What's your latest tech purchase?

[phill]

This part just put the icing on the cake.

On that note, I agree. We need pics! Too bad that new hardware isn't new forever. That's why I say cheap hardware is best hardware, because I can buy more of it more often.

Did someone say cake????!!!!

My misses has bipolar, believe me, you don't wanna know how bad it can be.

I think mine suffers with it too, of course she's too busy having a go sometimes to even think why is she having a go but typical women who is never wrong..... Ever so slightly frustrating.....

I guess technically it's a heat pump rather than just an AC unit. It only cools one floor in the house, but it's more or less just a room and a bathroom there so... Tall ceiling, top floor of the house, so it gets extra hot up there in summer.

For some reason, Panasonic doesn't provide a ton of details on their local website about the model we got, but it's their higher-end, but not top of the range series. (Google translate mostly works on that page)
https://www.panasonic.com/tw/consumer/air-conditioner/house-air-conditioner/qx-series.html

What you can get are models with a single outdoors unit, but two or three indoor units. It's also possible to get built-in indoor units, which sort of look like a large air vent, but for some reason they don't seem all that popular here.

We have neighbours that still use the old window units, but they're noise and horrible. More modern split units are quieter and the two Panasonic ones we have more so than the Heran (local brand) units we had before. As I mentioned, they also cool differently somehow, as they cool down the air without making it feel ice cold.

The one we got is good for about 40 square meters, so it's a big unit, although they have at least four larger models...
That said, I think they measure the room size that these units are suitable for differently here, as I had a look at some units on sale in Sweden and they claim much larger room sizes for much smaller units.
It was around £1,500, so not cheap, although we'll get some money back from Panasonic and the government. Not cheap, but it made it a lot nicer sleeping at night.

It's actually weird how different these kind of things are in different parts of the world. The AC units/heat pumps I've seen in Europe are all like 10 year old models here and Taiwan isn't even on the cutting edge of this stuff. I saw in the news that heat pumps are being pushed to replace gas boilers in the UK, although I'm not quite sure how that's supposed to work. Not all of those setups seems to supply cooling though, which seems like a missed opportunity. I do miss having a hot water tank though, as "on demand" hot water really takes a while to get hot...

We have those sorts of ACs at work, they work fairly well but I think I'd rather have something ducted about the house as I'd guess hat would be more efficient... They aren't the cheapest of units I'm sure but I bet they cool well and keep you nice and cool when you need it They're not really thinking too much around for that here, I hear about these heat pumps but they are so inefficient, which is why I think that Combi's are still so very popular...

I'll wait and see on that side of things, but I need something to cool me down in the heat of the summer here, it gets a little bit toasty....

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Just got this BNIB with included node pro for £35

 

[AusWolf]

Just got this BNIB with included node pro for £35
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Let us know how silent they are. I've been thinking about something like these just to replace the stock 12 cm ones that came with the 280X case - I'm not only a SFF freak, but a silence freak too.

Other: My SFF build log is updated with the new HTPC candidate. Some parts are new, some are not, just thought it might be vaguely connected to the topic here, if anyone's interested.

 

[Mussels]

I'm a big fan of my ML 12 and 140 fans, but hate the custom connector and that it needs two corsair boxes to use (the controller, and then their special fan splitter)

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I'm a big fan of my ML 12 and 140 fans, but hate the custom connector and that it needs two corsair boxes to use (the controller, and then their special fan splitter)

I don't really understand the need for the lighting node pro, which needs to connect to the fan hub. Why couldn't they just put standard motherboard type 4 pin connectors on for the RGB. Or why not have just combined the lighting node with the fan hub, never mind the fact the fans still need connecting to a standard 4 pin connector for the spinny bit of the fan. I had to knock up a 1-2 splitter to run both fans off one motherboard fan connector, and then put a molex on the lighting node pro rather than waste 2 sata power connectors. I think i might knock myself up a 1-2 sata power lead too.

 

[27MaD]

I just replaced my old Huawei Mate 10 Pro (which his Battery & display went bad), With the Xiaomi Poco M3 Pro 5G, Got the 4 GB RAM / 64 GB ROM version in Power Black color, I got it locally for 183$ opened box only, Wasn't even powered on before, New ones (not opened whatsoever) go for 218$ locally.
Pretty sure it's the best in it's price, I'm really enjoying the smooth 90Hz display and the large-2 day-5000mAh battery, battery can EASILY do a day and a half @90Hz of regular browsing, Social media, Texting and calling, Watching YouTube videos, Light gaming. It'll push 2+ days if you want it to.
Seeing a 3.5mm headphone jack in a 2021 smartphone is refreshing.
No regrets, highly recommend.

 

[Valantar]

I just replaced my old Huawei Mate 10 Pro (which his Battery & display went bad), With the Xiaomi Poco M3 Pro 5G, Got the 4 GB RAM / 64 GB ROM version in Power Black color, I got it locally for 183$ opened box only, Wasn't even powered on before, New ones (not opened whatsoever) go for 218$ locally.
Pretty sure it's the best in it's price, I'm really enjoying the smooth 90Hz display and the large-2 day-5000mAh battery, battery can EASILY do a day and a half @90Hz of regular browsing, Social media, Texting and calling, Watching YouTube videos, Light gaming. It'll push 2+ days if you want it to.
Seeing a 3.5mm headphone jack in a 2021 smartphone is refreshing.
No regrets, highly recommend.
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Looks good! I got a Poco X3 NFC for myself when I managed to crack the screen on my previous Motorola and couldn't find a replacement or repair at anything resembling a resonable cost. Overall I'm quite happy with it, considering the price - the launcher is weirdly slow when transitioning between light and dark modes, and it has some performance hiccups (I'm putting both of those down to some really slow eMMC), and the camera is passable at best, but it was dirt cheap, has great battery life, is more than fast enough in most use cases, has a decent (and huge!) screen, and overall just works pretty well. No 5G for me, but ... meh.

