What's your latest tech purchase?

[8BitZ80]

I've also bought a few of those 80mm redux, thought the price was alright, but then I got the "newer" version and realized the performance is way better and the number of supplied accesories more than makes up for the price, I needed some Y splitters and good ones would cost more than the difference...

That's what I was thinking. Noctua don't just take the extra $10 and give nothing in return. You get the adapters, rubber mounts, better quality plastics, the improved SSO2 bearing, and also the Chromax versions are the same price. The Redux fans are good but normally I'd be inclined to just put down the extra moolah.

i have some of the grey 120mm Noctuas, theyre real nice.
i got a set of the NF-A12x25's with my Heatsink, & those things are amazingly quiet. at 100% speed, they are barely audible.
i wasnt going to use them, because of the color, but i figured i could make it work, since my motherboard has RGB, i was right too, white lighting makes them look great

Those NF-A12x25's are dead quiet. I've seen reviews where they output the same noise level at 1000rpm as other fans running at 500rpm.

 

[xkm1948]

Just got my 4th RTX3090. This is going into my lab 3970X workstation. Took some effort to secure this at MSRP.

Kinda sad EVGA got rid of the red lips like my first 3090 in my home PC.

 

[micropage7]

not a fan of how the heatsink is 4 inches longer than the PCB

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Looks good with that shroud, but off side heatsink is the trend

 

[xrobwx71]

I've also bought a few of those 80mm redux, thought the price was alright, but then I got the "newer" version and realized the performance is way better and the number of supplied accesories more than makes up for the price, I needed some Y splitters and good ones would cost more than the difference...



A tv this big and expensive should have better feet than a couple plastic brackets, I wouldn't trust them with my cats...

They are metal. Or, I should say, they felt like metal when I installed them.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Those NF-A12x25's are dead quiet.

they are.... & they're also very expensive ($30/each) or so. not as expensive as those ridiculous corsair 'Liberace' fans, but still expensive.

 

[Tomgang]

Oh sweet. Just got the news. My Ryzen 9 5950X is finally on its way. Just shipped today.

I Will post new image of everything, when I get the last parts home. Then I can finnally begin to build my 2 in 1 system. Unfortunately with out new gpu's. So I will have stick to a gtx 1060 and a gt 1030 I will buy for temporary use as Zen 3 don't have a build in gpu.

 

[Secret Rival]

This is my favorite purchase up to date for my build. Thank you to Morbius2021 for being a great guy!
Thank you for this Core p7 - in perfect shape as you said.
Morbius2021 a very good person to deal with, very trustworthy. Thank you so much!

 

[WhitetailAni]

FireWire 400 to Sony iLink cable, VGA cable covers, M.2 E key WiFi card, DVD+R(W?), ThinkPad key thing, trackball ball and mouse base.
All for $2.50 USD.

Spoiler

 

[Ruru]

FireWire 400 to Sony iLink cable, VGA cable covers, M.2 E key WiFi card, DVD+R(W?), ThinkPad key thing, trackball ball and mouse base.
All for $2.50 USD.

Spoiler

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Wasn't iLink the "mini-Firewire" Sony used, even in older PS2 models like mine?

 

[WhitetailAni]

Wasn't iLink the "mini-Firewire" Sony used, even in older PS2 models like mine?

Yep, my PS2 has an iLink port.
It's the same as FireWire 400, but without the power pins.

 

[jboydgolfer]

This is my favorite purchase up to date for my build. Thank you to Morbius2021 for being a great guy!
Thank you for this Core p7 - in perfect shape as you said.
Morbius2021 a very good person to deal with, very trustworthy. Thank you so much!
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ive always been curious about those wall mount cases.

 

[Tomgang]

So it came today. My Ryzen 9 5950X. I dont think i have to say much more about this CPU. So i now have bofh 5600X and 5950X for my 2 in 1 system build. all ready order all the last part i need. Unfortunally some parts will take 2-4 weeks to arrive. So i will wait with posting the rest i need, until i have it all home. GPU wise i have for now dropped RTX cards. Pricing and aviability is just to much right now. My buget dosent allow for buying GPU at the current pricing. So i will take out a GTX 1060 sitting in my current X58 system and i found a new GTX 1050 TI as well to good price compared to what the market pricing is in gennerel. GPU power will be lagging compared to rest of the new system. But it cant be any different until it get´s better.

But first, here is all i got home so far. For those might wanted to know.

What's your latest tech purchase?

Renoir arrived. I wanted to get a shot of an AM4 CPU with the letters bright instead of dark for once: Nice one! Checking out your bench results in the Zen thread now.

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What's your latest tech purchase?

I couldn't resist and too the picture while driving :roll: Where is the seat belt, you should put it on for safety reason

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What's your latest tech purchase?

