What's your latest tech purchase?

Deleted member 24505 · Mar 21, 2022

Garlic said:
Brough some corsair meme fans since they were on sale... How bad can it be

Nice board.

SN2716057 · Mar 21, 2022

Bought the Asus ZenScreen MB16AH for when I'm testing/fixing stuff on my computers, and also for work related things.
It can be connected using only a usb type-c or through (mini)hdmi plus power.

Deleted member 24505 · Mar 21, 2022

SN2716057 said:
Bought the Asus ZenScreen MB16AH for when I'm testing/fixing stuff on my computers, and also for work related things.
It can be connected using only a usb type-c or through (mini)hdmi plus power.
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Nice, the one with the battery is actually £1 cheaper than the one without it on amazon uk.

Mac the Geek · Mar 21, 2022

Picked this up for when my job sends me on the road with a company laptop barely powerful enough to run Freecell...

theFOoL · Mar 21, 2022

My LG V20 Battery Charger (At my Friend's House)

Question for the tech guy's who know

Been since the LG G4 when I had before I had the battery charger. I ask why did my batteries that were charged on the battery charger last longer then on the USB (I only charged for the original battery) but charged on the charger it lasted longer. Why is this?

Mussels · Mar 22, 2022

theFOoL said:
My LG V20 Battery Charger (At my Friend's House)

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Question for the tech guy's who know

Been since the LG G4 when I had before I had the battery charger. I ask why did my batteries that were charged on the battery charger last longer then on the USB (I only charged for the original battery) but charged on the charger it lasted longer. Why is this?

USB has a lower voltage and current by default. The batteries are often 4.7V, so if your charging port drooped to say 4.5V or lower - it'd never truly reach 100%
(This is example numbers, you'd have to check your batteries and use a multimeter on the charger i guess)

tabascosauz · Mar 22, 2022

Please don't let me down Asus. You're 2/2 so far, let's make it 3/3. Gigabyte was 2/3, up until they were -1/3 for what they pulled off.

Also a good chance to see how their Optimem has improved since the X570 Impact.

Mussels · Mar 22, 2022

Oh i thought this would entertain people:

Aussies dont get unlimited mobile data
("cell phone" ugh weirdos)

But in exchange.... we get speed.
This is standard LTE/4G, not 5G.

(Sorry forgot, this was on the new S22 ultra which is why it was relevant here - was asked about the experience with it)
Key to this was setting the mobile network to "LTE only" which is perfect here, as 3G is being phased out and VoLTE works perfectly

looniam · Mar 22, 2022

tabascosauz said:
Please don't let me down Asus. You're 2/2 so far, let's make it 3/3. Gigabyte was 2/3, up until they were -1/3 for what they pulled off.
[snip]
Also a good chance to see how their Optimem has improved since the X570 Impact.

you might be going from III to II (?)

E: just noticed those are >1 year old.

tabascosauz · Mar 22, 2022

looniam said:
you might be going from III to II (?)

E: just noticed those are >1 year old.

The B550 topology designs are a step up from original X570, later X570 revisions and late boards (Dark Hero) are better but afaik Impact was not updated hardware-wise.

Months later I'm still not sure where I stand on the Impact. It's not what it was hyped up to be, but it's not the worst mem board either. All I know is that at release it definitely wasn't QVL'd for what it's QVL'd for now (5100, allegedly), and the hardware doesn't seem to have changed while they tweaked the marketing numbers. So to me the numbers behind Optimem don't mean much

They say the B550 Strix is a top mem OCer, in any case it's not a replacement for the Impact, I can't use the Impact in the L5. It's hard not to beat the Gigabyte board - thankfully I have a month to test and see if the Strix is worth keeping.

ShiBDiB · Mar 22, 2022

Upgraded from a Ryzen 3600x to a 5600x.

Not a huge jump but they were on sale.

Space Lynx · Mar 22, 2022

ShiBDiB said:
Upgraded from a Ryzen 3600x to a 5600x.

Not a huge jump but they were on sale.

how much did you end up paying? the 5600 non-x goes on sale next month for $199 msrp

ShiBDiB · Mar 22, 2022

CallandorWoT said:
how much did you end up paying? the 5600 non-x goes on sale next month for $199 msrp

$245 shipped from newegg

Space Lynx · Mar 22, 2022

It just arrived in the mail, $479 msrp direct from AMD.... AND I DECIDED TO MAKE A NEW SONG BOYS, SIT BACK AND RELAX, THIS ONE IS A COUNTRY DANCE SONG!!!

AND I TOLD THEM MINERS AND SCALPERS TO SHOVE IT RIGHT UP THEIR ARSE BOYS, ME AND THAT HONEY GOING UP TO THAT HILL BOYS, WE GOT OUR TRUCK BOYS, WE GOT IT LOADED UP WITH MSRP ONLY BOYS

AND WE TOLD THEM MINERS AND SCALPERS TO SHOVE IT RIGHT UP THEIR ARSE BOYS

YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAA ridem' cowboy! :rockout:

freeagent · Mar 22, 2022

Well, I finally did it. I have been looking at this board for like 6 months but was too chicken to buy it because ka-ching.. whatever, I am worth it

Edit:

Hopefully it works as good as my Strix..

