What's your latest tech purchase?

[SteeledPick]

Bought A Keychron V1 keyboard 2 w/pro red switches. I've had a few steelseries, corsair and razor keyboards but the Keychron v1 is Very solid. Nice medium thock, extremely smooth keys with a solid feeling to it. I'm now a Keychron FAN BOY.
Works well in COD.

 

[kapone32]

So I thought that I could get a nice inexpensive 5.0 Drive with SSD prices still not bad. Well I will have to wait for Black Friday to get more storage but 1 TB is fine for the OS. I was thinking about the T700 from Crucial but you can get a 4TB 4.0 drive for the price of 1 TB of T700. Should be coming by Thursday.

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[cst1992]

1 TB is fine for the OS.

Why do you need so much space for an OS drive?
I have 1 500GB and 1 2TB drive in my PC and only 200 of that 500GB is actually allocated to the OS partition.
It's a NVMe drive and the other 265GB of it is for games but that is a separate partition.

 

[AusWolf]

For me personally, $60 is WAY too much for a game. I guess I'm stuck as a kid in the 90s, when CDs used to cost $10-15...

Agreed. I'm willing to pay $50 for something that I've been waiting for decades, like The Witcher 3, or Alan Wake 2. But not for just any game.

 

[wNotyarD]

Expensive? Yes, but with cashback making it go for the local price of a 7900XT. Actual photos when it arrives. (And then to try to recoup about a third of it selling my 3070 on local marketplaces...)

 

[kapone32]

Why do you need so much space for an OS drive?
I have 1 500GB and 1 2TB drive in my PC and only 200 of that 500GB is actually allocated to the OS partition.
It's a NVMe drive and the other 265GB of it is for games but that is a separate partition.

I don't think there are 500GB 5.0 drives available and I could still put 3 or 5 of my most played Games on that Drive and not worry about filling it up. More is better to me and keep in mind that the first word in PC is Personal. As an example my PC has 22TB of flash storage that will become 23TB once I install that drive. I also have a large Game library (Grew up in the Arcade) as that is my hobby. I have subscribed to Humble Choice since 2017 and get 8-12 Games a month that all have at least a 70% positive Steam rating. Iron Harvest is just as good as COH and has some better Mechanics than Dawn of War. Greedfall is so good that I need to take some Vacation time to get into it fully but those are just 2 of the hundreds of Games that Choice (Now) gives me I remember watching a video on Shadow Tactics and almost buying it on a Steam sale until I checked my Humble and there it was.

 

[GreiverBlade]

tomorrow .... something with an Intel 14 cores processor ... take a guess
and some tools, something that can clamp, cut, screwdrive and many more and something that blow ... hard ...

related to the blowing one (yeah yeah... obviously bike tech ... so it "blow" the surprise of the blowing one, although no one blow... aherm i mean know, which one it will be, right? ) :


another valve core remover? well, it was a freebie ... i am weak to freebies ...
and the bike mat .... well my neighbor do not want stains on their garage floor, not that their own car are not making bigger stains than when i am maintaining my bike (and it can also be considered a freebie ... since i had a 10chf voucher and its price was 10chf ... )
i was using a beach towel, previously (as seen in my post before )

 

[Apocalypsee]

I bought 2nd Ryzen 5700G as it's very cheap, how cheap? The price of 5600, the iGPU could be a good fallback if any of my GPU is dead. Thought it won't be as much boost from 3600 but from two games I tested so far, CP2077 and Witcher 3, the stutter that happen before is totally gone! Frametime is buttery smooth

 

[cst1992]

I'm willing to pay $50 for something that I've been waiting for decades, like The Witcher 3

W3 is one of the best games I've played. But since you said you were willing to pay $50 and wait decades for it, I have to confess I found it entirely by chance and bought in a flash sale for... well, $2.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

For me personally, $60 is WAY too much for a game. I guess I'm stuck as a kid in the 90s, when CDs used to cost $10-15...

New release discs in the 90s were typically around $17, IIRC. Pretty comparable to today. And top-flight SNES games were $70.

 

[NSX05]

My first mechanical keyboard -- MSI VIGOR GK71 Sonic Blue -- after using a scissor switch Gigabyte GK-K7100 for the past 9 years.

 

[AusWolf]

W3 is one of the best games I've played. But since you said you were willing to pay $50 and wait decades for it, I have to confess I found it entirely by chance and bought in a flash sale for... well, $2.

But I bought the Collector's Edition box signed by all the devs, that has the art book and Geralt vs griffin statue in it.

If I spend big money, at least I make it worth my while.

