What's your latest tech purchase?

[biffzinker]

Pre-ordered...
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speaker/garden gnome?

 

[Dethroy]

speaker/garden gnome?

https://store.google.com/magazine/gnome

 

[biffzinker]

https://store.google.com/magazine/gnome

So, April Fools?

 

[P4-630]

So, April Fools?

yeah it is, you can read it at the bottom of that page.

 

[ensabrenoir]

Pre-ordered...
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......You know it won't be long before someone makes that for real....

 

[silkstone]

My first set of Tai-Hao PBT keycaps. I wanted a set for my work computer, so I replaced the ABS Doubleshot ones I was using with these:

They really feel different (in a good way). I'm not 100% on board with the lettering style, though I am sure it will grow on me. Best thing about them was the price: after 50% discount they were $20.
I really wanted to get a few more sets as some of the ABS doubleshots were only $10 and they are good quality and nice looking. I'm trying my hardest to save money at the moment though, so I didn't get more

 

[Caring1]

Bought myself a new CPU cooler and already see at least a 10C improvement over the stock Intel cooler.

In this stock pic I borrowed, they list the fan as having a rifle bearing, my model has a "fluid state bearing" whatever that means, but apart from that the specs are identical.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

The cooler for my sons pc arrived and i have been refunded the cost already

sold as new

1. TIM smeared on contact pad
2. No fucking fan
3 No AMD fittings
4. One of the black Intel plunger thingies missing

I emailed the vendor and i was immediately refunded.

ps.

1 i have plenty of TIM
2. I have fans
3 its for an Intel build
4 I have spares and a split matchstick does the job anyway

some days i love ebay for giving me free stuff..........



EDIT

being refunded this money means i can probably afford the X5687 after all.........5.0ghz loveliness....WAHEY

 

[GreiverBlade]

The cooler for my sons pc arrived and i have been refunded the cost already

sold as new

1. TIM smeared on contact pad
2. No fucking fan
3 No AMD fittings
4. One of the black Intel plunger thingies missing

I emailed the vendor and i was immediately refunded.

ps.

1 i have plenty of TIM
2. I have fans
3 its for an Intel build
4 I have spares and a split matchstick does the job anyway

some days i love ebay for giving me free stuff..........



EDIT

being refunded this money means i can probably afford the X5687 after all.........5.0ghz loveliness....WAHEY

pfahahah good one the last time i got a refund it was for a pair of .... earring looking like a "pair of balls with a necktie on it" ... that i received instead of a "black steel with a carbon insert" ring, i still wonder how the seller could mixup these 2 things ... the first was not even a order option for the latter, nor in the listing of the seller ...

 

[R00kie]

Received some amazon vouchers from my work as a leaving present and bought myself this:

My boss was kind enough to get me some Prodigy vinyls to start off

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

The cooler for my sons pc arrived and i have been refunded the cost already

sold as new

1. TIM smeared on contact pad
2. No fucking fan
3 No AMD fittings
4. One of the black Intel plunger thingies missing

I emailed the vendor and i was immediately refunded.

ps.

1 i have plenty of TIM
2. I have fans
3 its for an Intel build
4 I have spares and a split matchstick does the job anyway

some days i love ebay for giving me free stuff..........



EDIT

being refunded this money means i can probably afford the X5687 after all.........5.0ghz loveliness....WAHEY

That is when your stuff arrive for me some stuff don't arrive for 2 months and I got a refund after a long wait. Good thing I got a refund, it is rather frustrating when I buy a small thing requiring it expecting it to come in 3 weeks but it don't come at all. I remember buying usb cable as I need them to connect to devices. Are those cheap screw on "flower" type heatsink? How you get those X5697 for such a good cost? Those are cost thousand back in the day. I love tech bargain too! Right now I plan to buy old pc parts to build an ultimate windows xp machine. Now left with the graphics card, I think I spend a bit too much. I think I spend abit too much but I want something that don't bsod or fail on me. Right now I am getting occasional bsod on my machine I don't have other machine to test on. It would suck if it is a ram issue which I hope not as I want to reused those rams.

Today this came in. The AM4 mounting kit! And my am4 b350 board have not even came yet haha. But anyway I don't even have an am4 cpu. Starting from the cheapest part that I can find first. Poor man build like always! My new main rig got to put on hold.

Edit: It is the free mounting kit provided by noctua. Strangely I can only claim one. I got another nh d14 which I help someone build his rig with but I only got the am4 kit with my current new nh d15s. My motherboard is still out of stock as of now.

Would be doing the windows xp one first.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

How you get those X5697 for such a good cost?

i am hoping to get X5687 for 50 quid which is about $ 60.00

They were $ 1663.00 when new.

 

[Shou Miko]

This here is only a little teaser of what's to come...

On the front seat in the Clio...

 

[P4-630]

This here is only a little teaser of what's to come...

On the front seat in the Clio...

