What's your latest tech purchase?

[plastiscɧ]

after my hard disks have gone down the drain, i'm upgrading again, piece by piece.
44€

 

[cst1992]

@phill That build is like a wine now.

Complete with its own legend...

 

[mechtech]

Starter relay $20 cad. Wheels start again = wife happy.

 

[Shrek]

New brake light switch; they only seem to last about 10 years, perhaps because my car has 5 brake lights.

 

[Frick]

New brake light switch; they only seem to last about 10 years
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Maybe on american cars, I have never in my entire life even heard of such a thing going out.

 

[Shrek]

It's a Honda Civic; this is the second time I am replacing it.

 

[cst1992]

New brake light switch; they only seem to last about 10 years, perhaps because my car has 5 brake lights.

You sure your alternate name isn't Nicolas Flamel?

 

[Frick]

It's a Honda Civic; this is the second time I am replacing it.

Year and model?

 

[faye]

Got a 4TB SN850X coming, though knowing me it will sit in the box for months before I work up the motivation to image things and actually install it.

 

[Shrek]

Year and model?

1998 Civic Hx

 

[phill]

@phill That build is like a wine now.

Complete with its own legend...

I think I might have missed something?? You'll have to catch me up, I've just gone through 14 pages of hardware pr0n!!!

 

[umeng2002]

Starter relay $20 cad. Wheels start again = wife happy.

Start saving up for a starter. Have a hammer and jack in the car. When the start fails, whack it hard with a hammer for a minute. Then drive it home to replace the starter.

 

[SN2716057]

The Gigabyte X670 Gaming X AX (I bought it for the X's) to go along with the 7800x3D, a pack of 5 Arctic P12's to replace the Gentle Typhoons (the fan controller will go too), and lastly a bit of spaghetti sauce in the form of TG Kryonaut.

 

[mechtech]

Start saving up for a starter. Have a hammer and jack in the car. When the start fails, whack it hard with a hammer for a minute. Then drive it home to replace the starter.

Don't whack it too hard, don't want to crack a pole or something. A good tap with the wooden handle will sometimes do the trick.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Maybe on american cars, I have never in my entire life even heard of such a thing going out.

Me either. I have a several 20+ year old cars, never had to replace one. It does happen though.

 

[Space Lynx]

@Nordic @Canned Noodles @Kyan @remixedcat (almost forgot you were the one who made the comment about the speeds)

I figured out the wifi download issue on the Deck OLED, I had to follow this set of instructions from this guide on Reddit and it fixed it... now i am downloading on Deck OLED at 80 MB/s down.... so strange I had to go through all these steps to get it to work though

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/t50m80

whoever you are Emotion-Internal, thank you for your help!!!! Once I rebooted, it still didn't work, so I gave up, and turned off "limit download speed after turning it on for this 10,000,000 trick" rebooted again, and boom it worked. SO this guide didn't fix it for me, but in a round about way it did by accident. I have no idea what the hell... never had any issues like this on Deck LCD, so must be Deck OLED just having some kinks. Anyways all good now.

@Canned Noodles @onemanhitsquad do you find your Deck OLED's have a yellowish white point when at default color settings? It really irks me. It is not as easy to get a solid white point as it is on Deck LCD, the OLED is better overall of course don't get me wrong, just wish I could get that white point sorted out. 9000k seems to do the trick, but it messes up some consistency for me... Deck LCD was much easier to calibrate... or maybe I just got a bad OLED panel, I don't know, the yellowish tent bothers me though

I did do the Konsole command in Desktop mode and I have a Samsung OLED panel, there are two types you can get other company is like boe or something I don't remember.

edit: just realized this post was 6 months ago, so I guess it's not just a Deck OLED issue... huh... I wonder if I can increase my Deck LCD wifi speeds with this method... but I already get like 20-30 down on Deck LCD, so I doubt I see any gains, but who knows I might, worth a try. ding ding delayed light bulb moment

 

[Assimilator]

I also forgot to mention that one of the reasons I purchased the P600S is because it has no stupid tempered glass. THANK GOD.

Also, I pulled the trigger on the SHIFT 850W. It's arriving today so hopefully will be up and running by tomorrow!

The Gigabyte X670 Gaming X AX (I bought it for the X's) to go along with the 7800x3D, a pack of 5 Arctic P12's to replace the Gentle Typhoons (the fan controller will go too), and lastly a bit of spaghetti sauce in the form of TG Kryonaut.
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Why replace Gentle Typhoons? I was under the impression they're still the gold standard for fans?

 

[PLAfiller]

The Gigabyte X670 Gaming X AX (I bought it for the X's) to go along with the 7800x3D, a pack of 5 Arctic P12's to replace the Gentle Typhoons (the fan controller will go too), and lastly a bit of spaghetti sauce in the form of TG Kryonaut.

That's the "regular" P12s, I hear good things about their successors: P12 MAX....hailed as the best budget fan out there. Pretty tempted to get three or four of these. Wish they had daisy chain, but that will change the price of course.

 

[SN2716057]

I also forgot to mention that one of the reasons I purchased the P600S is because it has no stupid tempered glass. THANK GOD.

Also, I pulled the trigger on the SHIFT 850W. It's arriving today so hopefully will be up and running by tomorrow!


Why replace Gentle Typhoons? I was under the impression they're still the gold standard for fans?

They are still good. But I wanted all black 4-pins and those P12 are really silent with good cooling potential.
Also when I go water cooling again both the fans of the MoRa and the pc will be the same.

That's the "regular" P12s, I hear good things about their successors: P12 MAX....hailed as the best budget fan out there. Pretty tempted to get three or four of these. Wish they had daisy chain, but that will change the price of course.

Well, these p12 were cheap for 5, have daisy chains, and work silently on the MoRa3.
The Max can do 3300rpm?! Lol, no thanks

 

[umeng2002]

Me either. I have a several 20+ year old cars, never had to replace one. It does happen though.

I had an old mark II Jetta during college and first job. I couldn't push start it since it was an automatic. The starter was located in a poor location right under the exhaust manifold. I noticed it going out over the course of a month because it wouldn't turn over when the engine was warm. Eventually it just didn't turn over at all. Stuck at work one night. Hitting it with a hammer did the trick.

 

[GerKNG]

 

[wNotyarD]

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Mate, I'll tell you: your picture provokes me because I'm itching to buy an ultrawide 34" WQHD OLED (either a Samsung G8 or an Alienware AW3423DWF, I can find these locally), only if they weren't so damn expensive

 

[Chomiq]

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Glad to see they're back on sale. For a moment everyone thought that they got discontinued.

 

[GerKNG]

Glad to see they're back on sale. For a moment everyone thought that they got discontinued.

got mine for 369€ that's 100€ less than the best sale ever recorded in my country.

 

[cst1992]

got mine for 369€ that's 100€ less than the best sale ever recorded in my country.

Double ouch for @wNotyarD!