 

[Veseleil]

Got this just out of curiosity, and put it in my guest rig instead of the old one (0, 50, 100% speed). Kinda like the way it doesn't sound like an aircraft during boot, and yeah, also said goodbye to the Fan Control.

 

[Splinterdog]

Since I'm on a building reconditioned PCs streak I asked my wife to ask her contacts if they had any old machines they wanted to sell and we had a couple of replies, one of which said they were about to throw them out.
Ten minutes later I was at their house, struck a deal whereby I would rescue data from some of thier old hard drives in exchange for all the kit. Naturally I agreed and was able to retrieve most of their data from numerous HDDs, mainly IDE laptop ones from eons ago, but it was painful, very clunky and whirry, but did I mind?
Anyway, I got all the kit:
A very nice Asus P8H77M with a Core i3 2120, 4GB ram, 500GB WD HDD, all in a very solid case, an MSI 9500GT and a pretty good 450W PSU (the one in the photo is my own Corsair for testing)
A Pentium 4 3.0Ghz on an Intel board (no AGP unfortunately) with 2x512MB ram in a tidy case and a not so shabby 500W PSU
One very nice PS2 Compaq keyboard ( the ones that last forever), a Benq USB keyboard in excellent condition, two very good sets of Creative 220v/180W speakers and a DVD player!
Not a bad day's work, if I may say so...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Why do you need so much space for an OS drive?
I have 1 500GB and 1 2TB drive in my PC and only 200 of that 500GB is actually allocated to the OS partition.
It's a NVMe drive and the other 265GB of it is for games but that is a separate partition.

Why do separate partitions? Answer? Personal preference. Live and let live. You do you.

And top-flight SNES games were $70.

And they were worth every penny!

 

[Athlonite]

just had my Logitech G815 Replaced under warranty as four of the LED backlights were stuck on red and it was annoying as all hell they didn't have another G815 so got me a G915 instead

 

[NSX05]

just had my Logitech G815 Replaced under warranty as four of the LED backlights were stuck on red and it was annoying as all hell they didn't have another G815 so got me a G915 instead

I was seriously considering one of those, but not at double the cost to the one I got.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

An 8GB RasPi 5 which is due to arrive... eventually.

 

[PLAfiller]

Got this just out of curiosity, and put it in my guest rig instead of the old one (0, 50, 100% speed). Kinda like the way it doesn't sound like an aircraft during boot, and yeah, also said goodbye to the Fan Control.

Do you mind if you drop a link to that? Or it's a random pick from Aliexpress? Also a "guest rig" like a guestroom PC? or PC only for guests to use? [just a language curiosity]

 

[cst1992]

Why do separate partitions? Answer? Personal preference. Live and let live. You do you.

True.

Why do separate partitions?

By the way, I could give a non-personal-preference answer to that one.
Just a few days ago my system got corrupted due to misconfiguration at build time. I had to wipe the whole partition and install Windows 11 from scratch.
Keeping only the OS and a few bits of software on it (not large ones, just utilities) made this process last no more than an hour.
If this partition were larger then it'd have taken more time, plus my other partitions might not have had enough space to put all the stuff from the OS partition on them. Or, if this were the sole partition, I'd have to move everything to an external disk, which would be slower than moving to another partition on the same computer.

But yeah, you prefer what you prefer.

 

[AusWolf]

True.

By the way, I could give a non-personal-preference answer to that one.
Just a few days ago my system got corrupted due to misconfiguration at build time. I had to wipe the whole partition and install Windows 11 from scratch.
Keeping only the OS and a few bits of software on it (not large ones, just utilities) made this process last no more than an hour.
If this partition were larger then it'd have taken more time, plus my other partitions might not have had enough space to put all the stuff from the OS partition on them. Or, if this were the sole partition, I'd have to move everything to an external disk, which would be slower than moving to another partition on the same computer.

But yeah, you prefer what you prefer.

I prefer an OS disk instead of an OS partition. So I don't lose anything even at a hardware fault. But yeah, each to their own.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

I prefer an OS disk instead of an OS partition. So I don't lose anything even at a hardware fault. But yeah, each to their own.

I have my 500gb nvme partitioned, with win 10 and win 11. If one goes tits up, i just boot the working one till i can be arsed to fix the other.

 

[kapone32]

Well colour me impressed. Today is Tuesday right? I just ordered this yesterday morning. I will most likely install this after picking up my daughter today.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Well colour me impressed. Today is Tuesday right? I just ordered this yesterday morning. I will most likely install this after picking up my daughter today. View attachment 319831

You have a gen 5 slot for it?

 

[kapone32]

You have a gen 5 slot for it?

My board is the Asus X670E-E Strix and according to the manual I have 3 5.0 slots and room for 1 more using an adapter card.