What's your latest tech purchase?

[lexluthermiester]

As fresher student about Seasonic recent past, I did fall over the details.
Their past revision Prime Ultra it shown sensitive to current spikes, when was powering twelve core INTEL CPU along RTX3090, and it was shutdown.
My old CX750 does the same as we speak, but due a rare issue, over-voltage over current protection circuit, due aged parts lost it factory calibration.
Few resistors are now off tolerance, and the controller receives false alerts = shutdown at just 320W max load.

Seasonic did not respond if the issue, this is now fixed at Prime TX Titanium, and this made a few people to backfire.

That does not sound familiar. I doubt it was a widespread issue. The problem I was referring too was something having to do with the design of their PSUs, not isolated problems encountered in the field, which could just as easily be power quality problems coming in off the power line.

 

[maxfly]

That does not sound familiar. I doubt it was a widespread issue. The problem I was referring too was something having to do with the design of their PSUs, not isolated problems encountered in the field, which could just as easily be power quality problems coming in off the power line.

Its been taken care of. There were some issues with 3080/90s tripping ocp on some seasonic gx/px/tx and prime psus. Usually 750w and 850w units. The ocp protection would trip due to very short, very high voltage spikes when gaming(There are quite a few manufacturers that are, or have been dealing with the same problem). Seasonic was made aware and fixed it. The only way you would have to worry about it is if you were very unlucky and bought a 2 or 3yo unit off the shelf. If your buying from a store that moves a fair amount of stock you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Seasonic wont give you any grief in replacing it if you do run into problems of course.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Now, that's the kind I plan to get, I don't need a '3080! Much less a '3090! I don't know if I even would need a '3070. I'm now waiting for months, just to get an RTX 3060 series and if I can't, it more likely will be a RX 6600 series.

 

[jallenlabs]

Just plunked down for an Nvidia RTX3080ti from BBy. Comes in 2 days! Pretty stoked.

 

[onemanhitsquad]

nope...not that cool!...old Creative Titanium HD

 

[Mussels]

Power supply extension cables. Finally finished sprucing up my build. Wish the 20 cm extension was available though. Only one seller in AliExpress had it and it was out of stock. PCIe cable bends weirdly because too long (30 cm) and not a lot of space anymore.

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*Concerns of impending fire intensifies*

 

[GamerGuy]

I have an old Seasonic X-1250 Gold in my 2nd rig, bought it almost a decade back I think (around early 2013 or so), it's seen me through numerous upgrades as well as handle dual GPU CF and SLi setups. It's still purring along powering my i7 3960X @4.25GHz = PC Vega64 Red Devil.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Now, that's the kind I plan to get, I don't need a '3080! Much less a '3090! I don't know if I even would need a '3070. I'm now waiting for months, just to get an RTX 3060 series and if I can't, it more likely will be a RX 6600 series.

Totally with you on it. I've decided I'm waiting another couple weeks before I shop again.

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

*Concerns of impending fire intensifies*

Ehh from my limited research extensions are safe-ish. But my whole system sips under only 300 watts. Extra length might just drop the voltage a little.

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Finally received my wattmeter. Pleasantly surprised with the results. The value shown is when mining ETH on GPU and XMR on CPU simultaneously. At gaming maximum consumption was 293 Watts. But usually 260 W was average. Tested while playing Witcher 3 at Ultra with unlocked framerate.

 

[tabascosauz]

Fan-swapped Big Shuriken 3 (big fan, small heatsink) replacing a NH-L12 Ghost S1 (big heatsink, small fan), curious to see how they stack up

 

[Mussels]

Ehh from my limited research extensions are safe-ish. But my whole system sips under only 300 watts. Extra length might just drop the voltage a little.

mine caught fire on an undervolted 3090

You should be fine, but i'll always, always warn people

 

[framebuffer]

couple of Netgear MS510TX-100EUS and one Ubiquiti Usw Aggregation

 

[kiriakost]

That does not sound familiar. I doubt it was a widespread issue. The problem I was referring too was something having to do with the design of their PSUs, not isolated problems encountered in the field, which could just as easily be power quality problems coming in off the power line.

No it was not, a few nut cases run three benchmarks simultaneously, for extreme load of all cores, Seasonic get nervous they could not fight back such an unreasonable testing process.
They did toss the ball to Nvidia, of what them recommend as best PSU. https://knowledge.seasonic.com/article/67-psu-recommendations-for-nvidia-ampere
Seasonic past month delivered a 1300W unit to someone on YouTube with extreme mods at 3090.

