Help Power Loss and RW is messed up

[mirtos]

Yep. But for me it was having hardware that went kablooey.

[RampagingHoardes]

Originally Posted by Dark Lord Galen

+10 to ups
The first time you have to rework a file you have spent hours, days or weeks working on you will either thank yourself or kick yourself depending on the decision to buy vs not.
:-)

Unfortunately they are pretty expensive and I have limited income.

[Parody]

Originally Posted by RampagingHoardes

Unfortunately they are pretty expensive and I have limited income.

Something to consider for the future, then. You don't have to go all out with these things; there are decent ones in the $50-$100 range that will be enough to get through short power blips safely and still give your computer time to shut down when needed.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Parody

Something to consider for the future, then. You don't have to go all out with these things; there are decent ones in the $50-$100 range that will be enough to get through short power blips safely and still give your computer time to shut down when needed.

The other bonus of a UPS is that it gives constant clean power to your PC. Modern PC's can easily be affected by dirty power which can cause all sorts of strange issues.

UPS's are pretty mandatory on high end gaming rigs as they are often being overclocked.

[Parody]

Originally Posted by ShadowChemosh

The other bonus of a UPS is that it gives constant clean power to your PC. Modern PC's can easily be affected by dirty power which can cause all sorts of strange issues.

UPSes that give actual clean power (not just a square wave) are very expensive. Still, if your area has bad power any UPS can be a huge improvement.

Originally Posted by ShadowChemosh

UPS's are pretty mandatory on high end gaming rigs as they are often being overclocked.

I don't understand why people waste their money building "high end gaming rigs"; nowadays you can build a decent game playing computer for what you'd pay for just one of the 2-4 video cards in the expensive machine. But whatever, if they enjoy it then more power to them. (Literally! :)

More importantly, I doubt the majority of users are going to use a high-end overclocked water-cooled gaming rig to type their campaign data into Realm Works. You just don't need that sort of power for RW.

[mirtos]

Gaming alone? agree. But a lot of people ave them for other Purposes. My hi end gaming rig is actually used for business purposes - video editing. Water cooling is actually quite cheap these days if you go with self contained units. More importantly though, people spend lts of money to back up their files, I don't get why not spend a little bit of money keeping the computer in good repair. A UPS will often add years of life to even a midrange computer.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Parody

I don't understand why people waste their money building "high end gaming rigs"; nowadays you can build a decent game playing computer for what you'd pay for just one of the 2-4 video cards in the expensive machine. But whatever, if they enjoy it then more power to them. (Literally! :)

Thanks for the good laugh! Your "decent" computer is going to be running on "low" settings for any good games just to be playable. This comment is same as a person telling me that they have a V6 car with 250HP and "how" powerful it is. LOL

[Parody]

Originally Posted by mirtos

Gaming alone? agree. But a lot of people ave them for other Purposes. My hi end gaming rig is actually used for business purposes - video editing. Water cooling is actually quite cheap these days if you go with self contained units.

There's a big difference between wanting improved performance for business purposes and wanting higher benchmark numbers solely to brag about having higher benchmark numbers. The latter is what bugs me.

Originally Posted by ShadowChemosh

Thanks for the good laugh! Your "decent" computer is going to be running on "low" settings for any good games just to be playable. This comment is same as a person telling me that they have a V6 car with 250HP and "how" powerful it is. LOL

I was speaking about bang for your buck, not power. I fully admit they're not as powerful but they handle everything we want to do with them just fine, including playing games on the LAN.

In any case, I'm sorry for complaining about a pet peeve of mine and derailing this thread even further.

[ShadowChemosh]

I was just kidding around with you. Sorry my strange humor does not come across in posts. My bad.