So yesterday I had a power outage during a gaming session due to a lightning strike. (For reference, I didn't have a surge protector at the time) After the power was restored. I noticed my PC wasn't turning on. Came to found out that my power supply was fried. (PSU was an EVGA 850W) Ended up replacing the fried PSU with a new one. (Thermaltake 850W PSU) Once everything was hooked up and the PC was able to turn on again. I noticed that performance on Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022 appears to have degraded. Before I use to be able to get framerates in the 80s-90s with frames dropping to around 50 or even 40 on more detailed routes. Now on a lot of routes that use a lot of turfx and clutter assets. I appear to only be getting framerates in the 30 fps range and lesser detailed routes at times can just barely get 60 fps as the highest. (For example, Kickstarter County can just barely reach 65fps and drops to around 30 in the most detailed areas.) Is it possible something aside from my PSU was damaged in the power outage?
Trainz performance degraded after power outage
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johnwhelan
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This is why it's better to run a PC on a UPS. I quite like cyberpower, the more expensive APC units are good but I've seen one of the APC backups not switch when the power went out and the technical staff said this was a known problem with some "green" PCS.
Basically anything that fries your power supply is bad enough to damage your PC in other ways.
Sorting out what else has been damaged will not be easy.
Sorry John
Basically anything that fries your power supply is bad enough to damage your PC in other ways.
Sorting out what else has been damaged will not be easy.
Sorry John
Newer APC units (Schneider Electric) actually are way more sensitive in my experience. I had one that was constantly flipping to battery and back, causing it to overheat.
I've had good luck with the newer Schneider APC units. My BackUPS Pro 1500 works quite well and has saved my system during some outages.
The problem with lost performance due to a system getting hit is going to be difficult to find. The issue could be the power supply, but it may possibly be something on the motherboard, RAM, or even the video card. To make matters worse, these kinds of failures can include latent failures. You'll fix one thing and everything will appear to work fine but sometime later, something else fails. All it takes is a bit of a load on the hardware to throw it over the edge because whatever that was hurt is now weakened.
The problem with lost performance due to a system getting hit is going to be difficult to find. The issue could be the power supply, but it may possibly be something on the motherboard, RAM, or even the video card. To make matters worse, these kinds of failures can include latent failures. You'll fix one thing and everything will appear to work fine but sometime later, something else fails. All it takes is a bit of a load on the hardware to throw it over the edge because whatever that was hurt is now weakened.
I did end up running a user benchmark and got some pretty concerning results towards my GPU, (Nvidia RTX 3060TI) CPU (Intel Core I9-10850K) and RAM (Corsair Vengeance 32GB 3600MHZ DDR4.)
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johnwhelan
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How much money do you have?
Cheerio John
Cheerio John
Honestly, not even close to enough for a new high end system.
johnwhelan
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Update: I took a look at my CPU's temperature and noticed that it was running at a temp fluctuating between 98-100C. Needless to say, it was overheating. Determined that the CPU cooler I was using had unfortunately fried itself. Thankfully, I had an older CPU cooler on backup. Seems to run fine now for the time being.
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