What's your latest tech purchase?

[DR4G00N]

Got this MSI RX 570 4GB Gaming X off ebay for $60 cad parts or repair.
A couple mosfets blew up and burnt pit's into the PCB shorting +12V to ground. The damage went pretty deep, had to take out a 0.8mm deep gouge with a die grinder. Obviously the gpu vrm is not going to work again. But that's where my GTX 480 vrm epower comes in handy.

 

[phill]

Awesome mate, love it Proper ghetto

 

[DR4G00N]

Awesome mate, love it Proper ghetto

Gotta earn that "Extreme overclocker & Hardware modder" moniker in my sig somehow.

 

[phill]

Gotta earn that "Extreme overclocker & Hardware modder" moniker in my sig somehow.

I think the same goes for me, gotta earn the hardware ***** some how

 

[agent_x007]

Irony : The middle card is called Titan Black

 

[phill]

The Titan on the right @agent_x007, is that the Titan XP?? I get lost with what Titan is what....

 

[agent_x007]

@phill No, but It's Titan X (close enough ?).
Basic feature : It does NOT have "X" on the shroud.

^moded vBIOS (by me ), standard one went up to 1,175V on vGPU on those exact settings, this is still on stock TDP/power.
I exchanged paste on GPU for Hydronaut (old one was dry as sand).

Trivia : There is no Titan X "Pascal" on NV website (only "Titan Xp") ?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/
or here
https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus

PS. I belive this is the cheapest 12GB VRAM card from Nvidia (or at least, with this kind of performance).

 

[phill]

Thank you for clearing it up So Titan X then Titan Xp wasn't it? Then the dodgy one being the Titan RTX?? I remember the Titan Z and Black I think... Not sure how many more there were....??

So if one was stupid enough to want to collect boxed versions of each Titan, how many cards would I be looking at?? 5 or 6?

 

[agent_x007]

GeForce GTX Titan (GK110 cut down)
GeForce GTX Titan Black (GK110b)
GeForce GTX Titan Z (2x GK110b)
GeForce GTX Titan X (GM200)
GTX Titan X (GP102 cut down)
GTX Titan Xp (GP102)
GTX Titan V (GV100)
GTX Titan RTX (TU102)

 

[phill]

You star.. I won't look at eBay or put a wanted posted up.... Just yet... Thank you @agent_x007

 

[P4-630]

New mouse , Logitech M330 Silent Plus 2.4Ghz wireless with a new mousemat. (for my laptop) 37 Euros.

 

[silentbogo]

Got an off-topic one for you, but still tech related...


My buddy asked to flash some old parallel EEPROMs for his Range Rover. My Flashcat can't do parallel, and definitely not capable of those voltages, so I've decided to upgrade my toolkit.
Not bad for a $50 chinese device. What's even cooler, is that it switches device profiles and R/W voltages in software (1.8V-18V VPP), so you don't have to mess with jumpers and alternative firmwares for different types of devices. The only downside - no JTAG.
Software also looks funky in 4K, but I can live with that.

 

[agent_x007]

Bit of a side note on that Titan X : It didn't liked it much on stock vBIOS, but now it kinda works with XP
It reserves more system memory than Titan Black though (with Black I get ~3,4GB RAM available for OS).

Good thing Z390 gets native WinXP support with EVGA Dark, I might need that
Obligatory Crysis test (4x MSAA, since Maxwell doesn't support MSAA 8x or CSAA [anymore ?]) :

 

[phill]

Awesome

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

It had been a long time since I posted. I don't really have time to post on my pc stuff or any of my purchases. Well a new post from me here now. 2 weeks back it was birthday, I finally got new smartphone as a gift from a love one. Finally a new smartphone after 2 years. I asked for this huge smartphone. It came abit late for a birthday present only coming 2 days later after my birthday. It was a good thing though, the seller throw more free gift in an extra 10000mah power bank as an apology on top of free already included gift such as the black intel casing and screen protector. Another glass screen protector is already pre-installed already. The smartphone is a blue Huawei Honor Note 10, the huge ridiculous size of the phone give a smile on my face. The best gift ever I received from a love one. I am very happy, its rare to get gifts what is more something like this. I got an external blue battery case for this phone. It sure sounded crazy already. The battery build in the phone is already 5000mah and I am adding 6000 mah on this. Now phone is 41 watt worth of power now. xD Making this a thick brick as well.

