Accidentally unplugged PC out of the socket during gaming.

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I have a 9070XT, R7800x3d, 32GB DDR5 RAM Corsair Vengenance and Montech 850W Century II PSU.

Additionally, I must mention my cooler (Corsair Titan 240mm) and rear fan LX120 are all connected into the corsair iCUE link hub.

I am sorry if this comes across as a stupid question, in which it probably is. But is there any way that unplugging the PC during a gaming session which I did, could potentially have an impact on FPS by hurting the GPU, CPU or RAM?

I play 1440p Ultra settings no FSR for all my titles and am just wondering if that performance could be hurt? From the super unnatural process of yanking out the socket mid-game.

I plugged the PC socket right back in after accidentally taking it out.

Thank you in advance for your help!
 
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As mentioned above, you should be fine.

If the PSU had failed it would have done the same thing and cut power to the rest of the system to protect other parts.

Power cuts happen as well and it just means turning the PC back on again so I would not worry too much about it and if the PC comes back on when it was plugged back in you should be fine.

Only time you could have caused damage is if you was doing a bios update which could brick the motherboard and stop it working but as you where gaming that's ok.
 
I think most of us have experienced a powercut whilst gaming at one point or another. For GPU, CPU or RAM, broadly speaking they're either working or broken. If your PC is working, then they're OK. If it's blue-screening every so often, then maybe you have done some damage. But you shouldn't be worrying about them being 10% less effective than before or whatever.
 
hxgioz said:
I play 1440p Ultra settings no FSR for all my titles and am just wondering if that performance could be hurt?
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There's only two ways it could hurt performance that I can think of: 1. if the CMOS reset because it thought the PC was unstable and that knocked out your XMP/EXPO or other overclocks. 2. a driver was reset, like graphics, again knocking out any overclock.
 
this isnt probably that relevant but might make someone laugh
and before i start tldr the only issue was one similar to tetras describes above I had to re enter my -40mv undervolt in adrenaline that was about it [edit to add and the ages trying to figure it out but op has already identified it got unplugged so not an issue]

couple of months ago I had an incident where the pc randomly just went dead instant black screen
had to manually press the power button [such a hard life I know]
spent ages checking event logs etc...
then it happened again.... couldnt find any reason
hte morning after [so probably 20 hours after the first time] it happens a third time
however this time I noticed it happened as I was stretching my legs and I deffo felt I had kicked hte power cable
at this point the light bulb in my head suddenly lights up because hang on thats the missing common denominator here

the previous two times I had just stretched my legs as it happened, how I hadn't clocked this until the third one I don't know
this time it wouldn't turn back on but id already guessed this time i had in fact kicked the power cable completely out

long story short the power cable is no longer right where my feet are rested.... hasn't happened since
so in short i kicked the power cable out 3 times in less than 24 hours and the only damage was to my sides by laughing so much
when i realised just how stupid I had been to manage it 3 times

as an aside a couple of days later there was a bios update for my board and well yes i definitely made a few jokes
[whilst also making sure my feet were no where near said power cable] about it being great i figured it out before
the bios update as well my luck,..... and that being the one time it would have been a problem potentially

tldr not the worst thing that you could do. more of an issue losing any work you were doing or whatever that wasn't saved.
 
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long story short the power cable is no longer right where my feet are
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hxgioz said:
I have a 9070XT, R7800x3d, 32GB DDR5 RAM Corsair Vengenance and Montech 850W Century II PSU.

Additionally, I must mention my cooler (Corsair Titan 240mm) and rear fan LX120 are all connected into the corsair iCUE link hub.

I am sorry if this comes across as a stupid question, in which it probably is. But is there any way that unplugging the PC during a gaming session which I did, could potentially have an impact on FPS by hurting the GPU, CPU or RAM?

I play 1440p Ultra settings no FSR for all my titles and am just wondering if that performance could be hurt? From the super unnatural process of yanking out the socket mid-game.

I plugged the PC socket right back in after accidentally taking it out.

Thank you in advance for your help!
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You ruined it.

I will offer you £200 for the lot. And that is me being generous.

Yes, it is a stupid question. You will be fine ;)
 
tamzzy said:
lol? just turn the pc right back on and see if it works innit?
if the fps etc are the same then no issues...
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I mean in the bloody worst case, do a clean install of windows. But honestly, the chance of needing to this is slim to none.

If such thing from power cuts were an issue, it would be known that PC's need a backup power system.
 
It shouldn’t be any different than turning the PC off via the mains plug mid-gaming. You won’t have done any damage to the components, other than the plug/lead if they won’t plug back in.
 
I have had about 5 power cuts this year (fuse in substation apparently) and twice was when i was using the PC.

I did panic a bit as i thought it would have damaged the PC, but everything has been fine.
 
You will probably be ok, it is bad when you are updating bios or firmware.
Usually the worst that can happen while using the computer is to have some corrupted files.
 
Buy a UPS and let it take the accidental unpluggings :) - This would also help smooth out irregular power spikes (e.g. where I live there are monthly momentary supply 'brown-outs' - the UPS also stops any personal brown-outs caused by fear of loss of data :D )
 
hxgioz said:
I have a 9070XT, R7800x3d, 32GB DDR5 RAM Corsair Vengenance and Montech 850W Century II PSU.

Additionally, I must mention my cooler (Corsair Titan 240mm) and rear fan LX120 are all connected into the corsair iCUE link hub.

I am sorry if this comes across as a stupid question, in which it probably is. But is there any way that unplugging the PC during a gaming session which I did, could potentially have an impact on FPS by hurting the GPU, CPU or RAM?

I play 1440p Ultra settings no FSR for all my titles and am just wondering if that performance could be hurt? From the super unnatural process of yanking out the socket mid-game.

I plugged the PC socket right back in after accidentally taking it out.

Thank you in advance for your help!
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Don't worry, it's not a stupid question at all—we've all been there! The short answer is no. Yanking the plug mid-game won't 'hurt' your components in a way that lowers your FPS. Modern hardware is pretty robust; if there was actual damage from a power surge or a sudden cut, the PC simply wouldn't boot, or you'd be seeing constant BSODs and crashes.

The only real risk with a sudden shutdown is software/OS corruption if Windows was mid-write, but that won't affect your raw performance. That’s a cracking build you've got there as well (the 7800X3D is a beast), so as long as your benchmarks and games feel as smooth as they did before, you're golden. Just make sure the plug is seated properly next time so it doesn't happen again!
 
JonMuler said:
Don't worry, it's not a stupid question at all—we've all been there! The short answer is no. Yanking the plug mid-game won't 'hurt' your components in a way that lowers your FPS. Modern hardware is pretty robust; if there was actual damage from a power surge or a sudden cut, the PC simply wouldn't boot, or you'd be seeing constant BSODs and crashes.

The only real risk with a sudden shutdown is software/OS corruption if Windows was mid-write, but that won't affect your raw performance. That’s a cracking build you've got there as well (the 7800X3D is a beast), so as long as your benchmarks and games feel as smooth as they did before, you're golden. Just make sure the plug is seated properly next time so it doesn't happen again!
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