What's your latest tech purchase?

[FireFox]

One?!?!?!

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[phill]

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Buy another board!! Can always fill that one too

My best mate, decided he needed to order himself a CPU for his build we have been sorting out together and ordered me one as well.. I was well, blown away when it arrived.... I'll just put some pics up and shut up...



So yeah, blown away....

He said he wished to have the same setup as I did, so I was able to find him a motherboard, RAM, PSU and cooler for him and he's decided he wanted to grab my MSI Gaming X 3090 from me as well, so I've managed to track him down a case wanted, so that should be here at some point this week... Another small build log for him in my project log!! Oh, here we go for the money shot...



Apologies about the table cloth... The girls have been doing painting and a 2.5 ish year old with paint and a brush?? Wouldn't trust her!! That said, I probably wouldn't trust my eldest and she's now 9!!
So as it all works (I've pre tested my motherboard as well) we'll hopefully get these bad boys up and running again soon.... Was able to test his setup yesterday, sticking to 1.25Vcore for the CPU and testing with CineBench R20, I was able to hit 46.25 multi and it was just peaking over 12,000 points which I was blown away at... Was getting a little warm at that speed and pulling a fair bit of juice, but.... Can't wait to test it more and hopefully get the memory setup correctly as well for it. Was seeming to have some issues with 3600MHz memory, so little bit more digging needed.

My project log will be hopefully updated with what else I've been up to these last few days... Hopefully, it's all been worth the time!!

 

[thesmokingman]

Buy another board!! Can always fill that one too

Was able to test his setup yesterday, sticking to 1.25Vcore for the CPU and testing with CineBench R20, I was able to hit 46.25 multi and it was just peaking over 12,000 points which I was blown away at... Was getting a little warm at that speed and pulling a fair bit of juice, but.... Can't wait to test it more and hopefully get the memory setup correctly as well for it. Was seeming to have some issues with 3600MHz memory, so little bit more digging needed.

My project log will be hopefully updated with what else I've been up to these last few days... Hopefully, it's all been worth the time!!

You should avoid setting manual voltage until you've done a voltage test at X clock. Instead enable PBO, set a negative voltage offset in the curve optimizer if lowering voltage is your goal. Raise the the clock offset if you want higher clock, etc etc. Setting manual voltage is only for specific instances where you know that specific chip's max load vs voltage characteristics. Would hate to see yours or your friends become casualty of statistics...

All that said even though I have high clock profiles for my 5900x, I run it on eco mode 24/7 unless I'm gonna game for an extended period at which point I load one of those real boosty profiles.

 

[WhitetailAni]

I love the 3DS! It's my very favorite portable gaming console!

The 3DS is the best. If you get a New model and CFW it you can play every Gen 1-Gen 7 Pokemon game on it (though the Gen 3 GBA games require you to dump your cartridges and create an installable CIA).

I use mine at school during passing period and as such got the nickname "DS boy".

 

[phill]

You should avoid setting manual voltage until you've done a voltage test at X clock. Instead enable PBO, set a negative voltage offset in the curve optimizer if lowering voltage is your goal. Raise the the clock offset if you want higher clock, etc etc. Setting manual voltage is only for specific instances where you know that specific chip's max load vs voltage characteristics. Would hate to see yours or your friends become casualty of statistics...

All that said even though I have high clock profiles for my 5900x, I run it on eco mode 24/7 unless I'm gonna game for an extended period at which point I load one of those real boosty profiles.

Thanks for the tips, I'll take a look at them!

I run WCG so efficiency, temps, wattage etc. is my main concern.. I've had very little time with the CPU so when I get it built up for him and mine, I'll test them both and see what I can find as a happy medium when it comes to performance and the efficiency As an example my 3900X's I use, they are roughly pulling 140W fully loaded on the CPU for the whole system at the plug. For 24 threads, I think it's very impressive

 

[thesmokingman]

Thanks for the tips, I'll take a look at them!

