What's your latest tech purchase?

[Mussels]

Went shopping today

Bought a PSU for a friend, since theirs exploded. Just wanted to see how many people fall for the image alone.

 

[GerKNG]

 

[X71200]

Those smaller Noctua coolers are baller, nice one.

 

[lexluthermiester]

don’t mind the couch.. effing cats tunnelling..

Staple gun would fix that up.

 

[phill]

Went shopping today
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Bought a PSU for a friend, since theirs exploded. Just wanted to see how many people fall for the image alone.

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I just wish I didn't have to keep trying to do a balance act to see some of these pics people put up of nice hardware but either on its side, upside down to heavens to betsy, back to front.....

Might need to go back into hospital with all this neck twisting.........

 

[Mussels]

I just wish I didn't have to keep trying to do a balance act to see some of these pics people put up of nice hardware but either on its side, upside down to heavens to betsy, back to front.....

Might need to go back into hospital with all this neck twisting.........

You... can't rotate your eyes in their sockets?

I'm tempted to buy an AC1900 USB wifi adaptor.
AC2200 router (4x4) and AC1900 USB (3x3) should give the full 1200Mb, yeah?

 

[phill]

You... can't rotate your eyes in their sockets?
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I'm tempted to buy an AC1900 USB wifi adaptor.
AC2200 router (4x4) and AC1900 USB (3x3) should give the full 1200Mb, yeah?

I tried but they never go back in place right......

I need a new router setup myself... I need to get some port forwarding working

 

[oobymach]

I remember a time when these were over $200, I paid $10 for this one for my psp and less than $5 for the adapter so I can use current technology on my ancient hardware (psp is limited to 32gb cards). The card is 100mb/s it's a big upgrade (the other cards I have are 4gb and 2gb).

 

[ThaiTaffy]

My Dp to hdmi adapter came today tested it and my GPU seems to like it, as when I plugged the hdmi back in to the hdmi port it looks like crap. HDR has vanished and my color setting seem to look like a old dying crt I'll take another look tomorrow but it might require a new thread for help.

 

[lexluthermiester]

My Dp to hdmi adapter came today tested it and my GPU seems to like it, as when I plugged the hdmi back in to the hdmi port it looks like crap. HDR has vanished and my color setting seem to look like a old dying crt I'll take another look tomorrow but it might require a new thread for help.

That's an AMD drivers settings problem. Go into the color settings in the advanced menu and set it to sRGB. Start a new thread and link here if you can't resolve the issue.

 

[Operandi]

Cables are technology? At least they are technology adjacent.

Got sick of looking at generic looking clear PVC speaker cable laying on the floor so I decided to make something visually more appealing, not really meant to be a sound quality upgrade or anything.

Cable is 12AWG Belden OFC coper commercial speaker cable, nothing fancy, Mogami might be better but was quite a bit more per ft. Banana plugs are Sewell Silverback, again nothing fancy but they seem really well made, they are gold plated brass with an AL shell, the only thing feral magnetic is the set screw. The sleeving is 1/4" Techflex on the outer cable and 1/8" on the individual conductors. You also need a variety of different heatshink sizes.

Kinda a pain to make and the Techflex is kinda expensive but if your cables are visible you end up with great looking high-quality cable.

 

[GreiverBlade]

i love my GMMK TKL ANSI (ENG-US) layout and the Gateron red switches ... unfortunately i almost went thru all my spares switches and a box of 120 switches (or several 36 switches boxes ) would cost me too much right now ...

thus! giving a Swedish brand a go.... (still made China, well the GMMK was too but US brand ) Deltaco
i got a DK440R (aka: GAM-100-CH) for the price of a GAM-075, basically 64chf instead of the usually seen 99/119chf, a 65% layout still having PgdUP/DOWN/Delete and °/§ in it? hell yeah! using Fn key for F1 to F12 home/end/Printscr is not an issue getting used to a ISO (FR/DE-CH) layout neither, can be wired (USB-C) wireless (BT3.0/5.0 & 2.4ghz) double hell yeah!

and the front laser engraved keycap are surprisingly neat (i love front engraving now ) although i kept my ASCEND red Esc key from the GMMK plus, icing on the cake, it use Kailh box red switche
basically lower priced than 2 boxes of Glorious Panda/Lynx Switch or about the same of a box of Gateron Red (they were way cheaper when i initially bought them ) although i could have taken the option of 2 box of 42 Akko CS Jelly switches for 54chf tho, but i don't know these enough.

