well my Chieftec Proton 1000w is cheap ... 125chf for a 1000w is cheap, yet indeed it's a nice PSU that got some nice reviews (good quality overall and more than often exceeding her rating )
@witkazy now you can "file" a complaint? ( sorry )
well my Chieftec Proton 1000w is cheap ... 125chf for a 1000w is cheap, yet indeed it's a nice PSU that got some nice reviews (good quality overall and more than often exceeding her rating )
I'm just using Chieftec A90 550W PSU it was like 65 EUR it's completely modular PSU with nice paint finish and fake 90+ efficiency rating, which is equivalent to 80+ Silver rating. Even at full blast (well Furmark and prime95 small FFTs my system only needs a bit bellow 300 watts so it works out well for me. Chieftec seems to be popular in Eastern Europe. But what I menat by cheap PSUs is something like Bitfenix Formula Gold, which was like 70-80 EUR 650W PSU, which was like the best unit in reviews. It's cheap by TPU standards, but there were no technical downsides to it. And for most people a basic 80+ bronze unit for like 50 EUR is just plenty. But not at TPU. Here your PSU must cost easily triple that, be hardly any better and be branded as CoRSaiR or sEAsoNiC, else it's poo and you should be burnt at stake.
I'm just using Chieftec A90 550W PSU it was like 65 EUR it's completely modular PSU with nice paint finish and fake 90+ efficiency rating, which is equivalent to 80+ Silver rating. Even at full blast (well Furmark and prime95 small FFTs my system only needs a bit bellow 300 watts so it works out well for me. Chieftec seems to be popular in Eastern Europe. But what I menat by cheap PSUs is something like Bitfenix Formula Gold, which was like 70-80 EUR 650W PSU, which was like the best unit in reviews. It's cheap by TPU standards, but there were no technical downsides to it. And for most people a basic 80+ bronze unit for like 50 EUR is just plenty. But not at TPU. Here your PSU must cost easily triple that, be hardly any better and be branded as CoRSaiR or sEAsoNiC, else it's poo and you should be burnt at stake.
mmhhh i had a Seasonic M12II 750 @75chf (about the same in € ) it was cheap too, even Seasonic has cheap one x) (although her normal price listing is more in the 100chf usually)
Corsair? yeah overpriced for what they are (even the popular CWT DSA II based series, since unlike Seasonic, Corsair uses OEM )
my BDF-1000C is a 80+ Bronze that overachieve based of a Sirtec/Sirfa platform unlike the A90 which is a CWT (around 89-90% @230V/100% load which is more akin to a Gold/Platinum )
PS: the A90 is partial modular, the 24 and 8 pin are fixed (nitpicking) and her real rating is 80+ gold, for example no Swiss etailer liste her 90+ (not even Chieftec) the 90% mentioned is not fake either, just non official, since they skipped the 80+ rating for price reason
the Bitfenix Formula Gold has good review (no wonder it's based of a CWT platform, GPS series iirc )
usually what they mean here on TPU, is about PSU like Diablotek or other bottom barrel, fire hazard, cheap PSU (or some known brand particular model like the Thermaltake TR2)
or that
and i can also say it was a tech purchase "long" ago since i did had one that was bundled with a cheap "pc upgrade" comprising mobo cpu RAM and PSU (ofc i ditched the PSU immediately) i got in 2018
in short for PSU, the price does not matter indeed, it's the platform used (or the brand itself if not OEM based, like FSP/Seasonic ) thus, here, they are not wrong but not completely right either
Technically it was gifted. It is the first time in nearly 20 years I'll be wearing a watch again. Yes, I'm that old.
My mum got me the Huawei Watch GT 2 (46mm)[Thx mum!]. Much easier to link to the phone than the Mi band, and it also has some storage. For like music, to play during work-outs or toilet visits. It doesn't sound too bad, tbh, but it does drain the battery. It suppose to last for 14 days before a recharge when you just use the watch (stand-alone), the moment you transfer music through bluetooth or even play music you see the battery drain..
