What's your latest tech purchase?

[Deleted member 202104]

F*cking Amazon.....

 

[phill]

Indeed. i was looking everywhere in Europe but not luck, just in Switzerland were available but they dont ship to Germany, solved the problem ordering a Hardwarelabs BLACK ICE NEMESIS GTX 420, it is going to be fun because i need to Mod the top of the case

Cable ties??!

F*cking Amazon.....

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Sweet jesus!! Did they have a game of drop kick or something??!! I'd be sending that back!!

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Sweet jesus!! Did they have a game of drop kick or something??!! I'd be sending that back!!

Apparently throwing the CPU in the padded envelope shown in the photo and shipping it 2000 miles was their idea of a good plan.

Tried to get another as a replacement, but they're out of stock. It's going back, and I guess the Ryzen build is on hold (again).

 

[GerKNG]

Glorious PC Gaming Race Model O

i love it and i prefer it over my G903, G502, EC2-A and Deathadder V2

 

[tabascosauz]

Apparently throwing the CPU in the padded envelope shown in the photo and shipping it 2000 miles was their idea of a good plan.

Tried to get another as a replacement, but they're out of stock. It's going back, and I guess the Ryzen build is on hold (again).

I'm guessing some numbnuts weighed the cooler-less 5800X box in their hand and decided it wasn't heavy enough to warrant a box. So much for Amazon's algorithmic hiring finding better job candidates...

Any chance you could pop into a Microcenter somewhere and pick it up in person? Only CPU I've ever bought online was a 4790K, all the Ryzens I dropped by the store to pick it up, to make sure it wasn't damaged. 5800X availability is supposed to be the best out of the 4.

 

[lexluthermiester]

F*cking Amazon.....

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That sucks. Is that CPU ok?

 

[FireFox]

Cable ties??!

Need to remove the top Radiator's tray and make some holes to fix the 420 Rad


And this should be here in a week or so, Cable ties

 

[Deleted member 202104]

I'm guessing some numbnuts weighed the cooler-less 5800X box in their hand and decided it wasn't heavy enough to warrant a box. So much for Amazon's algorithmic hiring finding better job candidates...

Any chance you could pop into a Microcenter somewhere and pick it up in person? Only CPU I've ever bought online was a 4790K, all the Ryzens I dropped by the store to pick it up, to make sure it wasn't damaged. 5800X availability is supposed to be the best out of the 4.

It's been hit and miss with Amazon lately for me. Also delivered today was a vinyl LP and CD that were double boxed and packed with air bags.

Unfortunately the closest Microcenter is about 200 miles away. Where I'm at it's Amazon, NewEgg, or BestBuy as far as retailers for computer parts . No local shops

That sucks. Is that CPU ok?

Without opening the plastic clamshell there doesn't appear to be any bent pins.

At this point I'm returning it mostly on principle. It drives me nuts when they treat a $450 item with such disregard. I've provided feedback on shipping before with them and I've never heard any reply back, or noticed any consistent changes with the way things are shipped. Maybe a higher number of returns will have a greater effect than some feedback form.

 

[tabascosauz]

It's been hit and miss with Amazon lately for me. Also delivered today was a vinyl LP and CD that were double boxed and packed with air bags.

Unfortunately the closest Microcenter is about 200 miles away. Where I'm at it's Amazon, NewEgg, or BestBuy as far as retailers for computer parts . No local shops



Without opening the plastic clamshell there doesn't appear to be any bent pins.

At this point I'm returning it mostly on principle. It drives me nuts when they treat a $450 item with such disregard. I've provided feedback on shipping before with them and I've never heard any reply back, or noticed any consistent changes with the way things are shipped. Maybe a higher number of returns will have a greater effect than some feedback form.

Don't use the official feedback form or returns route (yet). Open up a customer support case over your order and show them that the product was basically destroyed during shipping. That way you can hopefully leave a mark on record and maybe get a little extra something for your trouble (in your case, especially since availability is so hard to come by).

I did the same when a favoured local delivery courier blatantly jacked my package after apparently changing his mind on my porch, and my friend as well after a 3rd party seller kept intentionally sending him false tracking info over his chair.

If it's shipped or fulfilled by Amazon, they take a considerable degree of responsibility over the entire process of getting it to you. 3rd party sellers not so much.

 

[Valantar]

Again maybe i am wrong but what would be the difference if i have to build a separate PC and build a Watercooling just for it when i could save some money and just build it in the same case where my main is and add it to the Loop without extra costs?

