Their only purpose is to avoid unexpected shutdowns during very short power blips, or give you time to do a safe shutdown. They aren't supposed to keep a computer running for extended periods during a power outage.Yeah, I looked into those last year, but for $115, fuck that shit. 13 minutes at 210w?
Your quote included 2 trains of thought, and didn't complete the second.Their only purpose is to avoid unexpected shutdowns during very short power blips, or give you time to do a safe shutdown. They aren't supposed to keep a computer running for extended periods during a power outage.
I've got an APC 750, works well. My company uses strictly APC products for all our business customers.
Need to know what the two computers have under the hood. Most computers are only going to consume about 100 watts or even less at idle, not counting monitors. At load in a game if you have a reasonably beefy GPU you might get up to 300-450W each, depending on what exactly you're running and if you OC. Each 24" monitor is probably around 75 watts at a guess.I had the power blink off for 15 seconds just now...getting tired of this. I finally decided I need to buy a UPS.
Okay, so how many watts would I need to power two computers for 5 minutes or so? -- just long enough to keep things running during blippish power outages that I occasionally experience. One computer has a 750W P/S and the other is 650W. Most computers, honestly, just sit idle. Neither are sitting there doing intensive operations (does that even matter? no idea). Oh, and I have two 24" monitors.
One computer is an i2500K non-overclocked. Video card is a Radeon 6970, houses an 120GB SSD and a 750GB 5400RPM HDD. Second computer is an AMD 965, again non-overclocked. Video is a Radeon 4850, contains 3 1TB 5400RPM hard drives and a 250GB 7200PRM drive. That's about it.Need to know what the two computers have under the hood.