What's your latest tech purchase?

[ThaiTaffy]

So haven't updated in a while been busy at the farm things are starting to warm up so the server rack build and move is well underway. No system hardware sadly just loads of micro controllers, relays,MOSFETs and ZigBee devices.

Got this running via server CPU temp to run a big pedestal fan on the landing to force air through the house.

Electric gate doorbell and everything else controller in the works.

Gonna illuminate the stairs and was hoping to coordinate them with the server rack fans (rgbw fans don't seem to be a thing)
Got loads more on order from Jack Ma so will update when its here and I get chance.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Sorry but if I'd bought a board even if it was clean I would have scrubbed it down with IPA be it global pandemic or not.

It was a piece of crap, bent/broken pins in socket, broken screw on socket to backplate, dirty, possibly blown fet as it will only power on without the 8 pin cpu power connected. I will keep it for parts.

 

[tabascosauz]

The Gladiator NXT is a good stick but too light of a base and tips easily. Since I won't be desk mounting anytime soon I thought I'd upgrade the existing stick to the proper Gunfighter Mk.3 base instead. Hopefully this should be the final step for the HOTAS setup - otherwise been very happy with the Orion throttle and the Kosmosima stick itself.

Now maybe some cheap pedals and/or TrackIR somewhere down the road but not urgent at all.

 

[Mussels]

My phones dying, google wont help - went back to samsung since Au is getting the good US variant this year

This is why I will not buy phones without user replaceable battery's. With my phone, solving that problem would not involve replacing the phone, but simply swapping out the battery for a new one. BAM! Ready to go! Off and running.

There is not a lot of phones left with that option

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I'll keep my iphone 8 plus till it is dead beyond repair. Couldn't bring myself to spend that much on a phone for mostly calls and text.

 

[phill]

Whilst I'm awake and still about.... I'd been a little naughty, kinda....

My P30 Pro was sadly having issues and well it wasn't working very well if at all with the camera, so....



I thought with not much else out there and sadly nothing else that is actually not Apple and such, I'd try the new Samsung....



I'm in two minds with it at the moment...
Most of the phone, decent, seems to work well even with most of the crap that comes with it, deleted off forever (I've just about a page and half of apps on the phone - which includes a few older games I used to play) but I'm not sure on the camera and a few basic things the P30 Pro had but this doesn't seem to ....

I'm not sure the camera seems as crisp/sharp a picture. Not sure about the macro pictures I could take with the P30, this doesn't seem to work very well at all.. The screen, pretty decent, not got a bad word to say on that.
However, charging... Ummm...

Doesn't come with a plug because of the 'environment' or is it the fact the 20w version, they'll charge you £25 for??.... (undecided...) but again the P30 Pro had a 40w charger, very quick to charge up, but with the usual cable and plug, it's not even close to charging quickly.
Found that with the P30 charger it would pull about 10 to 11w to recharge the Samsung and it would state 'charging' but using a Samsung charger (we have A50 series at work) that stated fast charging and cut about 30 minutes off the charge.. The P30 charger was a 4A plug, the Samsung 2A but the Samsung is faster... Must not like the plug because cables never made any difference either... Definitely not paying £40 to £50 for a plug because it's 'faster' to charge... Unreal.....

Oh and whilst I remember, I grabbed another memory kit for a build I'll be doing shortly, to make 4 kits... Then realised I had a problem I think....



Thinking about it, I definitely have a problem..... Too many memory kits and not enough PSUs to power up the systems!! And the cost of the electric....
Anyways, I'm not really sure that the 7980XE would make use of the 4133MHz stuff, but I'll go with it! With the Threadripper CPU I have and still need to get and build a rig with, I suppose I could use the 3200MHz stuff, as we have 64GB of that.. I've a Z170M OC board which will take my 8086k or 9900K and then the Z390 Classified can have the other. I'm sure 4000MHz RAM in either of them will be fine That said the G Skill stuff.... Might toy with that in the Threadripper setup... Something else to think about

 

[tabascosauz]

@phill best of luck with the 4133CL19 kits. They seem to be the wildcard next to the 4000CL19 and 4400CL19 Vipers. They *should* all be A2 PCBs like my 4400CL19 kit, but my 4133 kit is on a A0 PCB and is good neither for timings nor freq. I hope that yours are all decent A2s.

