What's your latest tech purchase?

Deleted member 24505 · Sep 10, 2021

sam_86314 said:
I'm pretty sure he used a generic pic. He had several listings for RX 550s and they all used the same picture (except for one which had a "modified" IO bracket).

Aah ok. Well IC's don't just fall off anyway

Mussels · Sep 10, 2021

Fart in the box when you mail it back, so he knows that his shipping methods stink

xcescxa · Sep 10, 2021

Bought This today not even opened, since 2011. Real surround.

freeagent · Sep 10, 2021

Jetster said:
Fancy

Man those are nice. Mine look like that too.. don't care what anyone says they are awesome

P4-630 · Sep 10, 2021

IrishCrispy said:
Bought This today not even opened, since 2011. Real surround.

So is it much better than a virtual 7.1 DTS:X / Dolby surround headset? It's a rare one possibly.
I have a wireless Logi G533 7.1 headset, which is not bad imo.

GreiverBlade · Sep 10, 2021

well, my Xbox One recon controller finally had some issues ... (a friend tossed it across the Livingroom ... no luck, or lucky depends the point of view, the windows was open ... ) thus it's a purchase but not at my expenses ... :laugh:

bloody good even tho wired, one series style, USB-C yay! (and also a Recon ... funny enough)

little gift to myself, wait, what is this witchery... a physical support??? wow ...

albeit being D&D i always read Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur's_Gate:_Dark_Alliance i owned it on the OG Xbox

) instead.

also bought Fallout 4 and season pass for less than 10$ proud battle medic... hell yeah!

(nono ... it's not a female Deacon but indeed a C.V.R.I.E. customized)
Pink suits her more than rusty grey ...

Ahhzz · Sep 10, 2021

GreiverBlade said:
...

little gift to myself, wait, what is this witchery... a physical support??? wow ...
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albeit being D&D i always read Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur's_Gate:_Dark_Alliance i owned it on the OG Xbox ) instead.

...

You'll have to let us know how it is

potsdaman · Sep 10, 2021

WD SN750 Black 500Gb

plastiscɧ · Sep 10, 2021

4th v-nand SSD is now inside

xcescxa · Sep 10, 2021

P4-630 said:
So is it much better than a virtual 7.1 DTS:X / Dolby surround headset? It's a rare one possibly.
I have a wireless Logi G533 7.1 headset, which is not bad imo.

Yes. It has 10 discrete channels. It is rare because its the only headset I found that is analog that is real 7.1 other than the v2 version but that one is trash cuz razer synapse. There are usb ones but they won't be using my motherboard's analog connections. If I use USB it will make its own audio device and not use realtek. Anyway ill share a picture of it when it arrives.

FireFox · Sep 10, 2021

plastiscɧ said:
4th v-nand SSD is now inside

Noticed it thanks to the fingerprint :roll:

xcescxa · Sep 10, 2021

Basically if your getting headphone there are only 2 options stereo or 7.1. If your motherboard supports it I recommend you get 7.1. Just make sure for the 7.1 it says it has 10 discrete channels. If your motherboard uses analog I recommend you get a analog one. If you don't have analog next best option is to use either USB or spdif. For spidif the only headset I found that had it was "wavzs". For usb the only one I found was "asus rog Centurion" And of course for analog mine I bought "razer tiamat v1 or v2", you are lucky if you find a v1 like I did. Also if you want your audio setup correctly use obs channel monitoring, then go from there.

btw the "Bluedio V Is the only headset I found that has more than 10 discrete channels (it has 12) it won't beat analog or USB unless your motherboard has spdif on it.

ColinB123 · Sep 10, 2021

Just installed a new AX210ngw card into my old 2014 Samsung laptop.
Not without a little difficulty: first, the wifi wasn't recognised, nor the bluetooth!
The wifi issue was easy to correct: as I don't have an ax network, I simply selected ac in the driver, and that cured the issue (shouldn't that be automatic?)

I tried quite a few things with Bluetooth (5.2), including switching back from Win 11 to Win 10, and back again.... with the latest Intel Bluetooth drivers.
Eventually found a review that referenced a "pin 2 mod" - but wasn't sure which pin was pin2..... It mentioned a YouTube video from the Green Electric Channel.

That referenced "2 pins" on the back of the card.
Sure enough, my old card (7260n + BT4) had 4 pins in a row (in the centre), while the AX210 had 6 pins in a row.
Taping off the 'extra pins', meant it was compatible with the older m.2 slot, and Bluetooth 5.2 suddenly burst into life.
(shouldn't backwards compatibility be automatic?)

Not very impressed: compatibility should be auto-sensed and the pins disabled.

xcescxa · Sep 10, 2021

plastiscɧ said:
4th v-nand SSD is now inside

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Nice nice, my motherboard is a320m a pro max. I was in a rush to build my own first pc when I turned of age to get a job that I bought almost the cheapest motherboard I can find for my cpu. That's the I guess bottleneck but not really except I can't add more things.