 

[Sithaer]

Well so this happened a bit earlier than I originally planned but for some reason its barely available in my country for like 2 weeks already so I pulled the trigger now just in case.

Back to Intel I go, I blame AMD for leaving the budget market tho my 1600X served me really nicely since 2018 so I'm leaving with nothing but positive memories. 'well ok I had a bit of memory stability issues but that was kinda normal with first gen Zen and no big deal either just had to run it at 3000 Mhz instead of 3200'

For now I will use the stock Intel cooler which surprisingly has some weight to it, not gonna touch power limits so it should be fine for gaming purposes. 'at some point I plan to buy a diff cooler, preferably their beefier RH1 Laminar RGB cooler thats boundled with the non K i 9 whenever thats available on our second hand market cause sometimes ppl sell the boxed coolers'

That S40 Spectrix will be my new system drive, its about time I replace that cheapo WD Green 2.5' 120GB SSD.

Well off to prepare some stuff and then start building the PC, as much as I like the look of my case building in it is kinda ass so this gonna take a while. 'Next week I will list my old mobo+cpu on the used market as they still fetch some alright cash'

 

[kiriakost]

Back to Intel I go,

Since 90s I am one of their exclusive sponsor.
My latest blast is that my newcomer i7 4770, this were never be reviewed (OC dancing blogs) and I made the discovery that it operates all cores at 3.7G with 2400 DDR3. ( Intel gave to it hidden powers)

 

[QuietBob]

Well so this happened a bit earlier than I originally planned but for some reason its barely available in my country for like 2 weeks already so I pulled the trigger now just in case.

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Back to Intel I go, I blame AMD for leaving the budget market tho my 1600X served me really nicely since 2018 so I'm leaving with nothing but positive memories. 'well ok I had a bit of memory stability issues but that was kinda normal with first gen Zen and no big deal either just had to run it at 3000 Mhz instead of 3200'

For now I will use the stock Intel cooler which surprisingly has some weight to it, not gonna touch power limits so it should be fine for gaming purposes. 'at some point I plan to buy a diff cooler, preferably their beefier RH1 Laminar RGB cooler thats boundled with the non K i 9 whenever thats available on our second hand market cause sometimes ppl sell the boxed coolers'

That S40 Spectrix will be my new system drive, its about time I replace that cheapo WD Green 2.5' 120GB SSD.

Well off to prepare some stuff and then start building the PC, as much as I like the look of my case building in it is kinda ass so this gonna take a while. 'Next week I will list my old mobo+cpu on the used market as they still fetch some alright cash'

i3-12100F FTW
I love budget builds - and this quad is best bang for the buck ATM. If I weren't on AM4 already, I'd be seriously tempted to get one!

 

[Splinterdog]

Well so this happened a bit earlier than I originally planned but for some reason its barely available in my country for like 2 weeks already so I pulled the trigger now just in case.

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Back to Intel I go, I blame AMD for leaving the budget market tho my 1600X served me really nicely since 2018 so I'm leaving with nothing but positive memories. 'well ok I had a bit of memory stability issues but that was kinda normal with first gen Zen and no big deal either just had to run it at 3000 Mhz instead of 3200'

For now I will use the stock Intel cooler which surprisingly has some weight to it, not gonna touch power limits so it should be fine for gaming purposes. 'at some point I plan to buy a diff cooler, preferably their beefier RH1 Laminar RGB cooler thats boundled with the non K i 9 whenever thats available on our second hand market cause sometimes ppl sell the boxed coolers'

That S40 Spectrix will be my new system drive, its about time I replace that cheapo WD Green 2.5' 120GB SSD.