Given the €600 case and something similar(?) in radiators I don't think "extra cost" for going with separate builds is quite applicable Even going for premium SFF cases you could get two of most cases (perhaps except the Winter One, though that's not out yet) for that money.

But on a more serious note, my thinking would go along these lines: build efficiently and for the workload at hand, and plan for realistic future upgrades, which of course means knowing your needs first (not the "I might need seven expansion slots!" thinking of most ATX board buyers who never end up using more than one). And you yourself are planning for two systems after all, so unless one is a multi-GPU workstation, two SFF builds in modern cases would likely provide the same performance, similar cooling and noise, at a similar or lower cost (you wouldn't need all those radiators!) in a smaller overall space. The only thing you'd need that a dual-system build wouldn't technically need is two pumps, but given your layout I would be surprised if that wasn't already the plan. PSUs, CPU blocks, GPU blocks, fittings, etc are already in your current build after all.

The larger system would have better cooling, but whether it's meaningfully better ... not likely. Look at something like Optimum Tech's recent 5950x+3080 build with a single 280mm rad. Perfectly capable of running both parts full-tilt, quietly, at good temperatures. And with smaller, purpose-built PCs you'd have less clutter, you could put away the secondary PC if you're not using it - say it's a compact streaming PC using NVENC from something like a 1650S (or QuickSync from an Intel CPU), you could get away with a tiny case like a Lazer3D CG7, or even a HT5 or Lone L5 if you don't mind a power brick (or are willing to go the extra mile of a DC-DC PSU solution). Or something like a Skyreach 4 Mini if you want it more premium and able to fit a full height GPU. They won't be as quiet as a fully water cooled build, but if that's a requirement even for a secondary system, there's always larger SFF cases like the Ncase M1, CM NR200, FormD T1, Sliger S540/70/80/90, Loque Ghost and a heap of others that fit water cooling gear just fine. There's even cases like the Cerberus X if you insist on ATX motherboard compatibility (or the regular Cerberus for mATX). Of course a system like that would be more tricky to put out of the way when not in use, but it'd be small enough to barely be noticeable.

Of course if all you're familiar with is mainstream mid-tower cases (including the atrocious ITX offerings from most mainstream brands) I understand how this might seem impossible, but with SFF cases these days there's no reason for >90% of PCs to not be SFF, as most of them will never have more than 1 GPU, no other AICs, no more than 2 m.2 SSDs and perhaps a few 2.5" drives, and SFX PSUs can power pretty much anything (Silverstone has a 1000W SFX-L, if overpowered PSUs is your thing).

Of course that's a lot of specifics, but my general thinking is to build for what I need with realistic upgrades, and leave it at that. Plan efficiently and the build will go together well, and there'll be less wasted space at the end. If anything, over the past 15 years my need for expansion devices in my PCs has kept on diminishing, and I don't see that trend reversing. Stuffing everything into a single build, like people using their main PC as a gaming PC, file server/NAS, etc. always struck me as both wildly inefficient and quite risky (single point of failure and all that). If you need a lot of storage, build or buy a NAS with 2.5GbE or 10GbE - I haven't had a HDD in any of my PCs for ... I honestly can't remember. Six, seven years? The NAS takes care of mass storage, and sits happily on a shelf in a closet where it's not noticeable to anyone, while I don't need to keep my gaming PC powered on 24/7 for file access, saving power. This also means hardware can be tailored to its purpose - my HTPC runs a Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G, has a single 140mm fan that's off >95% of the time, and does its job perfectly. My gaming PC keeps shrinking and getting quieter despite getting more powerful. And so on and so forth. There's a single ATX PC in the apartment, my partner's Threadripper video editing workstation, though if I was to upgrade that today it would be shrinking too - maybe not to a 15-liter SFF case, but there's no reason for a workstation these days to be >50l unless you've got really heavy performance needs.

I'm guessing some numbnuts weighed the cooler-less 5800X box in their hand and decided it wasn't heavy enough to warrant a box. So much for Amazon's algorithmic hiring finding better job candidates...

More likely some overworked and underpaid person that hasn't had a bathroom break for >4 hours and had an insurmountable workload that kept piling up through the day didn't take the time to consider that the little, lightweight box contained a $400 CPU. It's not abot the job candidates, it's about the inhumane working conditions.


To stick to the topic a bit (yay!): got my QDCs today. Decided to take a chance on Alphacool's nylon industrial QDCs - I like the light weight and relatively small size, and the build quality seems very good. Also rather affordable for QDCs, which is nice - I was originally planning to go Koolance, but these shipped were half the cost of those before shipping.

 

[Tomgang]

F*cking Amazon.....

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Ah man that sucks balls. How can they even get them self to ship in a envelope.

If I dit not know better, I would have guessed Linus tech tips or shut i day Linus drop tips had his hands on that cpu.

Well you are not alone with a system on hold. Still waiting for 5600X and 5950X comes in stock for my system, for not to mention I need gpu's... But that seems even longer away to get gpu's.

 

[tabascosauz]

More likely some overworked and underpaid person that hasn't had a bathroom break for >4 hours and had an insurmountable workload that kept piling up through the day didn't take the time to consider that the little, lightweight box contained a $400 CPU. It's not abot the job candidates, it's about the inhumane working conditions.

And I don't disagree. Amazon is one of the worst employers to work for, period. It so happens that I'm currently concerned with the topic of algorithmic hiring and Amazon's recruitment pipeline is now extremely automated, which was praised singularly for their recent large-scale pandemic hiring. The justifications are always "faster hiring" and "better candidates", and it's used to justify algorithmic discrimination in hiring and even lower wages and poorer working conditions, so it's funny (and disturbing) to see how hollow the "better candidates" statement really is.

 

[Anymal]

800eur but it just works!

In december I was stupid enough to sell 3060ti for 90eur more from 580eur:

Yes, MSI fanboy, I think they are the best, wouldnt mind Strix though.

 

[sam_86314]

Latest Craigslist score...

Pardon the cable spaghetti in my test system...

...an HIS R9 280. The seller was originally asking for $55, and I talked him down to $50. Before selling it, he said he cleaned the card a bit (pointing out that the fan was hard to clean) and replaced the TIM with Arctic MX-4, and even showed me the card running Unigine Heaven. It even came with the box and accessories.

It's still a solid performer at 1080p, outperforming the 1050Ti in my laptop in some cases. I'm running it at 1000MHz on the core and 1500MHz on the memory, which squeezes out a little extra performance without really affecting temperatures (60s to 70s under most gaming loads, mid-80s under heavy loads). It stays surprisingly quiet for a blower-style card.

I have a mini-DP to full-size DP adapter on the way because I want to try this card in my main system to see what it can do with a more modern CPU.

This goes to show that good deals on GPUs can still be had if you do a little digging.

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

I'm guessing some numbnuts weighed the cooler-less 5800X box in their hand and decided it wasn't heavy enough to warrant a box. So much for Amazon's algorithmic hiring finding better job candidates...

Any chance you could pop into a Microcenter somewhere and pick it up in person? Only CPU I've ever bought online was a 4790K, all the Ryzens I dropped by the store to pick it up, to make sure it wasn't damaged. 5800X availability is supposed to be the best out of the 4.

Amazon is weird. My external hdd I buy from them do not come in a box but rather just the box of the hdd slap with a shipping label. So not shipping friendly and dumb for an overseas shipping. It happens to all my hdd now I buy from them now.

 

[P4-630]

Went from 50" to 58" for the same price.

 

[basco]

one mistake can cost your head -wow this is some clean room

and i loved those HIS cooling solutions

 

[FireFox]

Finally the last Rad arrived.
As always not in the original box but knowing Innovatek i am used to it.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Im usually against rgb, but these were cheaper than the other options i had.

 

[FireFox]

Im usually against rgb, but these were cheaper than the other options i had.

That is exactly what i said when i got mine

 

[jboydgolfer]

$130 for 32Gb's of RAM , i wont likely use the lights, unless i dont get a choice. or ill give them to my daughter, & use the other set i have . my case has a glass side panel, so lighting is a bit much for my tastes

 

[FireFox]

$130 for 32Gb's of RAM

Indeed, i got mine for around the same price but in €, anyway i am sure you can use it without the lights.

 

[Dinnercore]

Wow, I started draining my loops for cleaning at 09:00 pm and now its 05:00 am here. Anyway, finally got time to open boxes.

Since my first one was bought as a tray CPU for a small discount, I had to grab a boxed version sooner or later. Finally got one of these sweet branded bags. Worth every penny.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

New daily board, my old X299 Dark will go into a secondary build instead (replacing my z390).

 

[Chomiq]

Bought it on sale:

Due to this:

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