What's your latest tech purchase?

[R00kie]

pretty nice feeling for such a small and cheap keyboard, and it has bluetooth as well

 

[cucker tarlson]

ordered a 2x8 4133 c19 kit from viper

current 3733 c17 was a decent buy but I got a hynix kit and it overclocks like crap.
saw a 4133 c19 kit 20% off and pulled the trigger.will return one of them.I hope the higher bin is b-die and I can get 4400 c19.though even at stock this kit kicks serious ass

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@Tatty_One got his to run 4000 c17 on stock voltage so I've really high hopes

 

[E-curbi]

ordered a 2x8 4133 c19 kit from viper

current 3733 c17 was a decent buy but I got a hynix kit and it overclocks like crap.
saw a 4133 c19 kit 20% off and pulled the trigger.will return one of them.I hope the higher bin is b-die and I can get 4400 c19.though even at stock this kit kicks serious ass

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Test pamięci DDR4 - Patriot Viper 4 Steel 4133 MHz CL19 (strona 21) Test pamięci DDR4 Patriot Viper 4 Steel 4133 MHz CL19. To jedne z najszybszych DDR4 na rynku, które oferują bardzo dobry kompromis między taktowaniami i opóźnieniami.

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@Tatty_One got his to run 4000 c17 on stock voltage so I've really high hopes

Congratulations @cucker tarlson

Try that awesome new kit at 4100Mhz 14-14-14-34. If you like the feel of super-low latency.

DDR4 overclocking adds more overall system responsiveness, than either OC'ing your CPU, or moving to NVMe or Optane SSD drives.

...at least from my experience as an extremely-mediocre overclocker.

Of course, nothing is stopping you/us from going with all three - for mind-blowing responsiveness. lol

 

[cucker tarlson]

Congratulations @cucker tarlson

Try that awesome new kit at 4100Mhz 14-14-14-34. If you like the feel of super-low latency.

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DDR4 overclocking adds more overall system responsiveness, than either OC'ing your CPU, or moving to NVMe or Optane SSD drives.

...at least from my experience as an extremely-mediocre overclocker.

Of course, nothing is stopping you/us from going with all three - for mind-blowing responsiveness. lol

yeah

but no way am I going to get 4100 c14 on these
to get that I need the highest bins,4400-4600 probably.I'll do 4200 c17 realistically.if I'm lucky.

I'd rather get another two sticks and run 4x8,I'll get a performance boost and a capacity increase

 

[E-curbi]

yeah

but no way am I going to get 4100 c14 on these
to get that I need the highest bins,4400-4600 probably.I'll do 4200 c17 realistically.if I'm lucky.

I'd rather get another two sticks and run 4x8,I'll get a performance boost and a capacity increase

I hear ya bro,

Some enthusiasts benefit from ddr4 capacity increases, although I've never found any of my daily work apps asking for more than 16GB, they are "apparently" very simple applications. lol

So, I just stay at 2x8GB 2-dimms overclocked and enjoy all those lightening-fast flashing windows on the screen.

Sometimes I click once, and four windows open up instantaneously - hey that's too darn fast, slow down you silly computer.

 

[cucker tarlson]

I hear ya bro,

Some enthusiasts benefit from ddr4 capacity increases, although I've never found any of my daily work apps asking for more than 16GB, they are "apparently" very simple applications. lol

So, I just stay at 2x8GB 2-dimms overclocked and enjoy all those lightening-fast flashing windows on the screen.

Sometimes I click once, and four windows open up instantaneously - hey that's too darn fast, slow down you silly computer.

nah I mean running 4 single rank sticks is faster than two

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the price premium for the best ddr4 2x8 bins is usually as big as another pair of those 4133 vipers.I may wanna get both the capacity increase and performance

 

[E-curbi]

nah I mean running 4 single rank sticks is faster than two

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the price premium for the best ddr4 2x8 bins is usually as big as another pair of those 4133 vipers.I may wanna get both the capacity increase and performance

Ok, now I get it. You're saying, 4-sticks 4133Mhz single rank is about the same cost and performance as 2-sticks of 4600Mhz single rank, yet with double the capacity.

Both my current mobos only have 2-dimm slots each, so I don't have the 4-stick option available to me.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Ok, now I get it. You're saying, 4-sticks 4133Mhz single rank is about the same cost and performance as 2-sticks of 4600Mhz single rank, yet with double the capacity.

Both my current mobos only have 2-dimms each, so I don't have the 4-stick option available to me.

exactly.
at least for gaming which is what I care about.if you're talking latency then no,but gaming does benefit from more ranks when you're cpu bound.
the performance increase should be bout the same while you'll be getting double the capacity.

