What's your latest tech purchase?

[Deleted member 215115]

For my M1 MacBook Air.

 

[AusWolf]

For my M1 MacBook Air.

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I don't understand why wireless / Bluetooth mice get so much crap from gamers. I hate the feeling of a dangling cable.

 

[Deleted member 215115]

I don't understand why wireless / Bluetooth mice get so much crap from gamers. I hate the feeling of a dangling cable.

Wireless mice used to be bad but nowadays every major gaming brand has their own flavor of fast 2.4 GHz wireless so cables aren't needed anymore.

Bluetooth is still slow but it works for office laptops and such. I had an MX Master 3 at work and it only had 125 Hz polling rate over Bluetooth which resulted in a trailing cursor. Very annoying on a 144 Hz display. A very first world problem though.

 

[AusWolf]

Wireless mice used to be bad but nowadays every major gaming brand has their own flavor of fast 2.4 GHz wireless so cables aren't needed anymore.

Bluetooth is still slow but it works for office laptops and such. I had an MX Master 3 at work and it only had 125 Hz polling rate over Bluetooth which was very annoying on a 144 Hz display.

I'm okay to game with Bluetooth, though I'm still on a 60 Hz monitor, and I don't play reflex-based online shooters.

 

[ViperXTR]

Why not a meshify then? Price?

Meshify C mini: ~138usd on my region, cheapest around probably 125 if your lucky
Darkflash DLM21 Mesh costs around 38 to 42 USD

 

[Deleted member 24505]

think i might order one of these today. Only £72 too
Lian Li O11 Dynamic mini midi
I like the way it's configurable with 7/5/3 slots, and is pretty good for radiator fitting for its size. I can still have my loop and am not stuck with Matx boards only.

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[Deleted member 215115]

I'm okay to game with Bluetooth, though I'm still on a 60 Hz monitor, and I don't play reflex-based online shooters.

Fair enough. I guess it works for casual gaming too.

Meshify C mini: ~138usd on my region, cheapest around probably 125 if your lucky
Darkflash DLM21 Mesh costs around 38 to 42 USD

Gotcha.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Meshify C mini: ~138usd on my region, cheapest around probably 125 if your lucky
Darkflash DLM21 Mesh costs around 38 to 42 USD

If you was in the uk i'd have sold you my TT V21 for £20+shipping

 

[Vario]

I bought a Lian Li O11 Air Mini about two weeks ago. I am still setting up components, just migrating my gaming PC into it out of the Lian Li AO5. The build quality is great. There are some annoyances such as a riveted HDD cage blocking the CPU heatsink cutout on the back of the motherboard tray, and some of the PCI slot screws are hard to access with a screw driver. I am waiting on a side panel replacement because the side panels were not revised for more hole density yet.

think i might order one of these today. Only £72 too
Lian Li O11 Dynamic mini midi
I like the way it's configurable with 7/5/3 slots, and is pretty good for radiator fitting for its size. I can still have my loop and am not stuck with Matx boards only.
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You are stuck with an SFX power supply though, just keep that in mind.

 

[AusWolf]

Fair enough. I guess it works for casual gaming too.

RPGs, strategy games, World of Tanks and single-player shooters all work nicely with a Bluetooth mouse (in my opinion).

Speaking of which, I've just unplugged the charger cable from my Cherry MW8 Advanced. It feels SOOO good now!

 

[ViperXTR]

Gotcha.

Forgot to mention that its also kinda rare here, and almost always out of stock

If you was in the uk i'd have sold you my TT V21 for £20+shipping

A shame really, i already miss my cube, and now i have to deal with GPU sag again, had to find something better than this temporary GPU holder lol
Ironically, temps are just similar to my Cube even though the cube is a bit more cramped

 

[JackOO7]

think i might order one of these today. Only £72 too
Lian Li O11 Dynamic mini midi
I like the way it's configurable with 7/5/3 slots, and is pretty good for radiator fitting for its size. I can still have my loop and am not stuck with Matx boards only.
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Got me this case about a month ago and I love it. Combined it with the vertical GPU mounting bracket which gave me the room to mount a ATX board with an PCI extension card.
Only thing which could be improved is the need for a SFX PSU.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Got me this case about a month ago and I love it. Combined it with the vertical GPU mounting bracket which gave me the room to mount a ATX board with an PCI extension card.
Only thing which could be improved is the need for a SFX PSU.

Yep tell me about it. Don't want to shell for a SFX Psu too, so gonna wait for this instead. It's near the same but can take a ATX PSU. Still space for rads, and still configurable.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-o11-air-mini-midi-tower-tempered-glass-black-ca-79j-ll.html

 

[The red spirit]

It does if you want to be sure that your getting proper surround sound on ALL channels. Look for it, the test has been there since win7 days.

