What's your latest tech purchase?

[Super XP]

The amount of people on the FB PCMR groups buying those only to find out "oh wait this needs my 16x slot and now i cant have a GPU?"
even using the secondary slot with bifurcation, you can only use two drives on it.

because normally, the OS will invisibly create/expand the file. These people disable it or shrink it and run their C: drives full, so theres no room for that expansion so it goes crashy crashy.


its common enough it comes up in google searches
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Well if you want to use the full power of it, it will need a 16x slot. In my case, I can only have 2 M.2 drives connected to it. Which is more than enough for me anyways. And based on my ROG Motherboard the configuration is as follows. I am running my GPU and that ASUS M.2 Expansion card with the 2x M.2 drives in the RED down bellow. Because its PCIe 4.0 I have no bandwidth issues at all running in x8 for each.

Expansion Slots​

1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 (max at x4 mode) *1 - My GPU
2 x PCIe 4.0 x1
2 x PCIe 4.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8) - My ASUS Expansion Card
2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8)
1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x8 mode)
AMD X570 chipset

 

[Fleurious]

New batteries for the UPS.

 

[QuietBob]

New batteries for the UPS. View attachment 312348

I see you just couldn't resist testing that non-spillable seal

 

[lexluthermiester]

I see you just couldn't resist testing that non-spillable seal

They likely shipped that way. You can tell from the plastic wrap.

 

[r9]

7800xt and Reverb g2.
Just missing the Fantec dd wheel to complete the dream sim setup.
Gpu car safety is very important!

 

[oxrufiioxo]

My brother needed a new gpu had a really hard time going back between the 4070 and 7800XT all day due to liking things about both and not liking things about both.




Had I went with the 7800XT it would have been the Nitro so about $40 cheaper I didn't need Starfield and he has no interest So I probably would have sold the key.

I hope he enjoys it told him Merry Xmas lol..... I almost got myself a 7900XTX as a backup and gave him my 3080ti That's in my secondary pc lmao but I was worried his PSU couldn't handle it.

He's also a huge Nvidia fangirl which also played a part.

 

[WhitetailAni]

Some parts for a splitter cable.

No one sells 8pin 3mm microfit splitters that I could find so I am building my own. Plus that way I know the quality!

 

[sam_86314]

Saw this for $143 before tax...

...a 4TB Fanxiang S660.

I've had a great experience with the 2TB one I got for my laptop, and that price piqued my curiosity.

It has a Phison E21 controller, which surprised me. I was hoping it used YMTC TLC NAND like the 2TB one, but unfortunately, it uses Micron N48R 176-layer QLC.

That makes it virtually identical to a Crucial P3 Plus or Corsair MP600 Core XT but for around $70 less (though I feel that both of those drives are grossly overpriced for QLC).

It's installed in the secondary M.2 slot on my board, which is PCIE Gen 3 only.

Overall, my feelings are mixed on this drive.

It performs better in benchmarks than the SATA RAID0 array it's replacing. Who knows how it'll perform as it fills up.

I also doubt the 2400TBW endurance, given the NAND it uses, but we'll see.

 

[wheresmycar]

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7800xt and Reverb g2.
Just missing the Fantec dd wheel to complete the dream sim setup.
Gpu car safety is very important!

awww such a cute baby!!

The belt isn't hooked up

 

[oxrufiioxo]

awww such a cute baby!!

The belt isn't hooked up

Same thing I was thinking why isn't it strapped in lol

 

[r9]

Set up the Acer XR341CK on my table, my table looks kinda small now. ...

Watching widescreen movies w/o the annoying black bars is just sex dude! First w/o cropping, what you'd normally see on a 16:9 monitor (w/o the black bars on the sides of course), the dreaded black bars on top and below

Cropping it to fit the entire screen is so much more secksay!

awww such a cute baby!!

The belt isn't hooked up

Baby too fat didn't fit.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Planning to get this:

ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING AM4 ATX Motherboard - Newegg.com

Buy ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming AMD AM4 Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 & 3rd Gen Ryzen ATX Gaming Motherboard (PCIe 4.0, 2.5Gb LAN, BIOS Flashback, HDMI 2.1, Addressable Gen 2 RGB Header and Aura Sync) with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

I got it yesterday. Still in the box.

 

[r9]

I disagree. Putting together a spare system is always a good thing. Very sensible.

And what do you call putting together a spare for the spare ?

 

[ViperXTR]

 

[KrazyT]

A Samsung SSD 870 QVO 2To

Nothing fancy, it will replace the HD in the PS4 Pro for a slightly better perfs and above all, more space.

 

[Frick]

Things! Yes I did jump the gun and got a 6950xt instead of a 7800xt, but they're quite close in price, plus I wanted it now. What I really wanted was a 7900 something, but that would have meant I wouldn't want to buy the RAM and a Ryzen 5600.

I will probably do some benchmarks on how a high end mid range GPU performs with a Ryzen 2600x and 16GB of slow memory, and also some power draw stuff when playing on 4k/60hz.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

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Things! Yes I did jump the gun and got a 6950xt instead of a 7800xt, but they're quite close in price, plus I wanted it now. What I really wanted was a 7900 something, but that would have meant I wouldn't want to buy the RAM and a Ryzen 5600.

I will probably do some benchmarks on how a high end mid range GPU performs with a Ryzen 2600x and 16GB of slow memory, and also some power draw stuff when playing on 4k/60hz.

From memory that model is pretty excellent. Should give you decent 4k60 performance in most games.

 

[QuietBob]

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Things! Yes I did jump the gun and got a 6950xt instead of a 7800xt, but they're quite close in price, plus I wanted it now. What I really wanted was a 7900 something, but that would have meant I wouldn't want to buy the RAM and a Ryzen 5600.

I will probably do some benchmarks on how a high end mid range GPU performs with a Ryzen 2600x and 16GB of slow memory, and also some power draw stuff when playing on 4k/60hz.

Are you planning to run it with your current PSU?

 

[Konyalee]

also some power draw stuff when playing on 4k/60hz.

My 7900 XTX draws about 170 watts at 4k/60hz if you want to benchmark it against high end

 

[Frick]

Are you planning to run it with your current PSU?

Nah, i have a Corsair RM850x as well.

My 7900 XTX draws about 170 watts at 4k/60hz if you want to benchmark it against high end

This will pull significantly more.

 

[wNotyarD]

Just got my new air cooler and fans for my case, replacing my AIO:

Quite unfortunate that none of them are directly compatible with Gigabyte's VDG pinout, so I already ordered an adapter to turn the lights on.

Here's how they look.

 

[TheLostSwede]

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Things! Yes I did jump the gun and got a 6950xt instead of a 7800xt, but they're quite close in price, plus I wanted it now. What I really wanted was a 7900 something, but that would have meant I wouldn't want to buy the RAM and a Ryzen 5600.

I will probably do some benchmarks on how a high end mid range GPU performs with a Ryzen 2600x and 16GB of slow memory, and also some power draw stuff when playing on 4k/60hz.

So what are we playing, now that I'm back in Sweden again and have my new build?

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

Last purchase is a HP Z210 with i5-2400

 

[lexluthermiester]

And what do you call putting together a spare for the spare ?

Is that what you've done? More power too you.

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

Going to give this a try this weekend.