What's your latest tech purchase?

Aquinus · Jan 1, 2019

A little toy for my daughter and I.

Komshija · Jan 2, 2019

Two new USB's - Silicon Power Jewel J80 16 GB USB 3.1 and Adata S102 Pro 64 GB USB 3.1.

Both with older and faster gray Adata S102 Pro.

Now the speeds...

Older Adata S102 Pro USB 3.0, same capacity as the blue one, is a lot faster in sequential.

micropage7 · Jan 2, 2019

silentbogo said:
Maybe chinese knockoff? Not that it's a bad thing, cause actually the quality is 100% the same.
Got the exact same Goliathus a few years back for around $6-7 new (35x45cm). It's still kicking in my office, and went through at least 5 washing machine cycles and couple of hand-scrubbing procedures after I spilled hot chocolate on it. Stitching is still perfect.
Some "knock-offs" are now as cheap as $4 on ali.
For home use I've replaced it with an 80cm wide surface, which cost me around $13 or so shipped from China. Pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing.

Nope, the seller said that it's original but it's old stock, that's why they give discount and since the box is little bit crumpled too

i have another fake and the material is different

But now it just back to its box since my table is too small for that size

Komshija said:
Two new USB's - Silicon Power Jewel J80 16 GB USB 3.1 and Adata S102 Pro 64 GB USB 3.1.

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Both with older and faster gray Adata S102 Pro.
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Now the speeds...
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Older Adata S102 Pro USB 3.0, same capacity as the blue one, is a lot faster in sequential.
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Looks good, i have a plan to buy more flash drive too, just for songs

E-Bear · Jan 3, 2019

Logitech K350 was on sale at 24.99$ Canadian currency.

remixedcat · Jan 4, 2019

^Goes and buys a 3rd Logitech 400. LOLz. good keyboards for media pcs and for working on other pcs.

and also goes and buys 2 basic APC power strips for couple-a downstaiurs guest/dining room compies.

E-Bear · Jan 4, 2019

Brand new old stock for 2.5" + 3.5" hdd . Sata and IDE. 2.99$ Canadian.

btarunr · Jan 6, 2019

Picked up this ATH-M40x at a sweet price of $80 (equivalent). I love Audiotechnica headphones because they not only include short cords for portable players, but also a long (3 metre) cord for studios/PCs/receivers.

If you're trying to be an audiophile, ATH-M40x + a $50-100 sound card, or even motherboards with decent onboard solutions based on ALC1220, etc., would be a great place to start.

E-Bear · Jan 8, 2019

Bought these a while ago for when I will have place to build my own desk. Will connect it on a car amplifier powered by a psu that I will use only the molex12v for it and use the cpu 12v connector for my 12v LED light bulbs for lamp ony desk.

cucker tarlson · Jan 8, 2019

Komshija said:
Two new USB's - Silicon Power Jewel J80 16 GB USB 3.1 and Adata S102 Pro 64 GB USB 3.1.

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Both with older and faster gray Adata S102 Pro.
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Now the speeds...
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Older Adata S102 Pro USB 3.0, same capacity as the blue one, is a lot faster in sequential.
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we need usb sticks bench thread
I still think the best way to bench a flash drive is file copy.

HUSKIE · Jan 8, 2019

will be picking up this tomorrow..

CASELABS M8

HUSKIE · Jan 9, 2019

To be continued...

phill · Jan 9, 2019

To be continued with pictures I hope you mean.....

Looking very nice!!

HUSKIE · Jan 9, 2019

phill said:
To be continued with pictures I hope you mean..... Looking very nice!!

I'm tired, need to wake up at 4:30am tomoz, have work at 6:00am.

phill · Jan 9, 2019

HUSKIE said:
I'm tired, need to wake up at 4:30am tomoz, have work at 6:00am.

Know the feeling very well, was in bed 145am up just before 645 yesterday, then up till 1245 this morning and up again around 645 this morning.. Ugh... I hate early mornings!!

Still, I look forward to seeing it all in action

HUSKIE · Jan 10, 2019

phill said:
Know the feeling very well, was in bed 145am up just before 645 yesterday, then up till 1245 this morning and up again around 645 this morning.. Ugh... I hate early mornings!!

Still, I look forward to seeing it all in action

It should be finished later tonight. Waiting for the proper silicon insert. Those tubes are from my previous build. Need to add wheel to see the water is running. Will be posted the progress soon.

Yeah me either hate early mornings.

adulaamin · Jan 10, 2019

My work requires me to travel around most of the time so I decided to buy my first ever gaming laptop and some other goodies as upgrades.

It's an ASUS Zephyrus M GM501(Intel Core i7-8750H, 1x16gb 2666mhz, NVIDIA GTX 1070 8gb, 512gb NVME SSD, 1tb Seagate SSHD, 15.6" 144hz G-SYNC screen). I decided to upgrade the SSHD to a 2tb Samsung 860 EVO and the RAM to 2x16gb Kingston Hyper X Impact 2666mhz C15.

I'm really happy with it. I'm thinking about repasting with conductonaut and undervolting to get better temps.