The thing I like is the step counter, heart rate monitor, and it actually tells the time
Also you can add multiple watch faces or your own pix, although with limited data (just the time and date). I haven't figured it all out yet, prolly 90% by now.
A bunch of small stuff, I'm outfitting an old sff pc as a living room pc. Got a new 92mm noctua fan, and an ssd for the os. Also ordered a low power low profile gpu (gtx 1030) and cpu upgrade (quad core) for it.
An Arctic LF II 420. B-stock off Arctic's Ebay page. Full warranty and only $72. For that price I couldn't turn it down. No pix because it just shipped this morning. I now own the entire non-RGB LF II lineup (240 (3), 280, 360, 420). I want to see if I can get my 12700K to run a bit cooler than with the 280 I'm currently using with it.
I have my i7 12700K cooled by a noctua NH-U12A , haven't seen it above 71C on few cores when running Cinebench R23, which is acceptable imo.
With a CPU intensive game it runs around 50C. ANd it's summer here. I only have it running at stock speeds for now though.
I have my i7 12700K cooled by a noctua NH-U12A , haven't seen it above 71C on few cores when running Cinebench R23, which is acceptable imo.
With a CPU intensive game it runs around 50C. ANd it's summer here. I only have it running at stock speeds for now though.
He said he needed it for storage but I said about getting a normal 2.5" drive for his laptop but he went with an SSD instead... Well 3 in fact... lol Still never mind he's happy!
It also seems that my mate heard me as I was talking about trying to get a bit more storage space in my gaming rig for my games. It seems that 1TB SSDs don't go quite as far as they used to and my best mate being who he is, grabbed me this...
So now we have a 4TB Steam SSD drive, which is great but I think with a few well planned downloads, maybe a bit more than a few, but still, I think I have about 1TB left on that already... I wonder if Crucial are planning on a 8TB model??.... Always my go to drives for Crucial... So early birthday present from my best mate.. Now I just have to be able to sit at my desk long enough to be able to game! My broken leg still after 2 and a bit months, still seems to get rather sore and swollen if I've not got the leg up resting on another chair... Bit frustrating that...
As my last post was about a 10Gb networking card I'd bought, I found that the fan that was on the card must have been running at delta speeds as it was rather damn noisy... So a little more searching through Ebay and I found the same card but with no fan and just a nice solid looking heatsink, so I thought, ummm, what's my chances of this working! So I was able to grab one for very cheap (£45 + £5 postage) so I grabbed that and a few days later it came through disappointly in a jiffy bag but, after installing it, it was fine.
So, after hardly any effort at all, I now have the HomeServer sorted out The only job I have to sort out now is the drive setup in the damn thing as running Raid 1, isn't going to win any speed results, so there's plans a foot.....
It seems I've been in the right or wrong place for this next one.... Decent size box... Ummmm, any ideas??
So it works perfectly and I've tested the important things like its boot and that the SATA connections work... Ah bliss... I have a working Z77 OCF motherboard again... Now before I tempt fate anymore, I'm just going to be quiet..... Moving on!!
Now I'm all for a good bargain as a lot of people might think I'm crazy about and sometimes, your just wrong and I hope that I don't disappoint on those occasions....
Well maybe this will now put me in that crazy section A mate and I clubbed together and we've grabbed 30 x 8TB HGST Enterprise drives (Yes these where server hard drive pulls, so second hand drives... I'm not made of money!!) Now I've a few Dell servers that some are going in (hopefully tomorrow all being well....) and then some will be headed for my HomeServer that I do plan on setting up in a different but similar RAID setup to try and eliminate some of that 110MB/sec network transfer rate and the 250MB/sec+ drive speed limitation. Maybe that bit is one for our home lab section....
I think there's a few other bits and pieces I've been keeping my eyes on but they'll wait for a few days I think that's all my crazy for a bit... until next time
He said he needed it for storage but I said about getting a normal 2.5" drive for his laptop but he went with an SSD instead... Well 3 in fact... lol Still never mind he's happy!
