What's your latest tech purchase?

[jboydgolfer]

i dont think this is what the designers at fractal designs had in mind when they built the Meshify-C case
i also need to care for my case better, but this is what you get when your case is in the living room.

 

[Splinterdog]

Arriving sometime today...excited
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Still waiting...

 

[phill]

I have a very good mate over in the US, member of TPU, who I have had sent some hardware that I've had bought over there... Now just going to work out when and how to get it to me over in the UK... Quite honestly, I didn't think I had that much..... Oops...!




I know he's on the look out for me for another two of the Xeon E5-2683 V4's for my other server, some server ECC DDR4 memory for the two R730 servers I have here and I think that's it really... I think he's going to keep one of the i9's over there and the other will be sent here for another crunching setup which will be rather interesting (I said to him that he could keep one over there but he has to crunch with it and more so, not sell it lol)...... I'm sadly running fast out of places I can put some hardware to crunch!! Gotta hate these first world problems!!

Anywho, I just wished to share this hardware with you all and I'll try and get some more photos of when he's got the i9 setup and when the rest is over with me

 

[Athlonite]

well something turned up at my door this morning I wonder what it could be..... Let us see shall we



Literally had to remove a fan from my RV02 in order for this giant GPU to fit in it was such a tight fit but now that it's in I'll look at replacing the fan back where it was

 

[cst1992]

i dont think this is what the designers at fractal designs had in mind when they built the Meshify-C case
i also need to care for my case better, but this is what you get when your case is in the living room.

Good thing you didn't get one of those monster Strix cards...
What's that, a 3070?

 

[phill]

Apologies guys, I've just seen this post

Now THAT'S some showoff right there...
Since TPU doesn't have a 'jealousy' emoji, I'm gonna have to go with

I own a lot of hardware because I used to do competitive benchmarking, so I used it All of the kit I buy has to be fully working and boxed...

@phill does have this in his signature.

He should change it too: I'm a hardware collector and proud of it!!

I think I should change that over or at least add it in too

@phill They might not be Rampage boards (I loved my old X48 Rampage Formula btw, that was a great motherboard!), but I think you should add an ROG Dominus Extreme and the new Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI (whew, that's a name!) to the collection. As ... honorary Rampage boards? They're both sufficiently bonkers, at least. I mean, if you're collecting the highest end enthusiast motherboards from the most expensive OEM out there, you might as well go all the way.

Ah, if you click on this...... it'll take you to the Show Your Collections thread with a few of my motherboards I've collected along the way

 

[Valantar]

Ah, if you click on this...... it'll take you to the Show Your Collections thread with a few of my motherboards I've collected along the way

"a few"

That being said, I didn't see either of the two I mentioned

 

[phill]

There's a few there I think I have a few not boxed but they were just given to me so I don't tend to worry about those lol

I've considered the EVGA SR-3 which is probably more what I'd go for... I only got the X299's as they where half the price compared to over in the UK, so I had a bargain lol I need to get them up and running with the crunching... 72 threads? They need to be doing something lol

 

[jboydgolfer]

What's that, a 3070?

no it was a 3090. that was the point, meshify-C is a smallish case. its technically Matx, but so is the Phanteks Enthoo Pro-M, look at them next to each other. the meshify-C is small

 

[Valantar]

no it was a 3090. that was the point, meshify-C is a smallish case. its technically Matx, but so is the Phanteks Enthoo Pro-M, look at them next to each other. the meshify-C is small

It's funny how different standards people have. To me, the Meshify C is huge for an mATX case - it's nearly 2x the volume of something like the Cerberus, after all.


Edit: wait, hold on, both of the pictured cases have 7 expansion slots. mATX has four, so those are ATX cases.

 

[ShurikN]

Arrived just this morning. I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the box and saw just how tiny it is. I mean I knew the measurements, but seeing it in person and holding it in your hand is totally different.

 

[djisas]

well something turned up at my door this morning I wonder what it could be..... Let us see shall we

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Literally had to remove a fan from my RV02 in order for this giant GPU to fit in it was such a tight fit but now that it's in I'll look at replacing the fan back where it was

Showoff

 

[SN2716057]

Because the 1st wifi card refused to play nice with attaching the antenna's (those connections are way too tiny!). I bought the Gigabyte GC-WBAX200 which already had the (internal) antenna's attached to it.
So I drilled some bigger holes in my A300 and passed the external cables through and ...voila finally stable internet! It might look shoddy but it works.

 

[Athlonite]

Showoff

Ofcourse, Isn't this what this forum thread is for after all

Oh and before I forget the fan will fit but only just it actually touches the bottom of the GPU but not enough to put pressure on either

 

[jboydgolfer]

It's funny how different standards people have. To me, the Meshify C is huge for an mATX case - it's nearly 2x the volume of something like the Cerberus, after all.


