What's your latest tech purchase?

[Deleted member 24505]

Wow icue uses 2.14gb what the hell

That's better, the red is deffo better now too

 

[lexluthermiester]

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

Math/Science for the win!

 

[Chomiq]

Managed to score B-Stock SBX G6, for 50% off. I randomly decided to check Polish store page for it since and they had units in stock (EU store page doesn't allow shipping to PL). It should arrive next week.

 

[Cheese_On_tsaot]

The one on the right, 17 quid off Ebay, 150w per channel, more options than I need and a subwoofer pre out with a Memorex CD-1650 for CD usage.
2x 50w RMS Focal Audio 5.25" Auditor speakers though the ratings are a bit under rated on these, I have fed them 90w RMS just fine before and a 12'inch 400w RMS ported subwoofer on a 800w RMS (1OHM) amp.

The Pioneer VSX-2014i is a very old bit of kit with some serious audio guts, bought for it's clarity, power, wide range of options for wiring and the fact that a quality stereo amp with a pre out for a sub will cost a minimum of 6x more than this. This has outstanding bass management and bass control, before it was very sloppy and uncontrolled, the subwoofer literally is only for extended the lows, not adding bass to what was already there, my previous amp could not do this.

Otherwise, I do prefer a smaller amp.

So far it sounds far far better and am very happy, I will clean it up and give it some TLC soon.

 

[TheLostSwede]

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?

It's been really gtlichy to and from. Quite a few people got upset when Corsair dropped support for their hardware in 4.0, yet more or less forced people to update to 4.0. Maybe not the best way of doing things, as no-one likes to be forced to upgrade hardware and software that's working.
I haven't had any major issues with it, but it's a bit of a resource hog, but then again, I only have a couple of devices and turn off all the RGB crap.

Managed to score B-Stock SBX G6, for 50% off. I randomly decided to check Polish store page for it since and they had units in stock (EU store page doesn't allow shipping to PL). It should arrive next week.

Got to love the open/free EU market... Yet so many companies that don't want to deal with VAT issues. Besides, shipping between EU countries can cost more than shipping things from Asia to EU.

Wow icue uses 2.14gb what the hell
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That's better, the red is deffo better now too

It's all the fancy graphics...

But seriously, it contains drivers for all their hardware, so maybe not so strange that it keeps growing. Not the way I would've done things, but hey...

 

[Cheese_On_tsaot]

Plugged in my Mad Catz R.A.T 4+ and went to the software downloads on their website and downloaded the software instantly, lot's of reviews said there is no software for it ?????

 

[FireFox]

It's been really gtlichy to and from. Quite a few people

Which Version?
maybe i don't have issues with it because i use iCue just for the fans.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Which Version?
maybe i don't have issues with it because i use iCue just for the fans.

Various 3.x releases, a lot of the early 4.x releases. It obviously varies depending on what you use it with. I got a headset which in and of itself was buggy when they started to sell it, or rather, it sounded much much worse over USB or wireless than it did over the analog 3.5 mm jack. A couple of firmware updates later and they fixed that part, but it was also a bit glitchy with iCue early on and wouldn't always show up in iCue, so you had to unplug the wireless dongle to make it work.
There's also been issues with updating firmwares through iCue and Corsair doesn't have a recovery mode for instances like that, which means the hardware has to go back to them to be fixed...
They've also had major scaling issues on 4K displays, which seems to be mostly fixed now, even though you can't actually set the scaling manually, things aren't microscopic any more.

Personally I think 4.x is a lot slicker than 3.x. Is it the worst software of its kind out there? Far from it I would say, but I wouldn't say it's a great piece of software either.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I've only ever had issues with one version of icue like in 2018 but I only use it for Fans/aio/keyboard.

When X570 first released there were some detection bugs for me but that was sorted with a chipset driver from AMD.

Them forcing people to upgrade is pretty lame though.... I have a feeling my lack of issues is due to switching to their latest products soon after they release.

 

[Mussels]

Which Version?
maybe i don't have issues with it because i use iCue just for the fans.

as a great example, it polls the CPU so often for hardware monitoring using outdated software, that it breaks idle and boost on ryzen, and has for years
it even glitches out some intel systems, and then theres just the fact every second update breaks on systems, still has issues with the commander pro locking up when you open HWinfo...
hardware was nice, software is hell.

