What's your latest tech purchase?

[Valantar]

Just waiting on my Nouvolo Aquanaut to install this into my system. Should improve the flow rate over the EK-SPC pump/res by a decent amount, while allowing me to ditch the huge reservoir and move to a smaller case in time. Have to sleeve the pump wires, though I might repin it to run off a motherboard header if my next motherboard can handle the power draw.

 

[8BitZ80]

Upgraded from AMD Wraith Stealth to Noctua NH-U9S on my Ryzen 3 3100. Temperatures are down by about 5C to 7C across the board (44C idle, 71C rendering). Doesn't sound like much of a difference, but it's so under-stressed that you could feasibly run without a CPU fan at all (on this particular chip) while staying under the original max temperature of the Stealth.

Also my first time using the Noctua SecuFirm mounting kit and it's so bloody good. Very user friendly and solid mounting braces with no flex. The cooler supports its own weight rather than placing bending stress on the motherboard socket. It should be a legal requirement that all tower heatsinks require a SecuFirm mounting design.

 

[SN2716057]

Found an old boy. And it still works!

Performance is crap for today standards and the noise

 

[Chomiq]

Last one:

This one will replace stock rear exhaust. I'll mount it tomorrow. Replaced it today, sweet silence at 100%.

 

[biffzinker]

Found an old boy. And it still works!

Performance is crap for today standards and the noise

How loud is it in dB?

 

[kiriakost]

Last one:

This one will replace stock rear exhaust. I'll mount it tomorrow. Replaced it today, sweet silence at 100%.

Rifle bearing technology? They will write anything so just to sell from toothpaste up to DC fan

 

[Ruru]

Oh crap. Unboxed a MSI B450 Mortar MAX & R5 3600 on monday and I forgot to take pics, damn. :/ Whatever, they're my newest ones.

 

[Chomiq]

Oh crap. Unboxed a MSI B450 Mortar MAX & R5 3600 on monday and I forgot to take pics, damn. :/ Whatever, they're my newest ones.

I still wish they'd make a titanium wariant of their current lineup. I was seriously considering getting mortar titanium last year.

 

[Secret Rival]

Here is the whole kit and caboodle to put my build together, my 1st. The case I got in 2018, but the rest I got between late August and last week.
it was a fun spree for sure.

 

[biffzinker]

Oh crap. Unboxed a MSI B450 Mortar MAX & R5 3600 on monday and I forgot to take pics, damn. :/ Whatever, they're my newest ones.

You could of still got away with snapping a photo with the side panel removed.

 

[Ruru]

I have the boxes tho I'll treat you guys tomorrow with pics from those and my build.

 

[Disparia]

My monitor is very particular about inputs -- 75Hz over DP but only 60Hz over HDMI -- so I wanted a KVM without the "V". Found this on the 'zon:

It's been working very well for past 30 minutes. I can now get rid of my basic secondary kb+mouse and just use my good set with both home PC and work laptop.

 

[Splinterdog]

New customer build on a Saturday afternoon which is always fun.
Asus Prime A320M-K with Ryzen 2600, 16GB RAM and Evga GTX1650 Super. Nice starter machine for a young lad.

 

[The Foldinator]

New customer build on a Saturday afternoon which is always fun.
Asus Prime A320M-K with Ryzen 2600, 16GB RAM and Evga GTX1650 Super. Nice starter machine for a young lad.

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Absolutely is

 

[sam_86314]

Scored a 64GB iPad Air 2 at a thrift store for only $20. Got it for that price because the battery is bulging and the screen popped off.

Currently, I have it at a repair shop. I considered doing it myself, but considering my track record working on mobile devices, I'd probably destroy it or burn my house down. It'll be about a week before they get the parts in, so no pictures of it until then.

 

[Deleted member 193596]

Have it since Monday and i absolutely love it
bought a 10850k on sale too

 

[SN2716057]

How loud is it in dB?

Sorry for the late reply. It's ..erm.. well here's a video

 

[INSTG8R]

Sorry for the late reply. It's ..erm.. well here's a video

Yeeehah! I “almost“ run my Nitro+ like that now...

 

[biffzinker]

That’s way louder and I was expecting. Almost sounds similar to my Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X at 100%.

 

[SN2716057]

Yeeehah! I “almost“ run my Nitro+ like that now...

Headphones are a must than.

That’s way louder and I was expecting. Almost sounds similar to my Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X at 100%.

It doesn't do that in games or bench marking though. But press the button and take-off mode is engaged. Only gave 10 points more in Heaven compared to the non-turbine fan profile.
Next up is testing the OC function.

Ninja edit: I also had these cards (I have the R9 280x Matrix too) water cooled.

 

[INSTG8R]

Headphones are a must than.

5.1 always! everything in my PC is loud. Noctua Industrials, a whiny old pump for my loop. Might as well run my GPU fans ramped up too. Don’t hear any of it when I’m gaming.

 

[TheLostSwede]

My monitor is very particular about inputs -- 75Hz over DP but only 60Hz over HDMI -- so I wanted a KVM without the "V". Found this on the 'zon:

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It's been working very well for past 30 minutes. I can now get rid of my basic secondary kb+mouse and just use my good set with both home PC and work laptop.

That devices breaks the USB standard, as you can't do USB-A to USB-A according to the standard.
Not a bad idea otherwise, they should just have used something like mini/micro-B ports instead.

 

[Splinterdog]

Not one of my best efforts given the constraints of the rather old case, but it certainly flies along and the customer was delighted when I set it up for him. (Fortnite, CSGo etc)

It turns out that the lad had been researching it for almost a year and his parents gave it to him as a birthday present and since it's a holiday weekend, we couldn't find a monitor, keyboard and mouse, so I lent them what I had kicking around. No point in delivering a new PC if they can't use it, so I loaded it all on the bike and zoomed across the city to make his day.
There was only one snag in that the backplate cutouts were impinging on a USB and HDMI port (it happens) which I hadn't noticed, so I had to take out the mobo and reseat it on their dining room table .
Still, at least he knows how to replace a motherboard now, if he didn't before.
It's good to see the smiles on their faces when you hand over the new PC.

Door to door!

 

[FinneousPJ]

Does this count? One the maddest VW engines.

 

[Caring1]

Does this count? One the maddest VW engines.

I'd always wanted the W10 or W12 like the original Veyron had, but I no longer have my VW Transporter I was going to modify.