Power Supplies

ADATA XPG CYBERCORE Platinum 1300W Power Supply Review

Efficiency

We have to start with something of a moderate admission that when testing PSUs over 1,200 watts, these can occasionally throw up some unusual results. It’s not that our benchmarking system can’t handle it, but more that, in our experience, it does generally tend to widen the margin of error the closer it performs to its limits (which, on our test bench, is around 1,500-1,600). Given that the XPG CYBERCORE sample we’re testing here has 1,300 watts, therefore, we’re not going to haul this over the metaphorical coals if the numbers get a little inconsistent in places.

So, with this disclaimer out of the way, things still don’t get off to a, overly great start for the XPG CYBERCORE. As part of our efficiency testing, we found the XPG CYBERCORE to be significantly more in line with 80-Plus Gold rather than Platinum. Admittedly though, this was almost entirely due to the 20% load result which, as you can see below, when compared to everything that came after this was bizarrely low. So low, in fact, that we’re willing to practically write this off as a moderate brain fart between the PSU and our tester (and yes, these do happen from time to time).

Despite that less than encouraging result though, we’re pretty sure that this PSU probably is, on the whole, Platinum efficiency. This is, however, undoubtedly after we give it a reasonably fair margin of error, and, in addition, the greatest benefit of the doubt we can. With that all in consideration, this PSU is Platinum, barely, and not one inch further.

PFC (Power Factor Correction)

The PFC performance for the XPG CYBERCORE was exceptionally encouraging and this included at the 20% load level where results can often dip below the 0.8 area. – On the whole, this is a far better set of results when compared to efficiency which ultimately leads me to believe that some kind of conflict must be going on between this particular PSU and our load tester.

Voltage Regulation

The voltage regulation results provided in our testing were amazingly tight, and, on the whole, exceptionally consistent. The only result that provided notably deviant results (outside of usual remits) was the -12V rail. As I’m sure many of you are aware, however, this isn’t a particularly important rail in modern PC systems anymore, and even then, as you can see in the results below, the scores provided were still amazingly tight.

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