(dont want to drag it off topic, but also wanted to answer the question)

 

[tabascosauz]

So, I just realized that MSI's B550 abomination might be an extremely underrated ITX overclocker's board. I just remember bitching about the idiotic clear CMOS header (UNDER the rear I/O) and the nonstandard backplate.

• 8-layer PCB like my Aorus AX
• SMT DIMM slots (!!!!!!)
• Shielded memory plane
• Clear CMOS physical button (they changed the design on the revised MAX version, instantly from zero to hero)

The rear IO buttons are really nice and just as well equipped as my Unify-X. The real gem is the SMT DIMM slots - if you look at the back of the board you will see no pins protruding from the DIMM slots. Supposed to be the holy grail for mem OC, the Z490I Unify has it (hell, my B550 Unify-X doesn't even have it).

At least on paper this is like THE mem OC package. So I got one since it's on sale. The VSOC droop on my Aorus AX is ridiculous and I don't think Gigabyte is going to fix it through BIOSes. If the MAX is just as bad at volt reg then I'll send it back. Let's see how the Monolithic Power parts fare against the Renesas/Intersil VRM.

The B550M-ITX/ac that I just built with my old 4650G seemed not to droop at all with iGPU load and that was on Vishay 50A parts with a shitty UP controller, so I'm cautiously optimistic that MSI didn't fuck up like Gigabyte.



Look ma, no pins!

 

[freeagent]

Its on Amazon for 189 with fast shipping...

Hm..

 

[Mussels]

Still waiting on amazon to see if i scored that PCI-E RAID drive cheap

What i "paid"

What a new order costs (and when it ships)

So.... if i wait a month will i get it at the cheapo price? they haven't cancelled it

 

[Frizz]

Ive had a PC for as long as I have been a member here although due to the crazy GPU prices and getting some crazy staff discounts Ive for now moved on to a gaming laptop that is faster than my previous setup which was a 9600k i5 and 1080ti.

Now its a Legion 7 with a 5900HX & 3080 16gb full TDP for a cool 2.6k USD

Upgraded to AW3821D was on sale . Decided to clean up the setup by getting monitor mounts and organizer although now my extremely massive mouspad no longer fits lol

 

[Mussels]

Cheating the system: that PCI-E NVME card is still low priced... on my phone
Ordered a second one (oops) and this one has a shipping date and such

Worst case... 8TB of NVME gen 3

 

[AusWolf]

Cheating the system: that PCI-E NVME card is still low priced... on my phone
Ordered a second one (oops) and this one has a shipping date and such

Worst case... 8TB of NVME gen 3

That seems like a pretty acceptable worst case.

 

[Mussels]

yeee boy, gimme dat storage
(These can be torn apart into 2x NVME drives each, so i could end up with 4x 2TB gen 3 drives for a crackin good price)

 

[oxrufiioxo]

yeee boy, gimme dat storage
(These can be torn apart into 2x NVME drives each, so i could end up with 4x 2TB gen 3 drives for a crackin good price)

I keep thinking man what a terrible price and then I remember you're in Australia.

 

[Mussels]

I keep thinking man what a terrible price and then I remember you're in Australia.

They're $1400 Au for the 4TB here
(standard NVME 3.0 drive, an XPG one is $700 for 4TB, where this is 2x gen 3 with a RAID card)

 

[micropage7]

another router for office

and this one is brand new, the keyboard runs well but the box looks like after fall from 3rd floor

 

[xkm1948]

Some fan upgrades

 

[Mussels]

They're telling me i paid for a 1TB drive and they want to cancel the order, i'm pulling the "false advertising" routine on them and being an ass


It's what they deserve for having fucked up listings for over a week

 

[oxrufiioxo]

They're telling me i paid for a 1TB drive and they want to cancel the order, i'm pulling the "false advertising" routine on them and being an ass


It's what they deserve for having fucked up listings for over a week

Bastards!!!

 

[Mussels]

wait til they find out i have two orders for it.... hehehe

 

[Space Lynx]

Math/Science for the win!

my math teacher told me reason I need to know algebra is so I can calculate gas mileage of renting a car vs other stuff... then I just googled "gas trip calculator" and showed him all the websites that auto calculated that stuff for you, and used gas prices from each county to make it accurate as possible to boot.

lol