What's your latest tech purchase?

[RJARRRPCGP]

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

Back in the early-2010s, I stopped using push-pin heatsinks! I would mostly get them from OEM builds!

 

[jallenlabs]

And it arrived a day early. Hustled up to BBy over lunch and now I am gaming my ars off. This thing is for real. It better be too, as I am short a kidney now...

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

And it arrived a day early. Hustled up to BBy over lunch and now I am gaming my ars off. This thing is for real. It better be too, as I am short a kidney now...

That would probably only happen in a dream during a good sleep, then I wake up and know that I'm lucky to have a GTX 1660 Super. Thus, I wish it would honestly happen with an RTX 3060 series or an RX 6600 series. But, Best Buy apparently now has them also behind subscription walls! Nvidia Geforce RTX 30 Cards Behind Best Buy Paywall - YouTube

(Totaltech)

 

[JrRacinFan]

And it arrived a day early. Hustled up to BBy over lunch and now I am gaming my ars off. This thing is for real. It better be too, as I am short a kidney now...

ROFL I love the added dramatics of the seat belt! Happy gaming!

 

[lexluthermiester]

So a kid walks into my shop today wanting to sell a PC that he's been using for a few years...

Normally, we don't take buy systems that old, but I was intrigued by the reason he wanted to sell it, to help his mom fix her car. To be fair, it's not a bad little system. He wanted $200. But he was willing to take $150, which is WAY more than it's worth. I was really impressed by his level of knowledge and asked him if he'd like to do some work for me sorting through systems & electronics we take in from off-lease purchasing and e-waste recycling. He was excited. Had him show me what he could do for an hour or so with some of the stuff we'd taken in. He's handy with a soldering iron as well! Called his mom to verify he was at least 14(minimum working age for minors here). She had no idea he was selling his computer to help her with the car. She was even happier to hear that I was willing to give him work a couple days a week after school. I told him that he could work for inventory as well so he could put together a newer system for himself soon.

Decided to bring this one home and turn it into a RetroXP build. Going to order either a Radeon R7-250 or a GTX750, the newest low-profile GPUs that can both fit into this system AND have XP drivers. Also going to upgrade the E8400 it has to a Q9400 or Q9550. Going to knock the RAM to 4GB because Windows XP and I don't want to fiddle with PAE. So yeah, more to come! I'm going to mirror this post over in the Nostalgia thread: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/post-4706123

Sounds like something I would say in 2008, because they were easy to get at that time.

And because Core2..

 

[Mussels]

And it arrived a day early. Hustled up to BBy over lunch and now I am gaming my ars off. This thing is for real. It better be too, as I am short a kidney now...

todays safeword is seatbelt

 

[jallenlabs]

That would probably only happen in a dream during a good sleep, then I wake up and know that I'm lucky to have a GTX 1660 Super. Thus, I wish it would honestly happen with an RTX 3060 series or an RX 6600 series. But, Best Buy apparently now has them also behind subscription walls! Nvidia Geforce RTX 30 Cards Behind Best Buy Paywall - YouTube

(Totaltech)

Yup mine was behind Total Tech... that my wifes cousin paid for, he bought three cards, a 3080, 3080ti and a 3090. Sold me the Ti for retail. I hear ya though, its getting ridiculous out there.

 

[R-T-B]

So a kid walks into my shop today wanting to sell a PC that he's been using for a few years...
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Normally, we don't take buy systems that old, but I was intrigued by the reason he wanted to sell it, to help his mom fix her car. To be fair, it's not a bad little system. He wanted $200. But he was willing to take $150, which is WAY more than it's worth. I was really impressed by his level of knowledge and asked him if he'd like to do some work for me sorting through systems & electronics we take in from off-lease purchasing and e-waste recycling. He was excited. Had him show me what he could do for an hour or so with some of the stuff we'd taken in. He's handy with a soldering iron as well! Called his mom to verify he was at least 14(minimum working age for minors here). She had no idea he was selling his computer to help her with the car. She was even happier to hear that I was willing to give him work a couple days a week after school. I told him that he could work for inventory as well so he could put together a newer system for himself soon.

Decided to bring this one home and turn it into a RetroXP build. Going to order either a Radeon R7-250 or a GTX750, the newest low-profile GPUs that can both fit into this system AND have XP drivers. Also going to upgrade the E8400 it has to a Q9400 or Q9550. Going to knock the RAM to 4GB because Windows XP and I don't want to fiddle with PAE. So yeah, more to come! I'm going to mirror this post over in the Nostalgia thread: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/post-4706123


And because Core2..

I setup a few of those Core2 Thinkcentre's for clients back in the mid 2010's... used to get tons of them from Washington state surplus. Think last one I setup was like 2016ish. They aren't bad computers at all for browsing and such. And they are hard as heck to kill (you know, clients can get lets just say, creative some days...)

