What's your latest tech purchase?

[Liquid Cool]

I don't recall posting in this thread before and I'm not much of a photographer, but I wanted to show off my shiny new Samsung 980. It's my first NVMe drive. I picked it up on sale from Newegg.

I also wanted to thank Jetster for being kind enough to post the sale in the "Hot Deals" Thread, I couldn't have afforded a drive this nice any other way.



Seriously....a Samsung 980 1tb drive for 93 bucks?

Very Appreciative...,

Liquid Cool

 

[Sithaer]

Was happy with my SC ACX 3.0 for 5 years, now my friend is happy with it I still think it's the sexiest card ever made, especially with a window

If I had a 1080 Ti ACX 3.0 or Classified I probably would have not bought the 2060 Super and still have it, to show off in my Cerberus X with the windowed panel - sadly while the FE is sleek it just doesn't have the sexy illuminated ACX 3.0 nameplate

Yeah I also like how the cards looks, this is my first EVGA card actually.

I have the SC version of the card and I'm still happy with it I'd say anything up to about 50% fan is silent/quiet

Sounds about right to me, I used my RX 570 for nearly 3 years with a fixed 40-45% fan speed and it was also quiet so I'm glad that this one is silent too and doesn't ramp up the fans like crazy.

Awww the 1070 has little boomerangs!

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, REEEEE

Thanks now I can't unsee it.

 

[phill]

Yeah I also like how the cards looks, this is my first EVGA card actually.



Sounds about right to me, I used my RX 570 for nearly 3 years with a fixed 40-45% fan speed and it was also quiet so I'm glad that this one is silent too and doesn't ramp up the fans like crazy.




Thanks now I can't unsee it.

I tend to always use a fixed fan speed than something that ramps up and down, things just get warmer than they need to for no reason for my way of thinking, so I just set it to something comfortable and away we go Still using the 1070 daily, it's a great GPU

 

[TheLostSwede]

engenius is for testing
tenda has better coverage in my office, tplink is good too but some model is hard to find here

Sorry, but good is not a word I would use for products that get two, max three firmware updates in the life of the product, as then they proceed with a new revision and dump the old ones.
TP-Link has something like six or seven revisions of their "popular" models, but only the most recent one gets updates.
It makes them a terrible suggestion as far as routers go and products I would never connect facing the internet.
Yes, I have two TP-Link products myself, both were at the final firmware revision by the time I bought them and there was no way for me to know which hardware revision it was on one of them, as it was bought online. The other one was the most recent revision on sale, but was superseded shortly after I bought it and thus never got any more support.
Luckily I just use them as Wi-Fi repeaters, but one of them have started to be glitchy now. TP-Link also removed support for it in its app, despite more recent revisions still being on sale...
It's really buyer be aware kind of products and I have a feeling Tenda is no better, although I don't have any personal experience with them.
Engenius should be a smidgen better I think.
I hope you're aware of these limitations, so you don't end up with hacked routers all over the place.

 

[KLiKzg]

Why not make and post your own photo(s)?

Promised some pics. Here is one:

Enjoying that Apple feeling on this new keyboard.

 

[Jetster]

Pulled the trigger on a new board and cpu to replace my aging HTPC and a graphics card
First AMD I've bought in forever $368.99

I don't recall posting in this thread before and I'm not much of a photographer, but I wanted to show off my shiny new Samsung 980. It's my first NVMe drive. I picked it up on sale from Newegg.

I also wanted to thank Jetster for being kind enough to post the sale in the "Hot Deals" Thread, I couldn't have afforded a drive this nice any other way.

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Seriously....a Samsung 980 1tb drive for 93 bucks?

Very Appreciative...,

Liquid Cool

Cool, I bought three. But paid 109 for one. I'm just glade on somethings the price is going down

 

[Space Lynx]

I don't recall posting in this thread before and I'm not much of a photographer, but I wanted to show off my shiny new Samsung 980. It's my first NVMe drive. I picked it up on sale from Newegg.

I also wanted to thank Jetster for being kind enough to post the sale in the "Hot Deals" Thread, I couldn't have afforded a drive this nice any other way.

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Seriously....a Samsung 980 1tb drive for 93 bucks?

