What's your latest tech purchase?

[sam_86314]

This seems a bit low on that Crystal Mark score...
USB 3.0 adapter, or ran through other device ?
Here's my card (same spec, just a bit higher on capacity side) :
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I was also running mine on a USB 3.0 adapter. It was originally formatted in exFAT if that makes a difference.

 

[Mussels]

I got a higher-capacity microSD card for my Steam Deck...

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...in the most ridiculously wasteful packaging I've seen since I got my 256GB USB drive years ago...

Probably gonna try using BTRFS in SteamOS.

Micro SD cards are the tech i use to show people how the world has progressed behind the scenes

we've gone from 16MB cards to 1TB, in the same form factor and still all intercompatible (Within file system limitations, which are more about the device and not the SD Card itself)

Oh and like 10MB/s to 100+ as well, speed hasn't been static either

 

[AusWolf]

Everybody hates the Radeon RX 6500 XT, so I had to buy one. I went for the Asus TUF version. The 4 GB VRAM is a bit meh, but the silence with the Q BIOS is something from another world! Only my Palit KalmX 1050 Ti is quieter than this, though that can hardly game nowadays. Fun fact: I downgraded from an EVGA 2070 Black because it was too noisy for my taste. Now I'm happy, we'll see for how long.

 

[Mussels]

A label printer is tech, and my application of it is madness:

And of course, this is next:

 

[TheLostSwede]

Micro SD cards are the tech i use to show people how the world has progressed behind the scenes

we've gone from 16MB cards to 1TB, in the same form factor and still all intercompatible (Within file system limitations, which are more about the device and not the SD Card itself)

Oh and like 10MB/s to 100+ as well, speed hasn't been static either

It's not quite all interoperable, as older devices have hardware size limits and then it's that whole SD, SDHC and SDXC crap, but close enough.

 

[Mussels]

It's not quite all interoperable, as older devices have hardware size limits and then it's that whole SD, SDHC and SDXC crap, but close enough.

Biggest change between the types was the file system moving from SD's FAT16 to SDHC's FAT32 to EXFAT with the SDXC standard
If you look into it, you'll notice the files systems are the size limits for those standards - meaning you can format your newer card to the old standard and its size limits, and it'll work.

SDXC was 32GB and up, so a massive massive amount of devices are 100% compatible with all of them (you can run a 256MB SD card in an SDXC device)


So yes this has limits, but the main excitement for me is that it means you can fire up some old device that only works with the old standards, grab a new card and format it correctly and still use the old device
after sales have stopped for the old memory card format

I can buy an 8GB SDXC, format it to a 2GB FAT16 partition and keep using that old digital camera or car MP3 player - at higher speeds than the original cards supported (within limits, like using an NVME drive on USB 1.1 - you can at least max out the connection and achieve 10MB/s vs the 1 or 2MB/s common back then)


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Ladies and Gentlemen, i am having a stroke.


That cheapass 4K60hz Monitor?
It uhhh... it gives zero fucks. It takes no prisoners.

It overclocks like a fucking champion.

4K 72Hz
1440p 165hz
1080p... 250Hz?
Photo of the screens OSD, it's 100% doin it

 

[The King]

115 USD

 

[Blaeza]

MSI MPG A-GF 850 watt gold PSU. At last have my PC working again tomorrow.

 

[harm9963]

Patriot viper steel ddr4 32gb ( TWO SETS OF 2X8GB kits ) 4000mhz cl 16-16-16-36 udimm low-latency gaming memory kits - pvs416g400c6k .

 

[The King]

Patriot viper steel ddr4 32gb ( TWO SETS OF 2X8GB kits ) 4000mhz cl 16-16-16-36 udimm low-latency gaming memory kits - pvs416g400c6k .

Good stuff. your tFAW should be 16 tWR 12 RTP 6. That kit can do tWR 10 RTP 5 but you need to disable GDM for that and change a few more things. I'm sure you could do 3800 CL14 easily with that kit even with 4 sticks. Just go through the earlier posts in this thread overclock.net

Your tRFC 2/4 can be setup here.

DDR4/5 Helper by Veii

docs.google.com

 

[Mussels]

So the monitor reaches 255Hz and then overlaps starting from 1Hz again at 256Hz

Works upto 275Hz but with some Vsync related tearing on horizontal moving objects and i'm too lazy to tweak the blanking values to fix it all

As todays tribute to the thread of credit card debt, i present: Display port and his son

[Goddamn stupid GTX970 has four of these and DVI only...)

 

[Palladium]

 

[Audioave10]

I picked up a few more little toys...

 

[Shrek]

My main machines still use DDR3, but I only pick up 4GB sticks these days.

 

[Audioave10]

My main machines still use DDR3, but I only pick up 4GB sticks these days.

Yes! I have plenty of those also. I can't help but buy some of the 2GB sticks when they are about 2 or 4 dollars.

 

[Frick]

New phone!

Oh yeah look at it.

Not a scratch anywhere! Sadly the battery is slightly swollen.

Slightly.

Which is quite sad. Finding a new battery looks to be next to impossible. But the connectors are fairly standard. Had I a 3D printer I could print a new back and use some 18650 cells or something. We'll see if it's solvable.

