What's your latest tech purchase?

[AusWolf]

My other half bought me a foldable office chair for my birthday back in March. It's hard plastic with a mesh back, but for some reason, it's really nice!

I bet the gaming peripheral industry is way overblown.

 

[wNotyarD]

My other half bought me a foldable office chair for my birthday back in March. It's hard plastic with a mesh back, but for some reason, it's really nice!

I bet the gaming peripheral industry is way overblown.

Mesh back is amazing, especially if where you live gets around 40°C on the regular.

 

[P4-630]

Mine has a mesh back as well.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Nice bait and switch by Apacer. This was supposed to be a Phison E18 drive, instead it has a DRAM-less xinese controller. This is going back. Good thing I checked at least.
Edit: Even better, it has cheap ass YMTC NAND as well. Well, I guess that helps explain the price of what I though was a great bargain.

Compare with local review from a year ago, same model name.

PCDIY! online

www.pcdiy.com.tw

 

[kapone32]

My office chair was one of the things I did invest in when setting up my gaming/office room when I moved. Some of the best spent money in my life.

The Company I work for had a fire sale on Office Chairs that had never been used (COVID). They were $2.13 each. I bought 2. Within 10 minutes of sitting in it the "Gaming Chair" was out on the curb. There is no Gaming chair that can compare to a real Office chair designed for Ergonomics and even though I paid that amount the list price of the chair was in the range of $800.

 

[wNotyarD]

The Company I work for had a fire sale on Office Chairs that had never been used (COVID). They were $2.13 each. I bought 2. Within 10 minutes of sitting in it the "Gaming Chair" was out on the curb. There is no Gaming chair that can compare to a real Office chair designed for Ergonomics and even though I paid that amount the list price of the chair was in the range of $800.

Mine I got for R$800 at the time (early 2019) and quite to my surprise is still going new for the same price around here (I guess it did have a price spike during the pandemics and is falling now?). Has all I need, nothing I do not. If I were to have anything against it, I'd complain about the plastic armrests being hard and having barrs, which I solved by getting some foam rests on Aliexpress.

 

[AusWolf]

Nice bait and switch by Apacer. This was supposed to be a Phison E18 drive, instead it has a DRAM-less xinese controller. This is going back. Good thing I checked at least.
Edit: Even better, it has cheap ass YMTC NAND as well. Well, I guess that helps explain the price of what I though was a great bargain.

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Compare with local review from a year ago, same model name.
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PCDIY! online

www.pcdiy.com.tw

Apacer isn't on the list of my trusted brands, but it's not getting there with this, either.

Edit: Maybe it's still OK as an external drive?

Mine I got for R$800 at the time (early 2019) and quite to my surprise is still going new for the same price around here (I guess it did have a price spike during the pandemics and is falling now?). Has all I need, nothing I do not. If I were to have anything against it, I'd complain about the plastic armrests being hard and having barrs, which I solved by getting some foam rests on Aliexpress.
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Mine looks sort of the same as yours, minus the head rest. It looked cheap at first sight, but once I've put it together and tried it, I immediately loved it.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Apacer isn't on the list of my trusted brands, but it's not getting there with this, either.

Edit: Maybe it's still OK as an external drive?

It might be a perfectly fine drive, but it's not what was expected, as there isn't a single review I can find with that model name with this hardware, so it's going back.

 

[kapone32]

It might be a perfectly fine drive, but it's not what was expected, as there isn't a single review I can find with that model name with this hardware, so it's going back.

Reminds me of what Adata used to do. Not that Kingston are not guilty but that is with the NAND not the controller. I don't blame you for sending it back. Who knows what that controller is loaded with.

 

[P4-630]

Mine I got for R$800 at the time (early 2019) and quite to my surprise is still going new for the same price around here (I guess it did have a price spike during the pandemics and is falling now?). Has all I need, nothing I do not. If I were to have anything against it, I'd complain about the plastic armrests being hard and having barrs, which I solved by getting some foam rests on Aliexpress.
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I wanted specifically a chair without coilspring on the underside, since I have a bad experience with these chairs getting squeecky noises and what not....

I have a chair with synchronous mechanism now.

 

[wNotyarD]

Nice bait and switch by Apacer. This was supposed to be a Phison E18 drive, instead it has a DRAM-less xinese controller. This is going back. Good thing I checked at least.
Edit: Even better, it has cheap ass YMTC NAND as well. Well, I guess that helps explain the price of what I though was a great bargain.

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Compare with local review from a year ago, same model name.
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PCDIY! online

www.pcdiy.com.tw

I wonder if @GabrielLP14 has seen or heard of this case before.

 

[AusWolf]

Reminds me of what Adata used to do.

It reminds me of what even Corsair used to do.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Reminds me of what Adata used to do. Not that Kingston are not guilty but that is with the NAND not the controller. I don't blame you for sending it back. Who knows what that controller is loaded with.

This is obviously an entirely different drive, as it's DRAM-less, which isn't the case of the original model.

 

[wNotyarD]

This is obviously an entirely different drive, as it's DRAM-less, which isn't the case of the original model.

Was there any sticker or label with model/part number on the drive?

