Haha take your up vote because I too love the AMD 64 cpu ! Also , great post ! <| sep |> The key here is whether it went out for an extended period of time . The power going out for 2 seconds or even 20 minutes isn ' t going to cause any problems . That said I suspect there must be a better solution to this . Maybe some sort of persistent clock that doesn ' t tick without power but won ' t lose its time on an outage . Or literally a circuit that runs on a battery and counts the time periods of each outage when the wire power is lost . <| sep |> I was a little disappointed actually , while there are a few games i would get , sadly im currently finalising the details of moving home and I need to keep money for decorating .