 

[Space Lynx]

New phone!

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Oh yeah look at it.

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Not a scratch anywhere! Sadly the battery is slightly swollen.

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Slightly.

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Which is quite sad. Finding a new battery looks to be next to impossible. But the connectors are fairly standard. Had I a 3D printer I could print a new back and use some 18650 cells or something. We'll see if it's solvable.

I'm sure you can find someone who has a 3D printer, my buddy recently got one, its fairly common these days. Maybe you could even make a WTB thread on the forums here, and just said you need to hire the services of a 3D printer, not sure if can work that way or not...

Come to think of that, it might be a good business model to have multiple kinds of 3D printers then sell your time as a service... too bad I am not skilled in that stuff, but if marketed correctly, that could do pretty well as a business I would think, so many things, people could draw their own creations and then hire a service to make them come to life so to speak. No different than the pottery lady at Saturday Market who takes commissions to make a certain bowl or cup I may want.

 

[Ruru]

Bought a R9 290X Matrix. I'll post some pics when it arrives.

 

[Space Lynx]

I am hoping Playstation 5 VR gets a pre-order listing tonight... PS State of Play today and rumors are all the details on next gen PS5 VR headset are going to be announced. I got my PS5 at MSRP $499, so hoping to get this as well for MSRP, then I will just use Gamefly for my game rentals for it. Can't fucking wait. I have a strong feeling Sony is going to be hitting it out of the park as far as "bang for buck" goes.

 

[Veseleil]

Ordered this for 230BAM (125USD, 117EUR), arrives tomorrow:

G1.Assassin 2, 3930K, etc. I don't really need another dust collecting PC, but i can't allow this falling into wrong hands.
Sorry for the bad photo quality, I'll post much better ones when i complete the build (need PSU, GPU, RAM, SSD).

 

[Braegnok]

New phone!

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Oh yeah look at it.

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Not a scratch anywhere! Sadly the battery is slightly swollen.

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Slightly.

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Which is quite sad. Finding a new battery looks to be next to impossible. But the connectors are fairly standard. Had I a 3D printer I could print a new back and use some 18650 cells or something. We'll see if it's solvable.

$29.95 for PDA replacement battery: https://www.batterygiant.com/pda-battery/Qtek/9000/PDA-179LI

 

[Mussels]

I got a new router, for the fantesticle low price of $0 - free dirt included!

Would you just look at that very informative front panel!

Oh god keep help keep my clothes on, look at that DIRT!

And look at that mobile mode/mobile signal green LED... cause the previous owner left the SIM Card in

This is the famous Telstra DJA0231 - a Technicolour router with amazing specs, crippled by a dodgy stock firmware. And i do mean crippled, like even if you're with that company you cant give the modem to anyone else - the VOIP ports stop working, tech support will only log in and help the original modem registered to you, etc etc. So people throw the modems out, give them away, or sell them for $20.


They're AC3100, LTE backup, gigabit ethernet, USB 3.0 and VOIP, as well as a DECT hub (So your cordless home phones connect directly to the modem for multiple VOIP line access/digital contacts lists)

4x4 on 5GHz (2167Mb) and 3x3 2.4Ghz (900Mb)

And then... telstra crippled it. Locking down the second 5GHz band to their overpriced repeater only, despite being the first router in the world to support the new Easy-mesh technology.
Voip is locked to the original owner.
Pages upon pages of settings are hidden away and locked to defaults you cant change or alter.
4G backup is ipv6 only, locked down to be usable only for short times and VOIP.


Of course you can just root the f*cker and unlock everything like i do, and get high end hardware for nothing with 25/5 backup LTE connections someone else is paying for that work australia wide
Not like i have an inverter in my car or anything, and can take someone elses home broadband on holiday with me...

There's automated tools to root the router (in a british accent, that's just saying root a lot)
GitHub - BoLaMN/tch-exploit: Technicolor OpenWRT Shell Unlocker

Then semi automated tools using putty/ssh and winscp/ftp for the fancy things like replacement GUI's, debloating scripts, converting spare routers into easy-mesh clients and i dunno, running your own local adguard home DNS server. While it looks complicated, the author actually does have specific dedicated guides written in there - he's just bad at putting those guides at the TOP of each page because he wants you to read and understand what you're doing first.
GitHub - seud0nym/tch-gui-unhide: Modify Telstra-branded Technicolor devices to access hidden features

I got my first one for $20 and this second one for free, and theyr'e AC3100 mesh satellites with 4G backup as long as the owner stays on that ISP's plan
How can i NOT want to pokemon every last one i see?


Edit: honestly, i may well put up a detailed walkthrough for the next one, so i dont forget all the steps and optional goodies.

 

[GerKNG]

 

[micropage7]

not very tech, a pair of pigtail rpsma connector, that i think i could use them on my router but since the ic is burned it will sit in the box

0,5mm thermal tape, i don't need it this time but sooner or later i'll use it, so better have some stock

 

[Shrek]

Don't laugh... a mouse cable for a repair.

The price was right, and I took the risk that I could remove the molded support; took ages to get here but it worked out and was worth the wait.