Very Appreciative...,

Liquid Cool

yeah you got an excellent deal there, I wish I had this instead of my Crucial P5 1TB. It only cost me $85, is main reason I was tempted. The read IOPS were like 599k when the drive was empty, but after OS and some games, it dropped down to same speeds on read IOPS as my 2TB SSD, around 380-390k range. Kind of lame since that is the most important number.

Care to run cyrstaldisk mark in both nvme and non-nvme mode (even just run pass 2 not 5 is plenty good enough) after you get your OS and such installed on it? I'm just curious, cause most reviews only show benches for empty drives

 

[tabascosauz]

Pulled the trigger on a new board and cpu to replace my aging HTPC and a graphics card
First AMD I've bought in forever $368.99

Cool, I bought three. But paid 109 for one. I'm just glade on somethings the price is going down

Hopefully you get it shipped with a new BIOS, or have a 3000/4000 CPU to drop in to update it. Mine came with the AGESA 1081 BIOS, but thankfully I use the 4650G in it so no problems booting. It doesn't have BIOS flashback so you can't update it with no CPU.

The 5600G is good value for HTPC use, big step up in CPU performance over 4650G.

Oh and make sure not to overtighten the M.2 heatsink if you have a drive in there, almost bent an SN550 like a banana. It's easy to check from the side if you have. In that respect it's one of the dodgiest M.2 heatsinks I've ever seen.

 

[Jetster]

Hopefully you get it shipped with a new BIOS, or have a 3000/4000 CPU to drop in to update it. Mine came with the AGESA 1081 BIOS, but thankfully I use the 4650G in it so no problems booting. It doesn't have BIOS flashback so you can't update it with no CPU.

The 5600G is good value for HTPC use, big step up in CPU performance over 4650G.

Oh and make sure not to overtighten the M.2 heatsink if you have a drive in there, almost bent an SN550 like a banana. It's easy to check from the side if you have. In that respect it's one of the dodgiest M.2 heatsinks I've ever seen.

Yea, I've been waiting forever for it. Well see about the bios, hopefully not but I have a buddy with a cpu that will work, if I can get him to pull it out

 

[Liquid Cool]

Cool, I bought three. But paid 109 for one. I'm just glade on somethings the price is going down

Completely agree. Prices have steadily been coming down on a few items. Power supplies have come down in price for sure. The PSU's I normally buy have been discounted to where they are a pretty decent bargain. I don't know if any of you guys buy eVGA power supplies or not. I like the 550w G3's or the GA. I've been routinely seeing them going for 49.99 shipped on ebay. Picked up a spare or three for myself. The eVGA SuperNova 550w G3 is my favorite PSU on the market. I've used dozens of them without a dud yet. Very low on electrical noise and NO high pitch whining for those who care about that sort of thing.

As an example:

eVGA SuperNova 550w GA

Love the 10 year warranty.

Care to run cyrstaldisk mark in both nvme and non-nvme mode (even just run pass 2 not 5 is plenty good enough) after you get your OS and such installed on it? I'm just curious, cause most reviews only show benches for empty drives

Will do, but it's going to be a little awhile...I'm packing up and getting ready to move back out to the country! I won't forget though...I'll post the results in Jetster's Hot Deals thread.

Best,

Liquid Cool

 

[toilet pepper]

I had been playing Naraka: Bladepoint quite recently and really got annoyed with the cable of my G502. I was really planning to replace it since the shape of the mouse is not ideal for my grip type anyways. Seeing how wireless technology had improved I decided to go wireless. Obvious choices are to go Logitech or Razer but both of them costs quite a lot. I could also go with Cooler Master as I had pretty much good experience with their customer service but decided to look elsewhere. So I went with the 3rd best option which is Glorious.


The box was quite heavy for something that should be "light." But when I pulled the mouse out I was shocked how light these are. Its really hard to grasp how light something is unless you use it. No squeeks, I was a little worried about the stuctural integrity of mices with holes but it is very sturdy.

The shape of the the Model O is a little comfortable than the G502 that I had. Sadly, the Model D would have been better but there's no wireless option yet.

I used another magnetic USB C plug so I can charge it quickly without plugging and unplugging the cable. BTW the cable that comes with it is very soft, smooth and light as well.

 

[Mussels]

Lighting came out really odd (mics too black for the camera?) but i got a tripod stand and isolation shield for my yeti

 

[Space Lynx]

Lighting came out really odd (mics too black for the camera?) but i got a tripod stand and isolation shield for my yeti

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can you link where one buys a setup like this? i may get something like this for my remote job.

