What's your latest tech purchase?

lexluthermiester · Mar 11, 2022

ThaiTaffy said:
Board still needs to come out there's a section that's very poorly designed and shorted out that I need to fix.

That's doable. I'd recommend some heat-shink tubing if you have some. In a pinch you can use nail-polish to isolate those parts once replaced.

ThaiTaffy · Mar 11, 2022

lexluthermiester said:
That's doable. I'd recommend some heat-shink tubing if you have some. In a pinch you can use nail-polish to isolate those parts once replaced.

I have solder mask, glass fibre tubing, heat shrink, kapton tape and silicone plaster, the whole shhabang in my drawers.

Sorry no nail polish

P4-630 · Mar 11, 2022

ThaiTaffy said:
Sorry no nail polish

You can ask your Thai lady for that....

ThaiTaffy · Mar 11, 2022

P4-630 said:
You can ask your Thai lady for that....

We live on a farm no such thing as nice nails in our house

oobymach · Mar 11, 2022

The new ssd arrived. Cloned the old drive onto it before testing. Has a miserable tbw (100tbw to be precise) which ain't great, I'm using it as a game drive and it works well, and writes to the drive will be solely from gaming so we'll see how long it can last. My other game drive is still mint with 10k hours and only 2.8tbw.

P4-630 · Mar 11, 2022

At least my Thai GF had an office job at their company...

ThaiTaffy · Mar 11, 2022

P4-630 said:
At least my Thai GF had an office job at their company...

Mines a stay at home stock trader /farmer

P4-630 · Mar 11, 2022

ThaiTaffy said:
Mines a stay at home stock trader /farmer

My GF worked at her sister's company with over 500 employees. (car rental and chauffeurs)

JessePlays3434 · Mar 11, 2022

Just got an rx 580 XFX in mint condition for 7 US dollars

Ahhzz · Mar 11, 2022

P4-630 said:
My GF worked at her sister's company with over 500 employees. (car rental and chauffeurs)

alright, it appears we're getting way off-target, and for some reason, looks like a penis-comparison contest? Back to the topic guys.

ThaiTaffy · Mar 11, 2022

Oh and when I grabbed the e-paper I picked up a stack of these oled screens no idea what I'm going to use them for but they were less than a dollar each

I went with the white the blue looks fuzzy in the photo

Frick · Mar 11, 2022

Found a case. Fractal Design Define R4, €40 with shipping. There are some scratches on it.

Old case vs new case. The Define has a slightly higher quality. Slightly. :rolleyes:

Some HDD bays are missing.

Hmm, the seller didn't mention that most of the whateveritisyoucallthem are broken on one side... I won't do a thing of it though, as the case was really cheap, and the front panel stays in place anyway.

Yeah I'll never care enough to do proper cable management in a computer.. Note the red SATA cable on the top DVD writer. It's really long.

There's also a new NVMe drive (well, I bought it like six months ago and haven't bothered to install it), a Kingston NV1 500GB.

And yes, the CPU cooler could do with a thorough cleanse, but whatever. I managed to get rid of the worst.

Installing Windows now, it's decently quiet so far. Now I just need a SATA controller card, but the PCIe ones seem to be a lot more expensive, and uncommon, than the PCI ones.

ASOT · Mar 11, 2022

New Psu and storage..i've read good reviews about this power supply.

lexluthermiester · Mar 11, 2022

ThaiTaffy said:
Sorry no nail polish

I was just saying, for example. In a pinch kind of thing. It works amazingly well.

Mussels · Mar 12, 2022

oobymach said:
The new ssd arrived. Cloned the old drive onto it before testing. Has a miserable tbw (100tbw to be precise) which ain't great, I'm using it as a game drive and it works well, and writes to the drive will be solely from gaming so we'll see how long it can last. My other game drive is still mint with 10k hours and only 2.8tbw.

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100TBW, for a 2TB drive??
Holy shite.
Edit: look i can see that being for for a laptop or low user environment, but i also see things go wrong all the time (I had a game go spaz and have an error log txt file fill my C: drive) and then suddenly your drive lost a lot of its lifespan :/
Windows updates would make me fear for it's longevity and such

Chomiq · Mar 12, 2022

On topic:

What's in the box?!

More when I find time to switch them over.

JrRacinFan · Mar 12, 2022

Gigabyte G5 MD Laptop and 3070 ti ftw3 ordered. Got tracking info earlier today. Oooo im hype!

ThaiTaffy · Mar 12, 2022

Chomiq said:
On topic:
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What's in the box?!

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More when I find time to switch them over.

Console mods....

