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What's your latest tech purchase?

Mussels said:
you sure its not a fake? i bought maybe a dozen fakes off ebay, always got refunded in the end and bought locally
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100% sure since it was ordered from a local Swiss reputable Etailer was brand new and no fishy packaging and i checked p/n number and other test and mean to see if the capacity was correct, as i said ... probably a listing error :laugh: the next day after my order the listing was back to 74chf.
 
heky said:
The Adata SX8200 Pro will be running circles around the 660p. Good choice. Its one of the fastest PCi-e 3.0 NVme drives!
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Thanks I only use the 660Ps as Data drives and this will be my new boot drive. I am almost at the point where all of my storage will be NVME and SSDs instaed of HDDs for backup.
 
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I never thought it would make any difference to drying clothes but yes it does..... Ive been running it since 8pm (and its now around 11.45pm ) and while my clothes are still a little damp this dehumidifier has cut the drying time down by 30-40%

The unit arrived today and i had some fresh laundry to try out.

The tank barely stores anything and gets full pretty quickly with fresh laundry so i took a knife to a small 5ltr plastic box like this...

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and bore out a small hole enough to fit the 9mm pipe through. I could probably leave it on all week now 24/7 before having to empty it.
 
I recently got crazy deals on some hardware. Perhaps pricing errors. An ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 was $8.63 plus tax and the Maximus VIII Extreme $36.75. They were listed as used like new but besides some distressed packaging they look totally unused. I did a bios mod on the Maximus to support a coffee lake celeron G4900 I had lying around. Works perfectly as far as I can tell as I'm using it to type this. I might actually buy an 8000 or 9000 series Intel cpu and nullify their greedy motherboard tax.


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thats crazy deal one indeed
Vincy Boy said:
I recently got crazy deals on some hardware. Perhaps pricing errors. An ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 was $8.63 plus tax and the Maximus VIII Extreme $36.75. They were listed as used like new but besides some distressed packaging they look totally unused. I did a bios mod on the Maximus to support a coffee lake celeron G4900 I had lying around. Works perfectly as far as I can tell as I'm using it to type this. I might actually buy an 8000 or 9000 series Intel cpu and nullify their greedy motherboard tax.


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Recently dumped my pc surround setup and went back to stereo. In the process I splurged a lil bit and got a half decent DAC and head amp combo, the Filo K5 Pro. I then mated that to a 2ch desktop amp, a Micca Origain. I reused the Polk RM10 satellites previously used. The K5 Pro is a ridiculously good value with its DAC choice. The Origain is pretty good too and I appreciate the preout for my AJ subwoofer. The other thing is that I was able to reclaim a lot of desk space, especially w/o a Dayton BS36 bar under my panels.

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feels like theres hidden gem inside, i alr purchase for a $40:)
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cant wait to see, well times for a stroll, starting visit my favorite store, i think i will get few wired xbox/sonarcard/vga/storage these day, will decide after see the stuff:p
abt going for a deal
full set of msi 1600combo 570
for a $250, i think i can push for a $150, we will see heh, on the way to the seller home:)
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so many broken deal, well not empty hand atleash, i bought all of this for a $37:)
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i bought this used one today, all for $6, i think i can use it for laptop battery replacment, hope it wont explode heh
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also few led for my pc case lighting:)
 
Pretty nice update over the OG elite.
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Just replaced a dying CX 430 in my home server with the semi-modular CX 450M and an additional SATA power cable.

Paying a little more for the ability to not use perfectly fine molex/SATA power adapters is a bit frivolous, but makes up for it in good feels :)
 
Pixel 4 camera handles RGB lighting better, so heres the RGB mousepad setup i tried to show a while back
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Well another week another deal. I was looking for a 200MM fan as I am going to reposition my rads to the side and bottom of my case. I already had the Cooler Master RGB 200mm fans and wanted to get 1 or 2 more. Unfortunately they have increased in price from $22 to $36. I kept scrolling and found these

EZDIY-FAB 20cm RGB Computer Case Fan 800rpm,Hydraulic Bearing 200mm 5V ARGB Fan-1 Pack : Amazon.ca: Electronics

EZDIY-FAB 20cm RGB Computer Case Fan 800rpm,Hydraulic Bearing 200mm 5V ARGB Fan-1 Pack : Amazon.ca: Electronics
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Not only are they 25.99 but they are ARGB and have a $3.00 coupon. The sweetest part though is there was no tax applied at checkout. So $22.99. I will let the community know if these are worth taking the plunge. In order to get the coupon for more than 1 you have to do 1 per order and the coupon will work.
 
Palit gaming Pro 1660 Super to replace my Gf rx580, the rx580 will be going to my older brother pc.
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Gonna take some getting use to. I miss my weighted freewheel. Love the wires
My G502 is failing after three years. right click is week and the wheel sticks. Probably needs a good cleaning

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i pay for this 570 justnow, not necessary card, but i dont mind to keep it, becouse its cheap thats it:)
 
Little quadro 600.

this guy and included low pro bracket will be in a server soon to take the 4K transcode job away from the CPU.

will prob try to pass it through via DDA but if I fail will find a reason to fill my third chassis, and move plex over to that as opposed to the current VM.

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Solaris17 said:
Little quadro 600.

this guy and included low pro bracket will be in a server soon to take the 4K transcode job away from the CPU soon.

will prob try to pass it through via DDA but if I fail will find a reason to fill my third chassis, and move plex over to that as opposed to the current VM.

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What CPU is in your Plex server?

I have two of these cards, so I'm interested to know how its performance compares to CPU transcoding. I currently have a Geforce 210 in my server just for video output and use CPU transcoding.
 
sam_86314 said:
What CPU is in your Plex server?

I have two of these cards, so I'm interested to know how its performance compares to CPU transcoding. I currently have a Geforce 210 in my server just for video output and use CPU transcoding.
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I dont run GPUs at all since I run servers with IPMI, but both are haswell gen E3's and I run like 11VMs. The CPUs do not have quicksync support from Intel and the VM wont pass that through anyway. So with 4K the CPUs just cant do it. I can run a few 1080p streams but thats about it.

The plan, again is to install this (no monitor etc) and just pass it through to the VM and see what I get. If not I'll just build out a server to fill my 3rd empty chassis (My second server is currently on fail over duty) and make it Plex dedicated and install the GPU in that instead (again not really providing vid output.)
 
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