GreiverBlade · Sep 10, 2021

Ahhzz said:
You'll have to let us know how it is

well i am full throttle in Fallout 4 atm :laugh:

but yeah i will ... afterall i spent 5 years as a GM for D&D 3.5 and other tabletop RPGs

and also Baldur's Gate was the first game i played, free demo in a computer-game revue and then full release, i also still have my booklet from BG2SOA, but not the box, sadly, on my 486DX2 33 (well ... that's what my brother in law gifted me in 1998, i passed to a K6-2 in '99 and then a Duron Spitfire in 2000~), after that i did a crash course on oldies like "pool of radiance" till "deathkeep", these were more gentle with the 486 :laugh:

plastiscɧ · Sep 10, 2021

FireFox said:
Noticed it thanks to the fingerprint

this is kinda liquid of the thermal stripes. the new one is the beyond. but ure right. i cleaned it before putting the metal back. and YES this scew is 2mm small. it was a horror to put it back in

IrishCrispy said:
Nice nice, my motherboard is a320m a pro max. I was in a rush to build my own first pc when I turned of age to get a job that I bought almost the cheapest motherboard I can find for my cpu. That's the I guess bottleneck but not really except I can't add more things.

i guess a 970evo matches. 3rd GEN. correct me some1 pls..

xcescxa · Sep 10, 2021

plastiscɧ said:
this is kinda liquid of the thermal stripes. the new one is the beyond. but ure right. i cleaned it before putting the metal back. and YES this scew is 2mm small. it was a horror to put it back in

i guess a 970evo matches. 3rd GEN. correct me some1 pls..

I got 970 Evo plus 1 to so it will work.

plastiscɧ · Sep 10, 2021

IrishCrispy said:
I got 970 Evo plus 1 to so it will work.

the evo+ ist the big sister. so all good then. i just was not 100% aware anymore about the z300 gen.

FireFox · Sep 10, 2021

plastiscɧ said:
the z300

plastiscɧ · Sep 10, 2021

FireFox said:

u know i mean the right... i am kinda stuck in intel-speaking.....

xkm1948 · Sep 10, 2021

Another RTX 3080Ti soon to be hosted inside another computation biology workstation. This one would be used mainly for cancer sequencing data preprocessing. Thanks to Nvidia's parabricks accelerated bioinformatics tools, calling single nucleotide polymorphism from raw sequencing data has some great speed reduction.

Still gonna have to turn off the RGB before get it inside the workstation chassis. These Ampere GPU are computation monsters for bioinformatics applications.

AusWolf · Sep 11, 2021

xkm1948 said:
Another RTX 3080Ti soon to be hosted inside another computation biology workstation. This one would be used mainly for cancer sequencing data preprocessing. Thanks to Nvidia's parabricks accelerated bioinformatics tools, calling single nucleotide polymorphism from raw sequencing data has some great speed reduction.

Still gonna have to turn off the RGB before get it inside the workstation chassis. These Ampere GPU are computation monsters for bioinformatics applications.

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Finally someone who uses the computational power of Ampere for something other than getting rich with no work!

tabascosauz · Sep 12, 2021

The Thermalright SS135 arrived today. In person, it really is a scaled-up spiritual successor to the NH-D9L. Oh the things I do just to be able to use a windowed side panel

Preliminary observations are that the push-pull iPPC NH-C14S is superior by about 1-1.5C in all-core, really speaks to the C14S' prowess. But the two A14-2000s on the C14S are obviously exponentially louder. So it seems reasonable so far, for a cooler that is 23mm shorter than the NH-U12S but performs the same.

The Vengeance RAM cooler is meh, 1.51V 3800 14-15-15 is still fine with the fan @ 70%, but it isn't quite as good as raw 140mm airflow from the C14S, so the RAM runs about 2C hotter and peaks at 47C in TM5 which is still apparently okay. In my experience 50C has always been the B-die magic mark, others say 40 or 45 but I guess 140ns tRFC isn't tight enough that the threshold starts moving down.

Thinking of seeing if I can push-pull with 2 x NF-F12-2000, but the 120-but-not-120 fan clips are a bit strange, not sure if they'll work.

WhitetailAni · Sep 12, 2021

It's a fan that moves air.

Lots and lots of air.

Very very loudly.

And sucks 1.3 amps.

Any ideas on what I should do with it?

Caring1 · Sep 12, 2021

RealKGB said:
It's a fan that moves air.

Lots and lots of air.

Very very loudly.

And sucks 1.3 amps.

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Any ideas on what I should do with it?

Got any passive workstation cards you can mount it on?