 

[Nordic]

Tobii Eye Tracker 5 | Next Generation of Head and Eye Tracking

The only device capable of tracking both head and eye movements for a more immersive gaming experience, content creation and simulation gaming.

gaming.tobii.com

I am still trying to get used to head tracking being an option. It is really cool looking around in game but gets forgotten in action.

 

[Mussels]

Whilst I'm awake and still about.... I'd been a little naughty, kinda....

My P30 Pro was sadly having issues and well it wasn't working very well if at all with the camera, so....

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I thought with not much else out there and sadly nothing else that is actually not Apple and such, I'd try the new Samsung....

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I'm in two minds with it at the moment...
Most of the phone, decent, seems to work well even with most of the crap that comes with it, deleted off forever (I've just about a page and half of apps on the phone - which includes a few older games I used to play) but I'm not sure on the camera and a few basic things the P30 Pro had but this doesn't seem to ....

I'm not sure the camera seems as crisp/sharp a picture. Not sure about the macro pictures I could take with the P30, this doesn't seem to work very well at all.. The screen, pretty decent, not got a bad word to say on that.
However, charging... Ummm...

Doesn't come with a plug because of the 'environment' or is it the fact the 20w version, they'll charge you £25 for??.... (undecided...) but again the P30 Pro had a 40w charger, very quick to charge up, but with the usual cable and plug, it's not even close to charging quickly.
Found that with the P30 charger it would pull about 10 to 11w to recharge the Samsung and it would state 'charging' but using a Samsung charger (we have A50 series at work) that stated fast charging and cut about 30 minutes off the charge.. The P30 charger was a 4A plug, the Samsung 2A but the Samsung is faster... Must not like the plug because cables never made any difference either... Definitely not paying £40 to £50 for a plug because it's 'faster' to charge... Unreal.....

Oh and whilst I remember, I grabbed another memory kit for a build I'll be doing shortly, to make 4 kits... Then realised I had a problem I think....

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Thinking about it, I definitely have a problem..... Too many memory kits and not enough PSUs to power up the systems!! And the cost of the electric....
Anyways, I'm not really sure that the 7980XE would make use of the 4133MHz stuff, but I'll go with it! With the Threadripper CPU I have and still need to get and build a rig with, I suppose I could use the 3200MHz stuff, as we have 64GB of that.. I've a Z170M OC board which will take my 8086k or 9900K and then the Z390 Classified can have the other. I'm sure 4000MHz RAM in either of them will be fine That said the G Skill stuff.... Might toy with that in the Threadripper setup... Something else to think about

Wow, literally one post after me and you steal all my thunder WITH THE EXACT SAME MODEL AND COLOUR
I'ma go load up my banhammer and ban-nerf grenade launcher

Oh, if yours is the exynos variant theres a huge kerfuffle about the camera being much worse than the snapdragon variant (one update has been out to fix some video issues, but not the photo ones)
Ultra comes with a 'free bundle' here including a charger, but reviews show it maxes around 25W - the 45W goes to waste, it seems

A full charge of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra with the 25W charger for example took 64 minutes, and with the 45W one it took 59 minutes. So the move to 45W saved just 5 minutes. The 65W charger split the difference at 62 minutes.

 

[Mr Bill]

6x2gb stick, max this board will take.

Yes awesome guy.

I have the PT6 Deluxe V2 running 16 gig of ram, 4 sticks of 4. I've had 24 gig it it before, "used the 8 I pulled out for another project" I had to update the bios on it, and I'm using using a Xeon 5670 running at 4.3 GHz.

 

[lexluthermiester]

the i7 940

That's actually a solid 6core CPU! Most of them do a bclk OC very well.
Scratch that, I was thinking of the i7-970.

What version of windows? i was thinking good old win7 to make sure i have working drivers for it.

That would work. But it'll run 11 if you want to.

The the steady stream of purchased items continues. Yesterday the following arrived;
More 50GB BDR DL discs.


PCIe USB3.0 card for an HP system I'm building.


A Wifi KB & Touchpad to replace one that got stepped on.




