What UPS should I buy?

I suffered a brownout today which fried my power supply. Luckly it didn't damage the rest of my PC (which is only 7 days old...) and I got the PSU replaced under warrenty. I'm looking into a UPS, but damn those are expensive...

My PSU is an 850 watt Antec, though I think the actual draw at full load is closer to 600 watts (one 9800 GX2, 750i mobo, E8400 CPU). I'm not planning on running my monitor through it. What UPS should I be looking at? Does the wattage rating on the UPS have to exceed the computer's draw, or would a UPS with a lower rating still provide brownout protection?

I suffered a brownout today which fried my power supply. Luckly it didn't damage the rest of my PC (which is only 7 days old...) and I got the PSU replaced under warrenty. I'm looking into a UPS, but damn those are expensive...

My PSU is an 850 watt Antec, though I think the actual draw at full load is closer to 600 watts (one 9800 GX2, 750i mobo, E8400 CPU). I'm not planning on running my monitor through it. What UPS should I be looking at? Does the wattage rating on the UPS have to exceed the computer's draw, or would a UPS with a lower rating still provide brownout protection?

Tyhk83

Good luck with that, most of the smaller ones will not run a PC like yours for more then a couple minutes. I use a UPS just for my 2 routers going when there is a power outage. Mine will last for about 15 minutes...

Well, I've never seen a brownout last more the a few seconds where I live. Today's lasted like two seconds, but it was long enough to blow my PSU. In the last three years the power has gone out once. So I'm not really looking for something that will actually keep my computer running for any length of time, just protect it from a brief brownout.

But if I do get a smaller UPS, when it switches on is it effectively browningout my computer? In other words, if it's rated at 450 watts and my computer's pulling 600 watts, will it get cut back to 450 watts and possibly damage the computer like a brownout? Do I need to spend $200+ on one that's rated higher?

I suffered a brownout todayTyhk83

I run my my system off of this moster APC Smart-UPS 1400.

But that was a gift from my father. I bought this one OPTI-UPS ES1000C, and am now using it for my GF's rig and my second PC.