What's your latest tech purchase?

[Athlonite]

Well lets face it the newer ones are much lighter, the older one i have here (VSX-56TXI) is around 42lb even the feet on that are solid metal lol the dam transformer is heavier than that whole unit. either way he likely got it though it having what he wants on it. Maybe connecting it to a PC and so forth.

yes connected to PC via optical out on my SB X-Fi Fatality Titanium pcie sound card and as for weight yeah it's about half the older VSX-D457 and slightly smaller footprint aswell but I have to admit a much cleaner and crisper sound too which I like alot

If I'm honest I must have had a blonde moment and just completely ignored the text and just looked at the picture lol I'll click on the link and take a look

EDIT - Can't see enough speaker outputs to see compatibility with Atmos.. Looks a decent unit for the price



What is with me missing replies!! Many apologises, well as it's for gaming and such, it'll be massively decent enough for the task I thought the Logitech Z-5500's I had seemed overkill really but that's another level Awesome! What speakers do you have to go with it?

I have a set of Technics from an old stereo I had speakers are really nice and still work perfectly they are these ones

front L/R are 120W RMS and the surrounds / Center are 100W RMS each along with those I have a 180W RMS Sansui powered sub

 

[EarthDog]

OMG.. I remember that Technics thing from the 90s... I wanted it so bad!!! But went with Technics separates instead.

 

[kurosagi01]

Posted this in my own thread, thought i'll share it here aswell.

 

[DR4G00N]

Got a new cpu and gpu/mobo for my dell n5110.
Upgraded from an i3 2330M & iGPU to an i5 2540M & GT 525M. Still not fast, but older games can be played reasonably well when the gpu is oc'ed to be faster than a GT 550M.

Getting annoying static/pop noises from the audio with this new mobo though. Seems like a common issue. (Edit: Looks to be caused by newer nVidia drivers)

Kinda glad I didn't go for a quad core since the cooler in this is pretty small, this i5 hit's ~80c in sustained AVX load. The gpu is only in the 60c range when benching.

 

[EarthDog]

3dMark vantage.. now that brings back memories!

 

[DR4G00N]

3dMark vantage.. now that brings back memories!

I still run it quite a bit since it's quick to install and the cpu tests are very hard for oc's to pass stable.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

A Crucial MX500 1TB m.2 ssd

 

[Readlight]

Had to buy a new Amp/Receiver yesterday as the front L/R channels on my old Pioneer VSX-D457 went poo so replaced it with an Pioneer VSX-531 Amp/Receiver so hopefully this one will last as long as my old one did

another dead, do they even now how to protect there ports. Who can repair this stuf

 

[AsRock]

another dead, do they even now how to protect there ports. Who can repair this stuf

Fixing the left right channels be pretty easy normally ( don't sound like the main transistors failed ). Shit gets more complex when there is HDMI involved.

 

[Athlonite]

OMG.. I remember that Technics thing from the 90s... I wanted it so bad!!! But went with Technics separates instead.

Yup bought it 19 yrs ago was a great little system until things started going poo on it like the tape decks not playin and the CD player dying the amp still works fine though and that's in my lounge running 2 wharfdale floor speakers

Fixing the left right channels be pretty easy normally ( don't sound like the main transistors failed ). Shit gets more complex when there is HDMI involved.

yeah I can do it I just can't be arsed right now as I don't have the time to spend on it

 

[HUSKIE]

Bought this unfinished build. With ryzen 5 1600,MSI b350 am4 Motherboard,ek Cpu block,EK ddc pump and res combo and xspc Radiator.

 

[sam_86314]

Picked this up at Best Buy for $22...

Also ordered a USB hard drive dock which is turning into my most frustrating Amazon order yet.

I originally ordered it on January 25th, and Amazon said it would arrive on the 27th. Then suddenly, it was running late, so I got a refund. I then reordered it on the 31st, and everything seemed to be going smoothly until today.

Both Amazon and USPS say it was delivered, but I checked on my front porch and in my mailbox, and it isn't here.

Edit: Turns out they left it at the end of my driveway rather than going the 20 feet to my front door. I wasn't expecting this level of incompetence/laziness.

Speed directly connected to my PC over SATA 3

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

I got these two memory card on a discount. I think I somehow made a mistake purchasing the 512GB although it was highly discounted with free shipping and coupon code for the new year, the price per GB ratio is not as good as the 256GB. I was too tempted cannot pass up the deal and wanted the 512GB for my new phone so I don't have to worry about space after formatting as internal storage. Once I load this 512GB into my phone there is more storage on my phone than my deskstop sandisk ssd boot drive lmao. Holding this tiny card barely the size of fingernail feels like holding some space age tech. Currently the 512GB is the biggest micro sd card as of now as I type this, I thought the sandisk 400GB was big enough.

 

[jaw shwaa]

Just got these in the mail.the 6700k is from silicone lottery, it's been dellided and binned. Not a bad upgrade from an fx 8350 platform

 

[remixedcat]

 

[sam_86314]

Coming soon (thanks to tax returns)...

 

[phill]

Finally got my hands on one of these again...

The one on the left is a donor really.. Not sure that works at all, but the one on the right, I'll have to do some testing to find out but that works With all the accessories so happy chappy. Not selling this one..... lol

 

[Jetster]

Platinum SFX power supply ...Cute

Fully modular

 

[Dinnercore]

It was about time I got one.

 

[Jetster]

That's cool but $$$$

 

[sam_86314]

First piece of the puzzle managed to survive shipping!

Upgrading from a 2600K to a 2600X

Rest of the upgrade arrives tomorrow.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

Bought a Polk Command soundbar, verry happy with the purchase. Great sound and build quality

 

[sam_86314]

Rest of the components survived shipping! But will they survive me?

It posts!

This upgrade was much more stressful that I anticipated (I've never worked with this many brand new components before). I ended up bending the shit out of the pins in the USB3 header by the SATA ports due to the weird angle I was working at. Fortunately the board has another, so I made sure the pins weren't touching. I'll probably repair it later.

I'll install the R1 eventually. Just wanted to get this thing together and usable. One minor annoyance was how my 525GB Crucial SSD kept BSODing when I tried to boot to it. Not a big deal since I was planning on making an SSD upgrade anyway. Currently have a temporary setup on my PNY drive until I can get an NVMe drive for this.

I'm excited to finally get to use this thing!
Geekbench 4

Stock speed with the stock cooler and it already beats my OCed 2600K!
Cinebench R15

Precision boost and XFR are pretty cool. Already seen this thing boost up to 4.4GHz and even 4.7GHz briefly.

 

[Athlonite]

nice build and great perf just one concern I wouldn't leave that PCIe power plug there if I were you it'll drag the end of the card down better to bring it out the same tray hole as the 24pin power cable

 

[Shou Miko]

Friday last week I made the switch back to Android after using iPhone I had both the 6 Plus and the 7 Plus.

I wanted to try android again and to be sure that I would receive updates and find a design I liked.
My first thought was Oppo K1 or Find X but then I opted for something more local.

The OnePlus 6T 128GB/8GB in Thunder Purple it looks awesome and OnePlus' original ebony cover:


The battery life really surprised me, I can get 25 hours of battery time with 10 hours and 39 mins of screen on time


This amazed me here then any of my iPhone's I had only thing is WhatsApp on iOS only supports backup up iCloud and Apple won't allow iCloud on android so it was a bit worried but I got my text transferred and OnePlus switch handled the rest for me so right now I am still super happy with this phone.