It also seems that my mate heard me as I was talking about trying to get a bit more storage space in my gaming rig for my games. It seems that 1TB SSDs don't go quite as far as they used to and my best mate being who he is, grabbed me this...
So now we have a 4TB Steam SSD drive, which is great but I think with a few well planned downloads, maybe a bit more than a few, but still, I think I have about 1TB left on that already... I wonder if Crucial are planning on a 8TB model??.... Always my go to drives for Crucial... So early birthday present from my best mate.. Now I just have to be able to sit at my desk long enough to be able to game! My broken leg still after 2 and a bit months, still seems to get rather sore and swollen if I've not got the leg up resting on another chair... Bit frustrating that...
As my last post was about a 10Gb networking card I'd bought, I found that the fan that was on the card must have been running at delta speeds as it was rather damn noisy... So a little more searching through Ebay and I found the same card but with no fan and just a nice solid looking heatsink, so I thought, ummm, what's my chances of this working! So I was able to grab one for very cheap (£45 + £5 postage) so I grabbed that and a few days later it came through disappointly in a jiffy bag but, after installing it, it was fine.
So, after hardly any effort at all, I now have the HomeServer sorted out The only job I have to sort out now is the drive setup in the damn thing as running Raid 1, isn't going to win any speed results, so there's plans a foot.....
It seems I've been in the right or wrong place for this next one.... Decent size box... Ummmm, any ideas??
So it works perfectly and I've tested the important things like its boot and that the SATA connections work... Ah bliss... I have a working Z77 OCF motherboard again... Now before I tempt fate anymore, I'm just going to be quiet..... Moving on!!
Now I'm all for a good bargain as a lot of people might think I'm crazy about and sometimes, your just wrong and I hope that I don't disappoint on those occasions....
Well maybe this will now put me in that crazy section A mate and I clubbed together and we've grabbed 30 x 8TB HGST Enterprise drives (Yes these where server hard drive pulls, so second hand drives... I'm not made of money!!) Now I've a few Dell servers that some are going in (hopefully tomorrow all being well....) and then some will be headed for my HomeServer that I do plan on setting up in a different but similar RAID setup to try and eliminate some of that 110MB/sec network transfer rate and the 250MB/sec+ drive speed limitation. Maybe that bit is one for our home lab section....
I think there's a few other bits and pieces I've been keeping my eyes on but they'll wait for a few days I think that's all my crazy for a bit... until next time
Finally broke down and grabbed a 5600G, along with a tray 11700K, B450M-A II and a tube of arbitrary TIM. Not pictured: 2x 8GB Crucial DDR4-3200 and a be quiet! Shadow Rock LP
I am so impressed with theses Kingston KC3000S series that I decided to buy another one for my OS. Even though the board has only 1 PCIe v4 slot (via CPU) at least I can saturate the PCIe v4 & v3 slots to the max for the time being & ready for the next platform upgrade that will (AMD or Intel) provide more PCIe v4 slots.
Also in prep for next platform upgrade, scored a pair of OEM DDR5 2x16GB sticks for the same price as a kit of 32GB DDR4!
My monitor arm did a sad, and decided "It is sleepy time:"and that pointing down was mandatory
(yes its messy, i had to panic and move a lot of crap to make room to catch a falling 32" monitor)
I'd bought some second hand monitor mounts for a friend, at $50 for three i called it an absolute win - they're a freakin solid design but designed for 2x24"
2x 32" *curved* juuuuust fts - but oddly the screens tilted to the left
After much sleeping and forgetting to investigate, turns out one uses 75mm and one uses 100mm, so the right screen is 25mm higher. oops.
Bonus points for every dumb thing you find about my setup
Enter: The solution!
100mm and 75mm compatible 'quick disconnects' that will let me use 75mm on one screen, 100mm on the other - and then the opposite on the monitor mounts themselves, so the heights are equal. yaaaay.
