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What's your latest tech purchase?

FreedomEclipse said:
Black Friday pickup
Do you really need that 360mm AIO? I think they are a bit of a gimmick these days. Ive seen a lot of reviews where 240mm AIOs perform better. I remember running a Corsair H80i on my overclocked 3930k then eventually upgrading to my H105. I wouldnt say my H80i ever 'struggled' to cool my 3930k though maybe the heat would saturate it a lot quicker. but temps were still pretty good for what it was.
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I just installed my 360's yesterday, for my RTX 2080 Ti + i7 4770K @4.2ghz, same as when I had the 240mm AIO, my CPU runs a fair bit cooler now. I did a few rounds of UT3 (usually 30mins sessions....give or take) before making the swap to the 360mm AIO, I consistently saw CPU temp at >70C ( 71C-72C). Now, I just ran UT3 for about 30 mins, temp's at 58C.......now, I dunno about you, but that's quite an improvement and the 360mm AIO is not a gimmick in my opinion. Just fyi....oh yeah, with temps like this, I'd prolly up my CPU to 4.4ghz, but I'll prudently monitor temps and such for a while before I do it.
 
GamerGuy said:
I just installed my 360's yesterday, for my RTX 2080 Ti + i7 4770K @4.2ghz, same as when I had the 240mm AIO, my CPU runs a fair bit cooler now. I did a few rounds of UT3 (usually 30mins sessions....give or take) before making the swap to the 360mm AIO, I consistently saw CPU temp at >70C ( 71C-72C). Now, I just ran UT3 for about 30 mins, temp's at 58C.......now, I dunno about you, but that's quite an improvement and the 360mm AIO is not a gimmick in my opinion. Just fyi....oh yeah, with temps like this, I'd prolly up my CPU to 4.4ghz, but I'll prudently monitor temps and such for a while before I do it.
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Well my H105 never lets my 8600k touch 60'c about 55-57'c at the most when gaming
 
I actually bought this Acer 49" monitor for $549.99 on sale. It is a 49 inch IPS 4K monitor from Asus and gives me great performance in games. It states that it is HDR ready but I can't get it to work. I am very satisfied though. It has a 5 ms Grey to Grey response time.

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phill said:
It appears to work so bonus!! :D Would anyone know of any where I might be able to grab a replacement LCD poster at all?? The guy who sold the board to me is giving me a part refund since this one doesn't work (most of the display is just lines, which somewhat hinder the screen to see what it says....
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It should be universal across all ROG boards of that era (just a serial bus similar to i2c, like debug port on old ASUS laptops).
I'll ask my brother, he might still have my old poster from Rampage II GENE somewhere in the junk pile.
 
I got a box delivered today o_O
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The price was better then a Intel 760p 512GB NVME o_O
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Plus I am unable at the moment to back up my 960 EVO...
 
kapone32 said:
I actually bought this Acer 49" monitor for $549.99 on sale. It is a 49 inch IPS 4K monitor from Asus and gives me great performance in games. It states that it is HDR ready but I can't get it to work. I am very satisfied though. It has a 5 ms Grey to Grey response time.

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Sorry I meant Acer
 
silentbogo said:
It should be universal across all ROG boards of that era (just a serial bus similar to i2c, like debug port on old ASUS laptops).
I'll ask my brother, he might still have my old poster from Rampage II GENE somewhere in the junk pile.
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Thank you, that would be amazing!! :)
 
Got myself another 16GB of RAM and took out the 2x4GB kit and now I have 32GB of RAM and a Kingston A1000 480GB Nvme SSD, took out the 275 Crucial MX300
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Meet the HP 2510p.

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It's an old piece of junk with a C2D running at a whopping 1.2Ghz. One of the lamps in the screen is broken, so the backlight is extremely uneven. The reason I'm keeping it is because it has one of the best keyboards I have ever used, better even than almost all the desktop keyboards I've used. The key travel is perfect, it is rigid like a victorian nun and the material is heavenly. And the build quality is excellent and it has that magnesium stuff instead of aluminium (which is totally overrated) so it feels nice to handle overall. This is an old laptop which have been heavily used. Note how despite this pristine the keyboard looks. So i use it as a typewriter. It is small and the fan stays passive during low loads, so it's quiet too.

Now meet the piece of crap that ruined the whole thing:

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ATA drive. The last time I ran HDTune on it the minimum transfer rate was 1.8MB/s. It had a whole bunch of faulty sectors. It sounds exactly like a meat grinder. (however, I did run HDTune on MiniXP now and it mysteriously says it has no faulty sectors and the transfer rate is 12.3-22.4MB/s, but it's still slow as Slowpoke in live use). It is miserable in any case.

