UPS buying advice · DIGIT-ARC

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Hi,

I'd like to buy a UPS that'll give 5-10 minutes backup to save my work. I have Corsair CX600 PSU and Dell U2312HM monitor. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

APC 1.1KVA @ 5.5k BTW post your complete config and your budget also.

If you want 10 minutes to save your work better get a 1 Kva.

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bavusani said:
APC 1.1KVA @ 5.5k BTW post your complete config and your budget also.

PSU - Corsair CX600
CPU - i5 3570k.
Cooler - Hyper 212 EVO+
Motherboard - ASUS Maximus V Gene
RAM - Corsair 8 GB DDR3
HDD - WD Black 1 TB
Monitor - Dell U2312HM

I'll buy a HIS R9 280X or ASUS GTX 760 DCII OC soon. Budget around INR 6,000. Can you give me a link to the particular model?

APC UPS 1100VA

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Thank you incinerator & bavusani.

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After searching a little on google, I'm thinking about buying a home inverter with pure sine wave output instead. What do you guys think?

It wont work for PC,coz the delay is higher in inverter than UPS,hence your PC will shutdown damaging components like HDD and Motherboard.

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The Incinerator said:
It wont work for PC,coz the delay is higher in inverter than UPS,hence your PC will shutdown damaging components like HDD and Motherboard.

Hey Incinerator, I thought inverters have UPS mode to prevent that.

I really dont know if that will work,coz I have seen inverter giving BSOD to pcs and shutting down.

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Pure sine wave is preferred with active pfc. That's what I've gathered from googling. If I do buy the apc ups you mentioned, will it negatively impact the psu?

Nope, not really. Though its not recommended.
But everyone is using such UPS these days.
No one goes with a Pure Sine wave UPS. They are costly.

check with apc for their Home UPS (inverter) system

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saswat23 said:
Nope, not really. Though its not recommended.
But everyone is using such UPS these days.
No one goes with a Pure Sine wave UPS. They are costly.

Every discussion on this topic says otherwise. It's just that I don't want the psu to die on me because of it.

Buy APC ..