Don - That thought had crossed my mind. Hence the new separate breaker panel and outlets.
But both of those rigs had seen hard usage and were well beyond their service life expectancy. The older XP rig spent most of its time in a hot dusty environment and hung on like a bitter old clydesdale horse (or an old DOS game we all love). The second rig had been a dedicated COD4/WAW server for a fairly large gaming community and was running 24/7 non-stop for a couple of years before I got it (my bad for taking the cheap route).
All of the rigs (and late 1970's stereo equipment) that are in my office are run through a late 1990's 2,500watt rackmount UPS.
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To give an idea of what I do for work, I wrote the below article.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat...vered_from.php
I'm the in-house weapons guy for the Long War Journal. Most of what I write is for private consumption, although sometimes I post articles on my own little bloglet. It's only just recently that I've been asked to step up to the LWJ front line. Making it a particularly bad time to have to build a new system and format my drives...
ENJOYING
THE DAY
OFF,
R