Below a size comparison of the size of the 6.95 inch smartphone with a 3.5 HDD and an external cd drive. The thickness with the external battery case included. I am just testing this phone, have not migrated my old phone yet. The only huge downside I came across is the Chinese rom which is not as open as a normal local rom. I find my twitter pictures seems to be deleted by the phone a huge downside. Not sure how to fix that yet. I am newbie to tinkering and rooting phones. Aside from the "censorship", the phone is amazing the amoled 6.95 inch is beautiful, the battery hardly drop much with use. Phone also have the ability for micro sd expansion which is getting rare nowadays. Headphone jack is absent though. This would be the last Huawei flagship with micro sd sadly with Huawei moving on to Nano memory card. Gonna enjoy my new "little" pocket Pc here after some mods to fix the issues.

 

[HUSKIE]

Had some changes with routing of the tubes.

New drain plug pointing downwards.

Removed the TT RIING 140 bling bling fans. Added white led corsair fans front top and rear.

 

[Athlonite]

Had to buy a new Amp/Receiver yesterday as the front L/R channels on my old Pioneer VSX-D457 went poo so replaced it with an Pioneer VSX-531 Amp/Receiver so hopefully this one will last as long as my old one did

 

[phill]

That does look meaty What is the wattage and is it Atmos compatible?

 

[ensabrenoir]

......there is no cure for this "hobby"

NZXT 200I......for $20....boom.... tyring to cut and paste .......

 

[theonek]

I finally did it, and I only say I finally did it because I voted on a past poll inquiring which component you would upgrade at the end of last year. I voted for a monitor upgrade, also Freesync.
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The curve of the panel is throwing me off since I'm use to a flat screen otherwise no complaints for the newly added screen space that 2560x1440 offers compared to 1080P.

Yep, it's a good monitor if you are lucky to get a flawless one. Got mine 32" last year and it's time to test it's freesync with NVidia. But once you got a habit with a curve screen, I don't wanna stare at flats anymore

 

[EarthDog]

That does look meaty What is the wattage and is it Atmos compatible?

Look up the specs. He gave the model number.

Pioneer VSX-531

Yeah, your clicking on that to see it, LOL! Don't be so lazy!

That looks like one of their budget models so I would expect no atmos on that.

 

[Athlonite]

That does look meaty What is the wattage and is it Atmos compatible?

No Atmos but does have DTS-HD and Dolby - TrueHD it's good enough for it's purpose though which is Gaming and Audio and it's 140W x5 @ 2ohm or 80W x5 @ 8ohms (which is what I have) and it's plenty loud enough for me

 

[AsRock]

Well lets face it the newer ones are much lighter, the older one i have here (VSX-56TXI) is around 42lb even the feet on that are solid metal lol the dam transformer is heavier than that whole unit. either way he likely got it though it having what he wants on it. Maybe connecting it to a PC and so forth.

Picked some thing up to keep me busy.

 

[kenkickr]

I couldn't manage the itch anymore and sold my house

 

[phill]

Look up the specs. He gave the model number.

Pioneer VSX-531

Yeah, your clicking on that to see it, LOL! Don't be so lazy!

That looks like one of their budget models so I would expect no atmos on that.

If I'm honest I must have had a blonde moment and just completely ignored the text and just looked at the picture lol I'll click on the link and take a look

EDIT - Can't see enough speaker outputs to see compatibility with Atmos.. Looks a decent unit for the price

No Atmos but does have DTS-HD and Dolby - TrueHD it's good enough for it's purpose though which is Gaming and Audio and it's 140W x5 @ 2ohm or 80W x5 @ 8ohms (which is what I have) and it's plenty loud enough for me

What is with me missing replies!! Many apologises, well as it's for gaming and such, it'll be massively decent enough for the task I thought the Logitech Z-5500's I had seemed overkill really but that's another level Awesome! What speakers do you have to go with it?