Well I've had a birthday been very bad and spent some money I suppose I shouldn't have but still.... It's a tech purchase thread, so here we go
Been looking at the blu rays for a long time now, so when I got the chance and they had been dropped in price, I thought, you know what.... Birthday treat
It came from the desert, sorry no, Ebay! Saw it up for sale and was a not hardly used model, so thought what the heck and grabbed it. All decent in box and opened but not used and £59 posted so thought that was pretty much a decent deal
Ah yes, a server left in a box I was waiting for things on site to change for me but sadly not, so I decided to get it installed in the cabinet and worry about it later... Shame only a single CPU and 8GB of DDR3 RAM in there, so we'll do something about that soon enough
I believe I've got a spare CPU or two and I am pretty sure I have a heatsink for it, so I'll get those installed soon and then hopefully get some work done on it
I believe Mr Clamps
@Solaris17 video tutorials will be helping me through so looking forward to it if I can get 5 minutes to do it.. Sophia there checking my work and making sure I'd got everything in place... I think she was a little worried about the amount of cables and such needed from behind the cabinet but I think I've enough to cover it.....
Ah a few more pics of some recent hardware purchases... What was I thinking... Well I'm going team beige to start with!
I had had another fan die in the little homeserver I have and I was getting fed up with swapping them out all the time so, I had a recommendation, I went with some of these and damn are they not cheap.... But, hopefully, I won't need to swap them out in a months time with another... The case I have my homeserver in is a Fractal Design 804, 4 120mm at the front, then a 120mm on the left and a 140mm on the right. So 6 fans where bought and thank god some where on sale!!
£135 is kinda hard to swallow that's for sure....
The two B450 boards I was a little off my game here as I just saw a free mouse mat or something with them and thought, bargain... Well yes and no I think... But, I do have two 1700X CPUs and a PC I built for my Mum for my sisters girls I think needs an upgrade since they are running a dual core and 8GB of RAM, so the plan is 1700X, B450, 16GB and that'll do. I've recently re-flashed each of the 5 RX480 Strix I had mining a few months ago, but since I've turned them off I wanted them to get back to stock and doing something else and being useful again, so one will be headed back up to them with the 1700X which I think will make a massive difference over what they had. What I'll be doing with the other four cards, I'm not sure. I have sold one which I had recently got the money for, which was nice, so... Might do a giveaway I think with them... Not sure yet....
And finally, Isabelle couldn't believe her eyes when the two RTX 3070s I had had been sent from my mate in the US, finally turned up in the UK and more so to my home address some 2.5 months nearly later on... Jesus.... Not sure that 3 to 5 day postage time is holding it's own at the moment lol Still, grateful to have them, just waiting on a few more bits of kit to turn up now..... When he sends them!
Oh and some DDR3 for a mates rig, what a nightmare this stuff has been... Ordered 6 sticks 8GB DDR3 through Ebay... Guy packs it in a single bag, when I receive them I think oh dear, hope these work and well, eventually when I got around to testing and finding out 4 of the 6 sticks didn't work correctly, I was somewhat annoyed....
I got hold of the seller and said to him the problems with the pictures, and he'd sent me out two more sticks. I'm still waiting on 2 more replacement sticks as they have not yet turned up.. Here's hoping I don't have to go down the claim route cos I could really do without the hassles...... We'll soon see....
And here we are with the latest daft purcahse....
NVME PCIe Gen 3 storage... Now I'm very impressed with these and more so with the price. I saw them on Amazon for £75, now for 1TB NVME storage, even for Gen 3 speeds, that was a darn good bargain. Hell my 1TB SATA SSDs I bought a few months ago I think, I think where a little more expensive than that..... So when I saw them I thought I'd consider buying a few, then they went out of stock, then I stupidly went searching and saw them in Overclockers for the same money, I was weak and ordered 4 and ordered a 16GB RAM kit for my sisters PC I mentioned above, 3600MHz CL16, so nothing blowing out the water but something decent and more than enough for what they use.
But still, got two of the P5 drives installed into my X570 board, got them configured and was very impressed with their performance so was worth the cash I guess
If you managed to get through all of that text and rubbish, I applaud you!!
Here we are with a quick CrystalMarkInfo speed test for the two installed P5 drives....
It's a shame one of them isn't quite hitting the 3000MB/sec speeds but I believe this is down to the way it's connected on the motherboard... One to the CPU and one through the southbridge chip....
and Win 8 update fluffed up ... the notebook booted but never got to the OS
wait what? ... it activate Win 10?