I see you are investing in new computer hardware but what you really need is a new phone with hdr camera (Galaxy S7 or better...)..

 

[Shou Miko]

I see you are investing in new computer hardware but what you really need is a new phone with hdr camera (Galaxy S7 or better...)..

Lol go away @P4-630 i got a iPhone 7 plus and my conditions ain't optimal for pics

 

[P4-630]

iPhone 7 plus

 

[Ungari]

@Caring1
TheRifle bearing is a type of fluid bearing.

Here is where the confusion starts. One of these alternative designs (let’s call it “alternative design 1”) is called “fluid dynamic bearing” by the companies that use it, but they are also called “rifle bearing” by several other companies. So, while technically speaking rifle bearing is a type of fluid dynamic bearing, companies that use the Matsushita-base design feel that this particular alternative design should use a different name (“rifle”), to make it clear for the user that the design of the bearing is not the same

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/the-truth-about-fluid-dynamic-bearing-fdb-fans/

 

[Kyuuba]

First time using a 7.1 headset.

 

[R00kie]

First time using a 7.1 headset.

I have the same headset, let me know your thoughts on it.

 

[Kyuuba]

I have the same headset, let me know your thoughts on it.

They are just excellent, so far working as expected, battery last very well, i don't use the RGB lights i can't see them anyways while wearing the headsets ha so it's all turned off, that extends the battery duration up to 13 hours of constant use according to Logi gaming software, the sound quality is as well excellent, well maybe i can feel it soo different because i had earphones which are stereo standard, big change.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Galaxy S7

iPhone 7

anything ending in 7 that is not Huawei or Honor is a total mess ... and overpriced for what they give

or better...

yep ... Honor 7, 1/3rd of the price same day to day performances

1 on 3 ... not bad to have 2 POS for 1 gem

 

[Shou Miko]

@GreiverBlade sad to say that any android i tried highend, mid-end and so on haven't been able to keep 8hours of battery life when I use it at work my iphone's I can keep for 2days or smth like that no powersaving mode activate and I even run more apps on my iphone then I did on my android's.

 

[R00kie]

They are just excellent, so far working as expected, battery last very well, i don't use the RGB lights i can't see them anyways while wearing the headsets ha so it's all turned off, that extends the battery duration up to 13 hours of constant use according to Logi gaming software, the sound quality is as well excellent, well maybe i can feel it soo different because i had earphones which are stereo standard, big change.

I have also turned the LED's off as I thought they were kinda useless if I can't see them, that also helps to improve the battery life by a couple(!) of hours. What I also liked is the fact that I'm actually using their virtual surround capability, which I never used to do with the Corsair H2100's that they replaced, as they used to make the sound a bit echo'ey in my opinion.

 

[biffzinker]

anything ending in 7 that is not Huawei or Honor is a total mess ... and overpriced for what they give


yep ... Honor 7, 1/3rd of the price same day to day performances

1 on 3 ... not bad to have 2 POS for 1 gem

Speaking of I think you missed one in this thread. #842 Or does it have to have a 7 on the end of the name?https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...r-purchase-thread.225885/page-34#post-3630734

 

[GreiverBlade]

@GreiverBlade sad to say that any android i tried highend, mid-end and so on haven't been able to keep 8hours of battery life when I use it at work my iphone's I can keep for 2days or smth like that no powersaving mode activate and I even run more apps on my iphone then I did on my android's.

well ... my Honor 7 battery lifetime goes from a full day (around 20h since i don't sleep that much )of intensive use (still 19%~ % left at the end tho ) or 3 to 4 days on moderate use, mail/random net search/lots of reading offline/at last 4 to 6hrs musics listening/bluetooth always on (for my headset and my Sony Smartwatch 3) ... even got a full week once ... but that was on a hyper minimalist usage pattern which happens very rarely.

i have to say your claim is astonishing most of my colleague that have a iPhone have to charge at last 1 time during a day of work while i need none ("nearly" is only when i am bored/no customer and i go full throttle on youtube/manga reading ahah )

i am not used to read "good battery duration" and "iPhone" in the same sentence i am rather used to read "exploded" and "samsung/iphone" and "7" the same way (and ..."oh crap i forgot my cable" while it's not an issue for Android since we have 1 cable for 10 android smartphone in our drawer, for our fellow iPhones user it's a crisis )

Speaking of I think you missed one in this thread. #842 Or does it have to have a 7 on the end of the name?

nah i didn't and i hate you! (joke joke) i had the Honor 5X and i got Honor 7 when the order was concluded and packed, my etailer listed literally 2 minutes after that, the Honor 6X (tho the lack of a gyro was kinda a letdown in the end, which explain why i did go from 5X to 7) and order cancellation wasn't possible

nonetheless ... laughable event my mother want to show off with a full aluminum phone with a fingerprint scanner ... i will take the Honor 4X back in about a week now
no complaint tho, i love the brand Honor (well Huawei is stunning both in standard and "off brand" compared to some other)