HUSKIE · Jan 10, 2019

Update:

Added flow indicator

She is running now..

phill · Jan 10, 2019

Looking great there @HUSKIE

How are the temps doing??

ASOT · Jan 12, 2019

New gpu for ryzen pc to replace the 1060 6Gb

HUSKIE · Jan 12, 2019

Bought this for £150

i5 6400
8gb ddr4
250gb SSD
Gtx 1070

witkazy · Jan 12, 2019

HUSKIE said:
Bought this for £150

i5 6400
8gb ddr4
250gb SSD
Gtx 1070

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Nice price, but my favorite is cpu fan,looks like it holds on chewing gum

PLAfiller · Jan 12, 2019

HUSKIE said:
Bought this for £150

i5 6400
8gb ddr4
250gb SSD
Gtx 1070

How's that even possible....the GPU alone costs twice as that locally. I am stumped....

HUSKIE · Jan 12, 2019

Seller needs money for the new car

Will replace that cooler and Motherboard too.

Deleted member 178884 · Jan 12, 2019

I've made a few small purchases ; )
Alphacool nexxos gpx m24 for my 1080ti ftw3 £65 total to watercool
Rat pro x £100 new
Corsair carbide 600c £90
And the boring stuff (no pics of):
Netgear ac1200 usb wireless adapter £30

I should probably buy a better keyboard but meh.

Sorry for the poor quality image of the case, I'm still stuck on a ipad 4 which does terrible with under the desk pictures, had to use a lamp to even get a semi-decent picture.

Shou Miko · Jan 12, 2019

I got this one earlier this week, mounted it yesterday.

It's not easy to find second handed in my country this is the first one I seen on hardware forums myself and it's was only half of the retail price and 6months old with unused stock fans.

I am still using my Corsair 120MM RGB fans on it using blue. I been thinking about some other fans maybe Corsair ML120 Pro in blue dunno yet need to get rid of the one red led in my built that's on the Creative SoundBlaster-Z soo annoying it couldn't just be white hate Creative for this not the soundcard it's awesome :roll:

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Processor	Intel Core i9 9880H
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Power Supply	FSP Hydro G 650W
Mouse	Cougar 700M eSports white
Keyboard	E-Blue Cobra II
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Processor	Intel Xeon X3470
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Cooling	Enermax ETS-T40F
Memory	Samsung 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3
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Motherboard	Asus IPIBL-LB / HP Benicia-GL8E
Cooling	DeepCool Gammaxx 200
Memory	8gigs Kingston 4x2gigs DDR2-800
Video Card(s)	Zotac GT630 "Fermi" 2gb DDR3 128bits Synergy Edition
Storage	Western Digital Green 7200rpm 1tb
Display(s)	LG Flatron EW234 Super LED
Case	HP Pavilion
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Thermaltake TR2 430w
Mouse	Razer Abyssus Mirror Special Edition Blue LED
Keyboard	Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Commander Red LED Backlighting Mechanical Keycaps Membrane Gaming Keyboard
Software	Windows 7 Home Premium 64bits

System Name	RemixedBeast-NX
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9Ghz (8C/16T)
Motherboard	Dell Inc. 08HPGT (CPU 1)
Cooling	Dell Standard
Memory	24GB ECC
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Nvidia RTX2060 6GB
Storage	2TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD//2TB WD Black HDD
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster P2350 23in @ 1920x1080 + Dell E2013H 20 in @1600x900
Case	Dell Precision T3600 Chassis
Audio Device(s)	Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 // Fiio E7 Amp/DAC
Power Supply	630w Dell T3600 PSU
Mouse	Logitech G700s/G502
Keyboard	Logitech K740
Software	Linux Mint 20
Benchmark Scores	Network: APs: Cisco Meraki MR32, Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR and Lite Router/Sw:Meraki MX64 MS220-8P

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
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Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock
Storage	Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB
Display(s)	BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch
Case	Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s)	ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
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Keyboard	Gamdias Hermes E2
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Processor	10.5 thousand 4.2G 1.1v
Motherboard	Zee 490 Aorus Elite
Cooling	Noctua D15S
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System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
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Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
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Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

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Case	scratch build
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Processor	I5-10400
Motherboard	MSI MPG Z490 GAMING PLUS
Cooling	120 AIO
Memory	32GB Corsair LPX 2400 Mhz DDR4 CL14
Video Card(s)	PNY QUADRO RTX A2000
Storage	Intel 670P 512GB
Display(s)	Philips 288E2A 28" 4K + 22" LG 1080p
Case	Silverstone Raven 03 (RV03)
Audio Device(s)	Creative Soundblaster Z
Power Supply	Fractal Design IntegraM 650W
Mouse	Logitech Triathlon
Keyboard	REDRAGON MITRA
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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Raphael (Waiting on 9800X3D) \ i5-1135G7 Tiger Lake-U
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Keyboard	Ducky One 3 Daybreak Fullsize \| L14 G2 UK Lumi
Software	Win11 IoT Enterprise 24H2 UK \| Win11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 24H2 UK / Arch (Fan)
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