What's your latest tech purchase?

[Shrek]

I tend to replace mouse buttons
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[Vya Domus]

Got my 7900 XT.

 

[Shrek]

I always found it strange how some 3 fan cards had one fan running counter

 

[Vya Domus]

I always found it strange how some 3 fan cards had one fan running counter

Maybe the airflow is less turbulent, kind of how some aircraft propeller engines have counter rotating fans. It probably has to do with the fact that the heatsink in your picture has lengthwise fins.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Maybe the airflow is less turbulent, kind of how some aircraft propeller engines have counter rotating fans. It probably has to do with the fact that the heatsink in your picture has lengthwise fins.

Very likely this.

 

[tabascosauz]

Long
Live
Caselabs

She's an oldie, needs a lot of TLC in the coming year, like getting new panels and having all of her ball stud receivers replaced

 

[InVasMani]

Maybe the airflow is less turbulent, kind of how some aircraft propeller engines have counter rotating fans. It probably has to do with the fact that the heatsink in your picture has lengthwise fins.

That is the reason I believe. I'm actually more surprised more aren't doing so. It's a bit surprising we haven't seen fan and case makers selling PC cases/fans likewise. The concept has pretty much only be adopted by GPU coolers by PC tech manufacturers at present. I think it can even cycle airflow in series somewhat between fans to create directional airflow towards a region to improve cooling some.

 

[wheresmycar]

Long
Live
Caselabs

She's an oldie, needs a lot of TLC in the coming year, like getting new panels and having all of her ball stud receivers replaced

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I like this!! Whether old or new, it's always an eye-pleasure to see something a little different. How old is this case? Seems ULTRA-relevant with todays powerhouse airflow driven builds

More pics pls! (the full 360, above and beyond)

 

[tabascosauz]

I like this!! Whether old or new, it's always an eye-pleasure to see something a little different. How old is this case? Seems ULTRA-relevant with todays powerhouse airflow driven builds

More pics pls! (the full 360, above and beyond)

Added a pic of the other side. There's not much else to it aside from 2 x A12x25s on exhaust duty hiding under the extended top

CL started making the Mercury S3 in 2013. The removable mobo support bumpon was introduced later, so this case is from some time between 2014 and 2016 (case discontinued in January 2016).

I'm neither the first owner nor the second owner. I look after my cases better than most people, so little problems and wear and tear tend to stick out to me. Just waiting on emil to soft launch the new Caselabs shop so I can start going down my laundry list of parts I need.

 

[wheresmycar]

Added a pic of the other side. There's not much else to it aside from 2 x A12x25s on exhaust duty hiding under the extended top

CL started making the Mercury S3 in 2013. The removable mobo support bumpon was introduced later, so this case is from some time between 2014 and 2016 (case discontinued in January 2016).

I'm neither the first owner nor the second owner. I look after my cases better than most people, so little problems and wear and tear tend to stick out to me. Just waiting on emil to soft launch the new Caselabs shop so I can start going down my laundry list of parts I need.

2013 nice! Back then i was probably on Dell pre-builts for work systems and consoles for gaming. Otherwise the S3 would have been right up my alley! Thanks for adding the second image.... clean setup!

 

[InVasMani]

To expand a little upon what I was mentioning about case fans and inverting the fan blade direction between fans to both reduce turbulence, but also aid in directional cycling of airflow in a series pulling it along fan makers offering 2 packs and 3 packs of inverted fans would be quite good and case makers doing that one ones included would be wise.

You could basically take the 3 front intake fans use that to both pull cool air in across all three, but also pull it upward a bit more as well while the top 3 fans could exhaust it out the top and pull it towards the rear exhaust fan and CPU tower cooler fans if you have one as well.

I think overall you'd end up with more cool air drawn to and hot air exhausted out of the right regions of the case by being a bit smarter about how the fan blades can cycle air between the fan blades to a region in addition to pulling and pushing thru them.

 

[freeagent]

Got a hardware upgrade for the internet connection, as well as a streaming box for one of the tvs, not sure which one yet

 

[micropage7]

Long
Live
Caselabs

She's an oldie, needs a lot of TLC in the coming year, like getting new panels and having all of her ball stud receivers replaced

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although many said the design is boxy and old school and the price is on the roof it still pretty good

 

[maxfly]

although many said the design is boxy and old school and the price is on the roof it still pretty good

I hear ya. Id take a Caselabs over 99% of the um, cookie cutter crap out there everytime.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

Got a good deal on a brand new i5 13600K

 

[eidairaman1]

Driver side mirror Glass which has Auto Dimming, Heat and Indicator, it uses a Photovoltaic sensor in the Rear View Mirror, not bad for 1999-2007 Tech...