My esp's should be arriving tomorrow time to get busy apart from the stack of esp32 Uno boards and a load of wemos d1 mini's I picked up a load of relays and capacitive touch switches to try out.

All nice and cheap

Chomiq · Mar 12, 2022

Tadam:

Darkplates 2.0 for the PS5. Now it finally fits in with the rest of the hardware.

Mussels · Mar 12, 2022

Oh wow an 11Mᗡ laptop, how rare

Calmmo · Mar 12, 2022

The console ran out of space so... I decided to buy a 90's GPU box.. wait, that's not right. OOOH yeah It's a new GAMER nvme drive :roll:

kiriakost · Mar 12, 2022

I am happy for my latest purchase, 4.15 L of gasoline at 8 Euros.
Few hours later it got more higher.

oxrufiioxo · Mar 12, 2022

Kovoet said:
Day off from work tomorrow and I seriously need to start doing the cables

Always good times with Corsair....

oobymach · Mar 12, 2022

Mussels said:
100TBW, for a 2TB drive??
Holy shite.
Edit: look i can see that being for for a laptop or low user environment, but i also see things go wrong all the time (I had a game go spaz and have an error log txt file fill my C: drive) and then suddenly your drive lost a lot of its lifespan :/
Windows updates would make me fear for it's longevity and such

They don't list the tbw anywhere because it's so low, had to go to their website and look it up myself. Of course I looked this up after I bought the drive. In my pc it'll last 20 years, nothing going on there but games so it'll have way more reads than writes.

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-green-ssd/product-brief-wd-green-sn350-nvme-ssd.pdf

ThaiTaffy · Mar 13, 2022

Alibaba explosion

System Name	Shoebox
Processor	3600x
Motherboard	Msi b550m Mortar +WiFi
Cooling	Cryorig m9
Memory	Crucial Ballistix c16 B-die 2x8gb
Video Card(s)	Powercolor rx570 4gb
Storage	WD black sn750 256gb (OS), crucial mx500 1tb(storage),Hitatchi ?? 7200rpm 500gb(Temp files)
Display(s)	Samsung 65" TU7100
Case	Zzaw b3
Audio Device(s)	Yamaha rx-v363
Power Supply	Corsair sf750
Mouse	Logitech g300s
Keyboard	Custom Skyloong sk64s
Software	Windows 11Pro

System Name	AlderLake
Processor	Intel i7 12700K P-Cores @ 5Ghz
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12A 2 fans + Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme + 5 case fans
Memory	32GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 6000MT/s CL36
Video Card(s)	MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro 1TB + 970 Evo 500GB + 850 Pro 512GB + 860 Evo 1TB x2
Display(s)	23.8" Dell S2417DG 165Hz G-Sync 1440p
Case	Be quiet! Silent Base 600 - Window
Audio Device(s)	Panasonic SA-PMX94 / Realtek onboard + B&O speaker system / Harman Kardon Go + Play / Logitech G533
Power Supply	Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 750W
Mouse	Logitech MX Anywhere 2 Laser wireless
Keyboard	RAPOO E9270P Black 5GHz wireless
Software	Windows 11
Benchmark Scores	Cinebench R23 (Single Core) 1936 @ stock Cinebench R23 (Multi Core) 23006 @ stock

System Name	Shoebox
Processor	3600x
Motherboard	Msi b550m Mortar +WiFi
Cooling	Cryorig m9
Memory	Crucial Ballistix c16 B-die 2x8gb
Video Card(s)	Powercolor rx570 4gb
Storage	WD black sn750 256gb (OS), crucial mx500 1tb(storage),Hitatchi ?? 7200rpm 500gb(Temp files)
Display(s)	Samsung 65" TU7100
Case	Zzaw b3
Audio Device(s)	Yamaha rx-v363
Power Supply	Corsair sf750
Mouse	Logitech g300s
Keyboard	Custom Skyloong sk64s
Software	Windows 11Pro

System Name	New compy
Processor	AMD Ryzen 5800x3D
Motherboard	MSI MPG x570S EDGE MAX WiFi
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15S w. FHP141 + Xigmatek AOS XAF-F1451
Memory	32gb G.Skill Ripjaws V Samsung B-Die Dual Rank F4-4000C16D-32GVKA
Video Card(s)	ASUS TUF GAMING RTX 4070ti
Storage	17tb (8+4tb WD Black HDD's, 2+2+0.5+0.5tb M.2 SSD Drives) + 16tb WD Red Pro backup drive
Display(s)	Alienware AW2518H 24" 240hz, Sony X85K 43" 4k 120hz HDR TV
Case	Thermaltake Core v71
Audio Device(s)	iFi Nano Idsd Le, Creative T20 + T50, Sennheiser HD6Mix
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova G2 1000w
Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero custom w. G900 scroll wheel mod, Rival 3 + Rival 3 wireless, JLab Epic Mouse
Keyboard	Corsair K68 RGB + K70 RGB + K57 RGB Wireless + Logitech G613
Software	Win 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	https://valid.x86.fr/s2y7ny