obviously RGB and 20 modes out of the box but YAAAAY software (not running in background is a plus) and hopla fixed white FTW!

wire cap puller? ohhh good! (prefer these over the plastic ring key puller )


my oldie came back to me too ( ASRock AM1B-ITX Athlon 5350 8gb Kingston HyperX a, ooooohhhh, GT-730 3gb (DDR3 variante unfortunatelly) a 500gb spinner and a Bluray drive in a InWin Diva case) not a latest purchase but a latest "come back" ahah!

i suppose it could do well for a fun HTPC (although i use a Xiaomi Mi TV Stick right now, i gave the Mi Box S to my parents recently )


edit: that Swedish brand naming sense tho .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Taco

 

[Valantar]

i love my GMMK TKL ANSI (ENG-US) layout and the Gateron red switches ... unfortunately i almost went thru all my spares switches and a box of 120 switches (or several 36 switches boxes ) would cost me too much right now ...

thus! giving a Swedish brand a go.... (still made China, well the GMMK was too but US brand ) Deltaco
i got a DK440R (aka: GAM-100-CH) for the price of a GAM-075, basically 64chf instead of the usually seen 99/119chf, a 65% layout still having PgdUP/DOWN/Delete and °/§ in it? hell yeah! using Fn key for F1 to F12 home/end/Printscr is not an issue getting used to a ISO (FR/DE-CH) layout neither, can be wired (USB-C) wireless (BT3.0/5.0 & 2.4ghz) double hell yeah!

and the front laser engraved keycap are surprisingly neat (i love front engraving now ) although i kept my ASCEND red Esc key from the GMMK plus, icing on the cake, it use Kailh box red switche
basically lower priced than 2 boxes of Glorious Panda/Lynx Switch or about the same of a box of Gateron Red (they were way cheaper when i initially bought them ) although i could have taken the option of 2 box of 42 Akko CS Jelly switches for 54chf tho, but i don't know these enough.
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obviously RGB and 20 modes out of the box but YAAAAY software (not running in background is a plus) and hopla fixed white FTW!

wire cap puller? ohhh good! (prefer these over the plastic ring key puller )
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my oldie came back to me too ( ASRock AM1B-ITX Athlon 5350 8gb Kingston HyperX a, ooooohhhh, GT-730 3gb (DDR3 variante unfortunatelly) a 500gb spinner and a Bluray drive in a InWin Diva case) not a latest purchase but a latest "come back" ahah!
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i suppose it could do well for a fun HTPC (although i use a Xiaomi Mi TV Stick right now, i gave the Mi Box S to my parents recently )


edit: that Swedish brand naming sense tho .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Taco

Deltaco is a fun brand in many ways. It's one of those combo design+OEM rebranding shops that seems to sell ... well, pretty much everything. They also run their own wholesale distribution (including a bunch of other brands), which means their own products are both ubiquitous in the nordics and cheap AF. Still, as with all businesses, like this, quality is a bit all over the place. Some of their stuff is great, some of it is downright innovative, and some of it is utter garbage - and telling which is which can be quite the challenge. I've got one of their dual monitor arms, which is excellent - easy to use, looks good, mechanically both smooth and sturdy, and handles the chonky U2711 (7.7kg without the stand!) with aplomb. Wobbles significantly less than my previous single-arm unit too. Haven't tried any of their mech keyboards extensively though - we sold some of their early models for my last couple of years doing retail (mid-2010s), and IIRC none of them were TKL (let alone smaller) at the time, so I didn't care much for them. That looks like a nice 65% though, and having both wireless and wired connections is a great feature to have.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

Deltaco is a fun brand in many ways. It's one of those combo design+OEM rebranding shops that seems to sell ... well, pretty much everything. They also run their own wholesale distribution (including a bunch of other brands), which means their own products are both ubiquitous in the nordics and cheap AF. Still, as with all businesses, like this, quality is a bit all over the place. Some of their stuff is great, some of it is downright innovative, and some of it is utter garbage - and telling which is which can be quite the challenge. I've got one of their dual monitor arms, which is excellent - easy to use, looks good, mechanically both smooth and sturdy, and handles the chonky U2711 (7.7kg without the stand!) with aplomb. Wobbles significantly less than my previous single-arm unit too. Haven't tried any of their mech keyboards extensively though - we sold some of their early models for my last couple of years doing retail (mid-2010s), and IIRC none of them were TKL (let alone smaller) at the time, so I didn't care much for them. That looks like a nice 65% though, and having both wireless and wired connections is a great feature to have.

