Both are on sale at Costco, at the moment.
$109 https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/battery-backup/cst135uc2/
Or
$170 https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/battery-backup/cst1500suc/
I got a rig with a i9-14900 with a 4070ti Super, but with local brownouts I was hoping either one will cover it. Hoping to go with a cheaper option, but if the group consensus is the more expensive option I’ll go for it. Thanks for the help! 🤞🤞
Thinking of going with the 1500, despite it costing $170 vs the other one. I do want the ability to log off in a brownout. I still don’t really get sine vs simulated myself, but I’ll trust there’s a logical reason? 🤔
performance metrics for power supplies (a PSU as opposed to a UPS) are calculated using the regional AC sine. anything other than a pure sine is going to make the connected PSU work harder and, eventually, marginal components may fail.
having said that, stepped square, modified square, simulated sine are generally going to be perfectly fine for virtually any consumer equipment you connect to it.
cyberpower make cheap (but halfway decent) UPS units. I have used both APC and cyberpower for years without issue.
So I can easily get by with the simulated in my situation? I only plan on using it for my monitor, desktop, modem and router.