 

[lexluthermiester]

Sold me the Ti for retail.

Lucky! Enjoy!

 

[R-T-B]

On that note, I sold my 2080 Super for half msrp to a dev I support. He sent me this photo of it in his system. I'm happy for him, but dat stock intel cooler hiding in the background is kinda cringe...

http://imgur.com/j20gnbj

 

[Splinterdog]

Continuing with my wife's upgrade build, I was going to get a Ryzen 5600G, but in the end bought an Athlon 3000G for the simple reason that I'll need the Athlon in future when I upgrade later.
Besides, for simple office work, an Athlon will suffice, combined with an NVMe and 8GB of memory. I have my doubts about this mobo though, as I took it in part exchange and it had been playing up, but never when I had it in my workshop.
I may well sell it and het an Asus B450 as I prefer Asus over most other brands for numerous reasons, not the least the UEFI and B450 is better suited for a Ryzen 5 upgrade.
The Thermaltake V200 TG case was a real bargain with 500W PSU and rear fan included, not to mention tempered glass.
The Athlon arrives later today, so it may be interesting.


edit
It would have to be Ryzen 3400G.

 

[de.das.dude]

On that note, I sold my 2080 Super for half msrp to a dev I support. He sent me this photo of it in his system. I'm happy for him, but dat stock intel cooler hiding in the background is kinda cringe...

http://imgur.com/j20gnbj

developer on an intel that too with a stock cooler??

hmmmmmmm, you should introduce him to TPU

 

[Deleted member 24505]

trying to snag this for £50 with a cpu and 3x2gb sticks. Notice he has the sticks in the wrong slots

 

[R-T-B]

developer on an intel that too with a stock cooler??

hmmmmmmm, you should introduce him to TPU

He develops GPU compute shaders for KSP but still... that CPU needs a serious upgrade to match. I think he said it's like a 3770 non-k or something weird. If I let him in here though his wallet will be done, lol.

 

[Splinterdog]

trying to snag this for £50 with a cpu and 3x2gb sticks. Notice he has the sticks in the wrong slots
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That looks very tasty. What is it?

 

[lexluthermiester]

What is it?

Asus P6T Deluxe. Or did you mean the CPU?

 

[framebuffer]

trying to snag this for £50 with a cpu and 3x2gb sticks. Notice he has the sticks in the wrong slots
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but at least they are the correct amount
love the P6T DLX, have 2 or 3 of them!

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/2tb-seagate-firecuda-530-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-ssd-3d-tlc-7300mb-s-read-6900mb-s-1m-1m-iops?gclid=CjwKCAiAx8KQBhAGEiwAD3EiPyL1UO5UmUodtiBo64LA6JAYWFk5MHFeb71aiRhz5eNrTW6FxG1ipBoCN0EQAvD_BwE

Just got one of these for my main rig, first pciex4 thing I have purchased , except now I will have to swap my 5600G for the 3800X again too.

No biggy the 5600G did better single core speeds though.

I also free up 3x1Tb silicon power nvme for a raid 0 in the new server pc, I'm thinking steam game store , totes OT but I already have them.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

Recently I purchased the following:

Samsung HW-Q600A 3.1.2ch Soundbar £160 after cashback
Crucial P5 1TB Nvme £82
Lian Li Lancool 2 Mesh C Snow White £98

 

[lexluthermiester]

Recently I purchased the following:

Samsung HW-Q600A 3.1.2ch Soundbar £160 after cashback
Crucial P5 1TB Nvme £82
Lian Li Lancool 2 Mesh C Snow White £98

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GREEN LEDs! Don't see that very often!

 

[de.das.dude]

He develops GPU compute shaders for KSP but still... that CPU needs a serious upgrade to match. I think he said it's like a 3770 non-k or something weird. If I let him in here though his wallet will be done, lol.

that explains why we get so many kraken attacks in KSP lol.

 

[R-T-B]

that explains why we get so many kraken attacks in KSP lol.

No. That's completely on the original devs, frankly. KSP is like a "my first Unity" project retrofitted to insanity lol.

The game literally started as a "how high can you jump?" type clone...

My dev in question is a modder and actually insanely competent. He makes the scatterer and EVE mods.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

The guy messaged me about the P6T DLX, he still has it, will try and snag it today. Don't know what CPU is in it, i will take pot luck

 

[de.das.dude]

No. That's completely on the original devs, frankly. KSP is like a "my first Unity" project retrofitted to insanity lol.

The game literally started as a "how high can you jump?" type clone...

My dev in question is a modder and actually insanely competent. He makes the scatterer and EVE mods.

damnnn nice... he is a good guy then. those mods are really nice!

 

[80-watt Hamster]

The guy messaged me about the P6T DLX, he still has it, will try and snag it today. Don't know what CPU is in it, i will take pot luck

Good choice. Procs are plentiful; boards are rare.