I found myself loving the wired/wireless keyboard combination! Took me a month or so before I tried it on my phone, once I started I couldn't stop. With the current temps here I often find myself under a tree somewhere writing c++ firmware for a esp device on my phone, though the screen is a nightmare!! still waiting for my portable screen from China.

 

[Valantar]

I found myself loving the wired/wireless keyboard combination! Took me a month or so before I tried it on my phone, once I started I couldn't stop. With the current temps here I often find myself under a tree somewhere writing c++ firmware for a esp device on my phone, though the screen is a nightmare!! still waiting for my portable screen from China.

Have to ask: have you heard of this new innovation called a laptop?

All joking aside, that sounds really nice, though balancing a portable monitor alongside a keyboard and phone starts to sound like a challenge. I've grown to really like the flexibility of my Keychron K3 myself, and its three-way BT connection is great, but I do find myself wishing it had a 2.4GHz dongle as well. Guess you can't always get everything you want

 

[ThaiTaffy]

Have to ask: have you heard of this new innovation called a laptop?

All joking aside, that sounds really nice, though balancing a portable monitor alongside a keyboard and phone starts to sound like a challenge. I've grown to really like the flexibility of my Keychron K3 myself, and its three-way BT connection is great, but I do find myself wishing it had a 2.4GHz dongle as well. Guess you can't always get everything you want

Same mine has a 3xbt and wired option but last I tested on my desktop the lag was insane!! probably the reason I took so long to try it on my phone, a wireless dongle would be great. I purchased the screen for my phone/desktop as I really don't need a laptop, I just remote into my desktop or use web gui's for the majority of my work and that's just more weight though I have been looking at those little gpd ones, my desktop currently has a giant 4k TV as a monitor which is nice but not great when you need to focus on a screen at a desk. The phone will just be a CPU when I get the it as it's a touch model so that's my mouse taken care of, I won't need to carry that around with me any longer and even if I did I don't think I can use it unless I buy a beefier otg hub. We shall see, as I've said I'm spent out now this month too many toys. I have way too much to get on with, projects all over the place in my workshop and my to-do list looks like a autobiography.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Deltaco is a fun brand in many ways. It's one of those combo design+OEM rebranding shops that seems to sell ... well, pretty much everything. They also run their own wholesale distribution (including a bunch of other brands), which means their own products are both ubiquitous in the nordics and cheap AF. Still, as with all businesses, like this, quality is a bit all over the place. Some of their stuff is great, some of it is downright innovative, and some of it is utter garbage - and telling which is which can be quite the challenge. I've got one of their dual monitor arms, which is excellent - easy to use, looks good, mechanically both smooth and sturdy, and handles the chonky U2711 (7.7kg without the stand!) with aplomb. Wobbles significantly less than my previous single-arm unit too. Haven't tried any of their mech keyboards extensively though - we sold some of their early models for my last couple of years doing retail (mid-2010s), and IIRC none of them were TKL (let alone smaller) at the time, so I didn't care much for them. That looks like a nice 65% though, and having both wireless and wired connections is a great feature to have.

yeah, i did read a lot about them, specially on the "not so special OEM sh!t" they have but on the GAM series of keyboard i saw some nice reviews on Youtube and Reddit mostly and the GAM-100 was quite good (well Kailh red box are just like the Gateron red : worthy MX Red clones) i saw a few GAM-075 reviews saying they had wobbly keys/switches but my local retailers/etailers reviews list had only good stuff about them both and a few hours in using it, i would tend to concur, although i am more TKL than 60/65%

pro: feel good to type on, once memorized the Fn shortcuts are easy enough (Fn+K/L for home/end for example) triple connection option is great and work well (will use it mostly wired/2.4ghz but having BT is also great ) price, even at full, is great, build quality feel quite good and sturdy

i did not find cons, thus i will call them "compromise": what they did to keep the price lower than 100 (well 99 is lower than 100 ) : all ABS construction (yet, it does not feel in any way inferior to my GMMK which was also mostly ABS with an aluminum top plate) and no adjustable feets (although it already sit around the same angle as the GMMK feet raised )

got a little surprise when i found that for 10chf second hand (forgot i bought it, thus the surprise is more getting it in the mailbox ) instead of the usual 119chf, all that because : no remote control, oh an official remote for it, is 18chf it reminds me the Minix Neo U9-H i had some time ago although i use the Mi TV Stick, the Z7+ and the Neo U9-H are not totally the same (not AndroidTV, more like pure standard Android with a proprietary overlay )


the Mi TV Stick is good for watching Youtube/local channel on Zatoo but lacks IO (well the Mi Box S had one USB-A )


@ThaiTaffy on a phone? ahah first Youtube unboxing/review i saw about that keyboard used a phone with it

 

[Shou Miko]

I went on the second-hand market and got this for about £75, it's been opened and test fitted but the seller couldn't fit it in his case it was too tall.

