Looking at 2 Uninterrupted Power Sources, CST1500SUC and CST135UC2. Which should I go for?
Looking at 2 Uninterrupted Power Sources, CST1500SUC and CST135UC2. Which should I go for?
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! 🤞🤞
I’ve got a similar Cyberpower 1500, it’s simulated sine wave. It’s perfect for my desktop, network gear, and NAS. Pure sine wave seems like it would obviously be better, idk how exactly, but none of my hardware seems to care about simulated sine wave. The 1500 gives me enough time to shut down the desktop and it’ll run the NAS and network gear for a few hours. If I’m full power gaming (5800X3D, 3090, big ultrawide OLED) and the power goes out, I get about 15 minutes. Batteries lasted 3 years before they needed to be replaced, that could have been due to high ambient temperatures.
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.
I can't figure out why that one is more expensive, the 1500 seems to me the better one at minimum because of more outlets, more output, and it puts out a true sine wave power. I just got a comparable model at Best Buy for about the same price. (Also got a smaller backup to put the modem/router on). Either way, Cyberpower looks to be the best manufacturer to go with, APC has a lot of negative reviews compared to them. I used to have a APC long ago that did fine, but that was then.
Leaning towards the 1500 myself, but I don’t know much about simulated vs pure sine. The 1500 is $170 and the simulated one is $109. Which is a lot, but I don’t want to end up sorry lol. 🤔
Most usually say to avoid simulated sine wave and others will say pay extra for sine wave.
Someone here might be able to answer the question better, but you might want to pay extra. I think later replacement batteries for the sine wave might cost extra though.
I wouldn't worry too much about replacement batteries. They are just standard sealed lead acid batteries that you can replace with generics without paying the high OEM prices. The ones I've replaced are just a spacer between two batteries with a sticker holding it all together.
Good to hear. So you say there are battery places? I live in the states, worried it shortens my list of choices.
The cheaper one (CST1500SUC) seems better, actually. Not sure why. It claims sine wave output while the other one is Simulated Sine Wave. Assuming they mean Pure Sine Wave and Modified Sine Wave, Pure is much better.
Arguably computers really don't care about pure vs modified, but pure is usually more expensive.
That was sorta my question, while one’s $109 and the others $170. It’s really hard for a newb like myself to know, as I don’t know the difference lol, I live in an area of SoCal with recent brownout’s. So I’m looking for protection. 🤔 Not sure if Simulated will be enough or I’ll be sorely disappointed I didn’t go pure.
Sorry to be irrelevant, but I hope that you know about the voltage problems that many 13th and 14th gen Intel CPU's have. If you haven't already, I would advise you to look up some BIOS configurations to prevent damage until Intel releases their microcode update this month.
It’s not irrelevant at all, as I’m aware but appreciate you mentioning it. Since it really needs more attention right now.
With that said, I’ll trying to look through Lenovo’s BIOS settings and see if I can find anything related to the issue. I know most companies try locking down over clocking settings. 🤔
And for now, I’m intentionally avoiding using the rig until the Intel update for the issues released, and have a UPS. It’s not optimal, but I’m trying to be patient lol. sigh
I do know that Cyberpower has some reports in the past of their UPSs being a fire hazard. Definitely caused me to go with APC when I bought one a couple years ago. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cyberpower-upses-reportedly-pose-fire-hazard