Graphic Card sucking too much Juice from my UPS cant keep up. How to reduce Power Draw?

[John Naylor]

What is the actual power Draw ?

Kill A Watt Meter - Electricity Usage Monitor | P3

Here is Guru3D's power supply recommendation:

• GeForce GTX 1070 / 1080 - On your average system the card requires you to have a 500 Watts power supply unit.

The card draws 186 watts, CPU tops out at 156 watts and 30 watts for MoBo and 340 watts for everything else ... that 412 ,,,, with bronze PSu, that's 485 instantaneous peak ... add 60 watts (really ?) for monitor and UPS should be seeing no more than 545 ... should not be an issue for a 600 watt rated UPS



When you say "After 10min or so, my UPS starts beeping."... are we talking "plugged in" or yu are trying to use on battery.

I generally oversize my PSUs to"

a) Keep them close to 50% load where best efficiency is obtained
b) Keep fans from spinning up
c) Stay away from high load levels where voltage stability and noise increases,

When stress testing, this box it draws about 760 watts from the wall (1250 watt PSU), though adding up all the max draw for all components is 970ish. Right now it's pulling 216 watts from the UPS with the PC, two monitors, router, cable modem, and several peripherals and UPS says I have 26 minutes of up time on battery. It drops to 8 minutes at 540 watts and running Furmark it pulls about 810 watts and provides 5 minutes of up time.

But if your UPS is beeping while plugged in, then it's not about up time, it's about the fact that you are over stressing the protective features of the unit. The numbers, based upon info which you provided should not be over stressed. Get that P3 meter ... usually $20-$25. note the actual power draw and make the determination. If the metter shows < 600 watts ...Contact your UPS vendor and ask why is it beeping when the power draw is below the rated value. If it does exceed the rated value, then you'll neeed to reduce the load or upgrade the U{PS.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Get that P3 meter ... usually $20-$25.

OP is not in North America.

 

[R-T-B]

In this case, it may be due to inefficiency in PFC conversions. PCs can run on modulated Waveforms like most UPSes make, but they do so with less efficinency. Most manufacturers rate their VA vs watts at around 60% watts for this reason compared to the VA. This means you are losing approximately 40% of your potential wattage to inefficiencies in the UPS.

If you can find one, a true sine wave UPS may help you. Cyberpower markets some. BUT, you still need a proper nameplate wattage rating and I would not go lower than you are already at. All this does is help you eek more watts out of those volt amps at the peak surges.

OP is not in North America.

If you can find this, there is a chinese made tester I found to be reasonably acurate in my bitcoin article series (I tested and discarded a lot of garbage ones before I found this). It can do 220V and 120V and is quite acurate for the cheap price, even attempting to factor in PFC:

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It was I believe, found on ebay. "Poniie" brand or something. Probably can be found in India, or similar since it shipped direct from China. Look for something that matches this construction.

 

[Mike Messiah]

guys, update: I was playing DOTA2 and it started beeping again. I guess my UPS is faulty. Time to buy a new one
Please check id this one is ok for my PC--
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Or should i just a APC UPS 1000

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people in this topic are still confused regarding my problem.
My UPS is fine on battery load.
The problem is that it starts beeping even when there is electricity. Happens when playing games.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I really don't have any opinion on this, but that Artis sure looks like it comes from the same ODM as your ZEBRONICS. I sure wouldn't go back to the same manufacturer after the experience that you've had with the ZEBRONICS.

 

[Mike Messiah]

Hmm, ill just the get the APC one

 

[John Naylor]

OP is not in North America.

They do sell power meters worldwide ... the link shows what to look for. Im generally in no position to locate a local source as i don't read the language. But, as it turns out, didn't take much effort to find a kilo-watt meter on Amazon India.

Meco Pg09 Energy Meter : Amazon.in: Industrial & Scientific

Meco Pg09 Energy Meter : Amazon.in: Industrial & Scientific

www.amazon.in

 

[R-T-B]

They do sell power meters worldwide ... the link shows what to look for. Im generally in no position to locate a local source as i don't read the language. But, as it turns out, didn't take much effort to find a kilo-watt meter on Amazon India.

Meco Pg09 Energy Meter : Amazon.in: Industrial & Scientific

Meco Pg09 Energy Meter : Amazon.in: Industrial & Scientific

www.amazon.in

That is a china-clone product not an official Killawatt, and not a very good one either. There are many of these; that one ships with a socket adapter rather than a native plug. Not ideal.

Still, thanks for looking.

 

[Tom.699]

APC makes good UPS's.
APC Back-UPS BX1100C-IN should be much better then your current one.

If you want even better and more time on battery this one is even better but much more expensive.
Here for a bit less (don't worry about 1 star rating on Amazon, someone gave it without even writing why, it is good UPS, I have its USA version).