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Geek Culture / Does anybody use a Powerline Conditioner for their PC

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 5th Apr 2008 20:54
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I know its common for A/V setups and their delicate equipment, but I need one for my pc setup. I am behind multiple surge supression but I want to insert a good Surge Supression + Noise Filter/supressor device (the noise/dirty power gate being the emphasis here). Everything I see seems geared towards a/v setups, are there any specific, good devices, from reputable companies (APC, Belkin, Triplite etc) that are geared for PC Line Noise and surge supression? I would need to support around 1200-1500 Watts draw, since the psu is 850 + other devices, not that I ever draw even close to that, just need the rating to exceed the possible pull.

Any recommendations or a slap across the mouth in the right direction would be appreciated.

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 6th Apr 2008 09:06
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Maybe just get a USP? Most work are conditioners as well.

Some surge protectors also have conditioners in them

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SUA1500I&total_watts=50

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http://www.apc.com
http://www.cyberpowersystems.com


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Posted: 6th Apr 2008 20:39 Edited at: 6th Apr 2008 20:40
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thanks for that, a bit steep in price tho

I went with this one from TrippLite

http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=2833

Tripplite lists it for $255, but I got it from CDW (newegg didnt have it) for $173.00

Does what I need, active low/normal/high voltage regulation (1800 watts) and EMI/RFI noise filtering / power cleaning. I wasnt interested in batter backup so this one fits the bill

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Posted: 7th Apr 2008 07:30
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but battery backup is always cool

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Posted: 9th Apr 2008 02:52 Edited at: 9th Apr 2008 03:34
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Yeah, you'll wish you bought the UPS if you power goes down

Your powersupply maybe be 850w rated but i bet your high spec PC draws about 400w in reality (my medium spec machines are about 120-160w but have 400w PSUs). You need to get a watt meter and see how much stuff really drains.

LN13775 1500VA APC Smart-UPS 1500i USB & Serial port 230v Including PowerCute software £169.89 £199.62

loads more stuff here
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products.ASP?CatID=42&Category=UPS&Thumbnails=no

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Posted: 9th Apr 2008 03:09
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my rig will never pull 850, as stated, and this circuit would never approach 1800w unless I plugged in 2 sli'd pcs and my Gallien Krueger Bass head/cabinet, but at that point I'd be more worried about fire than tripping a circuit, not to mention the odd looks.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2008 03:14 Edited at: 9th Apr 2008 03:16
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just pulled an 11344 in 3dmark06 by the way, still on stock settings, no overclocking, except for the factory OC by XFX on the video card. And the main memory is actually underclocked to the cpu fsb which is 1066. The mem stepped down to 1066 (533mhz at 1:2 FSB : DRAM, @ 7-7-7-20)

I know its not the greatest score but its pretty damn good for stock settings, and under clocked 1333 ddr3 ram just wanted to share.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2008 03:20 Edited at: 9th Apr 2008 03:32
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UPS normally come with 4 battery backup sockets and 4 clean power sockets so you can just plug none essental stuff like laser printers in the those.



my q9300 is supposed to be in the post. I'll compair score when i get it built. I'm goin' for Dual Channel 4Gb 800Mhz RAM, 2x Raid 0 320Gb WD RE2 HDDs, and Vista 64bit. I'm hoping for sub 200 watts but I've never used a quad before so we'll see

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Posted: 9th Apr 2008 12:00
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Never heard about power line conditioners before, had to Google it. Nice little things, good to know if I ever need one

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Posted: 9th Apr 2008 13:37
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yeah, I think I have noisy power in this house. I basically wrecked 2 psu's on my last computer, so this time I am putting an LC unit in the mix to see if it makes a difference. It will be here today Most battery backup units have noise gates and such built in like mentioned above. I was just interested in the active voltage regulator and the noise gate so I went with the unit from tripplite.

congrats Gator

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Posted: 9th Apr 2008 14:59 Edited at: 9th Apr 2008 15:00
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I've had a couple of PSU blow up and it seemed to be related to unplugging the power lead before the network cable because it also blew the onboard LAN at the same time.

My theory is that the capacitors hold a lot of charge and if you switch off the computer and unplug the power cable it tries to earth down the LAN cable!

My Quad 9300 just arrived while typing this. Got it of ebay for £138 hope it works no motherboard to test it in yet so will be another 24hr before I know if I've been ripped off with something dodgy

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I've had two PSU blowups, one just died and the other belched out a bit of smoke and repeated a beep pattern. Neither cost more than £10, and neither was operating at less than 100 watts over what they should have been. Not bad for four years.


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