Well off to prepare some stuff and then start building the PC, as much as I like the look of my case building in it is kinda ass so this gonna take a while. 'Next week I will list my old mobo+cpu on the used market as they still fetch some alright cash'

I'd be interested to see the heatsink on that CPU because I've just quoted for a build based around that CPU, but added water cooling just in case.
EDIT:
I found it right here

Intel Core i3-12100F Review - 5.2 GHz OC with an Asterisk

Core i3-12100F is the most affordable quad-core Alder Lake CPU from Intel. In our review, we test with DDR4 and DDR5 to see whether it has what it takes to build a lean work PC or cost-efficient gaming machine. Thanks to BCLK overclocking, we even managed to overclock it to 5.2 GHz all-core.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Sithaer]

Since 90s I am one of their exclusive sponsor.
My latest blast is that my newcomer i7 4770, this were never be reviewed (OC dancing blogs) and I made the discovery that it operates all cores at 3.7G with 2400 DDR3. ( Intel gave to it hidden powers)

I'm fine with both and actually used AMD CPUs more in the past when I was younger cause they were always the cheaper option where I live, I only ever had a i 3 4160 before this 12100F rest were all AMD.
I just buy whatever is best for my money and fits my budget range and it so happens that currently thats Intel.

Even the second hand R5 3600 is overpriced so I decided to spend a little more and build a new platform that will last me another 4 years at least if not more. 'Used my AM4 B350 since 2018'

i3-12100F FTW
I love budget builds - and this quad is best bang for the buck ATM. If I weren't on AM4 already, I'd be seriously tempted to get one!

Yup I'm also more of a budget build person and this was just too good to pass on and I needed something with better IPC/single thread and this does just that.
In any case if it ever becomes too dated for my needs I will just replace it with a i 5 or something but since I aint pushing high frames or competitive gaming it should last me a good while.

I'd be interested to see the heatsink on that CPU because I've just quoted for a build based around that CPU, but added water cooling just in case.
EDIT:
I found it right here

Intel Core i3-12100F Review - 5.2 GHz OC with an Asterisk

Core i3-12100F is the most affordable quad-core Alder Lake CPU from Intel. In our review, we test with DDR4 and DDR5 to see whether it has what it takes to build a lean work PC or cost-efficient gaming machine. Thanks to BCLK overclocking, we even managed to overclock it to 5.2 GHz all-core.

www.techpowerup.com

Water cooling sounds kinda overkill for this CPU imo, unless they do it for aesthetics like I wanted to in the past with an AIO. 'I still want to'

I guess a ~30-50$ tower cooler would be a decent option, stock cooler gets the job done tho I also think of it as a temporary solution for now.
Only managed to do some brief testing with a few game so far and it seems to hover between 55-65 celsius with my 75 FPS cap in place, also depends on the game ofc.

Its definitely an upgrade vs the previous stock Intel coolers 'at least the one that came with my 4160 years ago'.

O ye and the push pin method for installing the cooler is just as bad as I remembered, yeh no I would rather install a brick sized tower cooler than this pin crap. Dunno it just doesn't feel right how those pins work.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

O ye and the push pin method for installing the cooler is just as bad as I remembered, yeh no I would rather install a brick sized tower cooler than this pin crap. Dunno it just doesn't feel right how those pins work.

They're much better than they used to be. Or maybe I just got used to it. But installing my first 775 cooler (and CPU for that matter) was a nerve-wracking experience. "Why is it making all these creaking and cracking sounds?!?"

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Totally with you on it. I've decided I'm waiting another couple weeks before I shop again.

It will be much longer than just some weeks, just for a GeForce RTX 3060-series or a Radeon RX 6600 series. At this point, an RTX 3090 is about as exotic as a Bugatti Chiron!

 

[Sithaer]

They're much better than they used to be. Or maybe I just got used to it. But installing my first 775 cooler (and CPU for that matter) was a nerve-wracking experience. "Why is it making all these creaking and cracking sounds?!?"

Aye thats pretty much what I experienced with this and I had to use more force than I'm comfortable with when dealing with hardware.
Even checked the back side of the mobo after I installed it and I was worried it broke something.

I'm not used to installing stock Intel coolers, last time I had to was years ago.

 

[QuietBob]

Only managed to do some brief testing with a few game so far

Be sure to throw some benchmarks at it and please share the results in the benchmarking subforum! I believe many people here would like to see them.

 

[JrRacinFan]

I'm not used to installing stock Intel coolers, last time I had to was years ago.

Its the same old push pin design....

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

"to Intel, I go!" -> Sounds like something I would say in 2008, because they were easy to get at that time.

Its the same old push pin design....

Even back in the socket 775 times, you can find a screw-on-with-a-back-mount-heatsink.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Even back in the socket 775 times, you can find a screw-on-with-a-back-mount-heatsink.

LOL ...
Im about to reveal my age. Ive seen them and loved those, been building PC's since the late 1900's HAH