Edit: wait, hold on, both of the pictured cases have 7 expansion slots. mATX has four, so those are ATX cases.

i meant mid tower, Matx is a motherboard sizing, not case. i just used the wrong term.

 

[Fleurious]

Snagged one from the MS store for the kid. Laughed after getting a prompt to update the controllers.

 

[cst1992]

Because the 1st wifi card refused to play nice with attaching the antenna's (those connections are way too tiny!). I bought the Gigabyte GC-WBAX200 which already had the (internal) antenna's attached to it.
So I drilled some bigger holes in my A300 and passed the external cables through and ...voila finally stable internet! It might look shoddy but it works.

You kidding? That looks like an artillery cannon!

 

[tabascosauz]

i meant mid tower, Matx is a motherboard sizing, not case. i just used the wrong term.

I built for a friend a few weeks ago in the Meshify C, and it is a surprisingly skinny and compact case for ATX. There were other aspects of the design I didn't quite appreciate as much, but it's a good size next to my Cerberus. Didn't feel much bigger than my TJ08 (definitely more wieldy than the TJ08) even though that one is a mATX case.

You kidding? That looks like an artillery cannon!

It's an excellent antenna and has a magnetic base. Compared to the Asus AX one that isn't magnetic, weirdly light and keeps falling over, I prefer to use the GB one on my main. The Deskmini is just tiny by comparison.

Or, the base looks slightly different but the antenna is the same.

 

[cst1992]

no it was a 3090. that was the point, meshify-C is a smallish case. its technically Matx, but so is the Phanteks Enthoo Pro-M, look at them next to each other. the meshify-C is small

Neither one of them looks like it's the PC I'm referring to.
To be clear, I'm referring to this PC with the reference NVIDIA card and black CPU cooler:

 

[djisas]

Neither one of them looks like it's the PC I'm referring to.
To be clear, I'm referring to this PC with the reference NVIDIA card and black CPU cooler:

That's pretty cool looking rig...
Cant wait to show off mine's final form...
It ain't gonna look pretty...

 

[Sithaer]

So this just happened.

Basically, I spent a week troubleshooting various issues with my PC in early January and narrowed it down to a weird power delivery issue with my previous Cooler Master MWE 650W PSU.
I contacted the retailer I bought it from not even 2 years ago and I sent it back to them since I had 5 years warranty on it.

Around 1 week later they sent me a mail telling me that due to the current situation the warranty process would take a really long time so they offered me to give me back my original purchase price/money and use it on a new PSU of my choice and I if it cost more then I would only have to pay the difference.

As we know the PSU prices went up quite a bit in the past 2 years so ofc I had to pay extra but not much, something like 15$ and no delivery fee cause I paid for that warranty service back then when I bought my 650W unit.

In this price range and the current lack of stock/models this was the best I could find in the shop.
Sure its only 500W but its more than enough for my system and its not like I'm ever gonna step out of the 150-200W TDP GPU range anyway.

So far its good, silent even under load and thank god no coil whine like my previous PSU. 'that was driving me crazy'

 

[8BitZ80]

First time I've ever tried to repair a TV and managed to figure it out.

My Samsung TV that I use as a display for my secondary computers started developing an issue. It would work for about 15 seconds on average before it made a "click" sound and the display shut off. Sometimes it lasted a few minutes, other times a few seconds, but it kept dying every single time.

Turns out they're not too complicated to work on. You have a power board that powers the main video-processing (and I/O) board, then that's hooked up to the display driver board. Then it also has a few random things like speakers and front button controls.

So I found a replacement power board for US$30 and that licked the problem. That's where the "click" sound was coming from. I could've drilled down further and replaced the capacitors (I suspect the main 450V capacitor was going bad) but it was more convenient to swap the whole power board with a working one.

Oh yeah and all those symbols that say "High Voltage"? They're not kidding. Really bad idea to be poking around there while it's plugged in. ZAP!!!

 

[cst1992]

Yes, they usually just put in a replacement board.
It's always a bad idea to touch circuits where high-voltage capacitors are involved.
Fun fact - your mosquito zapper uses an 800V capacitor to fry the mosquitoes, so that's the same thing.

 

[Chomiq]

View attachment 185839Snagged one from the MS store for the kid. Laughed after getting a prompt to update the controllers.

You've got eneloops for gamepads?

 

[QuietBob]

This will go into my secondary rig to replace a seasoned Chieftec:


One can never have enough cable ties, right? They also included this gimmick to jump start the PSU, and actually encourage you to try it out before installation


I think I'll pass:


Wait... WUT?!? Where is my cable pouch? I've been ripped off!
That's it, Seasonic! I'm returning this unit and will never recommend this brand again!!!