Quote Originally Posted by bds71 View Post
well, my second PC went down this week - now, all i have is my overheating laptop (the dGPU gets real hot, real quick). i can still serf the web and what-not, but until i get my PCs fixed i won't be doing much else. i think it's the crappy power coming into my house. both times my PCs went down i came home and the power had been lost (not sure if spike or something else). unfortunately, the first outtage took out my main PC (i think its the PSU) and the second time took out my media PC (sux, now i can't watch my shows or anime i have on that PC_ - i think my main HDD is fried on my media PC (or the mainboard). not really sure what the problem with that one could be. /sigh/ and i move in a couple months to boot....this sux lol.
Wow man that sucks

You should look into getting one of the cheaper UPS battery backups. We have all of our clients using them and I've yet to have a surge go through one of their resistors.