What's your latest tech purchase?

[Caring1]

TBH i won't be selling a cards cheap, I already sold a 3070 for what I paid and it's super hard to find these, I've spent months looking.

Full costs plus postage is still a bargain compared to scalper's prices, hell I bet people are willing to pay more just to get one.

 

[khemist]

I will be selling for more than i paid for all the time and effort i've put in over the last few months.

 

[Space Lynx]

I tried getting my 280mm AIO water cooler installed the other night, but I failed... was harder than I expected cause of my case design, need two people, someone needs to hold the rad up for me while I get the first two or three screws in... so waiting for my parents to help me at some point... hopefully this weekend. my tiny air cooler the arctic e34 duo hits 93 celsius in prime 95 default stress tests... im hoping water cooler will top that out at 88 celsius with no other variable changes. maybe I will get lucky and get 85 celsius with the AIO I will probably use a slightly higher fan curve, not much over stock, just slightly higher... and see where that gets me. plus its only fair, since my arctic e34 duo uses a slightly higher fan curve than stock too

pics incoming when done though... :/

edit: keep in mind in heavy gaming, my arctic air cooler doesnt break 72 celsius. so its fine. i just wanted to bring that down to 65 if possible... thats my goal.

 

[sepheronx]

I know you weren't asking me, but I've had great experiences with them, never had a bad one and they've always performed as expected. Always had an easy time servicing and modding them as well.

it is too bad we dont get those cards up here. I see Palit online every now and then from other sites in other countries and I am always impressed by their costs. They looked to be (at msrp) cheaper than most other cards I seen).

I will be selling for more than i paid for all the time and effort i've put in over the last few months.

Rightly so. But dont go too overboard though.

 

[phill]

The evga 3070 was only £550 so not scalper prices, I'm not doing watercooling just now, sold off rads and some Bitsopwer fittings still have more fittings unsold.

How cards should be priced. Waiting on EVGA myself but I'm not in a rush, I have plenty laying about still to play with

 

[PerfectWave]

your label is messed up


now this is a 'different' layout for Sata ports that id not have gone with.... whats the rationale behind this? aesthetics aside
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Damn you cant use all of them LOL wtf

 

[Kovoet]

Second SSD m2 and windows arrived today

 

[framebuffer]

time to say goodbye to my beloved A6000

 

[Shou Miko]

Second SSD m2 and windows arrived today

Disc or USB version of windows 10 Home?

 

[freeagent]

I thought it would have been here today.. sad face.

Monday

 

[iBruceypoo]

I thought it would have been here today.. sad face.

Monday


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$800. Yeeowza!

 

[freeagent]

I know if effing stings lol!

I have my 5600X and 3600XT listed locally.. no bites yet so will probably have to sell elsewhere. Is 350 too much to ask for a 5600X and 260 for 3600XT? CAD not USD

 

[iBruceypoo]

I know if effing stings lol!

I have my 5600X and 3600XT listed locally.. no bites yet so will probably have to sell elsewhere. Is 350 too much to ask for a 5600X and 260 for 3600XT? CAD not USD

Congratulations though! The 5900X is an amazing processor.

If Asus produced an ROG Crossfire Apex 2-dimm board, I'd definitely think about an AMD CPU. Love my (2)AMD workstation graphics cards.

Your Cinebench Single-Thread scores "at stock" are probably higher than mine at 5.5Ghz, cuz Intel.

-And your Multithread scores are most definitely higher.

 

[khemist]

I'm a happy boy.

 

[freeagent]

Congratulations though! The 5900X is an amazing processor.

If Asus produced an ROG Crossfire Apex 2-dimm board, I'd definitely think about an AMD CPU. Love my (2)AMD workstation graphics cards.

I have been looking at their ITX B550 and X570 ROG boards.. pretty sweet!

I know.. tough crowd lol.. I might have to eat a few more bucks and lower a bit more. We’ll see.. it’s Friday.. it’s pay day.. might get lucky.. current events are not helpful.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Is 350 too much to ask for a 5600X and 260 for 3600XT? CAD not USD

Find out what they sell for retail and undercut that by 20%. Or 10% under eBay ASP. That's usually my strategy, anyway. That depends on having a fairly active local market, though. Otherwise you may have to go lower.

 

[lexluthermiester]

time to say goodbye to my beloved A6000

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Nice! Why not keep the A6000?

I have my 5600X and 3600XT listed locally.. no bites yet so will probably have to sell elsewhere. Is 350 too much to ask for a 5600X and 260 for 3600XT? CAD not USD

Those seem reasonable to me. Try Ebay, but bump your prices up 12% to cover the fees.

