What's your latest tech purchase?

[thesmokingman]

Came across this interesting reservoir. Got a 250mm acrylic/pom (black back instead of acrylic) one from modmymods. In the process of building a second Phanteks 719. Will try this barrow res in it along with some other changes from my current 719 rig.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Got a new Idasen sit/stand desk from ikea, snapped a quick pic of the new setup:

Much cleaner, much more photogenic desk. The old desk was a horrid reddish brown colour and full of scars from 15 straight years of use.

You need an å, you can borrow this one, as it's called Idåsen

 

[Valantar]

Mini-ITX, huh?

Looks like mATX to me.

I've just finished a very nice new build for a customer in a rather small case, which has taught me to mount disks and fans before anything else
Ryzen 3700X, 16GB , RX5500XT 8GB and that Wraith Prism is really cool.
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That's an interesting case! Too big for me still, but for once it's an mATX tower case that actually looks significantly smaller than its ATX counterparts. Nice looking build

 

[cst1992]

Looks like mATX to me.

Yes, you're right, it' must be uATX.
The side panel made it difficult to judge the size of the motherboard at first glance, then I realized, it's big enough to fit one full-size graphics card.
Perfect for this kind of build.

 

[Splinterdog]

Yes, you're right, it' must be uATX.
The side panel made it difficult to judge the size of the motherboard at first glance, then I realized, it's big enough to fit one full-size graphics card.
Perfect for this kind of build.

Yes, it's a Xigmatek NYC Arctic M-ATX which I bought because the customer insisted on a white case and there weren't many to choose from at his budget price.
In the end it's ended up really smart and somewhat minimalist, which I really like. So does the customer and I'm looking forward to him picking it up. That's always a good moment.

 

[Valantar]

Yes, it's a Xigmatek NYC Arctic M-ATX which I bought because the customer insisted on a white case and there weren't many to choose from at his budget price.
In the end it's ended up really smart and somewhat minimalist, which I really like. So does the customer and I'm looking forward to him picking it up. That's always a good moment.

Looks nice! Definitely not bad for a reasonably priced case, and actually significantly smaller than a lot of similar-looking ATX cases (NZXT H510, for example). There are far too many mATX cases out there that are essentially the same size as their ATX counterparts (much smaller than the Fractal Define Mini C for example). Still not quite small enough for me, but I'll definitely keep it in mind for future recommendations for people not quite as concerned about space savings as me Sadly it seems rather hard to get a hold of around these parts, which is rather odd for a Germany-based company.

 

[Vendor]

my brother got some used Logitech 2.0 speakers for ₹350 last week locally from a guy, they cost ₹1250 brand new so it was a pretty decent deal in that regard, he's liking the sound quality as well

 

[xu^]

Nothing to exciting -

Creative T10 Speakers from eBay - £10
Asus external DVD drive - Argos - £22

 

[Vendor]

my brother's new 500w psu, now he can have decently powerful gaming gpu without any worries, coming from a cheap basic oem 250w delta psu, it was a much needed upgrade

 

[Splinterdog]

Heretic you put the HSF on upside down LOL otherwise nice build

I get you, but I had issues routing the Wraith Prism USB RGB cable the right way up. Anyway, that's why AMD did the diagonal trick because it's a question of optics - sort of

 

[cst1992]

my brother's new 500w psu, now he can have decently powerful gaming gpu without any worries, coming from a cheap basic oem 250w delta psu, it was a much needed upgrade

I wouldn't run a very powerful GPU on that, it is not 80+ certified and has only a max current of 38A on the +12V rail.
That means if your brother is even running a 65W CPU, then he has 391W for everything else, e.g. the GPU, fans, hard drives, lighting, motherboard chipset,...
I'd only recommend a 200W GPU max, like the 3060Ti.

