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Yeah it feels real bad to get a 12GB card with 25% less raw performance for the same price. NVIDIA's frame gen and RT is much better, but I…

Seasonic makes cables for ATX2.0 PSUs (like yours) with 12VHPWR connectors: https://seasonic.com/12vhpwr-cable/ I don't know how you'd go…

A 1300W PSU from a reputable brand is super overkill. If you're running a 5+ year old 750W PSU with a 9070XT, I guess you just watch for…

Builders don't buy their RAM from Amazon, they get wholesale lots and their cost of supply for the Corsair at the time they bought it was…

It's crazy what's happening with the GPU market right now. 5070 Ti stuck at $1350 while 9070 XT is setting new ATLs every week. The 5070 Ti…

An ATX 3.0 compliant PSU is required to be capable of delivering 200% of its rated capacity over transient spikes. So a good quality 750W…

As long as your PSU is decent quality and has a single 12v rail it will be totally fine. People run into problems when they use a PSU with…

FWIW the Powercolor Reaper had the highest service % (i.e. customers raising tickets due to problems) of any 9070XT model:…

Possibly you listed the wrong motherboard in your PCPartPicker comparison? The B650EM-E is not the same as the B650E-E and would bring your…

I have X80s (very similar) connected with ethernet backhaul and they are fantastic. WiFi coverage is great and very fast, the devices give…

Good tip. The one I bought arrived today and the windows utility is showing 99% battery health - the laptop seems pretty much unused. So…

Great game (I got it a couple months ago) and Patch 11.0 just dropped which adds another Operations (PvE) mission plus six more Heroic…

Yep I ended up getting a Thinkpad T14 2nd Gen (AMD version) for $410 refurbished on eBay. Even though battery life will be down a bit from…

Yeah that's not the case for my kids' school. The difference for similar specs is very large ($500+) considering I can get big discounts by…

The service interval on most ICE cars is 6 months/10,000km, even it's just oil change and check fluids.

I had my ATTO 3 serviced at BYD Dandenong recently. Their communication was good, drop off was straightforward, the bill came to $165 and…

Yeah I've had my yr 9 kid break one laptop already. Only issue with used is battery life, if it's a model that wasn't very good to begin…

Thanks for the suggestion - nothing against Apple devices but I don't run anything in that ecosystem and I'm not going to start. I want a…

Fair point, my older son has killed one laptop (it fell out of his top row locker) so durability is a consideration!

Thanks for your suggestions, I don't mind the Acer as it seems like a good balance between battery life and hitting my other spec…

Yeah I was just looking at some Snapdragon X models but unsure about compatibility with school software like their print server (my older…

How are the Core Ultra 7s on battery life? That's one of the more difficult things to judge when I can't find a review of an exact model.

How is it an outdated spec? 16GB ram is totally fine, my son will be using standard Windows applications and web browser. The school has…

My son is starting year 7 in 2026 and needs a laptop, so I'm looking to pick something up during Black Friday sales. I'm interested if…

The ability to hear your environment while also listening to a podcast etc. is good for a number of situations. The sound quality is not…

Good post, but one little nitpick: you say after overclocking the performance comparisons should be multiplied by 1.11x. This assumes the…

I played XCOM: Terror from the Deep when I was but a young boy and it was the first videogame that ever made me too stressed to play it.…

The 5070 Ti would be expected to outperform the 9070XT on average (see e.g. the 25 game average at…

Agree with this, when you're spending a lot of money on a CPU the temptation is to go for the newest top model, but the 7800X3D is at 96%…

You can take Unigine Superposition on a USB drive, it's not huge. If the GPU isn't plugged in then you can't test it, obviously. So buyer…