Right, part two... I really needed to do this more often... Stupid Phill... Anyways, here's a few more
Well I needed one of these......
Because I was very weak and I saw both of these........ But my only excuse, it was my birthday..... So, I hope it doesn't count!!............
And to test it, we used some of this.....
As my daughters where both playing on the Switch like never before, I decided to grab a charging station and another 'comfy grip' so they could play on Mario Kart a little easier
A few more films it seems..... Maybe I have a problem......
The Tapo plugs seem pretty good, monitor the power of whatever you plug them into, works through a data connection and works with the WiFi from the router, so pretty happy with those. With the UK prices of electric, its kinda nice to track where all the juice is going!
Saw this on offer for upstairs because of the dust in the PC room, so thought this might help with things (and some more dusting as well!!)
Couldn't resist these......
Several of the Top gear blu rays where from one gent via Ebay, all new as well, very happy and had a great deal as well, he did dish out the discount! I was very happy with those purchases
Now, another care package from my mate in the US... A few things that I'd bought I think in 2022 that we never got shipped over so, here's a few pics for hopefully your pleasure
I'm not sure if I know where to begin with that lot but the two RTX 3070s where from our mining ventures, now they are hopefully going to be installed into my girls PCs this evening (I hope.... Taken me ages to get this far.....!!) so they will be helping with TPUs Folding Team
However though, I think the biggest find out of the delivery was the pair of 980X's that I will hopefully get around to upgrading my X58 systems... I'm very much looking forward to getting those bad boys back up and running. To find a pair of the CPUs boxed as well, I thought I had won the lottery (turns out I didn't as I needed to put on a few quid for some numbers.... Who knew right!?!?......)
The Asus Impact and Noctua cooler I believe I bought from a gent on this very forum, which is also part of the give away I'm planning to do with a few bits and pieces of hardware I have here
Quite excited with that one, but I've got to find a case to put it in... Not sure where I'm going with that just yet but we'll see
I think the films I have already covered before in a previous post, but again, can't find these things anywhere in the UK without either being imports from Spain or somewhere like or having them cost £40 a film... So US I go to buy stuff!!
And I think lastly, the few hard drives, a few spare for my Dell R730 server, sadly one of my previous drives developed a SMART error, so glad I got a spare or two now
The others, I had bought for a friend, so he's also happy as well
My mate deals with mostly SAS drives as a bit of a business, so he has a lot of them to sell. Well recommended, shameless plug but I think he needs a mention!!
Oh and I thought, since all of these imported 4k's and blu rays etc. I needed a multi region player..... Here we have one
And there we have my aging HiFi and surround setup as well
It's been brilliant and well worth it all. Sadly thought the player wasn't quite what the company had promised and went back. It was meant to be completely unlocked so you could change the region of it so you could play anything, but sadly it didn't and only played a few select titles which was quite frustrating.. That said, they did send out two players in total and have them collected at their cost, so customer service, high up there
As for the player, well, it was worth its weight in gold, even more so if it was the one that was unlocked! It had amazing build quality, the picture looked decent from the little I was able to test with it and of course with my aging Samsung 1080P plasma TV, it just showed me I need to upgrade the TV!!
Maybe next year.... If it breaks.....
Oh yes, what's this I see..... Seasonic.... Could it be.....
A PSU or two??... Well as things would have it, I previously bought 4 of these for a few other builds I had to do for my girls and one for me (in a small case) and I was trying to find a replacement as one of my current EVGA PSUs had developed a bit of a fault which I thought, time to change them... So as I was trying to find some of these as I had previously paid out £110 each for the 4 I'd bought before, when I saw these had gone up to at least (I think it was either....) £170 or £180 each, I thought, ouch and went hunting... I found them for £122 from MemoryC.com so I jumped on buying 6 just so I had enough and some spare, cos you never can have too many PSUs right?? ....... Was a struggle to find out what to really go with, but with 10 years warranty, I think these will be perfect
Well, I don't believe this needs anything said about it....
John Wick 4.... I was very much looking forward to receiving this and I'm so very glad I bought it
No spoilers here!!
And this was bought for the TPU's Folding and Crunching give away I'm trying to put together with a few bits and pieces..
Well sadly I can't add any more pics, but I've put a few more of this one up in our Kreij build thread under the projects forum, I'm hoping that this will make someone happy with the give away and I hope to be doing a few more pieces of hardware with it, maybe one for the US as well.. I'm trying to track down an AM4 motherboard at the moment for it so I hope it will all go to a great home
Anyways, I hope I've not put anyone to sleep with these updates, I've got a few more to add and then that's it I promise!
Just hope you enjoy the pics and hopefully my project log when I get around to updating that!!
I promise these are the last few......
Cross my heart!!
Some extra giveaway pics for our TPU Kreij build.....
Now this is where it might get interesting for some... Some might just think, what the heck is this guy on... I'm good with either !!
I never seem to follow the norm, so here we go....
Now as you could see from the in case pic, I had an NVME drive in the first slot of the motherboard but sadly it was taking out two of my drives from my setup which I didn't wish for so my mate from the US suggested to get an NVME adaptor board, so there we go
But as I was a little daft, I saw that eventually I had grabbed a 1x card... Well, as you can see from the CrystalDiskMark test, whilst it was no slouch, it wasn't what it could have been performing like, so... I grabbed some 4x cards instead.....
And boom, there we have a slight improvement from the 1x slot with the same NVME drive... Oh I thought I'd buy a pair of these NVME drives simply because I had some older SATA based ones, which I thought I'd be able to use but then with the adaptor cards I had bought, they wouldn't work, so never mind
They where double the size and a bit which is kind of handy and well, what was amazing was the £15.99 for the 256GB size drive... Now I was happy enough for buying two of those, so I'm not complaining there at all
However I was more impressed when it actually worked and didn't take out either the network card I had plugged in or the SATA expansion card that was also in the system...
Now just for giggles, here's a little insight as to what I'm planning on.....
One Coolermaster Stacker 810 V2 case and a few hard drives cages and a few hard drives.... Whatever could this crazy man be up to....
Well, that might well be telling (but I will set the record straight and say its NOT Chia mining..........) Hopefully I will get some time to update my project log but for the rest of the evening, I've got to upgrade my two girls PCs with a couple hardware changes....
Thank you all for getting this far... I hope I've not bored anyone to sleep or anything much worse....
Thank you for looking
I think I might have missed out on a few films and such, but I think that's plenty for now!!
Ive spent almost £300 on SSDs in the last few weeks. I cant take it unless youre giving it away for free 
