Buying new "everything" after a power spike(?) fried it all

Steinberg Lounge
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+1. VA is a try at appearing large, but it is a fudge.

The W rating of the UPS just has to exceed the peak possible power drawn by all devices connected to it. If the W rating ever gets exceeded, the UPS will shutdown immediately, which, when using a line-interactive UPS running off the battery, will mean the computer will lose power straight away, which may cause loss or corruption of session data.

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no way 280W is correct
you left stuff out big time.
there is not a system today that would get by on 280W
500W is the very minimum I would ever use in a build.

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Even when I added on the graphics card, the max I was getting was 342W out of that calculator…not that it matters…I wont be getting anything less than a 650w PSU anyway