What's your latest tech purchase?

[ThaiTaffy]

Soldering iron came today I feel I've made it to the future.
Even stock it heated up quick and was a massive improvement over the ghetto iron I bought down the local Thai market for like $3.
After an hour of fighting with it trying to upgrade the firmware which was failing miserably, I turned off my antivirus and it loaded immediately.

Now my soldering iron has an operating system (IronOS).

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Soldering iron came today I feel I've made it to the future.
Even stock it heated up quick and was a massive improvement over the ghetto iron I bought down the local Thai market for like $3.
After an hour of fighting with it trying to upgrade the firmware which was failing miserably, I turned off my antivirus and it loaded immediately.

Now my soldering iron has an operating system (IronOS).
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We are truly living in the future.

 

[seth1911]

Such of a slow sys ive never had a few years ago: A4 4300M with a 5400rpm 250GB HDD
Stock with 3GB RAM now with 6GB

It have a HD 7670m which is sometimes to fast for the A4

 

[Remeca]

Such of a slow sys ive never had a few years ago: A4 4300M with a 5400rpm 250GB HDD
Stock with 3GB RAM now with 6GB


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Can it run Crysis?

 

[seth1911]

Original Crysis? yeah for shure.

1366x768 Medium:
IGP = 20 FPS
Dedicated 7670M = 35 FPS

On weeken ill test Crysis 3 may on 1366x768 Low 30 FPS on the HD 7670M


Edit:
But HP is a Garbage Company to bring a A4 4300M with a HD 7670M.

But the FM2 CPU are on a Socket for Notebooks may ill be buy a A8 4500M on ebay.

 

[Mussels]

Images are glitching after the recent outage - w1zz is aware of it (but busy skiing)

 

[oobymach]

New wifi card came in, only cost $40. Click to enlarge pics.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

Sadly I lost something I consider a family member, after 6 hard years with myself and another 4 years on top of that with my wife it's finally passed away.

Rip our espresso machine thankfully she died during the end of year sales and the replacement came next day delivery.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

Got an Apple watch 6 GPS 44mm for 261£ (New) and I have replaced my old Arctis 7 headset with Logitech Pro X Wireless for 149£

 

[Bomby569]

Sony WF 1000 XM4
i loved my WH 1000 XM3 and decided to get the earbuds version, and they didn't disapoint me

 

[WhitetailAni]

Samsung PM871b 256GB

Spoiler

Not sure what I'll do with it yet

 

[johnspack]

Well didn't buy it, but got gifted it. A friend in the states found it because they are hard as f to find here. My old junky flight stick bit it.
This thing uses the same sensors as its big brother the Warthog... which goes for close to 400 us. This T.16000M was gotten for a lowly $108US
delivered! I'm waiting for it to arrive... arg I need to fly!

 

[sam_86314]

Decided to finally buy some "audiophile" headphones...

So I got some Samson SR850s for around $50. I've heard great things about them and I wanted to see (or hear) if they live up to the hype.

These things sound amazing.

Slightly less bass than other headphones I have, but more detail overall. They absolutely destroy a set of Bose noise-canceling headphones I got a bit ago for like $40 used.

Some things end up sounding a bit harsh, so I probably need to dabble in EQing them. Also, the ear cups aren't the most comfortable, but these headphones are still more comfortable than my Taotronics Bluetooth ones.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

So little update Poe switch came and omada setup is due tomorrow though it looks like I'll need to wait for the spf modules.
The switch looks in pretty good shape considering its nearly a decade old, two of the caps look slightly suspect so I'll order them and replace but it seems to work fine which is extremely impressive considering how it was sent.

The switch had a single layer of bubble wrap, the power cable was in a piece of paper and to stop it shaking about in the box they put a large empty coke bottle in there which I promptly recycled sadly before I took a photo.

Ordered a load more iot stuff also will start taking some photos when I've built the projects.

 

[oobymach]

Since my pics pooped out I'll try again. $40 wifi card. Click to enlarge.