That slight push forward will also give me a slightly better angle on the screens (Like this, the rightmost screen doesnt curve as much as i want it too - it's 'flat'
My monitor arm did a sad, and decided "It is sleepy time:"and that pointing down was mandatory
(yes its messy, i had to panic and move a lot of crap to make room to catch a falling 32" monitor) View attachment 254477
I'd bought some second hand monitor mounts for a friend, at $50 for three i called it an absolute win - they're a freakin solid design but designed for 2x24"
View attachment 254479
2x 32" *curved* juuuuust fts - but oddly the screens tilted to the left
After much sleeping and forgetting to investigate, turns out one uses 75mm and one uses 100mm, so the right screen is 25mm higher. oops.
Enter: The solution!
100mm and 75mm compatible 'quick disconnects' that will let me use 75mm on one screen, 100mm on the other - and then the opposite on the monitor mounts themselves, so the heights are equal. yaaaay.
That slight push forward will also give me a slightly better angle on the screens (Like this, the rightmost screen doesnt curve as much as i want it too - it's 'flat'
Good stuff, at least you got onto the problem with a practical solution!
This is why I'm ultra careful when cleaning my screens. Even the Phillips & Samsung brands have flimsy stands too. It's like I've got to grasp the monitor from below whilst avoiding touching the screen while the other hand does the cleaning... a real PITA!
Good stuff, at least you got onto the problem with a practical solution!
This is why I'm ultra careful when cleaning my screens. Even the Phillips & Samsung brands have flimsy stands too. It's like I've got to grasp the monitor from below whilst avoiding touching the screen while the other hand does the cleaning... a real PITA!
In this case, it was changing HDMI/display port cables that made it give up
I'd been having to tighten one allen key more and more and more, and after it stayed loose i opened it up to discover they used a really simple, shite setup - the metal frame bends over time and it'll never hold itself up again.
While the 'octopus arms' style lets you arrange monitors more freely, these joined ones just really suit me a lot better in the end. I like having them properly lined up. (even if short term, they're slightly offset in height)
My monitor arm did a sad, and decided "It is sleepy time:"and that pointing down was mandatory
(yes its messy, i had to panic and move a lot of crap to make room to catch a falling 32" monitor) View attachment 254477
I'd bought some second hand monitor mounts for a friend, at $50 for three i called it an absolute win - they're a freakin solid design but designed for 2x24"
View attachment 254479
2x 32" *curved* juuuuust fts - but oddly the screens tilted to the left
After much sleeping and forgetting to investigate, turns out one uses 75mm and one uses 100mm, so the right screen is 25mm higher. oops.
Enter: The solution!
100mm and 75mm compatible 'quick disconnects' that will let me use 75mm on one screen, 100mm on the other - and then the opposite on the monitor mounts themselves, so the heights are equal. yaaaay.
That slight push forward will also give me a slightly better angle on the screens (Like this, the rightmost screen doesnt curve as much as i want it too - it's 'flat'
well, better like that than its intended use ... i had a Razer Destructor that self destructed ... no other mousemate i ever had, even those way cheaper, did do that (surface literally falling in pieces after a few months), the, similar, Roccat Siru i bought just after (5yrs, give or take, ago) is still in one piece... (and 25% cheaper) the Razer Vespula i got gifted (yeah some, still though i liked Razer aft all that crap i got from them), got replaced by a Roccat Alumic (same kind of bundle, wrist rest and metal base )
but now with a trackball ... a 15chf Asus Cerberus mousemat is enough (works well with laser mice either ...
oh, well, they semi redeemed themselves with the Tartarus V2, still no issues with it or with synapse (noticed nothing intrusive nor bloat using it ... strange, even more strange ... no RMA needed in the first 6 month of use ... WITCHERY!!! )
ok purchase, mmhhh a 10$ SE (A1723, 2016, 1st gen) do count? untested, screen issues iirc, the screen in place is not the original
who cares ... oh wait, Apple cares ... since they disable face ID and the fingerprint reader when doing self repair (it will change later with the new Apple scheme for self repair, and their overpriced rental Apple certified tools and parts ... i think i will keep at my iFixit kit and a heatgun, i repaired quite a lot of other, more self repair friendly albeit being overglued, phones )
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