What's your latest tech purchase?

[Aquinus]

The middle of next week I’ll have something to put in it.

 

[P4-630]

Got a new 100 Watt toy

 

[Dinnercore]

Take cover! Hide the PSUs!

 

[phill]

What might you be needing that for??!!

 

[GreiverBlade]

What might you be needing that for??!!

a double Vega 64, duh?


which ironically is blue ...

 

[Dinnercore]

What might you be needing that for??!!

a double Vega 64, duh?
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which ironically is blue ...
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Actually... I will not create a singularity... yet.

I will double up a double GPU and go 3870 x2 x2. This is a bit redundantly redundant, but I have a thing for that era and mGPU stuff.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Actually... I will not create a singularity... yet.

I will double up a double GPU and go 3870 x2 x2. This is a bit redundantly redundant, but I have a thing for that era and mGPU stuff.

ah! i get the "hide the psu's"

 

[cucker tarlson]

Some parts for my server board.
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I didn't know such pci-e x1 to usb cards exist, I need one! Are they all full speed ?

 

[ViperXTR]

 

[phill]

a double Vega 64, duh?
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which ironically is blue ...
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I wondered since I thought the newer AMD cards didn't actually require the crossfire cables?? I don't need them on the 4 480's I have?? I thought it was for some slightly older cards for benchmarking or something

Actually... I will not create a singularity... yet.

I will double up a double GPU and go 3870 x2 x2. This is a bit redundantly redundant, but I have a thing for that era and mGPU stuff.

I don't think that you'll have that much of a problem with just two 3870 X2's I tried 3 GTX 580's without overclocking on a 920 D0 rig, that was pretty fun considering it would take 1000w from the wall without any overclocking on the GPUs.. Reminds me, I would really like to find another GTX 580 3Gb for some silly 4 way GPU fun for giggles... Ummm.... Just need a bigger PSU to make sure I could overclock them!!

 

[GreiverBlade]

I wondered since I thought the newer AMD cards didn't actually require the crossfire cables??

yeah i know ... but i always wanted to do that joke ... with the pictures and mad paint editing skilllllz (that one is a joke too ... )

 

[phill]

Ah I thought someone was trying to confuse me

 

[natr0n]

I didn't know such pci-e x1 to usb cards exist, I need one! Are they all full speed ?

Havent used it yet. Waiting on case to ship. According to the newegg reviews it does work at full speed. Just search "speed" under reviews.

 

[Jetster]

 

[phill]

When you order a few Haribo but get something else instead....

Well oops.. They must have sent me the wrong stuff.....

 

[Dinnercore]

When you order a few Haribo but get something else instead....

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Well oops.. They must have sent me the wrong stuff.....

I would send them back, I mean what on earth could one ever use these strange metal squares for? The pins are not even long enough to be a proper comb.

 

[phill]

What's worse, I don't even have enough hair to comb!!

 

[DR4G00N]

I received a couple of these recently. Their performance @ 3.8GHz is very nice, a good boost from the dual E5420's @ 3GHz. I only wish that this board could do more than 405MHz FSB running dual.

 

[phill]

Some very nice results there @DR4G00N

 

[sam_86314]

Now I don't need to be at work to play with one of these...

It's an Anet A8. I bought it because I have experience with them from my job training. I think it's a great budget platform to start with and build upon if you want to get into 3D printing.

Also got a new laptop for work a few weeks ago; an HP Stream 11 with a Celeron N3060, 4GB of DDR3, and 32GB of storage. I also got a 64GB MicroSD card for it.

I needed a laptop that was small and had good battery life. It didn't need to be powerful. This little laptop has fit the bill perfectly, making it through an 8-hour work day without being charged, and it has been able to do everything I need it to.

 

[Dinnercore]

The first piece for my childhood dream build has arrived!

Other stuff will take a while for me to sort out. I want to stay more or less authentic to that era, so no fancy new waterblocks for the CPU. None of that cheap bulk DDR2 800.

What troubles me the most is the case that I adored at that time. I can´t find it and nvidia branded cases are not very common today or very nvidia-like priced....

 

[phill]

I so remember having this board..... I believe I still have the photos from the rig I bought/built!!

 

[Dinnercore]

What troubles me the most is the case that I adored at that time. I can´t find it and nvidia branded cases are not very common today or very nvidia-like priced....

I found something very close to it, just from a couple years later. Wasn´t that difficult to find, there was a single one left in stock new on amazon. Last one I found inside my country, there are two more I found from UK new. Only difficult bit was the price, but I had to do it for that 13yo nvidia shill boy that I was back then (he would have loved it, and I have to admit I shed some tears of joy looking at it sitting here now) and that still has a corner in my heart. I´m not sorry for it, only my wallet is. Sold my old rig just to get this case.

Set in stock for quite a while this thing. Must have been something around 5 years.

It´s a Silverstone Temjin TJ10B Nvidia Edition...

Oh the feels. Goosebumps.
The build quality on this thing is from another star. I started buying cheap way back in the day, now that I have a job I go for mediocre cases but THIS one. This one feels like it was made by a Formula One Team.

The screws for the sidepanels... Dampened with O rings, 3 for each side to really hold it tight and still EASIER to get off because to top and bottom one are made with an offset so you only need 2 turns to undo them while to one in the middle is set in.
That shiny metal accent on the PSU.

The whole motherboard tray, e.g. all the silver you see, can be taken out with thumbscrews on the back. How cool is that?

Speaking of cool... The HDD-Trays are completely seperated and can be fitted with their own airflow. The compartment in the middle between HDD space and Motherboard area has a fan in it that takes air in directly from 2 ducts in the side of the panels to supply fresh air to the GPUs.

I start to wonder why I ever bothered to build my current setup. Oh right, work.

You have no idea how excited I am about this. My 775 build in this thing has to get a project log.

 

[Ahhzz]

Congrats @Dinnercore . Enjoy it!!

 

[Frick]

I am now part of the Mechanic Keyboard Association, with the newly arrived Cherry MX Board 3.0 (as reviewed by VSG here) with red switches and first impressions are below.

- It's heavier than I thought it would be, which is a Good ThingTM.
- Cable is in the middle (it's the detachable version), I prefer them off to the right ad the monitor is in front of the keyboard. Doesn't matter though.
- Low profile will get some getting used to, if I use it. The only desktop keyboards I've used in any capacity the past plenty years have been those chunky Dell keyboards, which I absolutely love. I do most of my real typing on the laptop these days though, the desktop is solely for gaming, which tends to be games where you don't have to hammer away at the keyboard.
- It's not as loud as I thought it would be. This is also a Good ThingTM.
- Typing feels quite nice actually. Less force required than the aforementioned Dell keyboards, and it's springier than them. I wrote a few hundred words just to get the feel of it and my hands feels a bit worn because I'm used to higher force and longer keytravel so I bottom out with speed. I'll get used to it I guess.
- The space bar doesn't wobble or rattles or clatters. The mechanical keyboards I've previously tried have had horrible space bars in that regard, and that includes that Das Keyboard Pro for what was it, +€150? This does not clatter. Good ThingTM.

On the whole it's not something I would spend real money on, and I feel the same about all the mechanical keyboards I've used so far, but I got it for €15, new in box, which was nice.