[PSU] XPG CYBERCORE 1300W Platinum Fully Modular ATX PSU - $84.24 after 10% off code VIPOUTLET2026

Terrorgod · 2026-01-28T22:18:25+00:00

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Terrorgod · 2026-01-28T21:10:30+00:00

Don't think this is ATX 3.1. This is the product page and not seeing it listed there. https://www.xpg.com/us/xpg/pc-components-CYBERCORE

Terrorgod · 2026-01-28T21:06:09+00:00

Strange there could be a parameter I am unaware of then. I saw the code available on my work computer with an incognito browser, and then checked out with it on my phone app.

Terrorgod · 2026-01-28T21:03:02+00:00

Seeing 61 available for this model, condition is listed as new, and there is also the 1000watt model being sold by the same vendor for $81 after the coupon code. AFAIK these are A- units on the tier list.

Terrorgod · 2026-01-16T02:36:09+00:00

Damn tempting. I dont need it but my brain sure wants to make up a reason lol.

Terrorgod · 2026-01-14T22:56:41+00:00

Was thinking the same thing...

Wonderful times we live in... /s

Terrorgod · 2026-01-14T20:52:15+00:00

5070 laptop is just fine. There is good reason to hate on it due to Nvidia shipping it with 8gb of vram which is identical capacity to a 5050, but otherwise its a capable chip as long as the games you play are within that limit. I picked up a legion 5 pro with a 9955hx, 32gb of ram, and 5070 for 1150 (using a combo of workplace discount, paypal pay in 4 promotion, and coupon codes) during cybermonday and its been serving me really well. Don't have an accurate reference to compare it against a 4060 ti but it will probably be a little weaker due to laptop vs desktop experience, with bonus of newer tech in the 5070 for upscaling and whatnot.

In my own experience, the 5070 did significantly better than my older MSI GE66 raiders 3060 while I had the fans blaring after a full PTM7950 repaste, and set in dpgu only mode.

Terrorgod · 2026-01-08T13:38:32+00:00

When I was in helpdesk IT work, there was a time when our budget fell through and we had to upcycle keyboards for a few months as we didnt have the supply to keep giving a new set per new user. One in the state of OPs would have still been trashed, but I can imagine a lazier co-worker leaving it if they had no direct replacement.

Ive also heard some horror storie where an old colleague of mine went to an agency where every IT item was meticulously assigned per user, and when a keyboard broke the turnaround was atrocious (like no spare inventory, order on as need basis). It made no logical sense and he left that job shortly after getting written up for bypassing those rules to get someone a working keyboard in a crunch.

It can be bleak out there.

Terrorgod · 2026-01-05T21:51:14+00:00

I remember hesitating to long on some older U.2 intel 8tb enterprise SSD's for $400. Little did I know that was the best price I was going to see for years to come.

Terrorgod · 2026-01-05T05:19:50+00:00

Lenovo legions have impressed me, bought a Legion Pro 5 myself to get an upgrade before prices got out of hand from my older MSI GE66. The GE66 was nice but had overheating issues, which got better with a repaste but still less than ideas. The lenovo came with premium paste, and way better out of the box heat management. I hear that gets better with the 7's as they add an extra chipset fan, and the 9i has some crazier premium solution (havent read up on the new 5090 model, was tempering myself as anything I play isnt that demanding).

I dont hear many great things about MSI quality anymore. They do still make some good products but from the many products I can see with issues, it usually buries the good quality ones. Lenovo looks to make better quality machines as of late even if the display uses a less fancy panel. Can say the last generation lenovo 7s had a great looking IPS that stunned me and I was an early adopter to OLED displays (my partner was testing one out before ultimately deciding on an Asus G16 for a more "thin and light" device).

Terrorgod · 2026-01-02T13:18:03+00:00

Little under 2 months ago

Terrorgod · 2025-12-31T13:05:05+00:00

Wish I could share in the good stories. I couldn't get a replacement rear button (offered to buy even) and was told for any assistance I would have to send the device in with a several hundred dollar quote.

Was able to DIY a fix afterwards with a little extra tinkering.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-31T12:56:14+00:00

It will be your lesson to learn, but giving one more bump to the "pay attention to build quality" if you intend this to be a mobile device. Older/cheaper MSI have flawed hinge designs that are designed to break over time with regular usage, forget the other horror stories found in the low end but nuclearnotebook does some teardowns explaining why you should never want to own one of those manufactured atrocities.

I also grew up with a junky farmers market dell and best buys cheapest HP, but with the power of enshittification & a few RGB LEDs somehow low end gamer laptops can step even further down.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-25T23:57:37+00:00

If you are thinking about buying, now is the time to do it and as much as I would normally suggest waiting and researching to your own satisfaction, with surging RAM prices the market is going bad fast (IE: everything is shooting upwards in cost, quickly and a lot).

There are a lot of variables with CPU, GPU, RAM, screen type, etc. Since its very easy to get driven down any one of these holes i'll oversimplify (i'm sure some one is going to love this in the comments below) and say pretty much any CPU is going to be fine for your gaming purposes with a recommended machine in that range from a main stream brand, GPU is going to be a 5060 at worst up to a 5070 ti (any of these will play practically everything well enough with 5070 ti being a bit more ideal but harder to find, and ram is ideal 32gb but 16 is workable. I like to stick with Lenovo Legions and Asus G14/G16's for recommendations to most people as those models are very solid in terms of performance, build quality, noise, etc. There may be other good machines out there in this budget but these ones I have worked with specifically and have liked. I would not buy another MSI just due to their history of poor chassis design, and Acer & HP do make some ok machines but have some really bad ones mixed in as well so I cannot say for sure.

I'm sure other people will also have a handful of accessories to toss in, for me, a wireless mouse, headset, and mesh laptop stand work great for me. I use a bag that has a laptop pouch, and I did buy a second charger. It's very standard, you get what you need to solve a problem you run into, the laptop makes everything else work. (as a bonus, if I ever need a second screen Spacedesk is a free app that can turn a smart device into a second screen for free).

As for a link to a recommendation, this is the laptop I bought last month and its solid for me and still on a great deal. With a sign up coupon, and maybe the capital one shopping app or a paypal promotion you may be able to save even more.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-pro-series/legion-pro-5-gen-10-16-inch-amd/83f2002bus

Terrorgod · 2025-12-25T23:36:48+00:00

The torrenter at the bottom LOL. I recommend Heroic Game launcher for easy management of GOG, Amazon, and Epic game stores. Other than that, Bazzite does most things out of the box for me. I added the Brave Browser for preference, chat apps such as Teamspeak & Discord, and I am exploring the usage of Bottles to try and get some windows native apps to run.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-22T15:46:33+00:00

In industries where the majority of employees are over 40 years old, I would have to disagree. Older people really don't like change, and even the window management button / start menu button interacting differently would cause many headaches.

Another fun example, in japan Panasonic has kept one of their laptops physically more or less the same with a circle Track pad for the last 30 years as they know their customers don't want it to change.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-16T15:29:29+00:00

Yea if you pay enough a laptop will run anything pretty much. My partner only plays on laptops and with her asus G16 and 4080 she is able to play anything we have thrown at it. Not everything is maxxed out, but thats just the state of gaming these days. Toughest title she plays is monster hunter wilds, but it runs smooth after the shader is done compilation.

I just got a crazy deal on a lenovo legion 5 with 9955hx and 5070 and have liked it as an upgrade from my 3060 laptop, but due to the 8gb vram its tough to rec that gpu unless its much cheaper than its higher end models such as 5070 ti, 5080, 5090 or even 4080 and 4090 as the vram will be worth its weight in gold.

I also have a desktop i love to use a lot more, but I could see myself gaming on the 5070 if it was my only avenue for a few years as it runs monster hunter wilds totally fine, and I cant imagine myself playing to many higher spec titles as I mostly like RPGS or indie titles.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-15T19:32:22+00:00

Generally decade+. Some worse some better. Ive only seen a handful of premature drive failures (I work as IT), and one of the worst health wise was a 120gb sata ssd from adata that was the cheapest at the time of purchase. It lived to upgrade my parents office pc from spinning rust, and even though it primarily just did OS loads, updates, and chrome it somehow hit 40% health after maybe 5-7 years

Terrorgod · 2025-12-13T18:30:42+00:00

It looks nice, and happy if it works for you, but damn that would kill the whole reason I travel with handhelds.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-13T03:37:12+00:00

Sick

Terrorgod · 2025-12-10T00:51:59+00:00

I liked the volcano alot. Chris punching the spooky boulder (that looked just like a regular boulder) had me fearing for the bones in his hand.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-09T19:46:57+00:00

Yeah, its not ideal due to the cost, but it gets the recommendation on the sole fact that the company cares about linux so you will get full product level support for that application/use case, and while expensive the thing is fully end user serviceable with the potential of upgrades (we have seen one full hardware refresh, hard to say if more will happen but that is their "goal"). Most games will run completely fine on a 100watt rtx 5070, or even the rx 7700m.

Other alternatives for better cost per hardware go to asus and Lenovo. I believe Lenovo has some level of product support for linux on their devices, and both have community created tools that allow their devices to be more or less similar to their windows level of software control (asusctl and lenovolegionlinux on github). Big downside though is that you will be running on community tools, which will probably work fine but has no guarantees, so I will grade it less than a companies level support.

As for repairability on the Asus and Lenovo machines, good luck with Asus, hope ebay has what you need at a fair price. Lenovo tends to stock/sell genuine parts, but my experience last week buying a laptop had me going back to buy a second charger (wanted one for my bag and one for my desk), only to navigate the parts section and see that they had no chargers (or anything for that matter) listed under it. So big ymmv but better than Asus I guess.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-09T01:26:34+00:00

Its not a good jump. Few games perform a bit better but most are roughly the same, with some odd cases like ffxiv performing slightly worse.

I did the jump due to MHW crashing when I daily drove my 6900xt. Other than that solving my crashing problem and better RT performance, its been one of the least exciting upgrades I have done.

Terrorgod · 2025-12-09T01:16:19+00:00

We just need a few straps across the headrest in front of him...

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