What's your latest tech purchase?

[INSTG8R]

I've snapped off at least one GPU water block standoff over the years building custom loops, it's a sickening feeling going for that last little bit,.. than snap!

Decided to take the guess work out of tightening my water-cooling hardware screws.

Bought the new EK-Loop Torque Screwdriver-0.6Nm. https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-loop-torque-screwdriver-0-6nm

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Oooh! That looks great!! I mean my EK block just has thumb screws but I’m definitely bad at over tightening screws…
Ecit: Bought one too seeing as it’s on sale

 

[Chomiq]

This baby came in a few days ago, didn't have the time to post.
NO more canned air for me, oh no no no

And yeah, i wanted the V.2 550W Black one but in this piss poor excuse of a country that i live in they don't have it;
got the Original 500W White one from a neighbouring country etailer.

Wow, prices on amazon really went up since last time I checked. They used to be listed for €60-70 now they're €105.

 

[r9]

I splurged out again today
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No more clunky soldering station for me, sadly the pinecil isn't available here so I went for the old trusty.
Need to pimp out the firmware when I get it and I have a stack of thermostats to macgyver for central control over the air conditioning from my server when it comes.

I have a rework station that I rarely ever use and still want to get one of these.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

I have a rework station that I rarely ever use and still want to get one of these.

If they're available go for the pinecil it's pretty much identical to the ts100 with the big difference that it has usb-c rather than micro and can use it for 20v 60w power as well as the power jack meaning it can run straight from a power bank designed to charge laptops which is pretty damn handy.

 

[Valantar]

If they're available go for the pinecil it's pretty much identical to the ts100 with the big difference that it has usb-c rather than micro and can use it for 20v 60w power as well as the power jack meaning it can run straight from a power bank designed to charge laptops which is pretty damn handy.

I got the Pinecil a while back, so far I've barely had a chance to try it out, but it seems very good. Love the choice of USB-C or DC barrel jack connections, and the iron seems to perform well. The main reason I got that over the ts100 or ts80 was the neat factor of having a RISC-V soldering iron But when I got mine it was both cheaper ($25! That's crazy!) and came from a more reliable source than the myriad ebay/aliexpress sellers for the TS100/80.

 

[Yraggul666]

Wow, prices on amazon really went up since last time I checked. They used to be listed for €60-70 now they're €105.

I don't know about that, i don't even have an amazon acc, i bought mine from iPon and it was 300lei/60-65€ with delivery included.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

I got the Pinecil a while back, so far I've barely had a chance to try it out, but it seems very good. Love the choice of USB-C or DC barrel jack connections, and the iron seems to perform well.

I'm currently playing about with esp 32 kits everywhere around the house doing home automation so having something small and mobile is a priority wish I could have grabbed a pinecil but they just weren't available as alot of choice opensource stuff seems to be here. I've been looking at the pi4 compute modules to run some tensorflow stuff but the price is just too crazy compared to the UK. I also picked up one of these today in the hope I can control the AC,TV and amp in my office from my home assistant.

 

[Chomiq]

I don't know about that, i don't even have an amazon acc, i bought mine from iPon and it was 300lei/60-65€ with delivery included.

Yeah, they are available locally for pretty much the same price. V2 is like €10 more.

 

[neopolaris]

I got a refurbished Gen2 HP mv5140 to mess around with. It's got 2 SATA 7200 rpm 500GB drives and can be run as raid. Not as sophicated as a newer NAS, but it's kinda cool.

 

[WhitetailAni]

MacBook9,1, or a MacBook Retina (Early 2016).

Spoiler

It is the Core m3 model and only 256GB of storage, but that's plenty for what I'll use it for.
Was free too!

 

[freeagent]

Nothing too crazy.. got a 10 port pwm fan hub to annoy my family with, molex powered.. and a 128Gb 400 mb/s usb schtick for even faster windows installs

 

[Mussels]

I've snapped off at least one GPU water block standoff over the years building custom loops, it's a sickening feeling going for that last little bit,.. than snap!

Decided to take the guess work out of tightening my water-cooling hardware screws.

Bought the new EK-Loop Torque Screwdriver-0.6Nm. https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-loop-torque-screwdriver-0-6nm

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Wow, so it only tightens to a set amount?

That's freakin awesome

 

[Caring1]

Ordered a set of G.Skill Ram.
16GB (2X8) f4-3600C18-GVK
Not the fastest Ram available but cheap and good enough for the old system it's going to be used in, 5th/ 6th Gen Intel Motherboard.

 

[phill]

Well I thought I had made a good buy from Amazon as I've been sorting out a few things on the Homeserver and making sure I've got all the space I need and so on - More Exos drives found in the UK this time instead of the US and they where £269 each, so I grabbed 4..........



Nicely wrapped I guess like any Amazon package, but then a closer look.....