So, I got a replacement, and the point of this pointless post.
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A zif-msata-adapter and a SK Hynix SC210 256GB SSD. About €30 for both of them, and the machine is flying now, and entirely noiseless. Since it's PATA sumethin it's pretty slow, but HDTune says it does 75MB/s and that's way more for my needs, and in any case it has that sweet 0.1ms access time. Now I just need a decent battery. And possibly a LED screen, which does exist, but they tend to be on the expensive side and anyway there are now some rather steep fees to import to Sweden and they're much harder on getting their taxes so a $30 screen would end up costing me about $50.

The OS is Lubuntu 16.04 btw.

Now if I just had something to write. Which I do but hey is that a duck I need a drink and I can write tomorrow anyway , kthanx byeee
 
Friend of mine just dropped off a replacement stand. Need to drill out a 75mm x 75mm VESA pattern for my monitor and get some bolts, washers.

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Bought another Nintendo Switch..but the Pokemon Lets go Eevee version for the GF as early christmas present. Stock slowly fading.
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Happy Cyber Monday to me!
 
sooo extended holidays in Spain at my parents place ... plus black friday + anniversary in december ... = i do a lot of work ... errrr .... not.

1st : CPL Powerline kit for the house ... the wifi is not strong enough to cover the whole house and CPL is the best solution for that (living room : lot's of phones and tablet on WiFi and a small computer in the basement, Athlon 5350 + 8gb DDR31600 + GT730 2GB, it's plenty for my mother's use ... for me ... well i can do some retro gaming or use Nox for Androids games just fine :D )
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and since we were at it ... my parents, who already bought the bigger brother of the following, bought me that ... for my birthday gift :)
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yup a Google Home Mini, tested and approved (we tested the full sized one and then we saw that one at the super market were we got the CPL kit 29€ BF price full price listing was aound 49€ quite a good deal imho.) i mainly use it as a voice controlled radio ... (quite practical for setting wake up alarms also ) with my UE Wonderboom paired to it for more "oompf"


well not too bad for a "Flack Bribe Day"
 
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It’s here! :cool:
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Started up with my current stack without an issue. Third display is occasionally cutting out though. NBD, I can get that squared away soon enough.
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I brought this Logitech wireless keyboard 2 weeks back. Got a huge discounts right after 11.11 singles day so I grab 2. Great price at about 10 usd each. I wanted a small keyboard for my itx case this fits perfect! It is about 28cm long about the size of my itx case to very portable. Came with a wireless mouse too. Looks like I am closer to make my rig portable. Just left with a small portable screen and some modification to the case.

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Got myself a new SSD in the "sales". It was surprisingly over US$40 cheaper locally than what Amazon sells it for.
Not quite delivering the performance I expected, but it runs a lot cooler than my old NVMe drive, despite no heatsink. They've clearly refined the controllers a lot over the past couple of years. Only sad thing is the move to 3D TLC from MLC, but hey, I guess you can't have it all.

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Arrived today.

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I know it's not Hardware but it's going to be part of my Machine;)

I have ordered this on Black Friday:

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Should be delivered tomorrow

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Xx Tek Tip xX said:
Alphacool makes heat guns? I thought they were a cooling company :laugh:
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What's a Cooling Company without Heat guns, how am i supposed to bend the tubing:laugh:

Xx Tek Tip xX said:
Nice res there, I've never had any problems with my 360mm alphacool eisbaer and their stuff is awesome.
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Yeah, i have been using Alphacool's Reservoir for a while, good stuff.
 
These just got delivered today, right to my doorstep! First off, a Gigabyte RX VEGA 64 Gaming OC (I'd sold off the reference RX VEGA 64)
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The Logitech G29 steering wheel and pedals also came today (Christmas came early this year :rockout: )
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A rough setup of the wheel and pedals, will fine tune the cable management later....I also need to fine tune the controls, default's a little too sensitive (or maybe the screen's too wide for the default sensitivity setting, I dunno, but I'll have to roll up my sleeves and fine tune the controls if I want it to play right for me). I know the speakers and placement of speakers aren't ideal, but I'm dealing with a very limited amount of space.....
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got the AV reciever and subwoofer in. tested it down stars and im looking to get it set up in my room but im slightly a bit tipsy after a rather strong cider.

FreedomEclipse said:
got the AV reciever and subwoofer in. tested it down stars and im looking to get it set up in my room but im slightly a bit tipsy after a rather strong cider.
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well i started working on it from 8pm -- had pizza for dinner which took 20mins then the rest of the evening till 1.30am installing and deinstalling audio drivers and testing out settings till i found something that worked.... I finally managed to get this working but I had to put my SB-Z back into my PC for Dolby Digital Live. for some reason onboard audio wouldnt output any audio but I think it might be because i was messing with modded drivers...
 
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