System Name	AlderLake
Processor	Intel i7 12700K P-Cores @ 5Ghz
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12A 2 fans + Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme + 5 case fans
Memory	32GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 6000MT/s CL36
Video Card(s)	MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro 1TB + 970 Evo 500GB + 850 Pro 512GB + 860 Evo 1TB x2
Display(s)	23.8" Dell S2417DG 165Hz G-Sync 1440p
Case	Be quiet! Silent Base 600 - Window
Audio Device(s)	Panasonic SA-PMX94 / Realtek onboard + B&O speaker system / Harman Kardon Go + Play / Logitech G533
Power Supply	Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 750W
Mouse	Logitech MX Anywhere 2 Laser wireless
Keyboard	RAPOO E9270P Black 5GHz wireless
Software	Windows 11
Benchmark Scores	Cinebench R23 (Single Core) 1936 @ stock Cinebench R23 (Multi Core) 23006 @ stock

What's your latest tech purchase?

lexluthermiester

ThaiTaffy

P4-630

ThaiTaffy

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P4-630

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P4-630

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Ahhzz

Super Moderator

ThaiTaffy

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

ASOT

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Calmmo

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ThaiTaffy

System Name	OrangeHaze / Silence
Processor	i7-13700KF / i5-10400 /
Motherboard	ROG STRIX Z690-E / MSI Z490 A-Pro Motherboard
Cooling	Corsair H75 / TT ToughAir 510
Memory	64Gb GSkill Trident Z5 / 32GB Team Dark Za 3600
Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce RTX 2070 / Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X 4Gb
Storage	Hynix Plat P41 2Tb\Samsung MZVL21 1Tb / Samsung 980 Pro 1Tb
Display(s)	22" Dell Wide/24" Asus
Case	Lian Li PC-101 ATX custom mod / Antec Lanboy Air Black & Blue
Audio Device(s)	SB Audigy 7.1
Power Supply	Corsair Enthusiast TX750
Mouse	Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless / Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
Keyboard	K68 RGB — CHERRY® MX Red
Software	Win10 Pro \ RIP:Win 7 Ult 64 bit

System Name	White DJ in Detroit
Processor	Ryzen 5 5600
Motherboard	Asrock B450M-HDV
Cooling	Be Quiet! Pure Rock 2
Memory	2 x 16GB Kingston Fury 3400mhz
Video Card(s)	XFX 6950XT Speedster MERC 319
Storage	Kingston A400 240GB \| WD Black SN750 2TB \|WD Blue 1TB x 2 \| Toshiba P300 2TB \| Seagate Expansion 8TB
Display(s)	Samsung U32J590U 4K + BenQ GL2450HT 1080p
Case	Fractal Design Define R4
Audio Device(s)	Plantronics 5220, Nektar SE61 keyboard
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x v3
Mouse	Logitech G602
Keyboard	Cherry MX Board 1.0 TKL Brown
Software	Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	Rimworld 4K ready!

System Name	AMD
Processor	AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600
Motherboard	B550M AORUS ELITE V1.3
Cooling	Deepcool AK500S
Memory	CORSAIR LPX 32GB DDR4 3200 CL16 B-die
Video Card(s)	PULSE AMD Radeon™ RX 6600
Storage	Samsung 980 PRO 1TB PCI Express 4.0 x4 M.2 & Seagate 2TB ST2000DM008-2UB102
Display(s)	OMEN 25i 165Hz DisplayHDR 400
Case	MATREXX 40 3FS
Audio Device(s)	Realtek® ALC1200 Codec \| Logitech Z533
Power Supply	SEASONIC FOCUS GX 650 W
Mouse	Aqirys Orion
Keyboard	Logitech G910
VR HMD	N/A Skip
Software	W11 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores	XXX

