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Its time I replace one of my crappy "surge protectors" and get a UPS seeing how much I really invest into my setup. Where I live, its really a rare thing to loose my power. 95% of the time its because of a storm. And when it is because of a storm, its rare. I just need one for better protection and peace of mind, plus I need a few more sockets. I just want enough wattage to keep the system going for enough time to close/save everything and shut the computer down safely. My guess is im going to need a preeetty large amount of watts here to do that. What will be running off the UPS:
My computer:
i5 2500k @ 4.2 GHz (for now atleast)
w/ a Coolermaster V8
Intel DP67BG
XFX 7970 DD Black edition (This upgrade will happen soon)
Corsair AX850
Samsung 840 PRO series 256GB
WD Blue 500 GB
Corsair Vengeance blue 2x4GB 1333 Mhz
Asus DVD drive
Im just stating all components in my computer just incase it makes that much of a difference, only things I left out were just LED strips or fans etc.
My Monitors- Three, Asus VH236H Monitors, in eyefinity.
Everything else would be plugged into the surge protector part of it, like my speakers, LED lighting and other things. One thing though is my G19 keyboard uses power, but I dont really need that to shutdown the computer, just my mouse.
So basically running off the batteries would be my computer, and 3 monitors. Whats a recommended wattage range anyone has for me here? Again, im not looking for a huge time frame. I just want enough time to shutdown everything safely. Edit: I also forgot a big part of this, its not just outages I want protection against. Its brownouts too. They are also rare too, but wow are they a nightmare for computers. Theres another thing UPS's seem to sort out. I dont know the technical term for it but say your sitting in your room or living room watching TV with the lights on, and all the lights or maybe a fan or something like that just dim out for about half a second and then go back to normal, but everything else seems unaffected. Those are actually very common where I am, and im pretty sure its common everywhere if im correct. I read up on it before and its something to do with an unexpected pause in the waves. And I also know how most UPS have pure sine-wave or whatever it is. I know that whole sine-wave stuff isn't a big deal according to most people, but whatever, im not making a big deal of it. Whatever makes it safer/better is always accepted.
My computer:
i5 2500k @ 4.2 GHz (for now atleast)
w/ a Coolermaster V8
Intel DP67BG
XFX 7970 DD Black edition (This upgrade will happen soon)
Corsair AX850
Samsung 840 PRO series 256GB
WD Blue 500 GB
Corsair Vengeance blue 2x4GB 1333 Mhz
Asus DVD drive
Im just stating all components in my computer just incase it makes that much of a difference, only things I left out were just LED strips or fans etc.
My Monitors- Three, Asus VH236H Monitors, in eyefinity.
Everything else would be plugged into the surge protector part of it, like my speakers, LED lighting and other things. One thing though is my G19 keyboard uses power, but I dont really need that to shutdown the computer, just my mouse.
So basically running off the batteries would be my computer, and 3 monitors. Whats a recommended wattage range anyone has for me here? Again, im not looking for a huge time frame. I just want enough time to shutdown everything safely. Edit: I also forgot a big part of this, its not just outages I want protection against. Its brownouts too. They are also rare too, but wow are they a nightmare for computers. Theres another thing UPS's seem to sort out. I dont know the technical term for it but say your sitting in your room or living room watching TV with the lights on, and all the lights or maybe a fan or something like that just dim out for about half a second and then go back to normal, but everything else seems unaffected. Those are actually very common where I am, and im pretty sure its common everywhere if im correct. I read up on it before and its something to do with an unexpected pause in the waves. And I also know how most UPS have pure sine-wave or whatever it is. I know that whole sine-wave stuff isn't a big deal according to most people, but whatever, im not making a big deal of it. Whatever makes it safer/better is always accepted.
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