What's your latest tech purchase?

Frick · Aug 3, 2022

New HDD, for something like €120. I had a plan to spend more than that on smaller HDDs, so the sale came in handy.

Also this:

The idea is to replace the 2 x WD Blues (from 2013 and 2014,) with the 2TB Toshiba P300, and put the stuff on the Toshiba on the Seagate. I'll still have the WD Blues connected (hence the controller card), as I really should go through them. Many triple backups on them...

The copying will take awhile.

oxrufiioxo said:
Liked the XM4 earbuds so much picked up the XM5 over ears they didn't disappoint.

I got the XM3 over ears with a phone a while back and they are heavenly.

TheLostSwede · Aug 3, 2022

Frick said:
The copying will take awhile.
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I got the XM3 over ears with a phone a while back and they are heavenly.

You got a parent folder?

Frick · Aug 3, 2022

TheLostSwede said:
You got a parent folder?

Literally yes. They're not great at backups.

phill · Aug 3, 2022

Frick said:
New HDD, for something like €120. I had a plan to spend more than that on smaller HDDs, so the sale came in handy.

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Also this:

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The idea is to replace the 2 x WD Blues (from 2013 and 2014,) with the 2TB Toshiba P300, and put the stuff on the Toshiba on the Seagate. I'll still have the WD Blues connected (hence the controller card), as I really should go through them. Many triple backups on them...

The copying will take awhile.
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I got the XM3 over ears with a phone a while back and they are heavenly.

That speed would kill me, is there a reason its so slow at copying?? Is it the adaptor card as that should be way faster!!

GreiverBlade · Aug 3, 2022

phill said:
That speed would kill me, is there a reason its so slow at copying?? Is it the adaptor card as that should be way faster!!

i was also wondering that
copying my 2 Toshiba DT01ACA100 (931gb each) to a Seagtate Baracudda 2tb took less than 20hrs using an IcyBox IB-AC705-6G, iirc the min speed i had was in the range of his speed but the peak range was at least 2.5x

the low speed happened when it copied my Skyrim data folder :laugh:

and thats 124gb 92406 files 8039 folders :oops:

phill · Aug 3, 2022

GreiverBlade said:
i was also wondering that
copying my 2 Toshiba DT01ACA100 (931gb each) to a Seagtate Baracudda 2tb took less than 20hrs using an IcyBox IB-AC705-6G, iirc the min speed i had was in the range of his speed but the peak range was at least 2.5x

the low speed happened when it copied my Skyrim data folder and thats 124gb 92406 files 8039 folders

I did wonder as some of the drives I have here, copy at least 100MB/sec, the 8TB and 16TB drives are north of 200MB to 260MB/sec which for a hard drive, colour me impressed

Obviously smaller files and such slow down but get a bigger file, they will hold the sustained rate pretty darn well

Now if I could just get it to work properly over the network and use my full 10Gb connection I'd very much be a happy man

GamerGuy · Aug 3, 2022

A bunch of nice stuff you guys! :clap:

I've ordered a bunch of stuff, some are related to my laptop, others are for my chair s - Secretlab Omega, Xiaomi chair (rollerblade wheels so I can zip around faster

). Will post pics as and when I get 'em.

khemist · Aug 3, 2022

P4-630 said:
Nice case but not much airflow...

You are right, GPU is having a hard time, might have to get another case.

GreiverBlade · Aug 3, 2022

phill said:
I did wonder as some of the drives I have here, copy at least 100MB/sec, the 8TB and 16TB drives are north of 200MB to 260MB/sec which for a hard drive, colour me impressed Obviously smaller files and such slow down but get a bigger file, they will hold the sustained rate pretty darn well Now if I could just get it to work properly over the network and use my full 10Gb connection I'd very much be a happy man

i did a retest of the IcyBox, it can reach 100MB/s+ but my Toshiba drives are littered with small files :roll:

oh well ... i should have zipped the whole drives ... ah, nope bad idea :laugh:

phill · Aug 3, 2022

Well as it was that time I have become a year older and not even close to being any wiser, I decided, I needed a change and thought you know what, I should try a small build rather than all these giant cases and such.. So, welcome to my next build....

I also bought the girls the same case as well as I've got a build each for them too

So I've 3 Ryzen systems to build and a slightly older Z170 build with a 8086k in... I'm looking forward to it mostly because Isabelle is going to be doing the build her build and Sophia's case, I might get her to do some of that too... Reason I'm looking forward to it even more so, is that I've not been able to see Isabelle for over 4 months now due to my broken leg and well you can imagine the rest.. So, hoping to get a few pictures taken with the girls building their rigs together and seeing what I can come up with for them as well

I think the Pop Air case might have a bit more space than the O11 Air Mini, so I'll have to work out what GPU to put into them all. I was toying with the RX480s I have, they won't really need the power as such, Isabelle like Minecraft and Roblox, so I think it should be fine.. Sophia is only 3 so I've not really got her playing games unless playing games mean smacking the keys and screaming, we might just have to wing that build for now...
I've got my mate to send me over a few GPUs from the US, so I'm expecting a bit of a bill there with customs charges but it'll be well worth it

Hope to see you all in the craziness that is my project log

GreiverBlade said:
i did a retest of the IcyBox, it can reach 100MB/s+ but my Toshiba drives are littered with small files oh well ... i should have zipped the whole drives ... ah, nope bad idea

Small files are the worst...
I had a download for my mate for a emulator and that was 16TB.... There's literally 3 million files in the whole directory... I don't know why it took over 2 months to download but eventually it finished and was fine but man then another 4 days doing a copy over to some external drives so we had a backup... Thank god for the little micro PC I have as I'd have been burning electric like crazy with the other rig on with it just copying...

khemist · Aug 3, 2022

I was just looking at the fractal case, not sure what to go for now. It will look daft if i get a mid sized case with the itx board in it but i'm not interested in showing off the insides so i just might.

phill · Aug 4, 2022

khemist said:
I was just looking at the fractal case, not sure what to go for now. It will look daft if i get a mid sized case with the itx board in it but i'm not interested in showing off the insides so i just might.

