So windows 11 blew up my pc just kidding ....my psu went bang from turning it off during the night Im not touching this new one until i need to power off, i told my dad im not supposed to switch on and off regulary, its not designed for that purpose Totaly his fault lol
Thats nonsense... next time think first in the quality of the PSU instead, that you should have in a system. EDIT: OK then ur Corsair died of natural causes...condensation is ur fault only and the causes are well known and what needs to be done to prevent it. For all the rest of the "smart" ones, better tell all PSU companies, that they can squeeze a little more bucks from 'smart ones" and stop put ON/OFF on their products.... damm ignorance. The more "Radicals"... oh i leave my rig always on...lol, if i shut it down, it will die. We can see all kind of these ideias... bur where does this guys take these ideias from... their girlfriends? Soap operas? Facebook? ... "Ignorance is a bless" NO wait... im gonna leave it always ON... energy was never as cheap as today so... what the hell, will never happen any harm to my rig. Evem better gonna add a nice RTX4xxx, "energy efficient" and all will be even better, long live stupidity and great economic groups/idem idem, due to a rise of ignorance in the human race. No offense to present users.
Turning on/off electronics stresses it the most, it is basically like a short circuit, it is the major cause of hardware failures.
it was a corsair 1200watt psu 80plus platinum, and its not nonsense it causes condensation from rapid warmth
I leave my main rig powered on, as it also functions as a Plex server. The others I turn off when not in use.
Please, listen to your wife. It is the right thing to do. The impact of turning on/off a system is very minute.
1200 W - this should be a frying oven for frying eggs in the morning, but not PSU for pc nothing condenses when it heats up, then everything just and only evaporates. Things begin to condense when there is a sudden temperature drop down in very short time and the process is so-called adiabatic process. And let it be added that absolutely all electrical devices break down at the moment of switching on/off, because then their load is the maximum possible. Often tens to even hundreds of times higher than the allowed maximum, only it lasts for a very short time. (Perhaps you remember the so-called burning out of some lighting bulbs)
Guys, do you have a source? Did a quick search and didn't find anything related to... Any source to this please? Does that mean I shouldn't turn off a computer at all? Elaborate please.
The minute impact is on the hard disk spinning due to the read head that touched the magnetized surface and this is a rare case, most especially, when the hard disk is in a bad state. Out side of that I don't believe there is any thing I can think of at the moment. I don't believe in this urban legend of switching off and on of your system can cause wear or damage. The power switch is meant to do that though.
Perhaps it's a urban legend as you say, let's wait the others, if they want, to comment. Legend sound credible and logical but science it's needed to corroborate it.
Wow, 1200W That's NOT green at all. A way to obtain cheap PSU, buy used game machine (very cheap), then take out its PSU. Usually, I get my spare PSU this way.
It's not a urban legend, even if you put the question in a misleading way. Any piece of tech from a fiat 500 to a Boeing 747 to a computer and its peripherals tend to last less with the increased cycles. You don't even need to be a technician or an engineer to understand that. Each time you turn on something, you face a cold/heat cycle, which mean mechanical and thermal strain. Each time you power on something you fully charge hundreds of electrolytic capacitors, and maybe backup batteries. Even a stupid worn power button can lead to a not booting machine. Then if something is projected well all of the above is taken in account, the problem is when your habits are on the limit of what is considered a "normal" use when something is in the project phase. Still a Boeing 747 used in Japan (say to go 10 times a day from Tokio to Osaka), last 1/3 of the hours of the same plane used from London to HongKong twice a week.
Again with your arrogance and air of pedantic superiority. Geez, the frustration and ego is skyrocketing lately on many. Perhaps is the artificial food Come on, my wife, brother, son, daughter, neighbor, didn't understand this when I translated it to them (hey even I have to translate!) Come on, to understand you need to have some basic knowledge on engineering and or technician. Even so, such claims like many others must be supported by rigorous research and have publications on the Internet (which I wasn't able to find btw). I am a computer technician and don't know many things about discrete electronics or microelectronics, I'm not an electronic technician. Soooooo! Where are the others (publications) claiming the same you claim @acer-5100 ?
When you are bored to eat tortillas, I'll be glad to host you in the country with the best and most varied cuisine in the world So either you are a poor translator, or your whole family needs some after school integration... FYI I'm an electronic technician who worked for almost two decades for many companies, in almost any sector from aerospace to medical to automotive to 2/3/4G networking. What's your specializzation? If you ask so arrogantly you must be the a NASA engineer, isn't it? What the heck you need to understand thermal and mechanical fatigue, I think they should be concepts clear to anyone has a scholarization past the elementary school (or just a bit of curiosity and a search engine). This is not novax/provax mambo-jumbo this is physics.
I know I'm Italian descendant. Ancestors came from Savona, mom's father I believe. Some people say I make a lot of fuss when discussing or angry (genetics?). Chiasso they say? I don't speak or write Italian lang I want others to corroborate what you claim, that's it.