What's your latest tech purchase?

[Jetster]

New interface, need more inputs

 

[xBruce88x]

Srry couldn't resist

 

[storm-chaser]

CPU Bliss:

CPU Nirvana:

 

[phill]

Good old Johnny 5!!

Well I finally got my 5 series CPU.....

Spoiler: Really??!!

I

Well it's fairly close to a 5950X isn't it??!



Well maybe something that's a little less boring...

Got myself some needed supplies from Aquatuning as I couldn't find these damn things anywhere...

The fan splitter cables and the molex to SATA plugs will definitely come in handy where the USB 3 to micro is for my two external drives I had recently bought. The 1m cable that it came with, was a little, well short! lol

I'll update my build log at some point when I get the cables sorted out the molex to SATA will be a welcomed mod for my HP Microserver

 

[storm-chaser]

Well maybe something that's a little less boring...


I'll update my build log at some point when I get the cables sorted out the molex to SATA will be a welcomed mod for my HP Microserver

Guessing you are doing the Molex conversion to run an SSD?

I have a gen 10 micro server which is to soon become a NAS for all my pictures and whatnot.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Felt it was time for a new rodent, as my G500s is starting to get a bit flaky at times.
Still don't like this the design, but at least the stupidly expensive Lightspeed version has a rubberised wheel again.
(sorry about the poor quality photo, not sure what happened there.)

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Got my UH750 that I ordered from eBay a while back for £220 posted, first one got smashed by UPS and the panel was ruined in the top right (posted about it on the techpowerup discord) fortunately though, he was awesome and sent me out another.

 

[phill]

Guessing you are doing the Molex conversion to run an SSD?

I have a gen 10 micro server which is to soon become a NAS for all my pictures and whatnot.

I sure am What drives/setup are you planning on doing with it? Last I saw, they have become, damn expensive!!

It's a Gen 7 I think, one with a AMD Turion?? Anyways, I'm already got my Synology setup but that has 6 4TB WD Reds in, so I'm planning or at least toying with the idea of putting those in the HP and then replacing the Synology drives with something stupid, I mean kinda futureproof.... I know it has Exos in the title but sizes, I'm not so sure at the moment and I'm definitely not sure what raid to use with them either... Time will tell!!

I need to go put stuff in my project log.... I really am falling behind with that...

 

[p1ngwe1]

New PSU.

 

[khemist]

Upgrading my 500GB 960 evo.

 

[kapone32]

Got one of these for a customer build. I was using a B450 board but the case (4000D Airflow) has a USB C header and cable so I upgraded to this board.

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI AMD AM4 B550 DDR4

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI AMD B550 Socket AM4 (Supports 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Processors) MICRO ATX 4 DIMM DDR4, PCIE 4.0, GBLAN, WIFI, Mystic Light JRAINBOW (ARGB)

www.canadacomputers.com

 

[biffzinker]

Got one of these for a customer build. I was using a B450 board but the case (4000D Airflow) has a USB C header and cable so I upgraded to this board.

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI AMD AM4 B550 DDR4

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI AMD B550 Socket AM4 (Supports 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Processors) MICRO ATX 4 DIMM DDR4, PCIE 4.0, GBLAN, WIFI, Mystic Light JRAINBOW (ARGB)

www.canadacomputers.com

The provided link takes me to the home page.

 

[windwhirl]

Got one of these for a customer build. I was using a B450 board but the case (4000D Airflow) has a USB C header and cable so I upgraded to this board.

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI AMD AM4 B550 DDR4

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI AMD B550 Socket AM4 (Supports 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Processors) MICRO ATX 4 DIMM DDR4, PCIE 4.0, GBLAN, WIFI, Mystic Light JRAINBOW (ARGB)

www.canadacomputers.com

A nice board. Two M2 sockets, a good enough amount of USB ports (though I find strange that the PS/2 port is in the middle of the USB port array and not tucked away in a corner), Wifi.

And a BIOS Flash button for doing it without CPU, RAM or GPU. Very nice. That feature should come standard these days.

The provided link takes me to the home page.

You have to answer the captcha once and then go back to the provided link.

 

[biffzinker]

You have to answer the captcha once and then go back to the provided link.

I didn't get a captcha just language selection then to the homepage. It worked the second time.

 

[kapone32]

A nice board. Two M2 sockets, a good enough amount of USB ports (though I find strange that the PS/2 port is in the middle of the USB port array and not tucked away in a corner), Wifi.

And a BIOS Flash button for doing it without CPU, RAM or GPU. Very nice. That feature should come standard these days.


You have to answer the captcha once and then go back to the provided link.

For $149.99 CAD it is priced nice too.

 

[windwhirl]

For $149.99 CAD it is priced nice too.