 

[Mussels]

The stand i got locally at a Jaycar store for $30, this is the shield i got (which comes with a small, desk usable tripod)
Neewer NW-13 Foldable Compact Microphone Isolation Shield with Tripod Stand

 

[jallenlabs]

Twin Intel Optane 900p and an Optane 800p.

 

[Valantar]

I'm back in my home town and working from my office (not remote home office) for a few weeks, and after a few days of typing on the god-awful Dell keyboard there (and some severe and worsening cramping and wrist pain) I remembered why I originally bought the mech keyboard I now have at the home office. So as an emergency solution I went and bought the cheapest decent-seeming keyboard I could get my hand on without shipping (which is slow in Norway):

NOK 400 (~€38/$45, includes 25% VAT), NOS C250 wired mechanical 60% keyboard. I could have found a cheap membrane keyboard for NOK150 that would probably have been miles better than the Dell, but this seemed like a decent deal. It's the store brand for gaming peripherals for Elkjøp/Elgiganten/Gigantti/Elko (Norway/Sweden+Denmark/Finland/Iceland), and for the price it seems rather impressive. No doubt a rebranded no-name OEM product, but build quality seems good (no creaks or poor fitment), there's no keycap wobble to speak of, the larger keys are decently stabilized, and noise is ... fine. A bit hollow, but fine for what it is. Keycaps are from what I can tell doubleshot shine-through ABS (and you can see they love to pick up fingerprints), the font is decent even if the top-mounted LEDs don't diffuse properly into the secondary and tertiary labels. Switches are an MX Red copy made by Content. I've never used linear switches for any extended time before, and I generally prefer tactile switches, but ... these aren't bad. Definitely not up to the taste levels of mech key enthusiasts (pretty scratchy), but they're consistent enough across they board that I can't make out any glaringly over/underweight ones, and overall the typing experience is perfectly adequate.

The negatives are much more down to the 60% layout and some nit-picks: I really miss Home and End keys (and some would no doubt miss PgUp and PgDn), and it'll probably take me more time than I'm actually spending here for now to adjust to the need for FN key combos for everything from arrow keys to Delete and Esc. I would also have liked a detachable cable - though I guess a fixed braided cable (feels like decent quality) is better than a cheap, shitty micro-B one with a fragile connector.

Considering it would have cost me twice as much to move up to the second cheapest option (at which point I would have been solidly in Keychron wireless keyboard territory, so ... eh, no thanks), this seems like a good compromise use when I'm back here. And if it saves me weeks of sick leave recovering from the dirt-poor ergonomics of that Dell keyboard, it's more than worth it.

 

[INSTG8R]

which is slow in Norway):

Preposterous! I live in the Jæren, small town of 500. Almost everything takes 2 days, 3 max! Komplett I could set my clock to.

 

[Valantar]

Preposterous! I live in the Jæren, small town of 500. Almost everything takes 2 days, 3 max! Komplett I could set my clock to.

Lol, Jæren is in Southern Norway. In other words, the part that is closest to everything and gets everything shipped the quickest. It's not that close to Komplett in Sandefjord, but your deliveries likely pass through a single regional post sorting facility, and not 2-3 like anything going North. Once you pass Bergen or Dovrefjell, those shipping times easily double. Coming from next-day at-home delivery for 29SEK from Inet in Sweden (which, again, is located pretty close to where I live, so I'm definitely privileged there), the "hopefully not too late next week" delivery window of Norwegian online stores (and the 200NOK+ fees for "express" home delivery that isn't typically much quicker) is one of the things I miss the least. If I had ordered something early monday morning I might have gotten it this week. If I got lucky. Most likely it would have arrived next monday or tuesday, which means I would have gotten 2-3 days of use out of it before leaving

 

[INSTG8R]

Lol, Jæren is in Southern Norway. In other words, the part that is closest to everything and gets everything shipped the quickest. It's not that close to Komplett in Sandefjord, but your deliveries likely pass through a single regional post sorting facility, and not 2-3 like anything going North. Once you pass Bergen or Dovrefjell, those shipping times easily double. Coming from next-day at-home delivery for 29SEK from Inet in Sweden (which, again, is located pretty close to where I live, so I'm definitely privileged there), the "hopefully not too late next week" delivery window of Norwegian online stores (and the 200NOK+ fees for "express" home delivery that isn't typically much quicker) is one of the things I miss the least. If I had ordered something early monday morning I might have gotten it this week. If I got lucky. Most likely it would have arrived next monday or tuesday, which means I would have gotten 2-3 days of use out of it before leaving