I run WCG so efficiency, temps, wattage etc. is my main concern.. I've had very little time with the CPU so when I get it built up for him and mine, I'll test them both and see what I can find as a happy medium when it comes to performance and the efficiency As an example my 3900X's I use, they are roughly pulling 140W fully loaded on the CPU for the whole system at the plug. For 24 threads, I think it's very impressive

The Ryzen's are capped at TDP + 30% roughly, ie 140w. From there you never need to touch voltage and can basically do anything you want within PBO and Curve Optimizer.

 

[Splinterdog]

The Seamaster has served me well for over twenty years from new and we've been through tick and thin together. I always think a watch is a very personal item and remember the day I bought it wearing tatty jeans and an oil stained tee shirt with the shop assistant wondering if I could afford it.

 

[Mussels]

Damn i didnt realise optane was different to NAND flash either,

looking up reviews they used a weird hybrid NVME drive with the flash and optane sides only having x2 lanes each, so the speeds didnt really catch consumers attention

 

[GamerGuy]

The Seamaster has served me well for over twenty years from new and we've been through tick and thin together. I always think a watch is a very personal item and remember the day I bought it wearing tatty jeans and an oil stained tee shirt with the shop assistant wondering if I could afford it.
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Nice! I have a Seamaster too, awesome watch to be sure!

Dunno if I had posted this, but I'd gotten a Sony UBP-X700 UHD BR player to got with my recently acquired Philips soundbar. Why the UBP-X700? Simple really, among the cheapest I could find, that's why. The player, and my rather large 1080P BR and growing 4K BR collection, really does add to that cinematic sound experience I've been looking for with the various soundbars I'd tried, the Philips Fidelio B97 ticks all the boxes for me, other than height is lacking, I'd heard the Vizio Elevate is better, but I'm pretty contented with the B97 as it is. Above the Sony player is my Fostex HPA4, it's a DAC combo for listening to Spotify, as well as my collection of FLAC, WAV, DSD and MP3 music library. Pretty glad I'd kept all the long cables that came with my various headphones, now I can use 'em when I wanna chill to great music in my living area/room.

All the talk about phones, I'm pretty happy rolling with my Z Fold 2 (don't really need the S-Pen for the Z Fold 3, though the water resistance rating and under screen camera are nice to have) and my Note 10+ (512GB/12GB version, plus 512GB mSD card). I went to a local Samsung branch to get a feel for the Z Flip 3 and that was a mistake, ended up pre-ordering the 256GB gray version which should be incoming in the later part of September. Will post a couple of pics of that badboy when I get it.....

 

[Valantar]

Damn i didnt realise optane was different to NAND flash either,

looking up reviews they used a weird hybrid NVME drive with the flash and optane sides only having x2 lanes each, so the speeds didnt really catch consumers attention

That's only for the weird and poorly thought out hybrid drives (which IMO really wanted a hybrid controller). There are plenty of pure Optane products as well.

 

[Calmmo]

I was going to ask if that was for films/console/s/PC etc. but I'm guessing a bit of everything??

What made you grab that model?? I could do with a TV upgrade but my Samsung 50" plasma seems to be lasting very well

Seems to fit the bill for "TV used for gaming" more than the competition, for both PC and concole with VRR/low input latency/firmware optimized for such use.
I was contemplating getting the G1 with the EVO panel (moar NITS) but it comes without a stand and the extra ~400ish for more or less just "more bright" seems a bit much

 

[Ruru]

Asus P6X58D-E + i7-950 + 18GB (3x4GB 1866 + 3x2GB 1600) for 50EUR + 5.90EUR postage
Corsair 4000D Airflow white for 72.90EUR with free postage

Pics tomorrow (and the build in Your PC ATM & Nostalgic hardware threads) as they probably arrive tomorrow

 

[AusWolf]

Buy another board!! Can always fill that one too

My best mate, decided he needed to order himself a CPU for his build we have been sorting out together and ordered me one as well.. I was well, blown away when it arrived.... I'll just put some pics up and shut up...

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So yeah, blown away....

He said he wished to have the same setup as I did, so I was able to find him a motherboard, RAM, PSU and cooler for him and he's decided he wanted to grab my MSI Gaming X 3090 from me as well, so I've managed to track him down a case wanted, so that should be here at some point this week... Another small build log for him in my project log!! Oh, here we go for the money shot...