I brought it because my old Fractal Design Celesius S24 started making not so happy noises earlier this week.





There ain't much space left between the D15 and GPU but enough so it's the cooler ain't touching my graphics card

 

[Mussels]

I remember a time when these were over $200, I paid $10 for this one for my psp and less than $5 for the adapter so I can use current technology on my ancient hardware (psp is limited to 32gb cards). The card is 100mb/s it's a big upgrade (the other cards I have are 4gb and 2gb).

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Tech store here had brand name 128GB SD cards for $18Au
It still boggles my mind

(Our switches and android tablets all have 128GB cards now lol)

I went on the second-hand market and got this for about £75, it's been opened and test fitted but the seller couldn't fit it in his case it was too tall.

I brought it because my old Fractal Design Celesius S24 started making not so happy noises earlier this week.

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There ain't much space left between the D15 and GPU but enough so it's the cooler ain't touching my graphics card

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Man you just made me realise with my active GPU backplate, i may actually run into clearance issues with a cooler like this :O

 

[Shou Miko]

Man you just made me realise with my active GPU backplate, i may actually run into clearance issues with a cooler like this :O

Your welcome @Mussels I kind also forgot how big to all sides the NH-D15 really are been using an AIO for like years but it worked out fine here only running it with one fan in the middle and the temps do not go over 65c if I run Aida64 stress test on the cpu well then I hit 95c.

I have setup my Nidec GentleTyphoon fans to go after what's the warmest part in my case out of CPU, GPU, 970 Evo and Sabrent NVME SSD.
Plus I been thinking about adding my Z590 Vision G to the list but not sure if I should.

If anyone is curious I use the fan control software by RemOo aka. Remi Mercier: https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

It's a nice piece of software really need to find a bit of money to donate to this guy because it's a wonderful software

 

[X71200]

New board, was on a little sale and I needed something with a 3rd full size PCI-E slot for my second Optane SSD. Living with 280gb sucks. This board also has some other good bits like the lack of fan and BIOS reset button (hate crouching all the way to short my current board with that tiny plastic).

 

[sam_86314]

So one day I was browsing Reddit when I saw someone mention a full Windows 10 tablet on Aliexpress for under $60.

That piqued my curiosity, of course, so I had to check it out.

That's too cheap for me to pass up. I don't even care if it's crap; I need to have it.

It finally arrived today.

Seems to have survived shipping. It came with a charger, a cable, and even a little capacitive stylus/pen combo thing.

It actually works! Even has about 54% battery out of the box.

It has an Intel Atom Z3735G, 1GB of DDR3-1333, 16GB of eMMC, and a Chinese copy of Windows 10 1607 Home Edition.

Guess I now need to get a USB-OTG adapter so I can try putting LTSC or some Linux distro on it.

EDIT: Here's what the inside looks like.

 

[QuietBob]

It has an Intel Atom Z3735G, 1GB of DDR3-1333, 16GB of eMMC, and a Chinese copy of Windows 10 1607 Home Edition.

Wow, Win10 on 1 GB of RAM As in, the actual minimum requirement for the 32-bit version. I've tested Win7 with 2 GB, and wouldn't want to go lower than that. How does the tablet feel in everyday use?

 

[sam_86314]

Wow, Win10 on 1 GB of RAM As in, the actual minimum requirement for the 32-bit version. I've tested Win7 with 2 GB, and wouldn't want to go lower than that. How does the tablet feel in everyday use?

It's slow, though not quite as bad as I expected. I haven't connected it to the internet yet as I'm going to do a clean install of Windows 10, and I'd rather not have it download all of Microsoft's crapware games.

My Bluetooth mouse and keyboard synced up to it just fine, and I installed CPU-Z, GPU-Z, and HWMonitor from a microSD card.

 

[oobymach]

I wouldn't clean install 10, even the lite version is 1.3gb just to load the os. See if you can just upgrade with a key which is what I did to my laptop. It might be a modified version of win 10 S which is for tablets etc but only runs windows store apps (even streamlined win 10 home needs like 2gb just to load the os). Plus with the randomness of tablets win 10 may not have drivers for your device.