Install Steam & Torchlight II

I only mention this as a test on my computer with the new parts. Before I added a surge protector and replaced the power supply I was booting/running off a USB drive. The last day running this way the text became unreadable on the screen. Looked scrambled and weird. So I was concerned. All I was doing was running a monitor and editing some text. So even though Torchlight II doesn’t tax my system, it is much more graphics intense than the simple things I was doing. It ran perfectly and I played it maybe 45min.

I’m not really in the frame of mind these days to sit and play games for hours. Anyway I think adding a surge protector and replacing the power supply was a good idea.I felt their was a possibility that I was getting bad power…maybe too much. Which led to the HDs failing. Still it was only the Seagate’s that failed and not the Western Digital. It was only a few dollars more and they are thicker…not as sleek as the Seagate’s. Perhaps the have better power protection too.

However I’ve only been running 6 days. The new Seagate ran about 2 weeks. So I’m not out of the woods necessarily.