Recomend an External Backup UPS?

[MotokoHammond]

Deer lovely Linus forum comunity, so recently where I live we had a series of power outages and power trips, this lead to my current pc having some OS issues and I had to reinstall some drivers, however for many people this sudden loss of power could cuase HUGE issues to there systems.

This got me thinking about external backup UPS's and how much of a life saver they could be, me and my partner are currently in the middle of buying parts for are new 2 £1300-1400 gaming and workstation PC's, I wanted to know if anyone could suggest a UPS that could handle both my and there new PC's, we currently will be using 850w power supplies but might be upgrading to 1000w power supplies as we add new components.

Thanks in advanced, best wishes to you all. x

[manikyath]

once the systems are built, get one of those wall socket wattmeter things, benchmark the living crap out of your rigs and see how much power they pull from the wall.

 

thats the range of UPS you need to get. (with some headroom, the more headroom, the longer you can run on battery)

[Enderman]

what parts are you using that requires a 100W PSU???

are you doing three way SLI or something on each PC?

[MotokoHammond]

5 minutes ago, Enderman said:

what parts are you using that requires a 100W PSU???

are you doing three way SLI or something on each PC?

well for my pc my calculated max watt consumption is around 850, so a full 850w powersupply gives 0 headroom, thats why the 1000w power supply, and to awnser your question, eventually yes, to right away though

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, MotokoHammond said:

well for my pc my calculated max watt consumption is around 850, so a full 850w powersupply gives 0 headroom, thats why the 1000w power supply, and to awnser your question, eventually yes, to right away though

uh, no, do not use power supply calculators

those are a massive overestimate

 

go on google images and look up power consumption tests for a PC with a similar GPU and CPU

that will show you the real power consumption, not some fake number that a calculator came up with

[MotokoHammond]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

uh, no, do not use power supply calculators

those are a massive overestimate

 

go on google images and look up power consumption tests for a PC with a similar GPU and CPU

that will show you the real power consumption, not some fake number that a calculator came up with

Its ok I know that the calculators are a "worse case scenario" calculator, they dont calculate average load wattage, or regular load wattage, or even max load wattage, what they calculate is worst case scenario of what those components are capable of consuming, I have done months of research dont worry lol

[Enderman]

Just now, MotokoHammond said:

Its ok I know that the calculators are a "worse case scenario" calculator, they dont calculate average load wattage, or regular load wattage, or even max load wattage, what they calculate is worst case scenario of what those components are capable of consuming, I have done months of research dont worry lol

no they dont

they overestimate power consumption because cheap power supplies cannot supply their max rated wattage, that is a peak wattage rating

 

it is not a "worst case scenario"

 

go look up power consumption tests on google and you will see what your PC can actually use

and I can guarantee you it will be less than 850W

[MotokoHammond]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

no they dont

they overestimate power consumption because cheap power supplies cannot supply their max rated wattage, that is a peak wattage rating

 

it is not a "worst case scenario"

 

go look up power consumption tests on google and you will see what your PC can actually use

and I can guarantee you it will be less than 850W

look I know your trying to be nice, but I can assure you I dint spend a month staring at a power supply calculator, I used the calculator as a base line and did extensive research such as loking up indevidual tdp, video's of people using the exact components with wattage meters, the whole nine yards, and yes while some calculators do inflate the watage I 1. do not take it as god honest trueth, and 2. It is a worse case scnario calculator, I dont think you understand what I mean by that, if we where taking into account a very low eficientcy power supply, this is a "worst case scenario", as in the power supply will not efficiently give you what you need so you need a higher wattage power supply to get the same consistant watts, there is no two ways about it, and there is no disagreeing with me as you bassically just confirmed my point of a worse case scenario calculator by your reply, becuase that literally is what it is.

[Mbarton]

Back to the problem at hand, Here is what you need 

 

http://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-BRG1500AVRLCD-1500VA-Outlets-Ports/dp/B00LEFYISA/ref=sr_1_12?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1459804335&sr=1-12&keywords=ups

if you have a bit extra cash 

then http://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-OR1500PFCLCD-Sinewave-1500VA-Compatible/dp/B00YO0ZKSY/ref=sr_1_46?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1459804375&sr=1-46&keywords=ups

 

[Enderman]

2 hours ago, MotokoHammond said:

look I know your trying to be nice, but I can assure you I dint spend a month staring at a power supply calculator, I used the calculator as a base line and did extensive research such as loking up indevidual tdp, video's of people using the exact components with wattage meters, the whole nine yards, and yes while some calculators do inflate the watage I 1. do not take it as god honest trueth, and 2. It is a worse case scnario calculator, I dont think you understand what I mean by that, if we where taking into account a very low eficientcy power supply, this is a "worst case scenario", as in the power supply will not efficiently give you what you need so you need a higher wattage power supply to get the same consistant watts, there is no two ways about it, and there is no disagreeing with me as you bassically just confirmed my point of a worse case scenario calculator by your reply, becuase that literally is what it is.

my point is you're not buying a cheap POS chinese PSU so power supply calculators are irrelevant

also TDP =/= power consumption

[MotokoHammond]

7 hours ago, Mbarton said:

Back to the problem at hand, Here is what you need 

 

http://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-BRG1500AVRLCD-1500VA-Outlets-Ports/dp/B00LEFYISA/ref=sr_1_12?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1459804335&sr=1-12&keywords=ups

if you have a bit extra cash 

then http://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-OR1500PFCLCD-Sinewave-1500VA-Compatible/dp/B00YO0ZKSY/ref=sr_1_46?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1459804375&sr=1-46&keywords=ups

 

thankyou, I will lok for the UK equivelant