What's your latest tech purchase?

[jboydgolfer]

under $1500
my daughter is gonna be psyched when she sees her now build,
although it wont be very climactic, since i bought her a new case recently & im reusing it

 

[milewski1015]

Running out of space on the SSDs I have and found a decent model for a good price. Will become my new boot drive.



Edit: Well, I’m an idiot. Apparently my second M.2 slot only supports PCIe M.2 devices and not SATA M.2, so I’d have to leave my current 1TB WD Blue 3D SATA M.2 in the CPU connected slot for it be detected. That would force me to put this new drive in the slot limited to PCIe 2.0 x4 instead of 3.0 x4. Will that significantly hinder anything in terms of this being a boot drive?

 

[GerKNG]

under $1500
my daughter is gonna be psyched when she sees her now build,
although it wont be very climactic, since i bought her a new case recently & im reusing it

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11700k and a 212?
i am really interested in temperatures

 

[jboydgolfer]

i didnt make it clear in that post, all those components didnt go together. the i7 replaced an 8600k that i was running, that is what the 212 is for. the i7 goes under a NH-U12S, but its functionally no different than the 212, they both have similar capabilities, & it works great with the i7, or the 8600k. the 212 is a very capable HSF, despite it being an old design.

heres the temp/Performance from 100% utilization over 5 minutes as a example
its idle fluctuates between the low 30's to 40's

 

[Tomgang]

So after I got my ryzen 5 5600X cpu (see post #6625) and I have ordered some other parts like SSD I expect to come by the end of next week or beginning of the week after, to begin my build for real now and move away from X58. I also got some new thermal paste to try out. Normally I would not post just thermal paste, but I will do an exception this time. Cause it's not your every paste. I will let the image talk for it self. It was quite a hassle to get it. At least in my country it was, just like many other things is right now. Litterly only 3 stores had this on there list and not home in the entire country. Had to being stubborn and keep trying looking out for it. sooner or later it will pay off. Just as with the 5600X I got to all most msrp even.

 

[jboydgolfer]

that stuff is expensive! i thought it was a typo.
i hope it out performs other pastes by 25%-50% , cuz it sure is priced 25%-50%+ higher.
its red, & Mx-5 (which was unimpressive) is blue


apparently bear-woman endorses it

 

[Caring1]

New phone arrived, a Poco M3. (by Xiaomi)
Using a stock photo as I haven't worked out how to take a pic of the phone with the phone camera, without a mirror.

It's a little fiddly to set up, not as straight forward as other Androids I've had, but works well so far.

 

[Tomgang]

that stuff is expensive! i thought it was a typo.
i hope it out performs other pastes by 25%-50% , cuz it sure is priced 25%-50%+ higher.
its red, & Mx-5 (which was unimpressive) is blue


apparently bear-woman endorses it
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if you mean me. yes it´s expensive. But frankly all the parts for my pc is expensive, so why shut thermal paste be different

 

[jboydgolfer]

11700k and a 212?
i am really interested in temperatures

heres a update on the cpus performance under that 120mm Air HSF
i enabled power limit unlock, which runs the i7 at highest clocks i guess not sure, but it does run at higher Frequency, & it runs hotter, but the cooler keeps the chip in check.

if you mean me

i was mainly commenting on the silly prices grizzly lists their products at, nothing personal regarding you. You just happened to be the person to post a new product of theirs id not seen yet.
i own grizzly products, certainly youre no different than a billion other tech customers including myself.

theyre going for the whole "we are so good, we dont need to compete pricewise with other 'lesser' companies" approach, which is fine, but at the end of the day AS5 will perform just as well as any TIM they release at $50/Gram, regardless if its pink, purple, green, or any other color.

see, im guilty too. out of all these, id say the Noctua is by far the most consistent as well as the AS5, despite people pointing out how its conductive!!! da duh daaaaa, like anyone has ever damaged their pc from AS5

 

[Tomgang]

heres a update on the cpus performance under that 120mm Air HSF
i enabled power limit unlock, which runs the i7 at highest clocks i guess not sure, but it does run at higher Frequency, & it runs hotter, but the cooler keeps the chip in check.

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i was mainly commenting on the silly prices grizzly lists their products at, nothing personal regarding you. You just happened to be the person to post a new product of theirs id not seen yet.
i own grizzly products, certainly youre no different than a billion other tech customers including myself.

theyre going for the whole "we are so good, we dont need to compete pricewise with other 'lesser' companies" approach, which is fine, but at the end of the day AS5 will perform just as well as any TIM they release at $50/Gram, regardless if its pink, purple, green, or any other color.

see, im guilty too
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yes there is no douts that thermal grizzly is not cheap. But if it works, i ready to pay the price to maximixe my overclock potential and i all ready use the none extreme on my I7 980X. As i stick to aircooling, i have to try to find other ways to improve it exsample with better thermal paste.

