What's your latest tech purchase?

[Rahnak]

@btarunr Congrats on the upgrade. But why is the inside of your case so dirty?

 

[Calmmo]

Grabbed this little guy on a black friday deal for 200€, not keeping him for long tho, going into a gift build, soon to be paired with a b450 tomahawk

 

[remixedcat]

I did a thing cuz Logitech gave me a decent discount saved 50 bucks plus got a free dock for the boom. Nice

 

[kapone32]

Thanks to TPU I got a new water block for my Gigabyte Vega 64 Gaming. It arrived on Friday and I will be putting it together when I get some free time later this week.

Alphacool NexXxos GPX - AMD RX Vega M04 - mit Backplate - Schwarz

Mit den neuen NexXxoS GPX Kühlern geht Alphacool erneut einen Schritt voraus! Optimale Leistung und Qualität in einem bietet dieses neue Kühlkonzept für wenig Geld! Funktion Durch eine neu ausgeklügelte Einspritztechnik wird...

www.alphacool.com

 

[GreiverBlade]

weak to cyber week ...

1st : UE Megaboom 2 to replace a UE Wonderboom (well the Mega 3 was too expensive and that Mega 2 was cheaper than a Wonderboom 2... around 40chf ) and a little something to carry it and protect it


then, because someone talked about Titanfall 2 on another thread ... i grabbed one for myself (15chf )

Spoiler: as i mentioned once ... Coffee is related to computers ... might not tech related but me doing tech related stuff need it!

a neat Asobu Cold Brew kit ... (34,50 instead of 69.60 ) and 2 250g of a good Moka to go with, tested cold, with another more tedious process, it does more than fine.

ETA... some items say tomorrow morning (coffee!!! ) other say on the 5th ... oh well the wait is not too painful i can survive (NOT WITHOUT COFFEE! although i have enough stock to do standards cups )

 

[PLAfiller]

Snapped a new backpack for the laptop on the go. It's a genuine Dell Pursuit Backpack 17.3". Wiped the wallet this year (cry):

 

[remixedcat]

weak to cyber week ...

1st : UE Megaboom 2 to replace a UE Wonderboom (well the Mega 3 was too expensive and that Mega 2 was cheaper than a Wonderboom 2... around 40chf ) and a little something to carry it and protect it
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then, because someone talked about Titanfall 2 on another thread ... i grabbed one for myself (15chf )
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Spoiler: as i mentioned once ... Coffee is related to computers ... might not tech related but me doing tech related stuff need it!

a neat Asobu Cold Brew kit ... (34,50 instead of 69.60 ) and 2 250g of a good Moka to go with, tested cold, with another more tedious process, it does more than fine.
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ETA... some items say tomorrow morning (coffee!!! ) other say on the 5th ... oh well the wait is not too painful i can survive (NOT WITHOUT COFFEE! although i have enough stock to do standards cups )

Lol how we both got ue booms

 

[GreiverBlade]

Lol how we both got ue booms

i was thinking the same when i wrote the previous post xD (well i also had a Wonderboom as i mentioned ... UE always made very nice sounding BTSPK and since Logi acquired them, it did not change )

well i was tempted by a Marshall Stockwell II due to his fine tuning knob for Bass and Treble, but it was 159chf more

 

[biffzinker]

then, because someone talked about Titanfall 2 on another thread ... i grabbed one for myself (15chf )

Halo Master Chief Collection started today, Halo Reach is the first available.

 

[remixedcat]

i was thinking the same when i wrote the previous post xD (well i also had a Wonderboom as i mentioned ... UE always made very nice sounding BTSPK and since Logi acquired them, it did not change )

well i was tempted by a Marshall Stockwell II due to his fine tuning knob for Bass and Treble, but it was 159chf more

My HEOS GOPACK battery died so I needed a shower speaker... this UE one ended up being cheaper than the go pack.

Hubby needed a new headset too so this worked out nicely

 

[GreiverBlade]

Halo Master Chief Collection started today, Halo Reach is the first available.

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH i saw today ... and FFS i am broke now ... (well most of my BF CM CW buying where on monthly billing hehehehe... ARGH!)

oh well my next income is on the 16th dec ... which will be exactly 4 days after my birthday ... SOON SOON!


(well i still have the Halo Reach collector edition for XBox one and Dr. Halsey notebook is on my desk ... )

 

[btarunr]

@btarunr Congrats on the upgrade. But why is the inside of your case so dirty?

I live in a place with >400 ppm suspended particulate matter in the air...and not a desert (for reference, on a dog day afternoon, NYC has ~50 ppm). It takes ~3 months for this much dust to accumulate.

The last time I got lazy and tried using an 800 Watt leaf-blower to clean the PC, its static fried some components on my motherboard. I'll clean up soon.

 

[silkstone]

I live in a place with >400 ppm suspended particulate matter in the air...and not a desert (for reference, on a dog day afternoon, NYC has ~50 ppm).