Barracuda?? Ummmm.... Barracuda the new Exos drives now!?!?!? As soon as I saw that, back on to Amazon, return!!! Looking even more closely at the boxes and the labels on them, can you spot something that doesn't belong???.......

Still, about the only other 'techy' thing I bought was this.....



Little air purifier for the PC Room and upstairs but think at the moment it's doing more work in the PC room than anywhere lol Had it a bit over a week now, been running 24/7, hardly uses any power, 18w on the lowest speed (barely can hear it - and that's not just because I'm getting older either ) and when on the night time mode, it drops down to 16w power usage, so I'm pretty chuffed with it being so quiet and doing a decent job. I need to take the filter out just to see what it's like after a week of running, so if I make it home in good time tomorrow after work, I'll be checking up on it

No real plans for anything big now, got to track down some more Exos drives for the server but otherwise..... Well, I think we are all ok for the moment!! Enough hardware to play about with so just need to get a few more things up and running for when we get some sun and we can use some more PCs on during the day I think I'm lacking in PSUs at the moment, so might grab some if I see some at a good price

 

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Barracuda?? Ummmm.... Barracuda the new Exos drives now!?!?!? As soon as I saw that, back on to Amazon, return!!! Looking even more closely at the boxes and the labels on them, can you spot something that doesn't belong???.......

The 4TB model number? Good grief. That's outright fraud. Assuming the seller wasn't Amazon?

 

[Valantar]

Barracuda?? Ummmm.... Barracuda the new Exos drives now!?!?!? As soon as I saw that, back on to Amazon, return!!! Looking even more closely at the boxes and the labels on them, can you spot something that doesn't belong???.......

4TB model number, and am I seeing this wrong or do the packages look like they've been opened and then re-sealed?

 

[Mussels]

I'm so glad it's not just me with my 4TB PCI-E SSD getting that crap, you're getting the same crap too!

Did you confirm what was in the boxes, in case they re-used old boxes for Exos drives?

 

[Ruru]

Ordered a new 3rd party USB A - Lightning cable. My current similar one is still kickin' with some tape.

Nothing special there so no unboxing or anything coming. just a cable ^^

 

[Caring1]

The 4TB model number? Good grief. That's outright fraud. Assuming the seller wasn't Amazon?

Well I guess 4 of them does add up to 16TB

 

[1freedude]

Well I guess 4 of them does add up to 16TB

Too early

 

[phill]

The 4TB model number? Good grief. That's outright fraud. Assuming the seller wasn't Amazon?

4TB model number, and am I seeing this wrong or do the packages look like they've been opened and then re-sealed?

I'm so glad it's not just me with my 4TB PCI-E SSD getting that crap, you're getting the same crap too!

Did you confirm what was in the boxes, in case they re-used old boxes for Exos drives?

I never even opened the boxes to see what was in them, if the labels are telling me they are 2 different times, possibly 3, them me thinks whatever is inside there isn't going to be good or right lol

Sent them back, ordered some more drives from my normal place, they had them knocked down from £385 or £390 to £287, so that'll do... Hopefully the replacements/new right ones, should be here tomorrow

Well I guess 4 of them does add up to 16TB

Close I guess but no cigar!! If there was a button, I'd have used that instead of the one for that comment!!

Trouble is, I've already got 6 4TB WD Reds, so the Barracuda's come whatever they are, aren't really cutting it anyways!

 

[bobbybluz]

I finally was able to buy an ASRock Z690 Steel Legend WiFi from Newegg this morning. I wonder if I got the only one they had? They weren't even included in the ASRock Z690 listings; I had an item number I got off Newegg's Canadian site and used that to look it up on the USA site. I put a link to it on my desktop and was checking a few times a day for the past two weeks to see if any were in stock. They didn't have any last night but when I checked at 10 a.m. CST today they said they did. As soon as I bought it I checked again and they're back out of stock. No UPS tracking number yet but my credit card has been charged.

I also got an invoice today from Arctic for the LGA 1700 mounting hardware for the LF II 360 AIO that's going on the new 12700K I'll be using with that new mobo. It looks like Arctic is shipping it from Germany. With a little luck the board and bracket will arrive on the same day.

12-2 update: I have a UPS tracking # now.

 

[AusWolf]

I've sorted out my memory clearance issues with a pair of Kingston Fury Beast RGB 3200 MHz modules (2x 16 GB each). XMP was enabled by default and ASUS Aura detected the RGB without even opening Armoury Crate. Everything is plug 'n' play by the strict sense of the word. This is why I've always loved Kingston memory. Also, I think it matches the theme of my TUF motherboard nicely.

P.S.: UK forum members - does anybody need a kit of 4x 8 GB 3200 MHz Fury Beast (non-RGB) RAM?

 

[Caring1]

Why do I read that as furry beast.

 

[AusWolf]

Why do I read that as furry beast.

Catchy name, isn't it?