Power interruptions are a massive headache for any serious gamer. Losing a game due to power failures is easily preventable by using a suitable UPS system and battery backup to carry you through power failures and bad power supply, which can also corrupt IT software and damage hardware at huge replacement expense.
A UPS will protect any serious gaming PC from more than just surges in the mains supply.
Surge protection is not enough to fully protect any gaming PC setup, but it is a good idea to include some surge protection in your anti-bad-power-supply arsenal. Although a UPS will also act as a surge suppressor, it may be seriously damaged by large power surges. Therefore, it is always a good idea to have surge suppression fitted before the supply into the UPS rectifier.
Such suppression is relatively inexpensive compared to replacing or repairing your UPS. Generally speaking, a lightning surge will take out the rectifier of the UPS and be absorbed by the battery, which will, in turn, absorb power to the point it could explode. A surge suppression device can help prevent this.
In addition to blocking surges and bad power supply, the UPS will also ensure that the gaming PC loads are supplied with clean, pure AC power so that there is no corruption of software or data. When installing a gaming PC UPS protection system, make sure you buy the best technology for maximum protection: the online double-conversion UPS. This type of technology takes the AC mains and rectifies it on its input into DC power. It uses the DC power to charge the battery and feed the input of the Sinewave inverter, which then takes the DC power and makes clean, smooth, and filtered AC power for your gaming PC power supplies.
The process of converting power from DC to AC and then AC to DC again is where the name double-conversion comes from. This ensures that whatever is happening on the utility supply side will not affect the output power of the UPS, and the gaming PC loads connected to the inverter will never know anything happened.
If the input power should fail or be bad, the battery sitting inside the UPS or outside in a separate battery box (this depends on the battery backup time you choose as to the size of the battery), which is directly connected to the inverter input, would simply take over supplying the inverter in the place of the rectifier. So either way, the gaming loads will never see anything and continue to allow you to play your game uninterrupted. These high-end systems will not only protect your equipment but ensure its longevity, resulting in long-term cost saving for you.
Protect your gaming PC and peripherals and ensure you have more chance of winning that online game with your friends by purchasing a good quality online double-conversion UPS like an AROS RIELLO or Pure Line system available from Standby Systems. Contact us on 011 794 2541 or 011 794 3406 or WhatsApp 082 450 2361, or browse our website for more options.