So that's what you meant. I personally had poor experience with 5.1 setup. Unless it is setup properly, it can't beat good stereo.

 

[JackOO7]

Yep tell me about it. Don't want to shell for a SFX Psu too, so gonna wait for this instead. It's near the same but can take a ATX PSU. Still space for rads, and still configurable.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-o11-air-mini-midi-tower-tempered-glass-black-ca-79j-ll.html
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I really like the glass front of the o11 dynamic mini.
Not sure if a 280 mm radiator (which i reused) could fit on the side.
Otherwise also a nice case (like most of Lian Li's stuff).

 

[Rahnak]

Yep tell me about it. Don't want to shell for a SFX Psu too, so gonna wait for this instead. It's near the same but can take a ATX PSU. Still space for rads, and still configurable.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-o11-air-mini-midi-tower-tempered-glass-black-ca-79j-ll.html
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Just ordered one, along with some nvme ssds.

 

[FireFox]

This arrived today from UK ( Xpower A-2 )
It was planned to arrive on Monday but today DLH knocked on my door, the guy told me here it is a package for you, i was scratching my head because i wasn't waiting for any package till Monday + i was waiting for something bigger

I was kinda stupid because i didn't read carefully when i was buying it on Amazon.de and didn't realize that it was doing to be shipped from the UK and so it has the UK power plug

Ordered this today.
Discounted 72%, instead 6,89€ just 1,95€

 

[AusWolf]

This arrived today from UK ( Xpower A-2 )
It was planned to arrive on Monday but today DLH knocked on my door, the guy told me here it is a package for you, i was scratching my head because i wasn't waiting for any package till Monday + i was waiting for something bigger

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I was kinda stupid because i didn't read carefully when i was buying it on Amazon.de and didn't realize that it was doing to be shipped from the UK and so it has the UK power plug

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Ordered this today.
Discounted 72%, instead 6,89€ just 1,95€

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UK plugs are said to be one of the safest around the world. Just don't forget to order some spare 13 amp fuses.

 

[Vario]

Yep tell me about it. Don't want to shell for a SFX Psu too, so gonna wait for this instead. It's near the same but can take a ATX PSU. Still space for rads, and still configurable.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-o11-air-mini-midi-tower-tempered-glass-black-ca-79j-ll.html
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Yeah thats the case I have now. I haven't moved my system into it yet. Its a good quality heavy duty case. Here are the downsides: 1) The HDD cage is riveted in, I plan to derivet it. 2) The lower PCI slots are hard to access with screw driver because of the design, the screw driver has to be at an angle to access them. 3) The front and top panels have a redesign mesh that has good airflow but the side panel has not been redesigned, I RMA'd it and they are going to send me a revised side panel at some point which might have more holes. 4) The bottom filter is so close to the ground that it restricts airflow substantially, I plan to just not use a bottom filter because I don't run filters anyway.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Yeah thats the case I have now. I haven't moved my system into it yet. Its a good quality heavy duty case. Here are the downsides: 1) The HDD cage is riveted in, I plan to derivet it. 2) The lower PCI slots are hard to access with screw driver because of the design, the screw driver has to be at an angle to access them. 3) The front and top panels have a redesign mesh that has good airflow but the side panel has not been redesigned, I RMA'd it and they are going to send me a revised side panel at some point which might have more holes. 4) The bottom filter is so close to the ground that it restricts airflow substantially, I plan to just not use a bottom filter because I don't run filters anyway.

so it is the air mini midi, nice. looks like a good case.

 

[FireFox]

Just don't forget to order some spare 13 amp fuses.

Sorry for my ignorance but what for?

 

[AusWolf]

Sorry for my ignorance but what for?

It's not ignorance. How would you know if you don't live here?

Basically, there's one in every UK plug here:

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

It's not ignorance. How would you know if you don't live here?

Basically, there's one in every UK plug here:
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Yes except they're not all 13Amp most small appliances are 3Amp fused.

 

[AusWolf]

Yes except they're not all 13Amp most small appliances are 3Amp fused.

True. Though it doesn't hurt to replace it with a 13 amp one. Or does it? (sorry for my ignorance this time)

 

[The red spirit]

Asus has spatial audio in its software package for my TUF B560M-Plus Wifi. My problem with it is that while it sort of works with games, it makes listening to music a mess. I'm too lazy to change settings every time I open a different program, so I'm just leaving it off.

But is it actual spatial sound programmed in games or just conversion of stereo to spatial?

This is actual spatial sound: