UPS's

[smithxi]

do you have to use a power strip if you use one of these?

[arctirus]

Mine basically are big power strips.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16842101088

I do have a power strip on one of them only because I have more than 4 very small devices that need ups protection. On the one pictured only 4 of the outlets are ups, the others are just surge protected.

[smithxi]

looks nice, what if your running like a psu with larger wattage than the protection, will it just not work?

[arctirus]

It will work and the wattage of your psu is just the max wattage it's capable of. I have a 600+ watt pse but even with a core2 and a 8800gtx at most I'm pulling 350ish from it. All your doing by increasing the load on it is decreasing the amount of time it will stay up after losing power. In my case I only bought it for instances where the power goes out for a second or two, that's a lot more common than long term outages for me. That and the insurance apc gives me. If say, my 52" lcd tv gets hit by a power surge apc covers me for something like $100k and I don't even have to claim it on my home owners insurance.