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Need a reliable UPS for Gaming PC (first time - pls help)
April 5, 2025 at
08:30 PM
Sometimes the fuse in my house trips and I lose power for 10 minutes. And I would like to buy a good reliable UPS to keep it running during downtime. This will be my first time looking for a UPS so I don't know what is a good brand or how much power I should be aiming for. The PSU for the PC is EVGA Supernova 750W G3 and the GPU is a 2080 Ti and the CPU is Intel 9900KF. They are overclocked. I have other devices such as a MSI Optix MPG341CQR monitor, a 55" LED HDTV, a SVS PC-2000 Subwoofer and a Denon AVR-X3300W receiver. However, I intend to only plug the PC into the UPS b/c the gaming session along with opened tabs and work-related documents is what I want to protect and save. Basically I'm doing a lot of stuff and have a lot of stuff open and I don't want to be interrupted. I don't really care ab the other devices since they turn back on in a few minutes and have no data or anything like that. In the distant future, I may plan to upgrade the PSU and GPU to a higher wattage. i.e. nvidia 5090, etc. Any help is appreciated!
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If you're trying to save money, CyberPower.
Middle-of-the road, APC.
Top-of-the-line, Eaton.
To be honest, I'd be more concerned that your breaker is tripping regularly and would spend my time and money fixing that issue. But that's just me. Cheers!
As for the fuse tripping issue, it's been happening for many years and yes I had electricians service it quite a few times over the past decades but the house is just v old (over 30 years old) and has poor design, faulty wiring and parts and was initially built w/ shoddy workmanship when the neighborhood got a grant from the city to build a housing project in the middle of an impoverished district. Whenever the issue is fixed, everything is great until it comes back after a year or two and then we replace the faulty parts again. Rinse and repeat. I've been dealing with this for most of my adult life and it just take one day out of the blue to ruin a session where important data is lost. I don't think it's an over use of electricity, the wattage meter is showing 450ish watts from the wall. The trip affects only the room where the PC is in, meaning the power to the room goes out and comes back after a few minutes while it resets itself. No other room in the building is affected by the fuse trip. But yea it's probably faulty wiring or parts which happens to only affect that one room
I also have experienced first-hand a house fire due to faulty electrical issues. That's where I was coming from. Certainly not judging you.
At least the breaker is doing its job...
As for the fuse tripping issue, it's been happening for many years and yes I had electricians service it quite a few times over the past decades but the house is just v old (over 30 years old) and has poor design, faulty wiring and parts and was initially built w/ shoddy workmanship when the neighborhood got a grant from the city to build a housing project in the middle of an impoverished district. Whenever the issue is fixed, everything is great until it comes back after a year or two and then we replace the faulty parts again. Rinse and repeat. I've been dealing with this for most of my adult life and it just take one day out of the blue to ruin a session where important data is lost. I don't think it's an over use of electricity, the wattage meter is showing 450ish watts from the wall. The trip affects only the room where the PC is in, meaning the power to the room goes out and comes back after a few minutes while it resets itself. No other room in the building is affected by the fuse trip. But yea it's probably faulty wiring or parts which happens to only affect that one room
The cyber power UPS's should come with a USB cable that will shut down your PC if the UPS only detects x minutes of runtime on battery.
There was an issue with older cyber powers if memory serves, something about the glue they used, but I believe thats been resolved. I have several of them and the battery life tends to be about 2-3y. The ones I have have replaceable batteries, just double check ont he one you get to be sure.
The only annoying thing I will say about them is when the batteries do go bad, it doesn't give you any sort of warning or initiate a clean shutdown. The thing just emits a high pitched continuous beep and cuts out all the output power.
Here's an example - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCMLLSHL
It has 900w load and claims up to 12m runtime at half load (450w.)
Better priced one, but not sure if 3y warranty like previous:
https://www.amazon.com/APC-Batter...06VY6F