That's not it, it just doesn't come across very well in text. It also depends on mood. I'm not in a great one today.. I hope your day goes better for you. For me, it is my Christmas so I am enjoying best as I can. Edit: to those getting the Ryzen 5000 series CPU's, are you guys paying...

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The dual shock 4 was the best controller I have ever used on pc, unfortunately most of the games doesn't recognize direct input by default, but this can be solved by launching the game from steam big picture. Great acquisition! I'm mostly replacing my Logitech F310 here, since it sometimes...

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What's your latest tech purchase?

under $1500:pimp: my daughter is gonna be psyched when she sees her now build, although it wont be very climactic, since i bought her a new case recently & im reusing it :rolleyes:

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What's your latest tech purchase?

The first OS SSD has arrived for my 2 in 1 case system. But dam it takes its goddam time to get parts home to build a new system in these shortage and covid-19 times. HDD, fans and some other stuff will first arrive in early may. It's not a good time to build in. Started getting parts home...

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Alright here is 5950X and this will be my last posting und til i have gotten all the last part home. So stay tuned.

 

[freeagent]

Got my new cooler today, it’s a Thermalright Frost Commander 140. It’s nice to work with, easy to mount, excellent fans, and nice fan clips. The unit is nicely done. Sitting there doing nothing and is 5c better than my Le Grand Macho RT with TY-143, and loaded with Linpack Xtreme I see 8-10c cooler temps. Loads in the mid 70s compared to mid 80s.. colour me impressed! Don’t like how it covers my ram but whatever..

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

So it came today. My Ryzen 9 5950X. I dont think i have to say much more about this CPU. So i now have bofh 5600X and 5950X for my 2 in 1 system build. all ready order all the last part i need. Unfortunally some parts will take 2-4 weeks to arrive. So i will wait with posting the rest i need, until i have it all home. GPU wise i have for now dropped RTX cards. Pricing and aviability is just to much right now. My buget dosent allow for buying GPU at the current pricing. So i will take out a GTX 1060 sitting in my current X58 system and i found a new GTX 1050 TI as well to good price compared to what the market pricing is in gennerel. GPU power will be lagging compared to rest of the new system. But it cant be any different until it get´s better.

But first, here is all i got home so far. For those might wanted to know.

Alright here is 5950X and this will be my last posting und til i have gotten all the last part home. So stay tuned.

Wow! 5950x and also 5600x! Their rare cpu for the time being now and price so high. I am curious how your dual system look like! Do you run them to one monitor with a kvm switch?


I got some storage today. I pulled the trigger for the biggest and fastest CMR HDD ever made. This is fully conventional PMR no shingle crap. WD pack 9 platters in this HDD. The WD 18TB ultrastar HC550, I am regretting this expensive purchase but it is hard to let go as the price almost about the same as 18TB that is shucked and way faster. Plus 5 years warranty on that. Talking about warranty I have trouble registering this server hdd, just got contact with WD and they managed to register it. It was not detect on their normal warranty page. I guess I am holding the pinnacle of HDD perpendicular recording here, it is at the end of PMR technology before going to tech like SMR. Read write on this 18TB is about 275MB/s sequential. I will be sticking to PMR all the way until the day ssd catch up. Even then for long term archival HDD with PMR is still better.

My laptop with 512GB is rather short of space, went with a Sabrent rocket 2TB to migrate over. Damn ssd prices seems to gone up abit. Only this ssd have not gone up so far so I got it.

 

[GerKNG]

Fractal Design Meshify S2 populated with four Noctua NF A14 Industrial 3000RPM Fans.
and a NH D15 Chromax.

 

[micropage7]

This is my favorite purchase up to date for my build. Thank you to Morbius2021 for being a great guy!
Thank you for this Core p7 - in perfect shape as you said.
Morbius2021 a very good person to deal with, very trustworthy. Thank you so much!
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when your case is bigger than your monitor

 

[Secret Rival]

when your case is bigger than your monitor

Nah, not here it isn't!
It is close though, would make a nice mount directly below my Samsung 60" or whatever the hell it is. (A Vizio and Sharp also 60 or so).

 

[lexluthermiester]

Some time ago I got a Xeon 2667v2. Last week I got a mobo(Machinist X79Z), 32GB of RAM(DDR3-1866 ECC-Reg), a Thermaltake BigTyp Revo heatsink. PSU(EVGA), 1TB SSD(Pioneer) and a bunch of red led fans. I then discovered that the parts were slightly incompatible with mods I had made to my existing CoolerMaster HAF XB EVO case, so I bought a new one. Works perfect. Here's is the result...



Even under full load the CPU never gets above 63C(only one core). For the $85 I paid for the CPU and another $440 for the additional parts above, I'd say it's a solid system for the money spent. Gave the other CM HAF case to my son as he needed it. He had a recent accident involving a baby bottle leaking all over his previous system.