System Name	Rainbow Sparkles (Power efficient, <350W gaming load)
Processor	Ryzen R7 5800x3D (Undervolted, 4.45GHz all core)
Motherboard	Asus x570-F (BIOS Modded)
Cooling	Alphacool Apex UV - Alphacool Eisblock XPX Aurora + EK Quantum ARGB 3090 w/ active backplate
Memory	2x32GB DDR4 3600 Corsair Vengeance RGB @3866 C18-22-22-22-42 TRFC704 (1.4V Hynix MJR - SoC 1.15V)
Video Card(s)	Galax RTX 3090 SG 24GB: Underclocked to 1700Mhz 0.750v (375W down to 250W))
Storage	2TB WD SN850 NVME + 1TB Sasmsung 970 Pro NVME + 1TB Intel 6000P NVME USB 3.2
Display(s)	Phillips 32 32M1N5800A (4k144), LG 32" (4K60) \| Gigabyte G32QC (2k165) \| Phillips 328m6fjrmb (2K144)
Case	Fractal Design R6
Audio Device(s)	Logitech G560 \| Corsair Void pro RGB \|Blue Yeti mic
Power Supply	Fractal Ion+ 2 860W (Platinum) (This thing is God-tier. Silent and TINY)
Mouse	Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL
Keyboard	Razer Huntsman TE ( Sexy white keycaps)
VR HMD	Oculus Rift S + Quest 2
Software	Windows 11 pro x64 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) OpenRGB - ditch the branded bloatware!
Benchmark Scores	Nyooom.

Processor	Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard	Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite
Cooling	Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE
Memory	2x16 GB Crucial Ballistix 3600 CL16 Rev E @ 3800 CL16
Video Card(s)	RTX3080 Ti FE
Storage	SX8200 Pro 1 TB, Plextor M6Pro 256 GB, WD Blue 2TB
Display(s)	LG 34GN850P-B
Case	SilverStone Primera PM01 RGB
Audio Device(s)	SoundBlaster G6 \| Fidelio X2 \| Sennheiser 6XX
Power Supply	SeaSonic Focus Plus Gold 750W
Mouse	Endgame Gear XM1R
Keyboard	Wooting Two HE

System Name	Snow White
Processor	Ryzen 7900x3d
Motherboard	AsRock B650E Steel Legend
Cooling	Custom Water 1x420
Memory	32GB T-Force Deltas
Video Card(s)	PowerColor 7900 XTX Liquid Devil
Storage	20+ TB
Display(s)	Sammy 49" 5k Ultrawide
Case	Tt CTE 600 Snow Edition
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1200W P2
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite White
Keyboard	Corsair K65 Mini
Software	Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	Avermedia Live HD2

System Name	Apex Raptor: Silverback
Processor	Intel i9 13900KS Allcore @ 5.8
Motherboard	z790 Apex
Cooling	LT720 360mm + Phanteks T30
Memory	32GB @8000MT/s CL36
Video Card(s)	RTX 4090
Storage	990 PRO 4TB
Display(s)	Neo G8 / C1 65"
Case	Antec Performance 1
Audio Device(s)	DT 1990 Pro / Motu M2
Power Supply	Prime Ultra Titanium 1000w
Mouse	Scimitar Pro
Keyboard	K95 Platinum

System Name	ATLAS
Processor	Intel Core i7-4770 (4C/8T) Haswell
Motherboard	GA-Z87X-UD5H , Dual Intel LAN, 10x SATA, 16x Power phace.
Cooling	ProlimaTech Armageddon - Dual GELID 140 Silent PWM
Memory	Mushkin Blackline DDR3 2400 997123F 16GB
Video Card(s)	MSI GTX1060 OC 6GB (single fan) Micron
Storage	WD Raptors 73Gb - Raid1 10.000rpm
Display(s)	DELL U2311H
Case	HEC Compucase CI-6919 Full tower (2003) moded .. hec-group.com.tw
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-Fi Music + mods, Audigy front Panel - YAMAHA quad speakers with Sub.
Power Supply	HPU-4M780-PE refurbished 23-3-2022
Mouse	MS Pro IntelliMouse 16.000 Dpi Pixart Paw 3389
Keyboard	Microsoft Wired 600
Software	Win 7 Pro x64 ( Retail Box ) for EU

System Name	His & Hers
Processor	R7 5800X/ R7 7950X3D Stock
Motherboard	X670E Aorus Pro X/ROG Crosshair VIII Hero
Cooling	Corsair h150 elite/ Corsair h115i Platinum
Memory	Trident Z5 Neo 6000/ 32 GB 3200 CL14 @3800 CL16 Team T Force Nighthawk
Video Card(s)	Evga FTW 3 Ultra 3080ti/ Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090
Storage	lots of SSD.
Display(s)	A whole bunch OLED, VA, IPS.....
Case	011 Dynamic XL/ Phanteks Evolv X
Audio Device(s)	Arctis Pro + gaming Dac/ Corsair sp 2500/ Logitech G560/Samsung Q990B
Power Supply	Seasonic Ultra Prime Titanium 1000w/850w
Mouse	Logitech G502 Lightspeed/ Logitech G Pro Hero.
Keyboard	Logitech - G915 LIGHTSPEED / Logitech G Pro