How Many Watts Needed For Tower?

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Crimsonnaire

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Hi, everyone.

I've been looking to get a UPS for my desktop computer, but the thing is that I'm only looking to back up my tower and nothing else. So I've been trying to decide which UPS model is best for me, but I'm not sure how many watts my tower consumes.

The tower itself is an old eMachines T2862 model, but it has an upgraded motherboard, and a hard disk drive from an older eMachines T1090 tower was added. Can someone please give me an estimate based on the following details?

PowerSpec motherboard: 1GB RAM & Intel Celeron E1200 @ 1.60GHz, 1.60GHz
Two hard disk drives: Master drive = 60GB + Slave drive = 18.6GB
One Optical drive: CD-RW/DVD-R
Typical commit charge (K) total: 700000/2501036
Typical physical memory (K) total: 520000/1039596
Typical number of processes: 44

Any information is greatly appreciated.
 
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I think the wattage should match or be greater than your powersupply's wattage. But i have never used a UPS before.
 
Crimsonnaire said:
Hi, everyone.

I've been looking to get a UPS for my desktop computer, but the thing is that I'm only looking to back up my tower and nothing else. So I've been trying to decide which UPS model is best for me, but I'm not sure how many watts my tower consumes.

The tower itself is an old eMachines T2862 model, but it has an upgraded motherboard, and a hard disk drive from an older eMachines T1090 tower was added. Can someone please give me an estimate based on the following details?

PowerSpec motherboard: 1GB RAM & Intel Celeron E1200 @ 1.60GHz, 1.60GHz
Two hard disk drives: Master drive = 60GB + Slave drive = 18.6GB
One Optical drive: CD-RW/DVD-R
Typical commit charge (K) usage: 700000
Typical physical memory (K) system cache: 520000
Typical number of processes: 44

Any information is greatly appreciated.
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Plug the numbers in here and it will give you a solution from APC

or

If you know the wattages used try this one.
 
He means a UPS -Uninteruptible Power Supply- Basically it's a battery for your computer if the power goes out.
 
Awesome! Thank you guys very much. :)

Those links are very helpful and tells me exactly what I want to know. It looks like a 500VA UPS will be more than adequate for my tower during quick brownouts.
 
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