I need a ups for my computer...

[Cavi Mike]

My house loses power like once a fuckin week and it really gets on my nerves so I'm getting a power supply for the computer. It's never out for more than a few minutes, sometimes even just a few seconds but nevertheless, it still goes out.

My questions: What wattage should I look for and what manufacturer?

I plan on powering everything: computer, CRT monitor, cable modem, wireless router and my wireless keyboard/mouse. If the power goes out while I'm here and I'm on the computer, I have NO intention on shutting it down. I'm not even going to do anything but call RG&E and bitch at them. Again. Oh yeah, on that note, I'll also be powering my cordless phone with it. Reserve cap isn't much of an issue anyways since I have like 6 car batteries in my garage, I just want to make sure I don't overload the ups.

[mikecentola]

To power that much stuff for a significant amount of time you're going to be spending a ton of money.

With that said, look into the CyberPower stuff. It's considered low budget but I've had great luck with them. I've got about 5 of their units. I forget what brand the rackmount ones I have are, but they seem to work pretty well too. However, I still don't get more than 15-20 mins of backup. The whole point of a ups is to allow you time to save your work and safely shut it down, not really to leave it running, unless you want to get into some custom systems which are $$$$$. If I remember correctly the UPS system they had installed for the datacenter I was working at in Georgia was around $500,000, but it powered the entire datacenter

[Cavi Mike]

I'll look into CyberPower but what about wattage?