 

[MrRuckus]

Buy a new laptop through my work every few years (personal laptop that I pay them back for). Just recently picked up a MSI GE75 10SGS 222 Raider. Normally I go with an Asus ROG laptop (bought about 6 of those in the past), but they have become simply too expensive compared to the competition recently with the same insides. At the time they were also stuck on their 144Hz screens which are a few years old. MSI was one of the few that went with newer 300Hz variants. Because of COVID, took about 2 months to ship. But finally got it.

Liking it so far. The screen is amazing. Definitely tell the difference between the 144Hz I had in my ROG G703VI. Slim bezel design is also appealing, nice and more compact. I completely hate the "Dragon Scale" lid design, But I bought the laptop for its performance, not so much for its looks. Raider series go full fledged GPU's, which is what I really wanted. So full RTX 2080 Super. So far liking it. 90FPS in GTA V @ 4k is great.

Cooling has always been phenomenal in ROG 17 inch laptops for me (others have had to do repastes and what not). This MSI does well also. Laptop is really surprisingly thin for the components it has.

Only thing I don't like so far is the build design. Having to take off the complete bottom to get to the guts is kinda rough. Asus laptops normally had pretty easy access via a door or one screw setup. Not a deal breaker, but not looking forward to a 45min struggle like a youtube video had in a tear down just to throw in more storage..

Worth noting the keyboard's Steelseries RGB software was not on the laptop for some reason from the factory, so I couldnt adjust the Rainbow color. Once I downloaded that software, I was able to adjust per key and per color. I dont really care for all the colors, so I just made it solid white.

Overall though performance is top notch so far. Plan to undervolt the proc once I get some more time to see how far I can drop the temps. Temps are a bit high on the processor in the 90's when loaded. Little too close to that throttling point for my taste

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[Keullo-e]

Since my main phone doesn't have a 3.5mm audio port, I've ordered an iBasso DC02 USB-C to 3.5mm HiRes Audio dongle, should be in in a couple of days' time (will post pic of it when I get it). Meanwhile, I've also trying another ChiFi IEM (I have two Senfers, and two other KZ's) in the KZ ZS10 Pro, each side has 4x BA + 1x Dynamic drivers, as well as a nice looking spare cable (I'm quite shallow) and a tiny protective case to house the IEM when I'm not using it.

The IEM does look quite nice, I'd chosen the one with purple housing with a metal cover, they'd even incorporated metal nozzle which is a nice touch, comes with silicon eartips of various sizes.

For now, I use the Apple bundled earphones (Earpods?), they're actually hella good for bundled headphones. I have the Lightning -> 3.5mm adapter, but actually I don't have as good headphones as those Apple bundled ones.

Been thinking about some bluetooth ear/headphones, but these are fine for now. I was for long like "oh hell no, I'm not getting a phone without a 3.5mm jack" but seems that it isn't that neccessary. If I need to listen to music when I'm going to sleep and my phone is on the charger, I just use my tablet.

 

[sam_86314]

Recent Craigslist find...

...a Rosewill RSV-S8 eSATA eight-bay hot-swap drive enclosure.

Pardon the mess of wires behind my test setup. It's temporary.

Not sure how good of a deal I got; it was $100. It had the power cord, two eSATA cables, a PCIe RAID controller, and all of the hardware including a spare drive sled.

It uses a standard SFX power supply, which is nice. It came with a 120mm fan with blue LEDs (which I have a burning resentment toward), and I replaced it with one of my ARCTIC F12's.

It seems to work just fine. Getting the included RAID card to work in Linux is finicky at first, but once it starts working, it works really well. It has no problem fully utilizing a gigabit network connection.

I plan on migrating my media server to this enclosure and using OpenMediaVault.

Currently using OMV on my $20 Lenovo ThinkCentre to test it. I have some parts for my Celeron J1900-based Acer desktop on the way so I can use it with this drive enclosure.

As of writing this, I'm initializing a RAID-5 array across 5 3TB WD Reds, which should finish in a couple days...

The seller also threw in an Intel SS4200E NAS for free.

It has either a Celeron 420 or 430 and 1GB of DDR2-400. Could be useful as a secondary file server. I need to get a serial adapter to actually use it since it's headless. I'll probably end up putting my Pentium E5200 in it.

 

[entropy13]

Not shown: TForce DDR4 RAM

 

[r.h.p]

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Not shown: TForce DDR4 RAM

love al the packaging , its so nerdy pc ish ...uno ?

u just cant get that with consoles

 

[Keullo-e]

Say hi to my new piece of my GPU pile - Strix GTX 950

E: Repasted it already, took that dried shit away and put some MX-4

 

[cucker tarlson]

ordered
I was pretty surprised this thing costs bout the same as 1tb sata ssds

will likely bid farewell to 128+480gb sata

hope it works in irst mode cause reverting to ahci will require a clean system reinstall.