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Apologies about the table cloth... The girls have been doing painting and a 2.5 ish year old with paint and a brush?? Wouldn't trust her!! That said, I probably wouldn't trust my eldest and she's now 9!!
So as it all works (I've pre tested my motherboard as well) we'll hopefully get these bad boys up and running again soon.... Was able to test his setup yesterday, sticking to 1.25Vcore for the CPU and testing with CineBench R20, I was able to hit 46.25 multi and it was just peaking over 12,000 points which I was blown away at... Was getting a little warm at that speed and pulling a fair bit of juice, but.... Can't wait to test it more and hopefully get the memory setup correctly as well for it. Was seeming to have some issues with 3600MHz memory, so little bit more digging needed.

My project log will be hopefully updated with what else I've been up to these last few days... Hopefully, it's all been worth the time!!

I had one of those too. I decided to sell it when I saw CPU usage never exceed 30% in any game... and when I was offered almost its original price.

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

My desktop replacement laptop seems to have problem once I connected a couple of external with windows explorer hanging up. I decided maybe it time to transfer this 3900x cpu in laptop into a deskstop now. Ughhh I don't feel like buying pc stuff in current climate but this motherboard and rams drop to a low enough price that I can't passed it up. I see how things goes. If it all smooth would move to the desktop. If not I'll rither return this back to amazon or sell it for profit if I could.

Bought a total of 128GB of ram to maxed out. It like $150 lower priced than comparable ram per 64GBkit. So it the lowest I seen and been in cart for weeks. Pull the trigger now. I was looking for an Atx board but their price higher this is the matx version is the lowest so got this.

Gonna go back to old "eyerobo" case again.

 

[Chomiq]

Seems to fit the bill for "TV used for gaming" more than the competition, for both PC and concole with VRR/low input latency/firmware optimized for such use.
I was contemplating getting the G1 with the EVO panel (moar NITS) but it comes without a stand and the extra ~400ish for more or less just "more bright" seems a bit much

Because it is designed to be wall mounted. It's speakers are also designed for it.

 

[Ruru]

My desktop replacement laptop seems to have problem once I connected a couple of external with windows explorer hanging up. I decided maybe it time to transfer this 3900x cpu in laptop into a deskstop now. Ughhh I don't feel like buying pc stuff in current climate but this motherboard and rams drop to a low enough price that I can't passed it up. I see how things goes. If it all smooth would move to the desktop. If not I'll rither return this back to amazon or sell it for profit if I could.

Bought a total of 128GB of ram to maxed out. It like $150 lower priced than comparable ram per 64GBkit. So it the lowest I seen and been in cart for weeks. Pull the trigger now. I was looking for an Atx board but their price higher this is the matx version is the lowest so got this.

Gonna go back to old "eyerobo" case again.

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Noice! I have the cheaper B550M Aorus Elite and I got a 32GB (2x16) DDR4-3200 kit on May. Love the layout of your board as it's somewhat cleaner than on my board. Also it has moar USB connectors.

 

[tabascosauz]

My desktop replacement laptop seems to have problem once I connected a couple of external with windows explorer hanging up. I decided maybe it time to transfer this 3900x cpu in laptop into a deskstop now. Ughhh I don't feel like buying pc stuff in current climate but this motherboard and rams drop to a low enough price that I can't passed it up. I see how things goes. If it all smooth would move to the desktop. If not I'll rither return this back to amazon or sell it for profit if I could.

Bought a total of 128GB of ram to maxed out. It like $150 lower priced than comparable ram per 64GBkit. So it the lowest I seen and been in cart for weeks. Pull the trigger now. I was looking for an Atx board but their price higher this is the matx version is the lowest so got this.

Gonna go back to old "eyerobo" case again.

Finally! Welcome back buddy. Would love to see the ol cutesy eyerobo turned into a hard hitting sleeper.

The Pro-P came out after I bought my B550M TUF at the time, otherwise I would've probably bought it. They really went back and fixed every one of the Pro's flaws, that rear I/O makes me drool.