 

[The red spirit]

Let us know how silent they are. I've been thinking about something like these just to replace the stock 12 cm ones that came with the 280X case - I'm not only a SFF freak, but a silence freak too.

Other: My SFF build log is updated with the new HTPC candidate. Some parts are new, some are not, just thought it might be vaguely connected to the topic here, if anyone's interested.

Pretty much not very well. Almost all fans generally perform very similarly at same RPM levels, unfortunately RGB fans achieve less airflow and more noise. Considering that those Corsairs don't have any voodoo magic going on blades (the main noise generator), their performance should be quite similar to generic 7 blader or generic 9 blader. Looking at that thick RGB ring, it makes me think that it may even perform worse than generic fans, as likely it's more like 135mm fan with 140mm frame.

 

[FireFox]

I'm a big fan of my ML 12 and 140 fans, but hate the custom connector and that it needs two corsair boxes to use (the controller, and then their special fan splitter)

I love the ML12/14 and the LL12/14 series, but i hate the low CFM when paired with rad like the HWL GTX or GTR if not in push-pull config.
Well, they want to do business, you buy their fans and they make you buy the hubs/controller too

 

[Deleted member 24505]

The LL fans are nice, but wtf with the red colour. it looks more pink to me. Red on keyboard (k68) fine, but not on fans. Both connected to icue

 

[27MaD]

Looks good! I got a Poco X3 NFC for myself when I managed to crack the screen on my previous Motorola and couldn't find a replacement or repair at anything resembling a resonable cost. Overall I'm quite happy with it, considering the price - the launcher is weirdly slow when transitioning between light and dark modes, and it has some performance hiccups (I'm putting both of those down to some really slow eMMC), and the camera is passable at best, but it was dirt cheap, has great battery life, is more than fast enough in most use cases, has a decent (and huge!) screen, and overall just works pretty well. No 5G for me, but ... meh.

It's funny that i actually wanted the X3 NFC so bad, The M3 Pro was plan b for me tbh, X3 NFC is simply a better phone, You do get a slightly larger screen, Better screen to body ratio, Better cameras, 120Hz, Slightly better Battery, 2 Extra gigs of RAM, Faster Charging, Splash proof, Gorilla Glass 5, STEREO SPEAKERS! and finally I don't know about the CPU and GPU i really have no idea about smartphones chips.
Unfortunately availability and pricing was bad, It was rly hard to find a place that has the X3 NFC in stock, & if you do pricing is way out of the budget, They go for 261$, neither did i find any good deals on 2nd handed X3 NFCs. So i ended up buying the M3 Pro.

Mine is actually running buttery smooth, I'm running MIUI 12.0.6.

 

[tabascosauz]

Move over, 4650G - the new mem OC king [disputed] is in town

In a sense I guess I must be grateful for all the lukewarm reviews surrounding Cezanne, it seems to have successfully scared away regular gamers desperate for graphics, no one left to fight with me over them unlike the case with my 5900X

Though in all seriousness, they're the wrong audience anyways - the 5600X is down to $329 this week, the 5600G launches at $349.

 

[FireFox]

The LL fans are nice, but wtf with the red colour. it looks more pink to me.

Oh Boy.
I don't know what you have done.

My are red, all 13 are same.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Oh Boy.
I don't know what you have done.

My are red, all 13 are same.
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Gawd knows, using icue, set solid colour red, it's not red...grrr

 

[FireFox]

Gawd knows, using icue,

It is pretty odd, i am using icue too

 

[Cheese_On_tsaot]

Basically...

 

[Mussels]

It is pretty odd, i am using icue too

welcome to iCue, and why i ditched corsair

 

[AusWolf]

welcome to iCue, and why i ditched corsair

I used to have a Dominator ram kit, which produced a different shade of "white" across the two modules. One had a slight reddish tint. The red LEDs seemed to be more active in that module. All other colours were okay.

 

[Cheese_On_tsaot]

Mushkin FTW. Radioactive and redline series were sexy.
I prefer nice metal shrouds rather than lights.

 

[Shou Miko]

Mushkin FTW. Radioactive and redline series were sexy.
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Until DDR4 I used Mushkin ram a lot it was my go to brand still have a couple of Silverline sticks laying around I think.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Used this to set the colour manually, bit better now.

 

[FireFox]

welcome to iCue, and why i ditched corsair

I really don't understand, i see lot of people complaining about iCue but tbh since i started using it has always worked without issues. am i lucky?

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Used this to set the colour manually, bit better now.

Which Version of iCue are you using?

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I really don't understand, i see lot of people complaining about iCue but tbh since i started using it has always worked without issues. am i lucky?


Which Version of iCue are you using?

4.13.226

 

[Metroid]

ryzen 5900x, I guess it will take sometime for ddr5, so i had a 3600 in my main system and that 20% single-thread 5900x gives plus power saving per core performance plus higher core clock up to 2 cores was decisive for my decision x a 5600x. This upgrade to 5900x will give me enough time to decide when to move to ddr5.

 

[FireFox]

4.13.226

I am still using the old version.
Btw, the 255 code is what i am using.