Almost everything comes from Oslo for me. My brick and mortar options are the usual Power, Elkjøp 20-30min drives but of course then it’s down to product choice that is totally hit and miss. I would never pay for express shipping obviously or home delivery as the one single store here, Prix is a postal point for everyone 3min drive from me. I’m rather obsessive about tracking packages as I have nothing but spare time and know when it should be at the pick up point and often make them dug through the delivery pile for my items.
Currently waiting in 3kg tub of Haribo Cola Bottles that are in Oslo and will be here around 4 tomorrow

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

It may not be new but I just bought it used for basically nothing I upgraded the ram and I really like it

 

[WhitetailAni]

It may not be new but I just bought it used for basically nothing I upgraded the ram and I really like it

G5 or C2D?

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

G5 or C2D?

I'm not sure what that means but I'm pretty sure it's the first Intel iMac

 

[WhitetailAni]

I'm not sure what that means but I'm pretty sure it's the first Intel iMac

G5 = PowerPC G5, C2D = Core 2 Duo.

After remembering that I can zoom in on images, I noticed that it says "Core 2 Duo" on the page.

 

[toilet pepper]

I'm back in my home town and working from my office (not remote home office) for a few weeks, and after a few days of typing on the god-awful Dell keyboard there (and some severe and worsening cramping and wrist pain) I remembered why I originally bought the mech keyboard I now have at the home office. So as an emergency solution I went and bought the cheapest decent-seeming keyboard I could get my hand on without shipping (which is slow in Norway):

NOK 400 (~€38/$45, includes 25% VAT), NOS C250 wired mechanical 60% keyboard. I could have found a cheap membrane keyboard for NOK150 that would probably have been miles better than the Dell, but this seemed like a decent deal. It's the store brand for gaming peripherals for Elkjøp/Elgiganten/Gigantti/Elko (Norway/Sweden+Denmark/Finland/Iceland), and for the price it seems rather impressive. No doubt a rebranded no-name OEM product, but build quality seems good (no creaks or poor fitment), there's no keycap wobble to speak of, the larger keys are decently stabilized, and noise is ... fine. A bit hollow, but fine for what it is. Keycaps are from what I can tell doubleshot shine-through ABS (and you can see they love to pick up fingerprints), the font is decent even if the top-mounted LEDs don't diffuse properly into the secondary and tertiary labels. Switches are an MX Red copy made by Content. I've never used linear switches for any extended time before, and I generally prefer tactile switches, but ... these aren't bad. Definitely not up to the taste levels of mech key enthusiasts (pretty scratchy), but they're consistent enough across they board that I can't make out any glaringly over/underweight ones, and overall the typing experience is perfectly adequate.

The negatives are much more down to the 60% layout and some nit-picks: I really miss Home and End keys (and some would no doubt miss PgUp and PgDn), and it'll probably take me more time than I'm actually spending here for now to adjust to the need for FN key combos for everything from arrow keys to Delete and Esc. I would also have liked a detachable cable - though I guess a fixed braided cable (feels like decent quality) is better than a cheap, shitty micro-B one with a fragile connector.

Considering it would have cost me twice as much to move up to the second cheapest option (at which point I would have been solidly in Keychron wireless keyboard territory, so ... eh, no thanks), this seems like a good compromise use when I'm back here. And if it saves me weeks of sick leave recovering from the dirt-poor ergonomics of that Dell keyboard, it's more than worth it.

I'm really amazed how people can use a 60% or TKL keyboard as a daily driver. Maybe its just me and my large dependency on the numpad.

 

[Valantar]

I'm really amazed how people can use a 60% or TKL keyboard as a daily driver. Maybe its just me and my large dependency on the numpad.

My daily driver is a TKL, and I will never, ever go back to anything with a fixed numpad. I don't need it, but even back when I did (for work, and thus used it a lot) I started realizing what an ergonomic nightmare a right-mounted numpad is, forcing your arm far too far outwards in order to use the mouse. If I ever need a numpad again, I'll be getting a separate USB one so that I can keep my joints in working order.