 

[ShiBDiB]

Just switched from 64GB of G.Skill RAM running at 2666 to 32GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX at 3600

The corsair also has an DOCP profile so I think it was a worthwhile upgrade despite losing 32GB of RAM (that was never really used anyway)

Gonna stick the 64GB into my home server to bump it from 8GB to 64

 

[KrazyT]

I had one of these stuf in my old car even in 2 retrovisors (is the good english word ? )
good and useful technology

 

[GamerGuy]

A set of cables to spruce up the looks of my main rig....yes, I'm that shallow

A 2TB Kingston SSD for games, and only games...It's at my friend's house, gonna have a lot of stuff to collect from him when I get back...

 

[wheresmycar]

A set of cables to spruce up the looks of my main rig....yes, I'm that shallow

If thats shallow, i'm yellow hello shallow through in and through out and shaking it all about. It's all about the sleeved cables I'm looking to get my next set - some sort of colour combo to suit the white Fractal North case. Any ideas for a nice colour arrangement to compliment the front natural wood?

 

[Mussels]

Lost my sub to the thread again, i'll work my way back


I bought this: USB to 12V step up transformer,

so i can do this at 12V speeds and not 5v speeds



It's a vent for ducted heating i'm obviously not using in 37c heat, but it's allowing me to vent out trapped heat from the room

The way the rooms designed you get a ~30cm gap between the ceiling and the doorframe so any air above that is literally trapped, making the floor 25c and the roof 35c

Most expensive fans I've ever bought for a PC...

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Stupidly gave some away in a sale PC ages ago, prices went uuuuup on these.

Completely silent at 12V, so they're perfect for systems with no fan control

Seems like somewhat common placement for higher end ITX boards, and yeah originally I was going to go with the front slot w/ included heatsink, but I prefer the OS drive to have the direct CPU link, so I opted for a slim heatsink otherwise the back panel wont go on... fingers crossed that temps aren't too bad, it's purely there as a game drive so I suppose time will tell, but I won't be doing other data intensive work on it, so as long as it can keep up with direct storage I'll be wrapped.

Put a thermal pad on top of the heatsink so that it touches the case, then the entire back panel is an NVME heatsink

 

[AAF Optimus]

Kingston HyperX Impact 16GB DDR4 2400MHz

I increased my notebook memory from 8GB to 20GB.

 

[Mussels]

My mom got this as a present for my brothers, but as they got also an another drive for PS4, she was going to return this to the store but I said that I'll take and pay the original price instead. I'm not on my desktop but I can download Steam games already to it with my laptop. Works without problems with Windows even though this was a "PS4 drive".

"PS4 drive" just means pre-formatted in a method the PS4 can understand (exfat)

Joined the 5800X3D club. Upgraded from 5600X, the 5800X3D was 380e (lowest I've seen is ~360e but got impatient), sold my 5600x for 150e so a 230e upgrade. Not exactly a rational upgrade either way you look, but wanted to buy it just for the sake of maxing out the AM4 platform for the next few years.
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Trust me, once you tune in for lower wattages/temps you'll be super happy

They're low wattage when gaming which makes cooling a breeze, and the total lack of any stutter or FPS drops at all is literally the gaming dream

at 1080p 240hz, it is a rational upgrade. at 1440-4k it becomes less rational. I'd say in your case you made a good move

As the guy gaming at 4k120, you've got that backwards. This is no 13900k that throws wattage for peak FPS values, it's the CPU that raises the minimums
50-100% better than the 1*900K's says it all, oh no 180FPS vs 195 max - but the minimums go from 45 to 98
One of those is made to win at benchmarks, the other is made for smooth gaming

Also 5800X3D is a horrible platform to gauge cooling performance

Agreed. They only care about the mounting quality and thermal paste, the heat output is so low the fans wont make any difference

I always found it strange how some 3 fan cards had one fan running counter

reduces vibrations, the more air turbulence the better for cooling - but you don't want that hum

A set of cables to spruce up the looks of my main rig....yes, I'm that shallow

Oh... I hope you're not running high wattage hardware. They like to melt and catch fire, even branded ones. Extensions bad, custom cables good.

 

[Ruru]

"PS4 drive" just means pre-formatted in a method the PS4 can understand (exfat)

Yeah that's what I thought, works fine on PC still.

 

[wolf]

On holiday at the moment, a 4wd adventure of sorts in rural Australia, building up to it I got a 48L camping fridge for a few reasons including holidays, takes 240v and 12v so very multi purpose. Ended up also getting a decent 30ah lifepo4 battery that should power it for a good 48 hours normal use (being opened multiple times etc) as this thing really sips on power. One of the connectors I made failed so I used what I had on hand, and I have a lot of hobby gear left over from my days with model aeroplanes so I do a lot of work with XT60 connectors for my own stuff. So far the battery gets me comfortably through day outings without needing to drain the car battery at all. Might right it up in a proper dual battery setup.. Not sure yet.