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Originally Posted by Zkage
Hello all. Just started off at this forum. For the past 3 years, I have not kept a system at home; been working with a office laptop.
The major reasons were saving up for a hi spec system and not finding enough time for the system with work+studies,thus the expenditure not being practical.
Finally close to ending my masters so i have been checking up on available hardware etc as well. One major concern for me is the durability of the hardware. All the previous systems that I have owned, from the age of the nvidia 6800gt and other legacy cards, have blown up, lost motherboards, fried Ram and scrambled graphics cards.
The frequency of lost motherboards etc has been a constant thorn. What I would like to request from all of you nice, uptodate ppl the best way to maintain your system?
in terms of power surges, grounding and how to check up on the health.
are there some best practices which could be floated around?
for example:
Dusting off your pc each week;
Putting some device to check surges? grounding? ( when you are bare feet and touch the metal part of the casing to feel a slight shock)
Major reasons for hardware failure ?
The point being: i do not wish to spend a lot of money building up a brand new rig, complete with ups,stabilizer etc and then having to see it blow up/fry in a year.
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You sure have had some bad luck. Personally I think you should just buy an intel motherboard because its very stable. Don't clean your PC every week. That is a sign of OCD. Instead clean once a year at most.
I don't know how you can protect yourself from power surges. You could try getting a stabilizer, ups and surge protector and still end up with problems because most of these are of low quality in Pakistan. Anyway our problems are quite unique here. How can any device protect you when the problem is in the power grid itself?
Don't keep your computer running all the time. Turn it off when not in use. Also learn to power it on and off using the switch on the wall outlet or extension cord not just the switch on the casing. You can set it up in the bios so that it powers on whenever you switch on mains power.
Lastly don't spend all your money. Don't spend any money that you can't afford to loose because computer parts do fail.