 

[Mussels]

Hope it works well for you, i have a T8E here that the drivers are a real nightmare for, it hates networks that merge 2.4GHz and 5GHz together and of course my router only works that way...

 

[Valantar]

Decided to finally buy some "audiophile" headphones...

So I got some Samson SR850s for around $50. I've heard great things about them and I wanted to see (or hear) if they live up to the hype.

These things sound amazing.

Slightly less bass than other headphones I have, but more detail overall. They absolutely destroy a set of Bose noise-canceling headphones I got a bit ago for like $40 used.

Some things end up sounding a bit harsh, so I probably need to dabble in EQing them. Also, the ear cups aren't the most comfortable, but these headphones are still more comfortable than my Taotronics Bluetooth ones.

Remember to allow the membranes to wear in before you start changing your eq settings or going overboard on volume. All headphones and speakers need wearing in, and I always recommend just hooking them up to something and letting them play music for at least a day, maybe two, at moderate volumes. This can affect the sound signature quite drastically. I wouldn't be surprised if that harshness went away after some wear-in.

 

[oobymach]

Hope it works well for you, i have a T8E here that the drivers are a real nightmare for, it hates networks that merge 2.4GHz and 5GHz together and of course my router only works that way...

Haven't had issues so far but I've only been using it a couple days but I have my home wifi on a 5ghz channel with the 2.4ghz disabled on the router (I have a 2.4ghz network from my bell modem that I have on low power mode for when I need to change settings but is otherwise unused).

I don't find much difference between it and the onboard intel except this one has 866mbps as soon as I connect and stays there where the intel would start at 50mbps and then to 866 and drop back and forth from there to 400ish and only had 4 bar connection where this one has 5. My internet only runs at 400kilobytes per second download anyway so it's a bit overkill for my needs but whatever.

 

[QuietBob]

Bought an 84" screen to go with my portable projector. Things look great after sundown in 1080p:

 

[GreiverBlade]

3 weeks away, i come back from holiday after my 40th birthday and in my mail box ... :


ohhhh might like it ... (specially Chorvs ... Deathloop less ... not the game but the launcher ... after 2 Fo76 key showing "there was an issue" that was resolved and one Doom Eternal who did the same (not resolved ... i need to check if BethSoft has issues with Switzerland ... pffff))oh, wait ... i just reread the Deathloop bottom of the box ... STEAM? Halle'F'ING'lujah!

mmhhh ... Tech related i guess (although Netflix ... urgh ... ) not in the mail ... got it in a brick'n mortar Game store in Lorca, Murcia, Spain

Spoiler: Geek related?

Mjolnir, a triquetra shaped Ouroboros and something horny .... no pun ...

also ... well ... they are all cult (H.P. Lovecraft is a bit more .... "cult" .... not in the same way...) for techies ... innit?

 

[sam_86314]

Coming soon...

I've decided that I really don't care for the stock earpads on the SR850s, so I splurged and got some sheepskin memory foam ones from BRAINWAVZ.

Here's hoping these are really nice.

Ordered them directly from BRAINWAVZ because they're cheaper but also because Amazon sucks (got the headphones themselves from another retailer too).

 

[GamerGuy]

Since I now have plenty of desk space with my new desk, I'd ordered and received two headphones stands, took a while choosing the 'right' ones for me as I don't want those headphone stands that look nice, but with the headband of the headphone resting on a small point, focusing its weight on that point. I've seen depression on the foam headband of my cans due to this. I'd finally found and have chosen these as they have longer and curved headband rest which, to me, spreads out the weight of the headphone more evenly. I hope you guys understand what I'm saying....just look at the foam headband of my Sennheiser HD600, the foam is resting on the curved surface/holder of the stand.

 

[AlwaysHope]

New NeoForza 32Gb kit @ 4600MHz CL19 ready to rock n' roll with my rocket lake!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[s3thra]

New GPU! Yeah, yeah, I know I payed way too much for this thing, but at least I should be able to flip the 5600 XT this is replacing to recoup most of the costs.

 

[Chomiq]

Well shit, ordered a PS5 with Returnal and a year of PS Plus.