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What's your latest tech purchase?

dgianstefani said:
Razer makes great peripherals so top choices there, but if I were you I'd return the headset, bad history there and mediocre sound quality.

Grab something like the Audeze Maxwell.
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I played around with the Blackshark headset and I'm liking it overall, the positional sound is highly accurate and it's comfy enough, I don't use it for music anyways.

My old HyperX Orbit S (which is based on Audeze planar drivers) sound better for music but in games I prefer the Blackshark, using the Razor competitive EQ mode it's actually easier on my ears actually.
 
The last order for this year:
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This year's last for me too, but the we'll email you part kinda sucks.

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I'm with you.
 
To go along with the P20i's

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I finally gave in, replacing my four all black Arctic P12 front-end radiator fans with a-RGB ones.
Ordered four Arctic P12 PWM PST A-RGB fans, so finally I'll be able to see the light :roll: :kookoo:.

https://www.arctic.de/en/P12-PWM-PST-A-RGB/ACFAN00231A

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Last minute impulse buy: It's gonna be thight for delivery on time, but for X-mas as a good Dutch tradition, a horrible looking sweater to steal the show at X-mas dinner.

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Maybe not really a tech-purchase, but from one of my favorite hardware webshops and partially sponsered by tech-brands, so good enough for me to show off here :roll:
(half of the revenue is meant for local sponsoring of youth sports and culture)
 
Yes it is what you are thinking it is....a volume knob.....and I still can't believe how much I paid for it. But I find FN+F3/F2 very inconvenient. Honestly there weren't really that many options out there.1702926968280.jpg1702926968291.jpg
 
PLAfiller said:
Yes it is what you are thinking it is....a volume knob.....and I still can't believe how much I paid for it. But I find FN+F3/F2 very inconvenient. Honestly there weren't really that many options out there.View attachment 325891View attachment 325892
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I think I have this same one and I love it! Great size, nice feel to the dial, push to mute, and it has a lengthy cord to put it in about any location.

JAT
 
PLAfiller said:
Yes it is what you are thinking it is....a volume knob.....and I still can't believe how much I paid for it. But I find FN+F3/F2 very inconvenient. Honestly there weren't really that many options out there.View attachment 325891View attachment 325892
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Potentiometer can be highly complex to build requiring a lot of good quality parts and testing. You might notice a slight change to audio towards non-fatiguing if this USB implementation works well in your system. :)
 
Couldn't say "no" to free stuff (Celeron D 336 in the LGA775 board; i3-6100 in the LGA1151 board).

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I've bought a modest i3 12 gen laptop made by Asus. Since I have a relatively powerful desktop, I was looking for a portable solution for my office works. Then I bought a wireless mouse from Lenovo. Here how it looks like:
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All series｜Dizüstü Bilgisayar Ev｜ASUS Türkiye

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Noci said:
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Maybe not really a tech-purchase, but from one of my favorite hardware webshops and partially sponsered by tech-brands, so good enough for me to show off here :roll:
(half of the revenue is meant for local sponsoring of youth sports and culture)
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These ones from microshaft for this year..... (BLISS windows XP background)

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No I didn't buy....:p
 
JATownes said:
I think I have this same one and I love it! Great size, nice feel to the dial, push to mute, and it has a lengthy cord to put it in about any location.

JAT
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nomdeplume said:
Potentiometer can be highly complex to build requiring a lot of good quality parts and testing. You might notice a slight change to audio towards non-fatiguing if this USB implementation works well in your system. :)
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You are both absolutely right! I definitely like it, it was just very close to Black Friday and this thing comparatively costs more than my mechanical keyboard :D.

I checked DYI solutions, but even if I 3D print the shell for the knob, the Arduino board and potentiometer and other small parts still total around $30 minimum.....so yeah.....I found out that a volume knob isn't that simple of a thing. "You might notice a slight change to audio towards non-fatiguing" -> I don't have the knowledge to detect that :), it's just feels nice dialing in left and right.

I definitely need to get a second one for the laptop, it's a must have IMO. :P
 
I’m expecting teletubbies to jump over the hill and enter the desktop
 
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Teletubbies and the Voice trumpet. Tinky Winky · Dipsy · Laa-Laa · Po. Notice the Voice Trumpet, what MS calls BING, watching and listing on the right.
 
mclaren85 said:
I've bought a modest i3 12 gen laptop made by Asus. Since I have a relatively powerful desktop, I was looking for a portable solution for my office works. Then I bought a wireless mouse from Lenovo. Here how it looks like:
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I've installed new kingston ddr4-3200 ram in order to run in dual channel mode. In the synthetic benchmarks, the number says the performance has nearly doubled.

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Online Double Conversion UPS (Pure Sinewave)

These are great to condition power and can even lead to some small improvements in efficiency and performance of PC.

I overspec'd the wattage so hopefully this is pretty quiet, it's supposed to be less than 40 dB. I'll run a few other things off it, but load shouldn't exceed 600 W.

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"Online Double Conversion​

AC power is stable and clean upon generation. But during transmission and distribution, it is subject to voltage sags, spikes and complete failure that may interrupt computer operations, cause data loss and damage equipment. When it comes to safeguarding critical IT loads, only online double conversion technology protects fully against all these power problems, providing the highest levels of security for networks.

An online UPS system is usually called double conversion as well because incoming power is converted to direct current (DC) and then converted back to AC. This AC-DC/DC- AC design ensures an increased degree of isolation of the load from the irregularities on the main supply.

The online UPS takes the incoming AC power supply and converts it to DC using a a rectifier to feed the battery and the connected load via the inverter so that no power transfer switches are necessary. If the main AC input fails, the rectifier drops out of the circuit and the batteries keep the power flowing to the device connected to the UPS. When AC input power is restored, the rectifier resumes carrying most of the load and begins charging the batteries.

Because power runs through an online UPS continually, output is a perfect sine wave. This type of UPS protects the critical load from virtually all power disturbances, including subtle harmonics and waveform distortion.

This means the quality of power from online UPS is significantly better than that of other technologies. Offline and line-interactive technologies reduce the impact of spikes, surges and sags by either clipping the peaks and valleys, boosting power or switching to battery backup. Within the normal track of an electrical sine wave, however, most power fluctuations are left alone. Online UPS regenerates the sine wave, not just conditioning of the raw utility supply.

An online UPS delivers continuous, high-quality AC power to equipment with no break when transferring to battery, protecting equipment from virtually all power disturbances due to blackouts, brownouts, sags, surges or noise interference. A true online, double-conversion UPS provides 100% power conditioning, zero transfer time to battery, no change in output voltage and better transient suppression than line-interactive units.

Online double conversion is the most common UPS mode of operation used for protecting large data centers by providing the highest level of power quality to the load always. Online systems also provide frequency regulation, essential for use with backup generator systems to protect from variations common at generator start up."


Noise level seems quite low, and the fan will be facing away from me anyway.
 
New batteries?
 
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