Take the shackles off that 3900X and let it run free!!!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Shitty phone, shitty camera, crushed blacks

It's good enough we can see the pretty! Nice! Very nice!

Also got me some black PS5 plates, diggin it more than white.

Agreed! Looks much better!

but my Samsung 50" plasma seems to be lasting very well

Plasma TVs eat a lot of power though. It might be worth an upgrade for that reason alone. Then there is contrast(plasma contrast was less than ideal even for the best models), resolution and inputs to consider.

Hopefully, it's all been worth the time!!

You boys had some fun!

as such got the nickname "DS boy".

That's really funny actually!

we've been through tick and thin together.

Wait, those are excellent watches, why replace it?

 

[QuietBob]

So as it all works (I've pre tested my motherboard as well) we'll hopefully get these bad boys up and running again soon....

Never too late for another build, eh?

 

[Ruru]

And I thought that I'm in minority when having 32GB, then people are having 64GB or even moar...


Just wondering that how long it would take to count that memory if we would have a memory check/count with the speed of like, a 486?

 

[tabascosauz]

And I thought that I'm in minority when having 32GB, then people are having 64GB or even moar...

Only as good as one can utilize 128GB without the workloads to utilize it is a nice paperweight

If I don't need that much RAM, no way in hell I'd take 64GB or 128GB of 16Gb ICs that aren't Rev.B, over 32GB of good B-die after a painful recent lesson on RAM gaming performance consistency

 

[Ruru]

Only as good as one can utilize 128GB without the workloads to utilize it is a nice paperweight

If I don't need that much RAM, no way in hell I'd take 64GB or 128GB of 16Gb ICs that aren't Rev.B, over 32GB of good B-die after a painful recent lesson on RAM gaming performance consistency

I haven't been interesting of RAM fine-tuning after DDR1 BH-5 so I personally don't pay extra for a little better OC memory though I pushed 3466 out of my 3200 sticks as it was easy af, but yeaaah... not worth that extra cost for me.

 

[AusWolf]

Only as good as one can utilize 128GB without the workloads to utilize it is a nice paperweight

If I don't need that much RAM, no way in hell I'd take 64GB or 128GB of 16Gb ICs that aren't Rev.B, over 32GB of good B-die after a painful recent lesson on RAM gaming performance consistency

What was that lesson if you don't mind me asking? I currently have a 2x16 GB kit of Corsair 3200 MHz 16-20-20-38 (Micron) that I'm thinking about upgrading to 3600 or 4000 MHz CL16.

And I thought that I'm in minority when having 32GB, then people are having 64GB or even moar...

You're probably in the minority, just maybe not on this forum.

 

[Ruru]

What was that lesson if you don't mind me asking? I currently have a 2x16 GB kit of Corsair 3200 MHz 16-20-20-38 (Micron) that I'm thinking about upgrading to 3600 or 4000 MHz CL16.

Does Intel benefit from faster RAM as much as Ryzen? Personally IDK would I bother to upgrade in your situation.

I had a 4x4 2400 @ 2666 C15 kit before, now I have 2x16 3200 @ 3466 C16 kit.

You're probably in the minority, just maybe not on this forum.

In Finland 16GB is still majority, though my friend also gets a 32 kit later today

 

[AusWolf]

Does Intel benefit from faster RAM as much as Ryzen? Personally IDK would I bother to upgrade in your situation.

I had a 4x4 2400 @ 2666 C15 kit before, now I have 2x16 3200 @ 3466 C16 kit.

10 and 11th gen benefits a little (supposedly) in SOTR/ROTR and a few other games. The reason I'm still vacillating is because over about 3600 MHz, you have to turn the IMC to Gear 2 (1:2 ratio with the RAM speed instead of 1:1) which might also affect game performance. With my current 3200 MHz kit, the IMC runs at 1600 MHz, but with a 4000 kit, it would have to run at 1 GHz.

I'm also not sure how much secondary latencies influence gameplay. I mean, CL16 is okay(-ish), but then I have 20-20-38 and a tRFC of 560.