But yeah, you are guilty as charged i see.

 

[jboydgolfer]

aircooling

have you tried Noctua NT-H1?
it gave me one of my best results with my 11700K at 5+ Ghz with air.

AS5 coolermaster Gel TIM also gave good results

 

[Tomgang]

have you tried Noctua NT-H1?
it gave me one of my best results with my 11700K at 5+ Ghz with air.

AS5 coolermaster Gel TIM also gave good results

Nope i have not tried noctua paste. But i am properly getting something with the cooler i have ordered to my 5600X. Else i have gone straig from Artic silver 5 to Kryounaut and now to the extreme paste.

 

[FireFox]

yes there is no douts that thermal grizzly is not cheap. But if it works, i ready to pay the price to maximixe my overclock potential

Do you get 10c decrease for the price?

 

[Tomgang]

Do you get 10c decrease for the price?

Properly not alone from the paste. Maybe more like up to 5c degress i will say. This is not about the value aspect. It´s about to cram as much out of the CPU as possible with out frying it.
I do puch my CPU´s. My current I7 980X has been pushed to 4,75 GHz a few times for benchmark purpose. Artic silver 5 dit not allow for that, Kryounaut dit however lower temp so much that it was possible with out CPU thermal throttle. Althrow it was still fairly hot at 1,55 volts.

 

[Vendor]

my new mic for youtube videos voice overs
it's just incredible for the price with flexible neck. blue led and stuff. Well designed, lightweight and decent build quality. Zebronics Zeb-Klarity and only costed me ₹899 (12$)

 

[Komshija]

Another external backup solution. This is an external disk with the largest capacity that I currently have, others are from 480 GB - 1 TB. Around 55 € on a discount and with three year warranty. And it's in my favorite color.

 

[Valantar]

Another external backup solution. This is an external disk with the largest capacity that I currently have, others are from 480 GB - 1 TB. Around 55 € on a discount and with three year warranty. And it's in my favorite color.

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Is that cloth? That's pretty nice. Too few companies do designs like that - it's really hard to mess up IMO, and shouldn't be very expensive either.

 

[Komshija]

Is that cloth? That's pretty nice. Too few companies do designs like that - it's really hard to mess up IMO, and shouldn't be very expensive either.

It feels and looks like a cloth dipped in some resin. For ~55 € it was a deal of the week. The store had 20 pieces, 10 black and 10 white at this price tag. Blacks were sold out the same day while whites have gone in 3 days. Luckily I don't like black color, so whites were still available the next day when I saw them.


There were Prestigio DataSafe 1 and 2 with leather, Apacer AC632 with metal body and a few more...

 

[Mayclore]

Unfortunately, my old smartphone is about to succumb to a swelling battery, and given how old it is there's no point having it repaired. So, after escaping a miserable 2020 with all my loved ones intact, I decided I'd treat myself to a Samsung Galaxy S21+ 256 GB in Phantom Black (which I managed to snag at a decent discount regardless). It ships today.

 

[Night]

Unfortunately, my old smartphone is about to succumb to a swelling battery, and given how old it is there's no point having it repaired. So, after escaping a miserable 2020 with all my loved ones intact, I decided I'd treat myself to a Samsung Galaxy S21+ 256 GB in Phantom Black (which I managed to snag at a decent discount regardless). It ships today.

Have you considered S20 or S20 FE, apparently it has better build with glass sandwich, bigger resolution, battery life is similar to S20, at least according to GSMarena. S21 has flat screen (better for tampered glass protection), but aesthetically less 'flagshippy'. S20 (FE) should be somewhat cheaper than S21.

 

[Mayclore]

Have you considered S20 or S20 FE, apparently it has better build with glass sandwich, bigger resolution, battery life is similar to S20, at least according to GSMarena. S21 has flat screen (better for tampered glass protection), but aesthetically less 'flagshippy'. S20 (FE) should be somewhat cheaper than S21.

I think you're confusing the S21 with the S21+. I didn't get the base S21 with the polycarbonate back. What I got has Gorilla Glass Victus on both sides of the aluminum frame. And, anyway, a 256 GB S20 FE was about $20 cheaper than what I paid for my S21+, so I'm not terribly bothered.

 

[R-T-B]

like anyone has ever damaged their pc from AS5

*coughs*

But then, I'm a known special person with thermal paste. Said incident happened when I was a teen, so extra heaps of stupid.

 

[windwhirl]

*coughs*

I'll bet someone did not read this carefully:

 

[Jetster]

AS5 is still my go to

Its also toxic

 

[R-T-B]

I'll bet someone did not read this carefully:
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I'm a frog... I used the instruction manual to build a house. Twas only responsible.

Its also toxic

Don't tell me what to do!