 

[WhitetailAni]

Got me 4 packages in the mail.
GTX 690 w/o fan - $112
GTX 690 fan - $14
Replacement power cables for my Seasonic GM-750 - $15
PCIe 6-pin extension - $4 (Newegg had a red Phanteks 6-pin extension for $3 instead of $13, so I got one since I need it to run my second graphics card)

 

[freeagent]

Find out what they sell for retail and undercut that by 20%. Or 10% under eBay ASP. That's usually my strategy, anyway. That depends on having a fairly active local market, though. Otherwise you may have to go lower.

5600X @ 325 and 3600XT @ 250.. ouch

Both were only used for a couple of months but that's how she goes I guess..

 

[tabascosauz]

5600X @ 325 and 3600XT @ 250.. ouch

Both were only used for a couple of months but that's how she goes I guess..

Interesting. 5600X hasn't budged from $429 so I was sure you'd get a ton of interest. Dunno about the 3600XT, I sold my 3700X for like $300 I think, lots of interest within 24 hours. I don't think I'd be willing to sell such a new 5600X for less than 400.

Air cooled 5900X vs. air cooled 5900X - FIGHT looking forward to comparing scores my friend, dont forget take a note of the batch number on the IHS

 

[Tomgang]

Interesting. 5600X hasn't budged from $429 so I was sure you'd get a ton of interest. Dunno about the 3600XT, I sold my 3700X for like $300 I think, lots of interest within 24 hours. I don't think I'd be willing to sell such a new 5600X for less than 400.

Air cooled 5900X vs. air cooled 5900X - FIGHT looking forward to comparing scores my friend, dont forget take a note of the batch number on the IHS

How about 5900X vs. 5950X aircooled as well. Hope to get my last part home next week. So i can begin my 2 in 1 system in the middle of june. The brains will 5600X and 5950X and bofh aircooled.

What air cooler will you be using for 5900X?

I have tried to mix the best aircooling setup possible together. So i have chosen Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black and swap stock fans with there IPPC 3000 rpm fans and use some thermal grizzly kryonaut extreme paste.

 

[tabascosauz]

How about 5900X vs. 5950X aircooled as well. Hope to get my last part home next week. So i can begin my 2 in 1 system in the middle of june. The brains will 5600X and 5950X and bofh aircooled.

What air cooler will you be using for 5900X?

I have tried to mix the best aircooling setup possible together. So i have chosen Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black and swap stock fans with there IPPC 3000 rpm fans and use some thermal grizzly kryonaut extreme paste.

I've had my 5900X since about February. Though I've got the weakest cooler between us 3, a NH-C14S. It's a little souped up from airflow in this case and a 2000rpm Noctua industrial, but still the weakest.

I'm guessing @freeagent 's gonna be using his beefy FC140 or Macho RT so he'll be the one offering stiff competition for your D15

5950X behaves a bit differently though. Stock ST might run same or a little hotter from slightly more per-core power and higher freq (slightly, like 50MHz or less), but stock MT is a bit cooler, I guess lower MT per-core power helps.

 

[Tomgang]

I've had my 5900X since about February. Though I've got the weakest cooler between us 3, a NH-C14S. It's a little souped up from airflow in this case and a 2000rpm Noctua industrial, but still the weakest.

I'm guessing @freeagent 's gonna be using his beefy FC140 or Macho RT so he'll be the one offering stiff competition for your D15

5950X behaves a bit differently though. Stock ST might run same or a little hotter from slightly more per-core power and higher freq (slightly, like 50MHz or less), but stock MT is a bit cooler, I guess lower MT per-core power helps.

You might be right about 5950X behaiving diffently. As 5950X shut have the best binned chiplets. Meaning beable to reach higest clocks at the same voltage.

But i still think it cut be a fun showdown if i dissable 4 cores or 2 cores on each chiplet. So its 12 cores vs. 12 better binned cores.

 

[Space Lynx]

I thought it would have been here today.. sad face.

Monday


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holy crap that is expensive... that $549 msrp didn't last very long...

 

[freeagent]

Yeah I am really surprised too.. I knew no one would want the XT, but 325 for a 5600x yeesh. Someone probably thinks it’s broken because it’s not 400 like the rest of them listed. You might be right.. might have to keep the unicorn..

For cooling I will try FC140 first, I like the plate on that the best so far with AMD. I think with both fans it’s 180cfm or so, and I have a 130cfm TY-143 feeding it. I am not really sure what to expect.. could be good, could be crap! I think it will do ok.. will it hang with a D15? I guess we will find out.. I know people are watching and the pool is real cold let me tell you

Also those are beaver bucks, not the greenbacks you are used to