What's your latest tech purchase?

[Hockster]

i hope this elderly couple aint buried in the basement or in the back garden of your purchased accommodation

LOl, nope

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Still waiting for a few other bits and peice to arrive. smaller items were much cheaper on amazon.

I pray to the many jesuses that this 8600k is a good overclocker

 

[jboydgolfer]

It's not even real wood lol. I bought the house from an elderly couple, it's slowly coming into the 21st century.

its a paper veneer. I had it in my house ,a couple of them actually. There's nothing wrong with that, I like the stuff, been a long time and it brings back memories to see it

If you tear it down ,you're gonna probably find a one hitter hidden behind the wood paneling

Still waiting for a few other bits and peice to arrive. smaller items were much cheaper on amazon.

I pray to the many jesuses that this 8600k is a good overclocker

I was able to get mine up the 5 GHz with pretty minimal tweaking, scored pretty well on cinebench
1226, still gonna delid this week another member offered to send me the tool & gasket sealer and Liquid metal For Free

 

[silkstone]

its a paper veneer. I had it in my house ,a couple of them actually. There's nothing wrong with that, I like the stuff, been a long time and it brings back memories to see it

If you tear it down ,you're gonna probably find a one hitter hidden behind the wood paneling


I was able to get mine up the 5 GHz with pretty minimal tweaking, scored pretty well on cinebench
1226, still gonna delid this week another member offered to send me the tool & gasket sealer and Liquid metal For Free

Mine doesn't even overclock by 200 MHz without major voltage. The temps are pretty good on it, but it won't even boot past 4.5 Ghz. It really is a lottery.

 

[AsRock]

ES9018+5532 Opamp (changable) Amanero USB DAC

 

[Hockster]

its a paper veneer. I had it in my house ,a couple of them actually. There's nothing wrong with that, I like the stuff, been a long time and it brings back memories to see it

If you tear it down ,you're gonna probably find a one hitter hidden behind the wood paneling

It's coming down. The basement is getting a full gut, but it's a couple years away. There's a lot wrong, well almost everything was done by a "handyman". The wiring is wrong, the plumbing is wrong, the HVAC is wrong, even the walls are wrong, there isn't a square corner in the basement anywhere. So everything comes out right down to the concrete walls.But I just finished the kitchen and most of the main floor, gotta save up again.

 

[Ruru]

I'm too drunk to install that, maybe some hours sleep and then we go, 7600K goes to my roommate.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Mine doesn't even overclock by 200 MHz without major voltage. The temps are pretty good on it, but it won't even boot past 4.5 Ghz. It really is a lottery.

That really sucks, you're correct it is a bit of a lottery draw. Although I'm surprised you can't even over clockwork couple hundred megahertz it seems like you really got a bad chip. From what I've seen around the Internet most people are able to get up to 4.4 to 5 GHz with voltage adjustments of a reasonable quantity. Once the kids go to school today, I intend to delid and replace the thermal interface material with liquid metal conductonaut , and drop my already fairly low temperatures even lower. Hopefully your temps arent so terrible . GL

 

[silkstone]

That really sucks, you're correct it is a bit of a lottery draw. Although I'm surprised you can't even over clockwork couple hundred megahertz it seems like you really got a bad chip. From what I've seen around the Internet most people are able to get up to 4.4 to 5 GHz with voltage adjustments of a reasonable quantity. Once the kids go to school today, I intend to delid and replace the thermal interface material with liquid metal conductonaut , and drop my already fairly low temperatures even lower. Hopefully your temps arent so terrible . GL

Yes. I was coming from a 2500K that overclocked like a champ and would do 4.6 Ghz stable with a little tweaking. It's even more disappointing as I got a overclocking motherboard with the hopes of running the chip at 5 Ghz 24/7. My 8600K is more of a sideways upgrade from that and the 2500K I have running by the side still beats it on some workloads.

The temps seem fine on it, and to be honest I really need to spend more time going into the nitty-gritty of the settings. All my current attempts to overclock have been using the board's profiles and adjusting the voltage to get it stable. But, even at a 4.5 Ghz profile and a bunch of extra voltage, the chip isn't 24/7 stable.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Yes. I was coming from a 2500K that overclocked like a champ and would do 4.6 Ghz stable with a little tweaking. It's even more disappointing as I got a overclocking motherboard with the hopes of running the chip at 5 Ghz 24/7. My 8600K is more of a sideways upgrade from that and the 2500K I have running by the side still beats it on some workloads.