I'd been looking about for a fair few cases, my problem was I have 280mm AIO's but none of the smaller cases fitted them, they where all 240mm lol!! Frustrating...

I think there's a few Fractal cases that are ITX or MATX but I've no boards that small so I've never looked into them sadly

Always have been tempted with a Crosshair Impact that Asus do, I think that's a MATX??? I never get the motherboard sizes right

lexluthermiester · Aug 4, 2022

khemist said:
You are right, GPU is having a hard time, might have to get another case.

Or just take the side of your case off. Open air cases are very effective at cooling. Just a thought.

khemist · Aug 4, 2022

phill said:
I'd been looking about for a fair few cases, my problem was I have 280mm AIO's but none of the smaller cases fitted them, they where all 240mm lol!! Frustrating...

I think there's a few Fractal cases that are ITX or MATX but I've no boards that small so I've never looked into them sadly Always have been tempted with a Crosshair Impact that Asus do, I think that's a MATX??? I never get the motherboard sizes right

I've gone for a pop mini non windowed.

lexluthermiester said:
Or just take the side of your case off. Open air cases are very effective at cooling. Just a thought.

Not great with side off either, undervolting the gpu helped, should be sorted when i get the fractal case tomorrow.

Frick · Aug 4, 2022

phill said:
That speed would kill me, is there a reason its so slow at copying?? Is it the adaptor card as that should be way faster!!

Both being external drives hooked up to an ancient USB non powered hub (both drives are 12V so no power over USB) is my best guess. Even the big files are slow... The seagate drive isn't a speed demon either. Only 380GB to go.

PerfectWave · Aug 4, 2022

TheLostSwede said:
This thing was about $580 after a small discount. The M28U and M32U costs around $666 here, but they're only HDR400. The M32UC is $835.
Sure this thing doesn't have any kind of FALD, but it's still better specced as I said, than a lot of the other options available locally.
Acer has a 28-inch model that's been out for a bit over a year now, similar to the M28U, that goes for $566, and that's pretty much the starting price for all 4K, high refresh rate monitors, but in that price range they are HDR400 and 144 Hz. BenQ has a model with local dimming of some kind, but that goes for $966, yet it's only $799 in the US.
LG wants $766 for their equivalent model and Asus starts at $600, but considering the issues I've had with my previous monitor, I'm not going with them again.
I bet something better will be out next week, knowing my luck.

At least the "VirtualLink" USB-C port works fine in DP Alt-mode.

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is it native 10bit color monitor or 8+2 bpc?

lexluthermiester · Aug 4, 2022

khemist said:
Not great with side off either, undervolting the gpu helped, should be sorted when i get the fractal case tomorrow.

If you don't see an improvement with the case side panel off then you have another problem. As you suggested, voltage might be the issue.

QuietBob · Aug 4, 2022

phill said:
So, hoping to get a few pictures taken with the girls building their rigs together and seeing what I can come up with for them as well

Those hand drawn pictures in the back that your girls created are super cute

It's great that you're getting them interested in tech, too!

TheLostSwede · Aug 4, 2022

PerfectWave said:
is it native 10bit color monitor or 8+2 bpc?

8+2 for sure.

Mussels · Aug 5, 2022

P4-630 said:
Now you only need a new GPU to make use of high fps gaming @ 4K.

TBH, anything with DLSS has a good shot at it
you can use the scaling features of nvidia cards too, so it outputs in 4k but renders in 1080p (looks a lot better than 1080p upscaled by the monitor)

Yes of course he needs a 3090Ti

Those speeds scream shared USB 2.0 hub, even my ivy bridge system SFF manages 40MB/s on USB 2.0

Alphacools radiators make my EK ones look terrible
2 G1/4 vs 5? (two on each side, + drain port)

Top mounted rad? Lucky you, you can use the up facing fittings as a fill port... front mounted? drain ports.
(or the actual drain/fill port, if its facing the right way)

Just... the idea of filling from the top rad would simplify so much BS, or cracking that fitting to help drain faster

Hell the amount of times i've had to blow air in to get liquid out, and doing both from the bottom of the front rad...

khemist · Aug 5, 2022

I've ordered the silent version of the fractal pop mini case by mistake, that wont be helping temps much.

P4-630 · Aug 5, 2022

khemist said:
I've ordered the silent version of the fractal pop mini case by mistake, that wont be helping temps much.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

khemist · Aug 5, 2022

P4-630 said:
Hope you get it sorted soon.

I will try it out anyway and see how it is.

P4-630 · Aug 5, 2022

khemist said:
I will try it out anyway and see how it is.

Not many openings for air intake though...

khemist · Aug 5, 2022

P4-630 said:
Not many openings for air intake though...

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Wont be the best but they had a similar design on the r6 and it wasn't terrible, can't resist trying it out anyway.

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