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Originally Posted by tw
It is irresponsible to recommend APC products for surge protection. They do one thing well. Battery backup power is only for data protection; not for hardware protection.
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I admit I have no real technical knowledge in this area. However, my house has wildly fluctuating power problems, and in the first six months of living here, we fried three motherboards--on three different computers, the second two with expensive surge protectors and top-of-the-line power supplies after we realized there was a problem--simply by having them on when the lights flickered.
We purchased an APC brand UPS, and have not had another problem in the two years since. Like I said, purely anecdotal. No proof that the UPS is truly what solved the problem. But you also clearly have an axe to grind about the quality of power supplies.