Setting up Gaming Desktop in Truck

Cheap modified sine inverter. You need something with pure sine what is expensive.

 

Are you using large diameter wire from the batteries to the inverter? See how much power you're actually drawing: https://www.amazon.com/P3-P4330-Kil...=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B004OG94VW.

Good Luck!

 

Work around would be to buy a battery backup APU,.. one of the larger better ones like the APC Pro1500. Plug the monitor and PC into the APU,.. that will give the correct voltage requirements. You could then get away with a cheaper 3000 watt none Sine inverter.

The other end,.. I would strongly suggest at least a 2500+ watt inverter. Pure Sine would be the better option if your going to run TV's, Monitors and PC's through it.

I have a 3500 watt continuous with 4000 watt peak in my truck. When my tower became outdated,.. I upgraded to an MSI gaming laptop. I use a Sony 32" 4k TV as my monitor in the truck and a 55" Sony 4k LED TV at home. Laptop is getting old,.. just waiting for the mobile version of the Nvidia RTX2080 to come out. Current laptop specs are I7 6820HK CPU, 32gb DDR4, Nvidia GTX1080, 1 TB Samsung EVO 850 SSD primary and older 1 TB Samsung EVO840 as secondary SSD. Using Creative Soundblaster X-Fi HD as gaming audio and plug it into my truck stereo input jack.

Laptop is still very capable,.. but new one with RTX2080 will be that much better.

Hurst

 

I agree with the sine wave.

And a Battery will help smooth out the power issues to the computer.

You don't have much inverter. The one battery I use is a Cyberpower 1500 AVR and Im using it to strictly protect the computer against spikes and power offs. Gives me a few minutes to shut down in a orderly manner. Im running a 1500 watt Seasonic Power supply which is itself pretty outrageous and driving 4 video cards in a custom desktop.

If I wanted to game in a truck, it's going to be a Ebay sale after E3 is finished once a year for a dual video card Laptop and drive that off the inverter on the other side of the battery to protect it.

If I had to buy a 3000+ watt sinewave inverter to drive my desktop, it's not worth it. The computer is itself too demanding in power draw.

Even if I could drive it, the large 360mm radiator will raise noise levels and heat that small interior of the truck beyond it's ability to cool with the A/C. It will pretty much sweat a human right out of it.

Back to the gaming laptop we go.

I was gaming out of truckstops online from time to time in 2001 myself we had two laptops. One for strictly GPS and kept a moving map in real time and the other was the bigger one. (Over priced for it's time we had so much money price was immaterial)

I don't recommend a tower situation in a big truck. Do it with a capable laptop and a big floor battery off the inverter. Sine wave is best.

I build my own towers, I am not current in laptops other than paying whatever the bidding stops at after E3 when it comes to getting a capable one.

 

Go spend a grand or so on a good pure sine inverter in the 2500 to 4000 watt range. That cheap modified sine inverter will literally fry that desktop over time... Actually surprised that the computer even boots up with that inverter.

 

Don't need sine wave. A Battery backup will suffer the same issues the power supplies are suffering - TOO LITTLE POWER. A battery backup won't last a week if it's constantly switching.

Until you upgrade to a GOOD and properly installed 2500 watt or larger inverter, that sits on 4 batteries, you're going to have issues, and even then you may have to high-idle to run in full power mode.

Trucks and big gaming desktops are simply not compatible

 

How do you guys find time to play games? I got a switch that I haven't touched in months lol

 

Like others have said - it's a power issue. It either needs a pure sine wave inverter, or a way to "clean" the power being sent into the PC an monitor from the non pure sine wave source. Plug this into your 1500 watt inverter and then your desktop and monitor into this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00429N19W/ and you should have clean power.

 

Because I'm only given 70 hours in 8 days. That works out to less than 9 hours on duty a day. That leaves a lot of free time.

But I run my desktop on a 1500 watt inverter no issues. I hear a little buzzing from the power supply inside the computer but it works great. I've played now for over a year without issues.

You need a better power supply, not a bigger one. Your gaming desktop is only pulling a couple of hundred watts, tops.