What's your latest tech purchase?

[Jetster]

well, that's all i will use, after a test run ... the verdict is : "bloody awesome"
although wax last less longer than normal oil/grease, less messy, the chain, chainring, derailleur and cassette look pristine, a huge thumb up for that brand from me

also, i love the fact that, it is 100% biodegradable and solvent free. (the WD40 chain lub i had was ... well ... PTFE, urgh...)

Man you got some serous hills around you. I'm one of those riders that like climbing as well as downhill

 

[FoulOnWhite]

It's all I use

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Nice Surly

 

[GreiverBlade]

Nice Surly

and with friction speed/gear shift ... i only noticed that just now

Man you got some serous hills around you. I'm one of those riders that like climbing as well as downhill

yep above 1300m altitude "hills"

alright back on track (downhill track??? )

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next: a soldering starter kit from Whadda (including 2 simple kits of the same kind as the "atom heart" i got from them some time ago ) and a 256gb uSD for the Rpi Zero 2 W (i still have a 64gb atm ... but that 256gb was on sale for 10chf)

 

[r9]

Just ordered from ebay:

Especially looking forward to the Fatal1ty mouse.

 

[GerKNG]

My first own CPU.
Lost it a couple months ago and bought it again for ~1€

 

[Jetster]

Prescott, remember wanting it when all I had was a Athlon XP 2.4. I think I ended up with a Athlon 64 3200 w/939 board instead. The Prescott was just too expensive.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Prescott, remember wanting it when all I had was a Athlon XP 2.4. I think I ended up with a Athlon 64 3200 w/939 board instead. The Prescott was just too expensive.

Honestly, you got the better deal anyway.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Prescott, remember wanting it when all I had was a Athlon XP 2.4. I think I ended up with a Athlon 64 3200 w/939 board instead. The Prescott was just too expensive.

I switched to intel just as the first core2duo came out, pretty soon everyone i knew was running a core2duo.

 

[wolf]

Segway Ninebot Max G2, to compliment my other beast scooter as a nice, legal, under the radar option for commuting in Australia.

I am highly impressed by this model so far, sturdy and stout little bugger, nice suspension, lots of tuning/customisation through the app, feature loaded like turn signals, cruise control, horn...

Couldn't resist modding it, like everything I own. so far;

• External 36v 15Ah battery in paralell to ~double range
• Accessory bar
• Bicycle bell
• Motorcycle bar end mirror (slightly convex)
• Torch mount for one of my few powerful yet small torches to compliment the stock headlight if doing an extended night ride
• Ninebot phone holder which I'm very impressed with too

 

[ViperXTR]

My first mechanical Keyboard

 

[wNotyarD]

My first mechanical Keyboard
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What functions do the red B and A buttons default to?

 

[ViperXTR]

What functions do the red B and A buttons default to?

programmable macro keys for you to bash in

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

Bought an used PS4 today for 150 euro with 2 controllers and charge dock. I want to try the new Modern Warfare III next month

At first i thought about build new Game PC, but this is a lot cheaper way to play the game

 

[NSX05]

Don't worry I had a RX 580/470 in crossfire and have a 6750XT so I know what it will feel like. You will get that smile that getting compelling PC hardware brings that inspires sites like TPU.

Already seeing the difference. Frame rates are anywhere between 2x and 3x. Great card.

Good point, but 2 x 4GB is about 5 times as expensive as 2 x 2GB for DDR2 laptop RAM

I can attest to that after looking up DDR2 for my GL960 system. 4 GiB SODIMM modules are rarer than a hen's tooth because they were introduced not long before DDR2 production ended, so they're £50 a piece easily.

My bad, I thought this was 'your latest tech purchase'; I didn't know it had to be new.

I believe it just needs to be new to you. I've posted second-hand stuff here before.

 

[lexluthermiester]

My first mechanical Keyboard
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And you got a damn good one! Very nice!

 

[GerKNG]

 

[dgianstefani]

Sound is good.

 

[PLAfiller]

Sound is good.

That's from their "gaming"-series of stuff. Wireless/BT is really convenient. Waaaay out of my price-range (I think these are like ~$400), but look really nice. Hope the mic is up to the task as well.

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

I switched to intel just as the first core2duo came out, pretty soon everyone i knew was running a core2duo.

I switched from 2 systems, an XP3200+ and Athlon_64 2800 to Core2Duo 6750.
That 6750 was so fast, together with a Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R mobo i overclocked it from stock 2,66GHz to 3.6Ghz. Even 3.8Ghz was possible.

 

[wNotyarD]

Just in:

It's electric, so it belongs here, right?

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

Bought:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider​

for PS4

 

[Chomiq]

Red Dead Redemption for PS4 (boxed) was on sale for $30. Good enough with PS5 having the 60 FPS mode.

Alan Wake Remastered from Epic Store, it's on sale now and it's cheaper than the regular version.

Not buying anything big tech related rn, not with prices going up and my pay being down by 10% until the end of the year.

 

[AusWolf]

Although not my purchase, but that of a colleague, it's a 2 TB Crucial external SSD. He gave it to me for testing and to copy over some stuff.

At first, it was blazing fast, ripping over 700 MB/s, but after a couple of minutes, it became slower than a laptop HDD, at only 50-60 MB/s.

I wholeheartedly recommend everyone to stay away from it, even at a discount. Any hard drive costs a fraction of this thing, and is a lot faster, too.

Alan Wake Remastered from Epic Store, it's on sale now and it's cheaper than the regular version.

I just did that, too, along with Alan Wake 2. This will probably be my first and last purchase on the Epic store, although I'm kind of curious about Return to Moria. I hope it'll come to Steam, I can wait with this one.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

My two latest purchases.

Amazon.com: Corsair iCUE LINK QX120 RGB 120mm Magnetic Dome RGB Fans - Triple Fan Starter Kit with iCUE LINK System Hub - Black : Electronics

Amazon.com: Crucial P3 Plus 1TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s - CT1000P3PSSD8 : Electronics

Im thinking of sending back the two gen5 m.2 drives i bought a couple weeks ago in favor of a 2TB 990 Pro and a Crucial 1TB gen5 nvme.

 

[Splinterdog]

Not new, but due to the times we are living through in Argentina (140% inflation, 150% interest rates and 10% currency devaluation every week) the second hand market is particularly attractive.
Not only that, but it is an admirable quality in Argentines of repair until certain death. For all those reasons I build reconditioned PCs for those who can't afford new hardware and what I provide is affordable.
My starting point is DDR3 and upwards where there is still a lot of good hardware available. I'm talking office use, not gaming, so it's obviously less expensive and challenging.
I just picked up a couple of decent cases and AMD motherboard combos for which I already have customers. I enjoy the challenge and they get what they need, they only proviso being that they will have to have SSDs and a decent amount of memory. PSUs are always new though.