Only only does Red, Green & Blue, but I'm cool with that. I wish it did white, but Red is perfectly acceptable. Green is cool too, but the Blue is a bit strong for me.
Works better than the old one as well(less latency). I like that the On/Off is an actual switch instead of a "soft-off" button.

More to come..

There is not a lot of phones left with that option

Actually, stateside anyway, there are plenty. You just have to go looking for them.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

That's actually a solid 6core CPU! Most of them do a bclk OC very well.

4 core, according to ARK. 1st-gen i7 were Bloomfield through 960; 970 and up (except for the 972, apparently) were the 6C Gulftown.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Just installed win7 on the p6t dlx. it's only showing 8gb of ram though, will have to have a dibble about with it.

 

[plastiscɧ]

Just installed win7 on the p6t dlx. it's only showing 8gb of ram though, will have to have a dibble about with it.

32bit version does not support more

 

[lexluthermiester]

4 core, according to ARK. 1st-gen i7 were Bloomfield through 960; 970 and up (except for the 972, apparently) were the 6C Gulftown.

Yeah, I realized my mistake. Was thinking of the 970.

32bit version does not support more

32bit version doesn't see more than 4GB.

 

[plastiscɧ]

32bit version doesn't see more than 4GB.

my mistake then. thought it was a bit more

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/the-usable-memory-may-be-less-than-the-installed-memory-on-windows-7-based-computers-3d194dc3-39b9-fae7-74d8-59931b53d2c2

 

[lexluthermiester]

my mistake then. thought it was a bit more

4GB is the address space limit for 32bits without PAE(physical address extension).

 

[plastiscɧ]

4GB is the address space limit for 32bits without PAE(physical address extension).

well now i know why i kept this. a friend of mine wanted to buy it for 5€. now he will pay 75€..

 

[theFOoL]

LG V20 frame/screen LINK

Perfine 6400Mah LINK

I got more batteries coming then that one but some are just the slim type

 

[ThaiTaffy]

Oh I forgot something...
I picked up a fancy usb tester

Last one wasn't very accurate and this one can test battery capacity also, aswell as supporting QC it also measures low voltage DC upto 30v with a ghetto usb modded cable

 

[JATownes]

Well, my Crosshair VIII Hero Wifi has been giving me some trouble. The chipset fan is failing, which I think is causing some issues with USB and Nvme drives randomly dropping out, so I have opted to just replace it. I snagged it right after they released, so it has had a pretty good life.

Last pic of this configuration before I pull it apart to replace the board with this one. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations.

Going to break down and remove the whole loop for a good flush and cleaning, as well as a full clean down of the case, so I think I will get it wrapped up on Saturday. I'll post some pics when I get it done.

JAT

 

[plastiscɧ]

Well, my Crosshair VIII Hero Wifi has been giving me some trouble. The chipset fan is failing, which I think is causing some issues with USB and Nvme drives randomly dropping out, so I have opted to just replace it. I snagged it right after they released, so it has had a pretty good life.

View attachment 238600Last pic of this configuration before I pull it apart to replace the board with this one. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations.

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Going to break down and remove the whole loop for a good flush and cleaning, as well as a full clean down of the case, so I think I will get it wrapped up on Saturday. I'll post some pics when I get it done.

JAT

perhaps one of the most beautiful, appealing and tech-wise clean, custom loops i have seen so far..!

 

[80-watt Hamster]

It's supposed to be this, but I think "Delayed" in this case means, "We don't actually have it, but either nobody's figured that out yet, or has bothered to cancel your order." Got the delay notification on the 24th, coincidentally the day it was originally estimated to be delivered. Part of me thinks, "Once upon a time, 6-8 weeks was the norm. Be patient." The other says, "This is BS. Inventory systems are robust enough these days that there should have been some sort of update by now."

Was sold and shipped by walmart.com, so figured it was probably a pretty safe bet. Clearly I was mistaken, and am now trying to decide if I just cancel and order a Meshify 2 Compact instead. (But 5.25 bays.... )

 

[Kovoet]

Being struggling to get it. But got a Corsair LCD upgrade kits for my corsair AIO

 

[Deleted member 24505]

32bit version does not support more

I have installed win 7 pro x64