What you want to worry about are power surges that can overload the electrical circuits and fry the computer. For that a good surge protector will go a long way in helping. If you want to spend the money, a small back-up power supply will condition the power (smoothing spikes and drops in real time) and give you a few minutes to gracefully shutdown in the face of a power blackout. If your power is “reliably” iffy, this is a good investment.
Sorry you are getting a lot of contradictory advice here but keep in mind your own budget, needs and expertise. My do it yourself brothers always got on my case about calling in plumbers and other experts but for me, the most used items in my toolbox is Bactine and Band-Aids.
As always, keeping it simple is a good design strategy unless one is a hobbyist and complexity is a fun challenge. I much prefer the five piece kids puzzles over the 1,500 Varian Wrynn commemorative jigsaw puzzle, but that’s just me.
Heard a lot a contradictory advice on surge protector. Will definitely take this info:
The electral in my house just spike if the disposal gets used.
Thanks for the solid leveling out here. 2 hours until all the info I’ve been studying makes sense when I speak and express what I’m looking for without sounding totally uneducated. (And can understand their language.)
If you were an IT guy you would have built the parts and assembled the PC yourself instead of resorting to buy one of the most expensive PC’s on Amazon.
Actually, I.T. folks know when to outsource to save time and gain greater expertise. Just because I can build a system doesn’t mean I’m the best person for the job or that I don’t have better things to do with my time and money.
I’ve built many pc’s. Sometimes it’s cheaper to buy one pre built and it’s very hard to find 4090’s right now (have you seen the mark up now?). That is why I bought it pre-built. And this isn’t your typical prebuilt Acer, HP, Dell, Lenovo. The parts are much higher quality.
I bought a 3rd party connector and haven’t had any issues. Been keeping an eye on it. The Nvidia connector that comes with the cards is for sure a piece of garbage and a fire hazard.
I’ve done both hardware and software but by the end of my corporate I.T. career I was software, running the Microsoft SCCM suite to manage, image and push software to all 12,000 PCs at work.
I built my own PCs until this last one. Trying to sort out all the matches between CPU, RAM, motherboard, cooling was a bit much for this old guy. I went to a local place and discussed what I wanted with a $3K budget and couldn’t be happier. No muss, no fuss.
