What's your latest tech purchase?

[HammerON]

Made a couple purchases over the last couple days. Here is the first piece of hardware to arrive.

 

[MachineLearning]

Made a couple purchases over the last couple days. Here is the first piece of hardware to arrive.
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If you throw it into the fold, please let us know how many PPD it's capable of Your already heavyweight score will be titanic.

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For myself this past week I've splurged on a Praxis WetbenchSX Pro, flat edition. It's big, it's expensive, and it's quite well-built.

I took photos of the first two layers of unboxing. It ships dismantled, and is quite well-packed, with thick foam and bubble wrap surrounding each part.

This is when they won me over, my weakness...

Unfortunately this is when I started getting extremely excited, so I failed to take any photos of the build process, or really do anything until I had everything together.

I will insert a little mod that I thought up here, mainly for AM3/AM2/FM1/FM2 CPUs since their thermal limit is low and much of their heat radiates through the rear of the PCB.

It's pretty clear what I've done. I ran one of the motherboard support screws through a fan's mounting hole, secured + leveled the screw with a thumb nut, then threaded the plastic standoff on the top end as usual. This results in the two screw threadings being shorter than the others, but it's still possible to partially thread the top thumb screws on the motherboard and tighten it down as normal. Regardless, the standoff remains at the same height so the motherboard remains supported.

This was before the fan mod, but it also is X58 so it's not as crucial as it could otherwise be:

Specs for the above test setup:
- Corsair RMx [2021] 1000W (80+ Gold) - Static
- 1x Arctic P12 on arm mount - Static
- 1x Arctic LFII280 - Static
- 1x SK Hynix Gold S31 500GB - Static
- ASUS P6X58-E WS (has 1x NF200, so all 3 cards above have full x16 bandwidth)
- Xeon X5675 @ 4.6GHz, 1.45v, 3.8GHz uncore
- 1x HD 5970 + 2x HD 5870 running quad CrossFire
- 6x2GB Corsair Dominator 1600MHz CL8 ver7.4 (actual matching kit of six), clocked @ 2000MHz CL9

X58 in my hands has always had abysmal GPU performance, but I really wanted to use this board because it has All the Lanes. Aside from the P6T7 WS Supercomputer, but I ain't got one!

Even keeping the candy aside, I've had a positive experience with this test bench in the past week or so of ownership. I can put virtually anything on it, everything has room to breathe, and is easy to get to. Blows my ratbench out of the water

 

[R-T-B]

Not my best work but now temps are down to 47c and not 50c like before but it's a bit sad the fan is not adjustable.

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But why the hell are these Samsung NVME even Gen3 so hard to cool down even my Sabrent which is faster then this is much cooler and it doesn't help changing position of my Samsung drive

Yeah those heatsinks are what I use, albeit the fans on mine burned up in no time due to the "no speed regulation" thing. Fortunately my drive runs cool so the fan isn't really needed.

Far from the best m.2 cooling solution though, I am afraid.

 

[Athlonite]

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just for backup kioxia 32GB

Transmemory is that Ram that identifies as nand

 

[Deleted member 24505]

@Tigger how is that water setup going? looks great, how much did your temps improve over air?

on topic: I am still loving my new A53 Samsung phone. Really meeting all my needs, played some Magic the Gathering Arena on the bus today, was quite fun. OLED 120hz for life!

Here is an indication of my temps. this is gaming.

 

[Mussels]

Hope that won't be the case for me , I am very surprised that a 3090 can stay at 300W

It'd be easy, if i wasnt at 165Hz 1440p

HWinfo results (including UPS) after playing dying light for a few hours today:
The key info, GPU maxed at 215W, with 340W for the entire system (monitor included)

Too many people run them balls to the wall, throwing a hundred watts for 1% faster :/

Not my best work but now temps are down to 47c and not 50c like before but it's a bit sad the fan is not adjustable.

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But why the hell are these Samsung NVME even Gen3 so hard to cool down even my Sabrent which is faster then this is much cooler and it doesn't help changing position of my Samsung drive

My 970pro runs quite cold, you must have hot air blowing at it?