 

[Vendor]

I wouldn't run a very powerful GPU on that, it is not 80+ certified and has only a max current of 38A on the +12V rail.
That means if your brother is even running a 65W CPU, then he has 391W for everything else, e.g. the fans, hard drives, lighting, motherboard chipset,...
I'd only recommend a 200W GPU max, like the 3060Ti.

well, he currently has a 1050 ti paired with a 6600k, with crazy gpu prices rn he's not looking to upgrade his gpu anytime soon or anything nearly as powerful 3060 ti because that would be a significant bottleneck with his current cpu as he's not interested in OC'ing and plan to run it at stock clocks, atleast for now. Even at MSRP we could barely afford a 3060 so the best gpu for him as a balanced pairing and in our budget would be a 3050 ti when the market normalizes and prices are reasonable.

 

[trickson]

Picked myself up an ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PLUS motherboard for $178.00 US and just lastnight I picked up a Ryzen 7 3700X for that MB (since my first gen Ryzen 7 1700X wont work) on Ebay for $250.00 US.
Can't wait to get the ASUS TUF GTX1650 Super Clocked video card up and running on this setup!

 

[cst1992]

well, he currently has a 1050 ti paired with a 6600k, with crazy gpu prices rn he's not looking to upgrade his gpu anytime soon or anything nearly as powerful 3060 ti because that would be a significant bottleneck with his current cpu as he's not interested in OC'ing and plan to run it at stock clocks, atleast for now. Even at MSRP we could barely afford a 3060 so the best gpu for him as a balanced pairing and in our budget would be a 3050 ti when the market normalizes and prices are reasonable.

Get a 3060 if you can afford to. With an overclockable processor, that'd be a good purchase.
Plus you'll have some VRAM left over for upgrading your resolution, if you want to.
If you are having a 6600k, then get a tower cooler. If I'm not wrong, before long the solder under the IHS will harden up and start causing temperature issues.
Best to have some excess capacity for cooling in that case. Also, in case he wants to overclock later(it's a K series CPU after all).

 

[PLAfiller]

I got the digital art book for Crying suns: Got it on Epic, so it was a PDF file for me, not sure for the other platforms like HumbeBundle. I haven't read it yet, but I just skimmed through the pages. Kinda of not what I expected. I wanted to see more of how the game was created, not so much about the lore and more "not pixelized art". Somehow I got much more excitement from the ten pages of the free art book on Prey 2, than the 100 pages of Crying suns The OST is phenomenal though.

 

[Athlonite]

I get you, but I had issues routing the Wraith Prism USB RGB cable the right way up. Anyway, that's why AMD did the diagonal trick because it's a question of optics - sort of

Fair enough I'll let you off this time LOL

 

[jboydgolfer]

looks like the new GPU's are coming in today. this means i finally get my 2080ti back, & the one i grabbed to sell should be here soon too

 

[cst1992]

Aww, you're going to sell that??? Dude, nooo!!!

 

[jboydgolfer]

Aww, you're going to sell that??? Dude, nooo!!!

the 3060ti is for my nephew. he has my 2080ti, but i ordered a 3090 reference i dont need, or want. i ordered it because my intent was to sell it to someone at cost, to someone who couldnt sit & refresh the page a hundred thousand times. the same idea as scalping, without me being a dick & charging profit. its win win for me, since i stopped one more scalper from screwing a buyer, & worst case scenario, i return it, but i dont think ill have trouble selling it.

 

[cst1992]

my intent was to sell it to someone at cost, to someone who couldnt sit & refresh the page a hundred thousand times

Do you know someone who could use a 3090? Otherwise you just added a bunch more people to the "refresh a hundred thousand times" list.
I say this because people would rather buy such an expensive card from a store rather than from the used card market.
Or you could just post a thread here on TPU!

 

[dorsetknob]

If your interested PM the man

 

[jboydgolfer]

you just added a bunch more people to the "refresh a hundred thousand times"

ill take my chances. its one card that i can guarantee will sell at msrp. this is for posting HW pics, i wont post more on this topic

 

[Splinterdog]

Arriving sometime today...excited

 

[djisas]

40€ of cables i really didn't need...
And noctua fan 7/7, great price quality. ..

 

[SN2716057]

Bought the Noctua NH-L12S cpu cooler for an upcoming build. Here it is sitting on a Ryzen 5 2600 and a Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI mobo which is resting on the Streacom BC1 Test bench.