 

[Valantar]

Parts for the HTPC build are slowly trickling in:

I've had the case (Lazer3d HT5 in Bourbon) and PSU for almost a year, still waiting for 4000-series APUs to launch. Most likely going for the cheaper ASRock B550 motherboard, though I'm considering going with the Aorus instead.

Also got some new keycaps for the Masterkeys Pro S:

PBT DSA-profile. A dream to type on (that rounded profile is amazing) but I do wish they were doubleshot with shine-through lettering. Don't think that exists for Nordic or Norwegian ISO though, at least not in a look that I would be willing to pay for. The contrast with the black casing is a bit harsh for my tastes, but it's okay. I might paint it at some point, though I'd hate to lose the soft-touch finish on it. Might just wrap the casing in vinyl or something I guess.

 

[phill]

I thought since my birthday is coming up in a little while, I thought I'm going to spoil myself... So I have... I found this.....





So whilst I still have a few boards in the series of Crosshair boards to pick up (as an example Crosshair 4 Extreme or even the 6 or possibly 7 extreme if they do one??) but for now, unless those boards come at a really tempting price and are exactly the same as the above, with that I mean, complete and looking in good condition, I'll not be buying them anytime soon I've spent enough, more so on food for the family and clothes for the children, so the PC hardware is just going to have to wait

I'm rather pleased with the buy, it's not as great a condition as I'd have liked but because of the age of the board, I'm happy it's not even worse and dented and the seller hasn't tried to pass it off as something else.

Thanks for reading if ya did

 

[Atomic77]

I just recently ordered this laptop. It’s going to be a change from my hp envy desktop from 2014.

 

[cucker tarlson]

the sx8200pro just arrived
super easy installation,clean looks under the board's heatsink,and wrecks my 860evo in scores
4k random read is up by 1.78x

I gotta move all my sata ssds to nvme,really.

the included heatsink is a joke really,you're better off with a stick of gum.but the one on the board is pretty hefty.only hit 39 degrees when transferring a 42gb folder (from a sata ssd tho)

I just recently ordered this laptop. It’s going to be a change from my hp envy desktop from 2014.View attachment 161477

r3000 or r4000u ?

 

[ThrashZone]

the sx8200pro just arrived
super easy installation,clean looks under the board's heatsink,and wrecks my 860evo in scores
4k random read is up by 1.78x

I gotta move all my sata ssds to nvme,really.

the included heatsink is a joke really,you're better off with a stick of gum.but the one on the board is pretty hefty.only hit 39 degrees when transferring a 42gb folder (from a sata ssd tho)


r3000 or r4000u ?

Hi,
I tried 3 8200 pros 2-512 & 1-1tb
None hit or really even came within 500 to advertised read/ write spec's on two different machines so I returned them to amazon for sammy 970 evo & evo plus
Hope you have better luck than I did crystal disk mark and hwinfo show same read/ write readings.

 

[cucker tarlson]

good catch today

and I got b-dies.
OC'd right off the bat,4133 c19-21-21-41 trfc 550 to 4133 c17-19-19-37 trfc 400. so far stable. will see. if it is will push for even tighter timings but 4133 c17 is already very nice.to think my 3733 c17 kit cost 410 and didn't overclock at all (hynix spd) while this was 450 and does 400Mhz more at tighter timings.

 

[The Foldinator]

Terrible photo, i mainly blame myself(shooting into the light) and have no idea how this Cybershots works yet
some stuff for F@H(sorry guys lacking PPD but coming back stronger) and for my Christmas tree...

 

[Skywalker12345]

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pretty nice feeling for such a small and cheap keyboard, and it has bluetooth as well

Me likey you have a link?

 

[R00kie]

Me likey you have a link?

Depends on which you wanna go for, as there's a lot of models, revisions, and so on, but this is the one that I went for:

60% Mechanical Keyboard Wired/Wireless Bluetooth 5.0 Dual-mode Keyboard 61-Key RGB Rainbow LED Backlit USB Type-C Waterproof Gaming Keyboard Anti-ghosting Keys for Gamers and Typists(Red Switch) : Amazon.co.uk: PC & Video Games

60% Mechanical Keyboard Wired/Wireless Bluetooth 5.0 Dual-mode Keyboard 61-Key RGB Rainbow LED Backlit USB Type-C Waterproof Gaming Keyboard Anti-ghosting Keys for Gamers and Typists(Red Switch) : Amazon.co.uk: PC & Video Games

www.amazon.co.uk

 

[Atomic77]

the sx8200pro just arrived
super easy installation,clean looks under the board's heatsink,and wrecks my 860evo in scores
4k random read is up by 1.78x

I gotta move all my sata ssds to nvme,really.

the included heatsink is a joke really,you're better off with a stick of gum.but the one on the board is pretty hefty.only hit 39 degrees when transferring a 42gb folder (from a sata ssd tho)


r3000 or r4000u ?

My new laptop is Ryzen 5 3500u