I am after the vrm and dynamic oc switcher, and some other stuff that I think is pretty

Sithaer · Mar 22, 2022

CallandorWoT said:
It just arrived in the mail, $479 msrp direct from AMD.... AND I DECIDED TO MAKE A NEW SONG BOYS, SIT BACK AND RELAX, THIS ONE IS A COUNTRY DANCE SONG!!!

AND I TOLD THEM MINERS AND SCALPERS TO SHOVE IT RIGHT UP THEIR ARSE BOYS, ME AND THAT HONEY GOING UP TO THAT HILL BOYS, WE GOT OUR TRUCK BOYS, WE GOT IT LOADED UP WITH MSRP ONLY BOYS

AND WE TOLD THEM MINERS AND SCALPERS TO SHOVE IT RIGHT UP THEIR ARSE BOYS

YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAA ridem' cowboy!

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Nice, at least you have that option.
They don't even ship to my country and the only way to get 'reference' cards is to buy from a second hand seller or order from a foreign EU country but at that point it doesn't really worth it anymore + there goes your local 2-3 years warranty. 'thats a deal breaker for me'

In comparison for that 479 $ I can barely buy a new RTX 3050 here and not even a 6600. :laugh:

At least the prices are slowly dropping, maybe by the end of the year I can actually buy a current gen entry-mid range GPU. 'I really hope my 1070 won't die on me meanwhile'

Chomiq · Mar 23, 2022

Sithaer said:
Nice, at least you have that option.
They don't even ship to my country and the only way to get 'reference' cards is to buy from a second hand seller or order from a foreign EU country but at that point it doesn't really worth it anymore + there goes your local 2-3 years warranty. 'thats a deal breaker for me'

In comparison for that 479 $ I can barely buy a new RTX 3050 here and not even a 6600.

At least the prices are slowly dropping, maybe by the end of the year I can actually buy a current gen entry-mid range GPU. 'I really hope my 1070 won't die on me meanwhile'

Yeah AMD is really screwing up by only supporting some countries in their EU store.

oobymach · Mar 24, 2022

Got an engrish battery charger to replace my old dead 18650 charger, it says FPRBIDS TO INVERT which I'm pretty sure means don't put battery in backwards.

Athlonite · Mar 24, 2022

You do realize that that isn't a real Ultrafire 18650 and probably isn't anywhere near the claimed 4500mAh right I also wouldn't trust that charger to not explode that battery

Real Ultrafire 18650 Li ion

They don't make a 18650 with more than 3600mAh capacity

oobymach · Mar 24, 2022

Athlonite said:
You do realize that that isn't a real Ultrafire 18650 and probably isn't anywhere near the claimed 4500mAh right I also wouldn't trust that charger to not explode that battery

Real Ultrafire 18650 Li ion

They don't make a 18650 with more than 3600mAh capacity

Oh I know it's fake, I have 2 that still work great for my flashlight but the old charger died and this one cost less than $10 straight from china. Light turns green when fully charged, lasts about an hour at max brightness in a ultrafire knockoff flashlight with about 2k lumens. I wouldn't be surprised to find a smaller battery inside the case what with it being a knockoff.

Athlonite · Mar 24, 2022

oobymach said:
ultrafire knockoff flashlight with about 2k lumens.

Yeah I wouldn't trust that rating either I also have a knockoff UF torch that claimed 1000 lumens but when actually measured turns out it had trouble getting more the 300 lumens

oobymach · Mar 24, 2022

This is the flashlight, solid build has been dropped many times, label says XML T6 led. I like it because it projects a large circle of light with no hotspot.

Gumby · Mar 24, 2022

A replacement, my current Crucial SSD in my laptop has gone from 98% to 75% in less than a month. Will do a backup to new one and wait till current one dies then rma it.

Athlonite · Mar 24, 2022

oobymach said:
This is the flashlight, solid build has been dropped many times, label says XML T6 led. I like it because it projects a large circle of light with no hotspot.

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Yup same torch as I have they've been around a long time I've had mine since 2014 there are dozens of these available on ALIexpress all with different makes and specs but they're all out of the same cheapo chinesium factory

Space Lynx · Mar 24, 2022

6700 XT is still in stock from amd.com no que wait time either. 479 msrp. i love mine, its a beast with a mild oc on it.

https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/us

edit: it finally sold out. took longer than I expected to sell out though. also xbox series x was in stock shipped and sold by walmart (no walamart+ needed) and it took 3 days to sell out. the shortage is just about over I think. market saturation is a thing after all.

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