 

[W1zzard]

Seems to be this?

Acer Predator GM7 1 TB Review - Impressive Performance

The Acer Predator GM7 uses Maxio's new MAP1602A controller paired with YMTC 128-Layer TLC at an aggressive price point of only $66 for the tested 1 TB version. Our review confirms, this new drive is able to match the performance of famous drives like Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[avidgamer121]

my friend revived his old pc

 

[Chry]

My latest tech purchase is 250gb Samsung 870 Evo SATA disk.
Together with LINUX, it can make almost any old computer fly.

 

[Mussels]

It's 1.35V, so no. CL30 at that.

It's the SoC voltage that goes kaboom, not the RAM voltage silly

(Yes, its very possible to run it safely. I'm being me.)

My latest tech purchase is 250gb Samsung 870 Evo SATA disk.
Together with LINUX, it can make almost any old computer fly.

I bought an SSD to slap into a budget laptop from a few years back with a pentium that feels like a relabelled ATOM.
Intel® Pentium® Processor N3710
seeing task manager using 40% CPU usage just nauseates me, it cant even play 1080p video with software decoding.

It's so depressingly slow that the SSD can barely be used for anything, the CPU is always the limiting factor :/


Oh, bought this for me to reduce all the electrocutions and explosions after my current solar charger decided to run my 12V batteries at 16V - i heard weird screeching sounds as the hydrogen gas was being vented from the batteries, or could have come home to no house.

It's entry-level wattages of the premium controllers

• Key features over other units (even in its own brand)
• 98% efficiency MPPT (96% on the newer models) (MPPT lets you convert volts to amps, more efficient and safer to transfer longer thinner wiring from panels to controller)
  Bluetooth for app control
• Custom battery profile (via buttons or app) - this lets you do things you cant normally do, i could use this to charge UPS batteries for example with a custom profile
• Manual control of the outputs - this is huge, as i've had 3 units in a row get confused and overcharge 12V batteries thinking they're 24v when load ended,
  disconnect something using a few hundred watts and the solar panels would overcharge the battery for a second or two, and bam - you must be 24v and flat! oh no, more power is needed!
• DC output - Unlike many others, this ones got controllable settings. You can have it run from solar only, or battery for X minutes/hours, or until battery low level.
  As an example this could run a basic fan to cool the back of the panels which improves their efficiency in summer, or a water pump you only want during the day without losing your overnight power

 

[TheLostSwede]

Was there any sticker or label with model/part number on the drive?

Yeah, exactly the same as the Phison based drives, even the same serial number range.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Do running shoes count as tech? Bought myself some Brooks with really nice prices (although still high against local minimum wage, a STEAL against competing models here).

Glycerin 20 for R$480, Ghost 15 for R$420.
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They're lovely! Do they have these size 45

I haven't had a nice pair of tennis shoes since the Shox went out of production

 

[entropy13]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX
RAM: Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-5600 16GBx2
Storage: TEAMGROUP T-Force Cardea Zero Z440 2TB, Silicon Power A60 2TB, Silicon Power A55 2TB, Seagate Barracuda 4TBx2
PSU: Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 FM 750W 80+ Gold
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
Case: Montech Air X
Additional Case Fan: Thermalright TL-C12C-S

Only thing missing is a video card and my new system would be complete LOL

 

[Lost_Troll]

I have been on a bit of a cheap buying spree lately..........

We are migrating from Mentor Expedition to Allegro for PCB design, and I need something for home that could learn on, so I picked up a Dell refurbished Precision 5540 for 438$ shipped. I7-9850H, 32Gb DDR4 Ram, 512 NvME PCIe SSD, Quadro T2000 4Gb VRAM. On a side note, I use Solid Edge for 3d mechanical design and found that they now have a free version called Solid Edge Community Edition that is basically a full version of the paid version I use.

Spam, my game rig is getting some updates.......

Picked up the I9 12900K from Newegg for 370$ shipped and it came with Warhammer III for free. Also picked up a GM850 from EVGA and two PCIe power cables for 116$ and two more 120MM fans for 35$.

 

[wNotyarD]

They're lovely! Do they have these size 45

Unfortunately not, the biggest size at Centauro (which is their sole distributor) caps at 44

 

[Dr. Dro]

Unfortunately not, the biggest size at Centauro (which is their sole distributor) caps at 44

I'll have to check it out it might work for me. My foot isn't that long (just about size 44) but it's pretty tall so i need to wear a number above or something that has no laces

 

[maxfly]

Almost forgot about these little goodies...
Couldn't pass up a $54 1tb 980pro...it's way overkill for any of my upcoming client builds but whaddyado? And yup, got sick and tired of lugging my 1000lb case out to the back porch to blow it out with my compressor (back spasms will do that to ya, bleh). Actually almost got away with drilling a hole in the office floor to run the compressor hose up from the basement but the old lady caught me before I could get started and well, you know how that goes So here's my cheap, lazy ass old man solution. Lug it over to the window and blow it out with the XPOWAH! In the latest summer themed, light green haha. Much
easier on the back. Little suckers actually powerful for a pet dryer/auto detailer/air pump... wtf ever that's supposed to mean :/ auto detailer?