EDIT;
Also gave him my RTX2080 as his 2070Super was killed in the accident.

As I'm planning to get a 3070 or 3080 soon, figured my spare GTX 980 would be alright until then.

 

[Tomgang]

Wow! 5950x and also 5600x! Their rare cpu for the time being now and price so high. I am curious how your dual system look like! Do you run them to one monitor with a kvm switch?


I got some storage today. I pulled the trigger for the biggest and fastest CMR HDD ever made. This is fully conventional PMR no shingle crap. WD pack 9 platters in this HDD. The WD 18TB ultrastar HC550, I am regretting this expensive purchase but it is hard to let go as the price almost about the same as 18TB that is shucked and way faster. Plus 5 years warranty on that. Talking about warranty I have trouble registering this server hdd, just got contact with WD and they managed to register it. It was not detect on their normal warranty page. I guess I am holding the pinnacle of HDD perpendicular recording here, it is at the end of PMR technology before going to tech like SMR. Read write on this 18TB is about 275MB/s sequential. I will be sticking to PMR all the way until the day ssd catch up. Even then for long term archival HDD with PMR is still better.

My laptop with 512GB is rather short of space, went with a Sabrent rocket 2TB to migrate over. Damn ssd prices seems to gone up abit. Only this ssd have not gone up so far so I got it.

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It´s funny 5800X has good aviability (almost all stores in my country, have them in stock to MSRP) while the rest is still hard to get. 5600X i payed a little bit over MSRP like around 20 USD over MSRP, while 5950X i actually got to MSRP.
For now a single monitor with a KVM switch. But it is my plans to go for dual monitor setup later. Just have to wait. Cause my buget dosent allow for two monitors right now. This new build cost an arm and a leg. Let´s just say my wallet hates me.

I am looking for to get it build. But in these shortage time, patient is needed. I might make a seperate thread on TPU about this new build also about my old setup maybe. If there is interest for it. There will be some unik features like remote start of the PC´s. I will also be using a cooling setup on 5950X i think will be unik. It will be cooled by an noctua nh-d15 chromax.black but stock fans will be switched out with Noctua Industrial IPPC 3000 RPM fans. one 140 MM and one 120 MM fans and as paste i will try out thermal grizzly kryonaut extreme paste. I exspect this can compete with the good 360 MM AIO´s.

I all ready tryed a simular setup on my I7 980X with a Noctua NH-D14 and 3 x 3000 RPM noctua IPPC 120 MM fans and thermal grizzly kryonaut none extreme paste. The result was pretty dam great. Temperaure dropped by all most 10 degrees celsius. from 1500 RPM to 3000 RPM dropped temp alone by 6 degrees celsius and paste gave me the last drop. This allowed me to benchmark I7 980X at 4,75 GHz at 1,55 volts a winter day on aircooling. So based on this, i am now trying out something simular on 5950X. The downside is off cause the noise, 3000 RPM fans is not silent.

 

[JrRacinFan]

@Tomgang What case for your dual setup? Check out my specs. Just recently got the 5900X.

Im using the Gigabyte M27Q in terms of of monitor
with KVM

 

[Tomgang]

@Tomgang What case for your dual setup? Check out my specs. Just recently got the 5900X.

Im using the Gigabyte M27Q in terms of of monitor
with KVM

Case is phanteks enthoo 719 (also known as Luxe 2) black coluer. You can also see my monitor in the same link below.

What's your latest tech purchase?

I couldn't resist and too the picture while driving :roll: Where is the seat belt, you should put it on for safety reason

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[JrRacinFan]

enthoo 719

Similar internals to what I have. Nice!!! Enjoy!

 

[Tomgang]

Similar internals to what I have. Nice!!! Enjoy!

I Will for sure enjoy. Just going from X58 and i7 980x to a new platform and cpu is be nice.

 

[jboydgolfer]

fwiw, anyone who considers buying the STRIX 3070/3080, it is easily as large, but im guessing larger than my reference 3090, & im confident its heavier too

 

[WhitetailAni]

I bought a replacement logic board for my iMac G5 ALS 2 GHz 17", part number 820-1747-A.
The board came today, but there's a problem. See if you can spot it:

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Spoiler: ANSWER

The part number on the new board is 820-1540-A, not 820-1747-A. This means three things:
1. The CPU on here only runs at 1.8 GHz.
2. I can't use my WiFi card as the slot is different.
3. I can't use the board at all since the backlight controller mount is different (on my broken board there's pin sockets, but on this board there's just pins)

The eBay listing did say 820-1747-A, though, and unless you really look, they look almost identical.
So I contacted the eBay seller. They have 99.3% feedback (the one negative review is the buyer being salty - seller accidentally sent the wrong part, they were offered a full refund + shipping to sent the item back, but they said no and left bad feedback instead) so I'm hoping for the best!