“Is this enough to power a gaming PC with a 1000 watt PSU long enough to quit and shut down? The PC would be the only thing it's used for, no monitors or anything else. If it is how long would I have to shutdown, if not what do I need?”
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Advertised run time at full load is 3 minutes; at half load, 11 minutes. Now this unit has a nominal 1500VA rating, but it's only good for 900 watts full load (per CyberPower site). Your PS is rated at 1000 watts, but it's almost certainly not fully loaded. I'd say 3 minutes is a very safe time to shut down and anything beyond 6 minutes is pushing things. You could easily be good for 8+ minutes when the UPS is new, but that would fall off over time. All UPS run times are guesses after a few weeks in service, so I'm going pretty conservative here. Putting a meter on your system power line (a small Kill-A-Watt meter is about $25) could refine your actual power draw, but even that will vary, depending on what you're doing. A precise UPS runtime number will be precisely wrong.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If the PC has a 1000W PSU, it likely is an Active Power Factor Correcting PSU (this would be signified if it has any kind of 80+ rating) which would need a sine-wave output from battery. This model (LX1500GU) will provide simulated sine-wave output on battery, whereas the GX1500GU will provide sine-wave power on battery, and would be a better fit. Though the PSU is capable of an output up to 1000W, it is very rare the computer will actually hit that kind of usage. The exact runtime is going to be based on the active power draw during the outage, so we would need to know what we are looking at for power usage to know what kind of runtime to expect. If you'd like more information, please reach out to our Technical Support team at 1-877-297-6937, and select option 1. Thank you for your question!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.@zypher, it's pretty loaded. Crosshair VIII Formula motherboard with custom loop liquid cooling (2 pumps, 2 rads). Ryzen 5800x with extra 4 pin power connector for overclock. 32 gigs DDR4, 3080ti FTW3 Ultra with 450 watt bios flashed to it. 2 m.2 drives on mobo, 4 in bifurcation mode via pcie card, 4 sata 3 SSD's, 2 regular HDD's, fans... It's running probably pretty close to the load capacity of the APC but I just need enough time to hit win+x then u u. So we are talking less than 30 seconds, call it a min if a games running so I can alt F4 out of it then win+x uu
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