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What's your latest tech purchase?

I can totally picture a mollusk coming out of nowhere, burrowing up to the surface just to burst into this random convo, to say "WOT?" in an aussie accent.
Well you just saw it happen, since i'm totally friggin confused what was being said
 
Loving all my new upgrades at the moment but needed a few more things so this is now on the way, and will hopefully be here tommorow, and then my nephew can now have my 1660 ti to lol.
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I scooped one of These in an effort to de-clutter a little bit, and maybe lower the power bill a lot :D I bought my AVR new 10 years ago, and My sub I bought new in 2008 but is a 2002 model, so you know power consumption was not a thing back then :D

It sounds ok but it will probably end up as a bedroom system for either us or the boys at some point...
 
People tend to look down on 8 cm fans, but they've come a long way in recent years. I've got some thin Akasa units in one of my HTPCs and some be quiet! in the other one, and they're all dead silent.
These Arctics are truly inaudible. Though I did purchase the silent versions, at least the naming isn't lying. :)
 
Do you people not understand I paid almost that much for a 1080 ti? that was 6 years ago, before supply chain issues, before covid, before russia/ukraine and diesel being super expensive to transport goods. $799 would be a good deal actually if the performance is a nice uplift.

you all need to stop living in fairyland. reality isn't even a bitch, even without all of those factors I mentioned, prices go up over time. so $799 is purely logical in expectation.
... the 1080 Ti MSRP was $699, so whatever you paid above that would have been a premium for a third party model with nicer cooling. It was also the flagship SKU of that generation. All the while you were hoping for a 7800 XT - an expected third-tier GPU - at $799, which would be a $150 increase over the $649 MSRP of the 6800 XT, which already had an inflated MSRP due to the precise factors you've mentioned already.

Pushing back against this isn't "living in fairyland", it's having some entirely basic perspective on price developments and what is a reasonable cost for a product. A $799 RX 7800 XT would be a travesty.

Remember: Navi 3x is made on a more advanced process, but has significant costs savings through being an MCM architecture, and while raw materials and shipping costs have increased over the past couple of years, they have been dropping since the pandemic started to ebb, and current costs are already much lower than a year ago.

Please stop making excuses for corporations hiking up prices "because inflation" and similar nonsense. You know what inflation is? Corporations increasing prices. This isn't natural or forced onto them, it's a pure cash grab - and corporate profits have skyrocketed over the past couple of years alongside these price increases. Almost as if it's all just greed....?
 
Early birthday gift to myself.
Bought a 5900x to replace my 3600x.
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Decided 1440p didn't cut it any more so... ;)

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Pc is all done but i do need and want a better PSU as although the one i have is 750watt bronze rated its a cheap thing made by aerocool so for now no heavey gaming but in a few weeks i should have a nice new PSU
 

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A pack of server parts:
Nvidia Grid K2 (like a gtx 690 but 8gb vram)
2x Intel 800Gb nvme (u.2) ssd
7x 1.2tb-2.4tb 2.5" sas hdd
6x 3,5" 3tb-6tb sas, sata enterprise hdd
10x satadom ssd (6x32gb+ 4x128gb)
Intel x520 2x10gb ethernet card
Few sas, sata interposer adapter (dell-Lsi something)
Xeon 2630v3
1x8gb ecc sodimm
It was 28k huf (aprox 70 usd)

I have sas card (dell h200) but I dont have sas cable for the tesing. So i only test two sata driver, one is faulty 4tb wd re (bad sectors), one is perfect 3tb seagate enteprise.
The ethernet card works.
I ordered an u.2 to pcie card for the intel ssds.
 

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I love curved displays! I've got a curved Samsung myself, although I'm still happy with 1080p. At least I don't need such GPU horsepower that I can't afford. :D

It's my first curved screen, I'll need some adjustment time since with this one you have to be dead center especially for FALDenabled/HDR content (the miniLED zones -aka blooming is extemely noticable when viewed from an angle). It's not that bad actually without HDR.

3 factors led to this purchase
1.sale (bought @1k, down from 1500$).
2. my best described as.. dismay at having to look at whiteish/grey blacks on my old display (1440p LG GL850 IPS) which became hard to ignore after getting a C1 little over a year ago. (i didnt really mind before that, ignorance is bliss as they say)
3. Massive CPU bottleneck with the 4090 at 1440p
 
It's my first curved screen, I'll need some adjustment time since with this one you have to be dead center especially for FALDenabled/HDR content (the miniLED zones -aka blooming is extemely noticable when viewed from an angle). It's not that bad actually without HDR.

3 factors led to this purchase
1.sale (bought @1k, down from 1500$).
2. my best described as.. dismay at having to look at whiteish/grey blacks on my old display (1440p LG GL850 IPS) which became hard to ignore after getting a C1 little over a year ago. (i didnt really mind before that, ignorance is bliss as they say)
3. Massive CPU bottleneck with the 4090 at 1440p
That's why I like my monitor's VA panel. It's got nearly IPS-like colours, but with fairly decent viewing angles. The best of both worlds as they say. :)
 
That's why I like my monitor's VA panel. It's got nearly IPS-like colours, but with fairly decent viewing angles. The best of both worlds as they say. :)
I like my VA's except they're a generation or two older with a bit of the black smearing in specific circumstances
never an issue in games, but some websites set it off as i scroll
 
The new 2022 platform from CWT (10 year warranty) for 89€ on sale.
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I like my VA's except they're a generation or two older with a bit of the black smearing in specific circumstances
never an issue in games, but some websites set it off as i scroll

After a few days nowI can deffinitevely say there's no black level smearing on this one !
 
Gonna bin this pack of 5 and the worst two will be hacked for the frames. That is if at least one is an oddball of sorts.

Need spacers for airflow/noise(le:)noise reduction improvements (particular to the case in witch these go) and not much else out there as a better spacer than a fan frame. Not going the 3d printer route for parts, because I don't have one.
 

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I just replaced a Palit GTX 1650 4GB with a PNY 3080 12GB. A 5x jump in performance as a result.

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Lucky, you didn't need a new case for the new GPU...
It certainly was a challenge to find a GPU that could fit the 300mm space available.
 
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