Yeah, to me it seemed quite below what people have been complaining about (B550 boards at 200 or more USD) but then again I live in the Price Distortion World , so I didn't comment on it.

 

[storm-chaser]

I sure am What drives/setup are you planning on doing with it? Last I saw, they have become, damn expensive!!

It's a Gen 7 I think, one with a AMD Turion?? Anyways, I'm already got my Synology setup but that has 6 4TB WD Reds in, so I'm planning or at least toying with the idea of putting those in the HP and then replacing the Synology drives with something stupid, I mean kinda futureproof.... I know it has Exos in the title but sizes, I'm not so sure at the moment and I'm definitely not sure what raid to use with them either... Time will tell!!

I already have done that mod myself so I figured I had a good guess as to what you might be doing with yours

This is my setup at the momont. Running four of these high end Hitachi (HGST) drives in Raid 10. That gives me about 6 TB of storage of my memory serves....



G.SKill DDR4 4000MHz kit is being used at the moment... I'm all about that overkill ya know!! lol





Four of these guys to form the array.

I sure am What drives/setup are you planning on doing with it? Last I saw, they have become, damn expensive!!

I just checked my amazon account and it appears there are still plenty of them in stock. A steal at only $39.99

Amazon.com

 

[phill]

I already have done that mod myself so I figured I had a good guess as to what you might be doing with yours

This is my setup at the momont. Running four of these high end Hitachi (HGST) drives in Raid 10. That gives me about 6 TB of storage of my memory serves....



G.SKill DDR4 4000MHz kit is being used at the moment... I'm all about that overkill ya know!! lol





Four of these guys to form the array.




I just checked my amazon account and it appears there are still plenty of them in stock. A steal at only $39.99

Amazon.com

To be honest, I don't even need it I have my Synology I custom made and it's been perfect. Now with Xeon, 16GB RAM, 6 4TD Reds but a space upgrade would be lovely.. Only question is, when your thinking of putting in 8 drives in and depending on what RAID I settle with, I might need another 4 or 6 drives on top of that... It's not so cheap...

Thinking of trying to get 4 of the WD Reds in the HP and then have two spares but not sure...
I can't get over the cost of the new Gen 10 HP Microservers, they are crazy expensive

 

[R-T-B]

I already have done that mod myself so I figured I had a good guess as to what you might be doing with yours

This is my setup at the momont. Running four of these high end Hitachi (HGST) drives in Raid 10. That gives me about 6 TB of storage of my memory serves....



G.SKill DDR4 4000MHz kit is being used at the moment... I'm all about that overkill ya know!! lol





Four of these guys to form the array.




I just checked my amazon account and it appears there are still plenty of them in stock. A steal at only $39.99

Amazon.com

Those are great drives for the money provided they are refurb'd properly. It's pretty hard to kill an Ultrastar. Looks like they are Ultrastar 7k4000 series too, which is decently modern. For $39.99 you are correct, that's a sinfully good deal.

My home backup server runs almost exclusively on UltraStar 7k6000's (bulk ATA encrytion models because of my government work), but if I could grab a cheap one I'd be darn tempted... darn my storage requirements. No one even knows I live here, let alone that I store local county documents, lol. Better safe than fined, I suppose. Still, what they cost new is highway robbery compared to that.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Got myself a new backup drive. I'd forgotten how slow hard drives are...

 

[tabascosauz]

Renoir arrived. I wanted to get a shot of an AM4 CPU with the letters bright instead of dark for once:

 

[windwhirl]

Got myself a new backup drive. I'd forgotten how slow hard drives are...

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I gotta love taking a day to defrag a drive

Renoir arrived. I wanted to get a shot of an AM4 CPU with the letters bright instead of dark for once:

Nice! Enjoy!

 

[TheLostSwede]

I gotta love taking a day to defrag a drive

Needed something to back up my NAS to. At least I won't have to sit and wait for the backup, as it can take care of that on its own.

 

[Valantar]

Renoir arrived. I wanted to get a shot of an AM4 CPU with the letters bright instead of dark for once:

I'm very, very happy with my 4650G, here's hoping yours works equally well! What motherboard are you using it in?

 

[tabascosauz]

I'm very, very happy with my 4650G, here's hoping yours works equally well! What motherboard are you using it in?

I've got the B550I Aorus AX for the Renoir chip. Feels kinda weird to be using a midrange 4-layer (though stout) mATX as my daily driver while my TV PC gets the 8-layer 90A ITX board haha. Judging from its design and QVL I don't think it should be a limiting factor all the way up to DDR4-5000.

Have you noticed so far any major differences in memory voltages and overclocking compared to Matisse CPUs? I can't find much good info about Renoir SOC aside from BZ channel and I missed his last 4750G stream