What's your latest tech purchase?

[Athlonite]

Hey i'm nearly 40, things start to sag a little (Perspective/angle of shot, went a little fisheye)

yeah wait till your 50+ like me sagging is the least of the worries LOL

 

[Mussels]

yeah wait till your 50+ like me sagging is the least of the worries LOL

as the sagmeister, would you reduce GPU sag or SSD sag?

Speeds, i mean speeds

(and according to w1zz, 8x @4.0 is not really slowing anything)

 

[Shrek]

An LED desk lamp from a charity store.

 

[QuietBob]

Got this gizmo on Black Friday. Stereo speakers, running Android TV. Weighs only 900g and the battery is supposed to be good for up to 4 hours. Bought it for work, but will hopefully see some play at home too.

 

[Mussels]

Oh thats an interesting little party trick

Is the HDMI out, or in?

 

[QuietBob]

Oh thats an interesting little party trick

Is the HDMI out, or in?

It's an input. Projection size is up to 150".

 

[Mussels]

HDMI in, it can be used by anything for a projector
HDMI out, it can be used with a TV when projectors not needed

I saw a good use for both options

 

[freeagent]

That cup is pretty sweet too

 

[wheresmycar]

Recently purchased in the last 8 days (in order):

1. Used gaming build 9700K / 2080 TI / 32GB:

Could you put a price on this USED build?

It's been used for 2-3 years for gaming (casual) and cryto/stock trading. No mining. No overclocking. The seller hasn't disclosed a price. I don't have much other info on it but have all the freedom in the world to check it out, test it out, compare specs, etc. According to him it works a...

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2. Used GTX 660: for only £20 from the same seller above. A replacement for work/casual multi-screening when I sell my 1080 TI

3. Canon TS5050 printer: My second one... old model but dirty cheap ink refills. 2 years gone and the first ones still going solid

4. 4TB Crucial MX500 SSD: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-qvo-4-tb-your-thoughts.289561/#post-4659976

5. Cusheen 24pcs toilet rolls & curtain hooks (well it took "technology" to produce them, so it counts lol)

EDIT: BTW - GREAT THREAD!! Ive always been curious what people buy nowadays. I don't really keep up with new tech/gadgets/etc hence i'm sure this thread will be fun and useful.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Anne pro 2 keyboard

 

[Kovoet]

yeah wait till your 50+ like me sagging is the least of the worries LOL

Young puppies wait till you are 60 it's even worse



Never been one that big into fancy keyboards so got these for logitech mechanical keyboard to give it a go. Logitech G512 now looking better

 

[AusWolf]

Do de doo, guess who got a WD AN1500 1TB for free

They overcharged, sent the wrong item three times and after i mentioned that i've been paying interest and fees for all this (and a $300 item that charged $800) they just said "woops, refund and keep item"

Guess i better reboot and see how she goes in an x4 slot first? With a mere 1TB, i may not care about using an x8 slot (which would feed off my GPU)

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So, free and in she goes

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2x SN730 vs 1x SN850

PCI-E 3.0 x4 vs NVME 4.0 x4
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Moved up, speeds did not increase as much as they were meant to
To take this shot, i slid the window from AS SSD over into reality, before taking the photo
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Congrats! I need to figure out how to make a deal like that myself!

And you need some RGB syncing software.

as the sagmeister, would you reduce GPU sag or SSD sag?

Speeds, i mean speeds

(and according to w1zz, 8x @4.0 is not really slowing anything)

SSD speed is overrated, imo. I've tried SATA 3, PCI-e 3.0 x4 and 4.0 x4 as my boot/game drive, and never felt any difference. I'm currently using my SATA 3 drive as boot drive only because it's easy to swap it if it dies, and my system is fast as ever.

 

[MrAMD]

New block came in. The wait for DDR5 continues

 

[Mussels]

Congrats! I need to figure out how to make a deal like that myself!

And you need some RGB syncing software.


SSD speed is overrated, imo. I've tried SATA 3, PCI-e 3.0 x4 and 4.0 x4 as my boot/game drive, and never felt any difference. I'm currently using my SATA 3 drive as boot drive only because it's easy to swap it if it dies, and my system is fast as ever.