Made a couple purchases over the last couple days. Here is the first piece of hardware to arrive.
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Hope they fixed the problems with that, vs the 3080 variant i had that died

My one was basically a really tiny plate for the GPU, with feck all VRAM and VRM cooling - definitely not one solid block
The tubing was stiff, and leaked within a week of use
The pump and fans were powered together, so the fans could never power off and the pump had a minimum speed you couldnt control (mine hummed at idle)


I hope they fixed all that shit, it was a poopy experience (my brother still has his one fault free, but he's pissed you cant replace the fans on the rad without disassembling the card or cutting the wires, since they're linked to the pump)

 

[freeagent]

I bought some ram locally from a shop a few blocks from my home.. wife has the car out of town so I had to ride the bus in the miserable rain.. I bought some Adata Gammix 3200C16 sticks. They are 16-20-20-something.. pretty terrible.. couldn't get them to boot at 3600 with stock timings lol.. but they were dirt cheap. I wanted my Black and Whites back for my 4x8 config.. he mostly plays Roblox.. he does not need 3200C14 for that

But yeah, I don't think they are worthy of a pic, they are just plain black shit sticks I guess. but they work.. as long as you don't mess with them

I will mess with them later because they are not B-Die and I bet they would do ok with softer subs.. maybe.. unless they are just binned that hard..

 

[Deleted member 202104]

I bought some ram locally from a shop a few blocks from my home.. wife has the car out of town so I had to ride the bus in the miserable rain.. I bought some Adata Gammix 3200C16 sticks. They are 16-20-20-something.. pretty terrible.. couldn't get them to boot at 3600 with stock timings lol.. but they were dirt cheap. I wanted my Black and Whites back for my 4x8 config.. he mostly plays Roblox.. he does not need 3200C14 for that

But yeah, I don't think they are worthy of a pic, they are just plain black shit sticks I guess. but they work.. as long as you don't mess with them

I will mess with them later because they are not B-Die and I bet they would do ok with softer subs.. maybe.. unless they are just binned that hard..

They'll probably do 3600 @ 18-22-22-42. That's the standard for us here in the cheap seats.

 

[freeagent]

They'll probably do 3600 @ 18-22-22-42. That's the standard for us here in the cheap seats.

Ahh sorry I didn't mean it like that.. The four sticks I normally run are my first set of DDR4.. 3200C14 is what I started with. Those Adatas were literally less than half the price that I paid for mine. We have a Dell with even more terrible timings and it felt ok to me that's why I bought them

That Dell does a blistering 98ns in Aida64 latency with a 5700U.. my 5600X can get down to the lows 50s with my ram, but right now is firmly at 66.6ns

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Ahh sorry I didn't mean it like that.. The four sticks I normally run are my first set of DDR4.. 3200C14 is what I started with. Those Adatas were literally less than half the price that I paid for mine. We have a Dell with even more terrible timings and it felt ok to me that's why I bought them

That Dell does a blistering 98ns in Aida64 latency with a 5700U.. my 5600X can get down to the lows 50s with my ram, but right now is firmly at 66.6ns

Oh no, not at all. In the 12700k have my 3600 Flat 14's , but for the 5950x I have 64GB of 3600 at 18-22-22-42. It was like $210 for all four sticks, and it rocks. Sort of.

Edit:

66.6 right on the nose too

 

[freeagent]

That cache bandwidth

 

[plastiscɧ]

air Tag
After i was so smart the other day to leave my key hanging from the mailbox.... walking to my shift. after 9 hours i recognized; my pocket was empty.. well that was exciting!
(gladly my neighbour took it and gave it to me that evening with an eyeroll. )

 

[ThaiTaffy]

The touchscreen for my e-paper came today don't have the time to program it yet so it's going in the cupboard and a note on my to-do list but I had to fit it.

And yes that's the access point from my last post and my next post will be new UART and ch341a USB sticks........

 

[Shou Miko]

It'd be easy, if i wasnt at 165Hz 1440p

HWinfo results (including UPS) after playing dying light for a few hours today:
The key info, GPU maxed at 215W, with 340W for the entire system (monitor included)

Too many people run them balls to the wall, throwing a hundred watts for 1% faster :/

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My 970pro runs quite cold, you must have hot air blowing at it?
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Hope they fixed the problems with that, vs the 3080 variant i had that died

My one was basically a really tiny plate for the GPU, with feck all VRAM and VRM cooling - definitely not one solid block
The tubing was stiff, and leaked within a week of use
The pump and fans were powered together, so the fans could never power off and the pump had a minimum speed you couldnt control (mine hummed at idle)


I hope they fixed all that shit, it was a poopy experience (my brother still has his one fault free, but he's pissed you cant replace the fans on the rad without disassembling the card or cutting the wires, since they're linked to the pump)

My CPU and RTX 3070 is fine my 970 EVO has always been a hot bastard for some reason.

My Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2TB idles at 40C without any issues.

I got 3x120mm XPG Vento Pro as intake in my Fractal Design Meshify 2, 1x140mm standard Fractal Design fan, and 2x120 XPG Vento Pro on my AIO for exhaust too.

I know my case is configured as storage mode with 1x850 Evo 1TB, 1xWD Purple, 1xSeagate Exos 16TB, 1xWD White 10TB (Red) and 1xWD Red 4TB and all these drives are down to 27-30C with my fans running around 1200rpm and this doesn't bother me really because it's not loud at all it's fairly decent.

 

[plastiscɧ]

My CPU and RTX 3070 is fine my 970 EVO has always been a hot bastard for some reason.

My Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2TB idles at 40C without any issues.

I got 3x120mm XPG Vento Pro as intake in my Fractal Design Meshify 2, 1x140mm standard Fractal Design fan, and 2x120 XPG Vento Pro on my AIO for exhaust too.

I know my case is configured as storage mode with 1x850 Evo 1TB, 1xWD Purple, 1xSeagate Exos 16TB, 1xWD White 10TB (Red) and 1xWD Red 4TB and all these drives are down to 27-30C with my fans running around 1200rpm and this doesn't bother me really because it's not loud at all it's fairly decent.

I have found that it also depends on the construction of the board.
the nvme hard drives (blue) are often in different places depending on the brand.
i put my graphics card one slot down, so the 980s run cooler with more air flow. if the card is on top, closer to the processor unit, it heats up the local area too much due to its hot surface.

 

[Shou Miko]

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I have found that it also depends on the construction of the board.
the nvme hard drives (blue) are often in different places depending on the brand.
i put my graphics card one slot down, so the 980s run cooler with more air flow. if the card is on top, closer to the processor unit, it heats up the local area too much due to its hot surface.

On my previous boards I actually put it in the top slot and it was still running hot and under intens runs up to 65c unless there where a fan directly on it at high speed.

But I am trying out some new software and need to connect all fans to my motherboard and see what I can adjust.

 

[WhitetailAni]

Nothing too special, just a 30-pin dock for my iPhone 4 or 4S

Spoiler

I'm definitely not going to be purchasing more for my other iDevices and putting them all in a row

 

[sam_86314]

So this arrived today...

I expect to be messing with this thing for a long time.

 

[Garlic]

Just got this beast

 

[MarsM4N]

So this arrived today...

I expect to be messing with this thing for a long time.

If you would live in Washington your Steam Deck delivery could have been like that:

Gabe Newell

 

[sam_86314]

Since I had to run into town for an unrelated reason, I stopped at a local electronics store and got this...

This'll make getting games onto my Deck a lot easier. Write performance is surprisingly decent at 80MB/s.

 

[kapone32]

Oh, i got a free bluray player as well off the FB marketplace - the seller turned out to be my neighbour three houses down and we recognised each other so she just gave it to me

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Genuinely impressed by video playback quality, seems like BD get upscaled to 4K really well, and the refresh rate/FPS is getting boosted to 50FPS by the BD drive, then upscaled to 4K by the TV.
Results in some really good animation with my one BD disc, one of the futurama movies

Blu Ray players are Legit Make movies look like Soap Operas

Made a few purchases lately:
1. External sound card - Sound Blaster X4 £99
2. Hyper X - Cloud Revolver 7.1 Wired Gaming Headset
3. Sleeved cables - Generic brand £22
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What Case is that it is sublime and beautiful at the same time.

 

[agent_x007]

My "new sound card"
No hardware acceleration sadly :/

 

[Deleted member 24505]

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My "new sound card"
No hardware acceleration sadly :/

Very nice if you need the midi ports and XLR, but overkill just for a USB headphone amp.

 

[agent_x007]

100% true, it is overkill at this point.
Here's the thing though, it was ~20% more than used STX II or same price as new Creative AE7 or used NuAudio card (the only other options for me for the same or higher sound quality vs. Essence ST I own now). Since I also wanted line-in for external PC use (and microphone), a plain DAC was a no-go for me.
XLR is just great option when I will be looking for new microphone. MIDI port might get used as X2 Dreamblaster (or MT-32) output directly
Additionally, USB external audio interface means one less PCI-e device that get's heated up by and heats CPU/GPU combo (but this is shared with USB DACs).