Should you turn off your PC during a thunderstorm?
Should you turn off your PC during a thunderstorm?
James Davis
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Nathan Clark
No, I set up a rod on my roof and have it wired to my pc, its how i overclock my shit bro. 40,000 GHz with 1000 FPS on crysis
Grayson White
fucking kek
Josiah Richardson
Depends where you live, but probably yes. I live in a rural area and ive had lightning strike power lines,
Ian Edwards
Yes just switch to phoneposting
Lucas Clark
Absolutely. Storms often lead to morons plowing into poles and taking down power lines, so if you don't have an UPS your computer can shut down improperly which can cause data loss and corruption. Unless you're using a laptop, then it's whatever because of its battery. Just make sure you have actual surge protectors and not just power strips because a surge can still fry your shit.
Leo Sullivan
Only if you intend to also unplug it.
Jacob Turner
>2018
>not using a surge protector/battery backup combo on all your sensitive electronics
It’s like you plebs don’t even try.
Kevin Thompson
U have disease
Mason Ward
Depends what shithole you live in and how you live there.
Unless you have underground cabling from the substation, a lightning rod and a UPS on all your systems and networking equipment, yes, you should.
Bentley Nelson
Wouldn't unplugging it be better
Jaxon Miller
no, because static charge can build up across the prongs on your power plug. if you're unlucky you'd be overloading your PSU with 10,000V in an atmospheric discharge. If you leave them plugged in, they're at least grounded.
Daniel Torres
and unplug it. and I mean unplug everything. power, ethernet, printer, whatever.
it's no use if it's off, but plugged in. no surge protector or UPS is going to block lightning from frying it if it gets to that point.
Nicholas Brown
I have a surge-protected UPS so no.
Easton Gomez
Why not just turning off the main breaker instead?
Carson Moore
Nevermind, apparently I'm a tard.
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Eli Collins
Yes, wife's SSD was friend when her PC shut off unexpectedly during a power surge.
Jaxon Hughes
>Americans don't have grounding pins in their plugs
Lol
Joshua Sullivan
powering down protects against a power loss or brownout causing an unclean shutdown and possible corruption of anything that had in-flight writes. Unplugging after powering down protects against that and also lighting.
Gabriel Sanders
I got one monitor thats been struck 5 times, my last pc got struck 3 times, it was dying anyway and in one season it completely bricked the fucking thing, and it behaved incredibly odd after the lightning strikes, the system afterwards was constantly making micro freezes while doing tasks and watching videos.
Tyler Jenkins
> switching power suplies
maybe
> linear power supplies
definitely
Lightning nuked my big 600w subwoofer amplifier. That bought a tear to my eye.
Xavier Garcia
i lived in south florida for 14 years and only rarely turned my pc off for a storm. lost power several times with it on. never broke anything
Samuel Taylor
Forgot to mention, the monitor still works perfectly
Lucas Rogers
no, you should have frequent, cold backups of important data
leave your computer on during storms and collect the insurance money
Levi Adams
Yes you should. Turn off the oc and watch the storm pass by is relaxing