It auto syncs with my razer software, actually. Pointless but pretty... Killing floor 2 makes the PC go flashy flashy!

Young puppies wait till you are 60 it's even worse



Never been one that big into fancy keyboards so got these for logitech mechanical keyboard to give it a go. Logitech G512 now looking better

I have the kingston hyperX doubleshot puddies, they look *identical* to those, same font and everything
Due to razer having a single bottom mounted LED, i didnt use the top row as it looked dull from certain angles
(Scuse the fingerprints, kid uses this for modded GTA V and among us)


And because this thread is all about showing off, i do own two of these, and the second has the razer white PBT keycaps so i can swap them around as i feel like it

 

[Deleted member 24505]

ordered case and a 360 to go with my 280

 

[AsRock]

Picked up a Yamaha TSR-5830, some one had dropped it and was selling it for $40 so i had to get it.

One of the sellers pictures, knock out a few dents and working like new .

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Picked up a Yamaha TSR-5830, some one had dropped it and was selling it for $40 so i had to get it.

One of the sellers pictures, knock out a few dents and working like new .

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Nice for 40 quid

 

[AsRock]

Nice for 40 quid

Yeah it's going be my backup if my 677 fails or i end up needing HDCP2 2.2, which be a while as LG are being dicks with the warranty of my monitor.

 

[AusWolf]

It auto syncs with my razer software, actually. Pointless but pretty... Killing floor 2 makes the PC go flashy flashy!

The point is (in my opinion) to avoid rainbow puke. A single solid colour that I sometimes change as my mood changes gets the job done.

 

[HammerON]

USPS delivered this beauty today!

 

[remixedcat]

Jelly. I want one for bitwig my Xeon chuggs like a nursing home on heavy synth patches!!

 

[tabascosauz]

Disassembled the accursed demon of diabolical cooler design - also known as 2060 Super Founders Edition, prepping for waterblock tomorrow.

To be sure, it is a royal pain in the ass, but honestly not unmanageable at all for a remotely skilled set of hands. GN Steve's methodology was a bit rigid when it came to separating the baseplate from the heatsink, no need for ratcheting 90 degree driver - w1zz seems to have done a smarter job, but Steve's video was an invaluable resource.

The reference PCB (which this one is technically if it had the 8-pin in the right place) isn't even that bad, the EVGA cards prove that. But Nvidia just couldn't leave it well enough alone.

 

[SN2716057]

Decided the cable management outside the case needed work too.

 

[AusWolf]

Disassembled the accursed demon of diabolical cooler design - also known as 2060 Super Founders Edition, prepping for waterblock tomorrow.

To be sure, it is a royal pain in the ass, but honestly not unmanageable at all for a remotely skilled set of hands. GN Steve's methodology was a bit rigid when it came to separating the baseplate from the heatsink, no need for ratcheting 90 degree driver - w1zz seems to have done a smarter job, but Steve's video was an invaluable resource.

The reference PCB (which this one is technically if it had the 8-pin in the right place) isn't even that bad, the EVGA cards prove that. But Nvidia just couldn't leave it well enough alone.

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It never stops to amaze me how big the TU106 - Turing's mid-range variant is compared to previous xx6 series chips. It's also strange that the 2060 Super's chip variant got the 410 suffix instead of 350 or something.

 

[Valantar]

It never stops to amaze me how big the TU106 - Turing's mid-range variant is compared to previous xx6 series chips. It's also strange that the 2060 Super's chip variant got the 410 suffix instead of 350 or something.

Just goes to show how GPU model naming has shifted overall over the past few generations. The GTX16/RTX20 split made this extra visible, but it's still there today, just subsumed into the ever-expanding product stacks of GPU makers, alongside the massively widened price span of GPUs. Even disregarding the ongoing supply crisis, the ceiling for GPU prices has been rapidly lifting for years, and they need more SKUs to fill those price points, which inevitably lifts naming tiers higher than previously - you can't get a higher digit than 9, after all, while lower digits are mostly unused. Of course the addition of RT cores plus a relatively low density node served to make Turing really huge on top of that. This is part of why I think we'll never again see the $200 6-tier GPU from either brand, sadly. I just hope whatever slots into that price point has the performance to be an actual upgrade over previous generations.