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Is cx750 modular protecting my pc hardware from house power failures?


Valleron2010

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In the last 3 weeks there were many random time home power failures.so my pc closed unexpectadly many times.is cx 750m power supply protect my pc or i need extra protection.im conserned about this because after todays power failure im getting fps drops in games.i hope that a disk check or driver rainstall will solve this but i want to be sure that my pc isnt damaged.thanks
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I would also like to add that your common "household surge suppressor" is not a lightning suppressor like many people believe. A true lightning arresstor has a fat copper cable going directly to a ground connection (your standard home wiring is not lightning rated, typically only rated 600v). Its a hard lesson for a lot of people when I had service calls (Electrician for a decade) when they thought their home improvement or big box store surge strip would save them from lightning strikes. I have seen first hand lightning damage to home direct & line strikes from lightning. Lightning can travel for miles, and at such a voltage where wires are "optional paths" so that tiny watch battery sized ceramic disk in the suppressor doesn't hold much resistance as lightning voltage is beyond ceramic's breakdown voltage. Breakdown voltage is the voltage in which an insulator is no longer an insulator.

 

Another important note to add is that most common surge strips will only take one surge, after that, they either fail in a way where it trips your breaker in your main panel rendering it useless or still functions as a non-surge strip. How can you tell if the surge suppression is still good? There is an indicator that tells you if its working. Some say "protected when lit", others say "not protected when lit". If your surge strip indicates no protection you have no surge protection and should replace it.

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