I had 3 PCs running 24/7, one of them was on a UPS, and the other 2 had
surge protectors. They all equally failed. I think the house just hated
technology. :-)
Kevin Brown wrote:
>> Consider yourself lucky. At my old house, there was something funky
>> with the power, because I went through about 8 power supplies, even good
>> expensive ones. At the end I was buying cheapo $29 cases from Frys just
>> to get the power supply out of them (and then recycled the case).
>>
>> My new house isn't quite as bad, but I've gone through 3 power supplies
>> here so far, including one that literally exploded and shot a cloud of
>> plasma-like fire out of it. Talk about an eye-opener at 3am :)
>>
>
> You would have been better off spending all that money on a line
> conditioner/surge protector. I have a line conditioner at my place and
> it occasionally indicates a spike or drop in the line voltage and
> corrects for it. Haven't lost a power supply yet that couldn't be
> anything other than the result of basic age.
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