably survive. It would also be essential that the PC is not plugged in or turned on or whatever.

[byalexandr]

Only way I know to store data that's truly safe is actually good old optical media.  HDDs, SSDs etc all can be wiped by intense enough fields I think but optical should be safe

Yep, optical is physically etched into the plastic that makes the disc, so only an actual bomb would hurt anything on it.

[TIM74UK]

Yep, optical is physically etched into the plastic that makes the disc, so only an actual bomb would hurt anything on it.

 

True of manufactured DVD's but not true of DVDR or RW, they use a kind of ink in between two plates of plastic. The data is etched into that. which is why DVDR /RW degrade over time.

 

Even the so called archive disks suffer from ink bleed, where the material acts as a liquid over time and causes the data to corrupt.

 

But if manufactured in a proper press then sure you are right.

[MrDynamicMan]

Build a giant tinfoil hat for your PC

like @Trik'Stari