The temps seem fine on it, and to be honest I really need to spend more time going into the nitty-gritty of the settings. All my current attempts to overclock have been using the board's profiles and adjusting the voltage to get it stable. But, even at a 4.5 Ghz profile and a bunch of extra voltage, the chip isn't 24/7 stable.

depending on how badly you'd like a better cpu, you could do that intel replacement deal...they have the performance tuning plan, for $40, you can swap your CPU iirc.

HERE

i too had a great 2500k, loved it.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Corsair picked DHL instead of UPS to deliver this time gonna be a few more days without a proper PC.

 

[Ahhzz]

Corsair picked DHL instead of UPS to deliver this time gonna be a few more days without a proper PC.

Ouch I was glad when DHL "stopped" domestic deliveries here, altho we still see one a year or so that's been passed off to them. They weren't nearly as timely as FedUPS....

 

[Ruru]

First boot, multiplier to 50x and save & exit.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Ouch I was glad when DHL "stopped" domestic deliveries here, altho we still see one a year or so that's been passed off to them. They weren't nearly as timely as FedUPS....

they still do it here. As a service they are hit and miss just like a lot of other couriers. I think the main problem was the fact that they were hiring just about anyone that could barely read or speak English and drive to do their deliveries, That resulted in a lot of parcels getting absolutely destroyed in transit and goods being soccer kicked or thrown over a garden fence with absolutely 0 fucks.

I personally prefer UPS or FedEx

 

[AsRock]

New family member

Yamaha CX-830 Preamp, with naked pics , needs a little cleaning, pots were dirty but nothing what a little CRC don't solve.

 

[cucker tarlson]

I am so stupid. CUDA had a cheap 250GB ssd for that.

 

[remixedcat]

Specs:
CPU:Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz 1333 // RAM:3.8 GB
OS: Version:Windows 7 Pro, SP 1 (64-bit)

Will put a Q6600 in it soon. Also will attempt to get more RAM.

 

[Ruru]

I am so stupid. CUDA had a cheap 250GB ssd for that.

Damn, I want one too!

...but can it run Crysis?

 

[Jetster]

Ordered this yesterday at 6:00 am. Just arrived

 

[HammerON]

Needed a case for my E5 2683 v3 cruncher and didn't want to spend much (especially on shipping). So I checked Amazon and found this Rosewell case:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BITI11G/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Not a real bad case. Real light though compared to my other cases...

 

[adulaamin]

Decided to get the X34P and finally move on from 1080p.

 

[scevism]

New family member

Yamaha CX-830 Preamp, with naked pics , needs a little cleaning, pots were dirty but nothing what a little CRC don't solve.

WOW i have the same pre amp been running great for the last 20 years

 

[AsRock]

Then u might like my post after this... coming soon, Well gone though a LOT of HiFi over the years and still find the older Yamaha even their 90's AV amp kick shit out of stuff they release today or at least in the same kinda price range.

Been listening to it over the last few days and find it very engaging compared to others, it's a shame they did not make the loudness volume motorized . Well it's a shame it got turned in to just a crappy button later in the years.

Cleaned up pretty well too, although camera saying it needs another wipe down haha, as for the top i might get some real smooth sand paper and re spay the lid.

 

[Sasqui]

Not a real bad case. Real light though compared to my other cases...

Every case I own now is a Rosewill - four in total The lightness factor is a big part of it, no more manhandling 30-40 pounds of PC... I swear my HAF 932 weighed in at closer to 50. May not be able to stand on it, but I don't stand on my PC often. And they're just well thought out and well put together for the most part, and cheap.

 

[stinger608]

I swear my HAF 932 weighed in at closer to 50.

Add in a full system with a top quality power supply and them puppies bring in close to 70lbs!!!! But they were built like a tank!!!!

I still have two of them cases; one the standard ole HAF 932 and the other is the limited AMD edition red case. Both in use with extended ATX or what ever the Supermicro motherboards are.