What's your latest tech purchase?

[Deleted member 215115]

You probably haven't owned any older Radeon reference cards..

Ah, the 70dBs of the reference R9 290X. I can still hear it like it came out yesterday. Like a gentle Hawaiian breeze...

 

[Ruru]

Ah, the 70dBs of the reference R9 290X. I can still hear it like it came out yesterday. Like a gentle Hawaiian breeze...

Yeah, I had a reference 290 with the same cooler. Though liquid metal and undervolting helped a lot.

Probably not but just to be clear, define old.

Well, I've had X1800 XT, X1950 XT, HD 2900 GT, HD 3870X2, HD 4890 and R9 290 reference cards. All of those made clear of their existence when playing games.

 

[SN2716057]

Okay, I did have the HD7970 Matrix but I water cooled that puppy almost immediately.

 

[GerKNG]

Moondrop Aria IEMs (they are fantastic!)

 

[Ruru]

Okay, I did have the HD7970 Matrix but I water cooled that puppy almost immediately.

I have the same card on my 2nd rig and this has a fine cooler and acceptable temps. Pretty great find for 30EUR in last spring.

 

[Anoniem]

Ah, the 70dBs of the reference R9 290X. I can still hear it like it came out yesterday. Like a gentle Hawaiian breeze...

Those 2xx cards were screamers, stock was just undoable

Anyhooo, the MO-RA3 360 project has been completed A lot of fun and learned a lot, might redo the 420 too if I have some more spare time this year. I just have to tuck away some remaining cables and that's about it. Wouldn't have done this without QDC's though.

 

[Rithsom]

Ah, the 70dBs of the reference R9 290X. I can still hear it like it came out yesterday. Like a gentle Hawaiian breeze...

I see what you did there.

 

[cst1992]

Ah, the 70dBs of the reference R9 290X. I can still hear it like it came out yesterday. Like a gentle Hawaiian breeze...

RIP ears

 

[Deleted member 215115]

Those 2xx cards were screamers, stock was just undoable

Anyhooo, the MO-RA3 360 project has been completed A lot of fun and learned a lot, might redo the 420 too if I have some more spare time this year. I just have to tuck away some remaining cables and that's about it. Wouldn't have done this without QDC's though.

Nice rads. Now you just need the rest of the car.

 

[Valantar]

Well, I've had X1800 XT, X1950 XT, HD 2900 GT, HD 3870X2, HD 4890 and R9 290 reference cards. All of those made clear of their existence when playing games.

I blame/credit my old CF 4850s with getting me into building quiet PCs in the first place. God, those single-slot reference coolers were a nightmare. Having two of them didn't help.

 

[Athlonite]

yeah you lot are noobs to noise. I remember the HD2900XT and HD2600XT now those were hideously noisy monsters way back in the day

 

[R-T-B]

yeah you lot are noobs to noise. I remember the HD2900XT and HD2600XT now those were hideously noisy monsters way back in the day

Don't remind me of those things. They scare me.

 

[Aquinus]

Don't remind me of those things. They scare me.

Hey, I thought that CF 6870s was a good learning experience.

 

[Anoniem]

yeah you lot are noobs to noise. I remember the HD2900XT and HD2600XT now those were hideously noisy monsters way back in the day

I've got one in my lab now that's waiting for LN2 right now. Dear god, that thing on air is a banshee, I fudging hate the cooler with the intensity of a 1.000.000 suns.

Hey, I thought that CF 6870s was a good learning experience.

I had those in CF and I prefer them to the older cards to be honest. All cards in CF or SLI were LOUD, imagine my pain with two OC'ed GTX 295 in SLI...

And to conclude my own project MO-RA3: The MO-RA3 needs two D5 pumps per loop. Going from 75% D5 to 100% D5 resulted in a 4c-5c drop overall meaning either pressure or flow is limiting it :/

 

[harm9963]

RIP ears

I have two in crossfire , just saying

 

[Valantar]

Hey, I thought that CF 6870s was a good learning experience.

Were the stock 6870s terrible as well? I'm so glad I got that HIS IceQ 6850, that thing was whisper quiet even with just a single fan. Great GPU for a shockingly low price.

 

[Aquinus]

Were the stock 6870s terrible as well? I'm so glad I got that HIS IceQ 6850, that thing was whisper quiet even with just a single fan. Great GPU for a shockingly low price.

I had a reference and an after-market 6870, both from MSI. The reference cooler was better at full tilt, but the twinfrozr was quieter. In the end, the twinfrozr failed and the reference continued to work. All in all, both were good cards. I just think that there is a bit more to reference coolers than just being a loud squirrel cage fan cooler.

 

[harm9963]

kill a watt monitor is what I got new from Microcenter.
290X CFX / 700 WATTS

 

[thesmokingman]

Your ears must be bleeding?

 

[nguyen]

Ipad Pro M1 2021, bought it for work and nothing else, I don't even like apple products anyways

 

[Mussels]

Not tap water :S its fresh deionised water from a sealed bottle. No one would put tap water in their loop would they? I have been water cooling for years and would never do that. I have been on TPU for years and am shocked you would think i would use tap water.

You didn't specify at first... and yeah people do. It never goes well.

 

[Kovoet]

 

[Mussels]

Whoa, an ᴚ⊥X !T 0903!

dont see many of those around!

 

[lexluthermiester]

and yeah people do.

I don't know anyone who has or does. It's a remarkably bad idea. Even BITD it was always a run to the store to get a gallon of purified or de-ionized.

It never goes well.

Very true..

 

[cst1992]

Whoa, an ᴚ⊥X !T 0903!

I can do one better than that...
ᴉꓕ 090Ɛ Xꓕꓤ

BITD it was always a run to the store to get a gallon of purified or de-ionized.

How about distilled?