The last time I got lazy and tried using a leaf-blower to clean the PC, its static fried some components on my motherboard. I'll clean up soon.

I live in a similar situation, not quite as bad though.
My case would get dusty as hell after only 2 weeks, but with some filters on the fans then a xiaomi air filter, the situation is much better.
I also lifted the pc off the floor, which means it is t now sucking up all the settled dust particles.

 

[remixedcat]

Cheap ppm meter?? I'd like to know mine

 

[silkstone]

Cheap ppm meter?? I'd like to know mine

You can look it up for your location. That will give you a rough estimate. Air quality measurement tools get expensive for any kind of accurate results.

 

[ne6togadno]

AirBG - от фини прахови части към Open Data

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@remixedcat

edit:

luftdaten.info

Информация и настройки за проекта luftdaten .

my.luftdaten.info

 

[HUSKIE]

Pc shop closed down nearby so I bought these of course test them first before hand the money over. Bought for £75 for 2700 and b450 Motherboard

 

[silkstone]

Pc shop closed down nearby so I bought these of course test them first before hand the money over. Bought for £75 for 2700 and b450 Motherboard

Wow! Awesome deal, I've very jealous. I love a good deal.

 

[remixedcat]

AirBG - от фини прахови части към Open Data

airbg.info

@remixedcat

neat

 

[silkstone]

I feel really really guilty about this as I've spent waaaay too much money this month, especially with xmas coming up, but ...... I really wanted a gaming card to go with the 4K TV screen I ordered, so I will put this bad boy in my HTPC (If it fits)
It was also a real bargain at ~$330, compared with the $5-600 the 5700xt goes for locally. This was discounted by around $100 locally.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Bought a mint Dell Precision M4700 with 6 months warranty for RM1199 (~USD 290). Its the base model with i5 3340M, Quadro K1000M, 8GB RAM and 256GB LiteON SATA SSD. The quality of Dell Precision is just amazing. Speaker sounds great it have body (mids and some lows) so its great for watching videos, LCD sharp and crisp most importantly matte (its 1080p TN panel but decent enough for me), everything inside is easily accessible by just a couple of screws removed. The fans easily cleaned without removing the heatsink assembly. Amazing!

I'm close to buying Alienware M17X R4, slightly cheaper than this but the GPU is dead (repairing it going to costs a lot of money), speaker crackle (replacing this costs some money too) and its damn heavy so I give it a pass and buy this instead.

There are several problems with it though, the CPU always clock at its base speed of 900MHz but I get around it by using trusty Throttlestop, the GPU clock always clock at 669MHz even though maximum clock is 851MHz so I just flash the vBIOS to lock it to higher clockspeed.

 

[Frick]

Not a purchase, but a hand me down from a nephew going 3900x. Good boost over the old Ryzen 1200, rips DVDs twice as fast! Also the Wraith Spire I think it is, which honestly is a bit noisy, even in L mode.

Bought a mint Dell Precision M4700 with 6 months warranty for RM1199 (~USD 290). Its the base model with i5 3340M, Quadro K1000M, 8GB RAM and 256GB LiteON SATA SSD. The quality of Dell Precision is just amazing. Speaker sounds great it have body (mids and some lows) so its great for watching videos, LCD sharp and crisp most importantly matte (its 1080p TN panel but decent enough for me), everything inside is easily accessible by just a couple of screws removed. The fans easily cleaned without removing the heatsink assembly. Amazing!

I'm close to buying Alienware M17X R4, slightly cheaper than this but the GPU is dead (repairing it going to costs a lot of money), speaker crackle (replacing this costs some money too) and its damn heavy so I give it a pass and buy this instead.

There are several problems with it though, the CPU always clock at its base speed of 900MHz but I get around it by using trusty Throttlestop, the GPU clock always clock at 669MHz even though maximum clock is 851MHz so I just flash the vBIOS to lock it to higher clockspeed.

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Is that a good price where you live? To me it definitely sounds too expensive.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Is that a good price where you live? To me it definitely sounds too expensive.

Second hand laptop prices are crazy in Malaysia. This is considered a good price for it, usually this thing costs above RM1500 (~USD350). The alienware I mentioned costs RM900 (~USD215) but with all the damaged internals (GPU, speakers etc.) that can easily costs as much to buy replacement parts. The price for good condition of the alinware costs above RM2000 (~USD470)

 

[kapone32]

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Not a purchase, but a hand me down from a nephew going 3900x. Good boost over the old Ryzen 1200, rips DVDs twice as fast! Also the Wraith Spire I think it is, which honestly is a bit noisy, even in L mode.



Is that a good price where you live? To me it definitely sounds too expensive.

I didn't even know people still ripped DVDs

 

[Calmmo]

The LG 27GL850-b finally arrived after a 3 week wait, I was a little worried after seeing the box in a not so.. perfect condition, but nothing seems broken and no dead pixels..
So far so good..

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