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
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Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero
Keyboard	Logitech G213
VR HMD	Oculus 3
Software	Yes
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System Name	AlderLake
Processor	Intel i7 12700K P-Cores @ 5Ghz
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12A 2 fans + Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme + 5 case fans
Memory	32GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 6000MT/s CL36
Video Card(s)	MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio
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Mouse	Logitech MX Anywhere 2 Laser wireless
Keyboard	RAPOO E9270P Black 5GHz wireless
Software	Windows 11
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Processor	Ryzen 7 5800X3D/i7-3770/S905X/Snapdragon 8 Gen 2/Ryzen Z1 Extreme
Motherboard	MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk/HP SFF Q77 Express/uh?/uh?/Asus
Cooling	Enermax ETS-T50 Axe aRGB /basic HP HSF /errr.../oh! liqui..wait, no:sizable vapor chamber/a nice one
Memory	64gb DDR4 3600/8gb DDR3 1600/2gbLPDDR3/8gbLPDDR5x/16gb(10 sys)LPDDR5 6400
Video Card(s)	Hellhound Spectral White RX 7900 XTX 24gb/GT 730/Mali 450MP5/Adreno 740/Radeon 780M 6gb LPDDR5
Storage	250gb870EVO/500gb860EVO/2tbSandisk/NVMe2tb+1tb/4tbextreme V2/1TB Arion/500gb/8gb/256gb/4tb SN850X
Display(s)	X58222 32" 2880x1620/32"FHDTV/273E3LHSB 27" 1920x1080/6.67"/AMOLED 2X panel FHD+120hz/7" FHD 120hz
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Audio Device(s)	Logi Z333/SB Audigy RX/HDMI/HDMI/Dolby Atmos/KZ x HBB PR2/Moondrop Chu II + TRN BT20S
Power Supply	Chieftec Proton BDF-1000C /HP 240w/12v 1.5A/USAMS GAN PD 33w/USAMS GAN 100w
Mouse	Speedlink Sovos Vertical-Asus ROG Spatha-Logi Ergo M575/Xiaomi XMRM-006/touch/touch
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VR HMD	Medion Erazer
Software	Win10 64/Win8.1 64/Android TV 8.1/Android 14/Win11 64
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Keyboard	K68 RGB — CHERRY® MX Red
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Mouse	Logitech G502 spectrum
Keyboard	Virtuis Advanced Gaming Keyboard ( Batboard )
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Motherboard	ASUS Prime B550 Plus
Cooling	Scythe FUMA 2 + various case fans
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Case	DeepCool E-Shield
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Power Supply	Seasonic Core GM-650SRM
Software	Linux Mint + Windows11 pro
Benchmark Scores	Not worthy of attention

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Processor	Undead CPU
Motherboard	Undead TUF X99
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15
Memory	GSkill 128GB DDR4-3000
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Storage	Samsung 960 Pro 1TB + 860 EVO 2TB + WD Black 5TB
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Case	Fractal Design R5
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Power Supply	Seasonic 850watt
Mouse	Logitech Master MX
Keyboard	Corsair K70 Cherry MX Blue
VR HMD	HTC Vive + Oculus Quest 2
Software	Windows 10 P

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	MSi PRO B650M-A WiFi
Cooling	be quiet! Dark Rock 4
Memory	2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-4800
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT 12 GB
Storage	2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 2 TB Corsair MP600 R2
Display(s)	Dell S3422DWG, 7" Waveshare touchscreen
Case	Kolink Citadel Mesh black
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 2.1 speakers, AKG Y50 headphones
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime GX-750
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 2S
Keyboard	Logitech G413 SE
Software	Bazzite (Fedora Linux) KDE

System Name	ab┃ob
Processor	7800X3D┃5800X3D
Motherboard	B650E PG-ITX┃X570 Impact
Cooling	NH-U12A + T30┃AXP120-x67
Memory	64GB 6400CL32┃32GB 3600CL14
Video Card(s)	RTX 4070 Ti Eagle┃RTX A2000
Storage	8TB of SSDs┃1TB SN550
Case	Caselabs S3┃Lazer3D HT5

System Name	Desktop-TJ84TBK
Processor	Ryzen 5 3600
Motherboard	Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming
Cooling	ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 120mm, Noctua NF-F12
Memory	B-Die 2x8GB 3200 CL14, Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3200 CL16, OC'd to 3333 MT/s C16-16-16-32 tRC 48
Video Card(s)	PNY GTX 690
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Case	Rosewill CRUISER Black Gaming
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Power Supply	Seasonic FOCUS GM-750
Mouse	Kensington K72369
Keyboard	Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013
Software	Windows 10 Home 64-bit, macOS 11.7.8
Benchmark Scores	are good

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Processor	AMD 5800X3D
Motherboard	Asus X570 Tough Gaming
Cooling	Custom liquid
Memory	32 GB DDR4
Video Card(s)	Intel ARC A750
Storage	Crucial P5 Plus 2TB.
Display(s)	AOC 24" Freesync 1m.s. 75Hz
Mouse	Lenovo
Keyboard	Eweadn Mechanical
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