What's your latest tech purchase?

[jboydgolfer]

I've been able to track down a rather amazing new piece of hardware

are those hard to come by in the UK?

also, nice CPU

 

[cst1992]

I wish TPU had an eye pop emoji for the size of that CPU... oh well then, will have to do...

 

[phill]

are those hard to come by in the UK?

also, nice CPU

I was on about the CPU The GPU was completely overpriced and it was bought direct from a company in the UK. From the screen grab one of the mod's took back in December, the price had gone up £300.. And for a reference designed GPU, with no extra power limit and so on, I can't say I'm impressed. Still I have a Strix version of it as well which I got for MSRP and whilst that's a little better built and such, it definitely is a better GPU for the cooling and such but still a struggle for the memory temps as they are difficult to cool on the back side of the card. Still, fun and games I'm just waiting for some 3080's to come into stock, they are a much better buy.. Well not so much at the moment lol But still

I'm not sure what I'm planning on with the CPU and motherboard just yet, but I'm very happy to have been able to buy it, so I just went with it. My credit card bill this month is not going to be a happy one lol

 

[Sithaer]

Bought some minor stuff I wanted to buy for years just never got to it. 'wasn't that important'

External DVD/CD drive.
I have a lot of old games and whatnot on such drives and I want to sort some out and see if they work.
That and someone in the family wants to burn CDs... I know right.
To be honest I don't even remember how to do that anymore so I will have to look it up.

Also bought a power consumption meter cause I'm curious to see how much my PC draws under different scenarios.
Other reason is that I want to ~deal with a wrong idea in my family that my 'gamer' PC must be drawing a lot of power and it costs. 'yes power consumption matters here and I'm tired of hearing that'
I will monitor my PC for a month or so and see how much that cost with my average use case.

I think I'm done spending on PC related stuff for a while now, still want to buy a new mechanical keyboard but that can wait a few months.

 

[AltCapwn]

So, i just received and install my new PC. Been more than 5 years since I sold my last rig as I went deep into shit. So this means alot to me.

I'm just impressed by the performance of the system, even if itsn't some ultra high-end stuff, I haven't found a game that can't run at ultra on my ultrawide setup.

So I payed 1300$ CDN, tax and handling included, for a Dell G5 i5-10400f, 1x 16gb (I'm thinking to upgrade it to 32GB on 4 slots 3200mhz instead of 2666), RTX 2060 SUPER (was listed with only a RTX 2060 so it's a nice surprise), 500w psu, 512gb nvme disk and 1tb hdd.

Payed 400$ CDN for an Acer CB342CK, 34" 3440*1440 1ms 75hz HDR Freesync. I'm surprised there's NO dead pixel, and close to no screen bleeding. HDR is great as long as I don't enable the setting in Windows 10 directly.

I'm so fucking happy right now. Still waiting for my logitech keyboard.

here's my little office, sorry for the bad lighting :

For those of you who's having a bad time, just don't give up. If you really want to change, things can change. Don't lose hope, and always compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

 

[tabascosauz]

Got my 5900X. Batch# 2104, Jan 25-31st production. $769CAD, $10 more than launch price was originally

I guess Memory Express weren't kidding that they'd only received about 2 dozen of these since November.

 

[Splinterdog]

BIOS update in readiness for the Ryzen 5600X which is winging its way here as I type.

 

[AltCapwn]

BIOS update in readiness for the Ryzen 5600X which is winging its way here as I type.

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Damn your PC seems like a huge monstrosity! I want some pics .

 

[Splinterdog]

Damn your PC seems like a huge monstrosity! I want some pics .

That's the Cooler Master Storm Trooper, which is quite a large full tower case and very heavy when it's fully loaded
I've had it for years and probably don't need to change it, unless I catch the bug again

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

BIOS update in readiness for the Ryzen 5600X which is winging its way here as I type.

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¡me encanta!

 

[windwhirl]

BIOS update in readiness for the Ryzen 5600X which is winging its way here as I type.

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Why two keyboards? Nice CPU upgrade by the way

 

[Splinterdog]

Why two keyboards? Nice CPU upgrade by the way

Because it's such a faff getting the Corsair keyboard into BIOS mode, when a bog standard keyboard will do the trick immediately.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Because it's such a faff getting the Corsair keyboard into BIOS mode, when a bog standard keyboard will do the trick immediately.

If it's like my Corsair keyboard, you have to play a game to get it to work with pre-UEFI motherboards, at least true with the Asus socket 1366 motherboards:

1: Turn on the power then wait for the first BIOS screen, then unplug it and plug it back in.
2: For BIOS setup: Mash the del or F1 key.

 

[AltCapwn]

That's the Cooler Master Storm Trooper, which is quite a large full tower case and very heavy when it's fully loaded
I've had it for years and probably don't need to change it, unless I catch the bug again
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A classic, yet beautiful chassis. Well done!

 

[freeagent]

Got a new PSU to drive my future 3070 or 80

That's all that's left, and maybe a Zen 3 chip.. and she's done

 

[Splinterdog]

Within ten minutes of its arrival, the new Ryzen was firmly installed in its new home and it was only when I looked at device manager that I realised that I had forgotten to update the X470 chipset drivers, hence the three question marks. Duh!
Anyway, it's lightning fast and ready for some benchmarks and 1440p gaming.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Within ten minutes of its arrival, the new Ryzen was firmly installed in its new home and it was only when I looked at device manager that I realised that I had forgotten to update the X470 chipset drivers, hence the three question marks. Duh!
Anyway, it's lightning fast and ready for some benchmarks and 1440p gaming.
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Uh oh, reportedly, based on what I saw over at OCF, ones before week 48, are terrible news, prepare for sudden loss of stability.

It seems that you need to get Zen 3 CPUs dated after week 47. A survey done on Reddit found no Zen 3 CPUs manufactured after week 47 were afflicted with any WHEA soft or hard errors, regardless of AGESA version. All the affected CPUs were the earlier ones.

 

[8BitZ80]

Within ten minutes of its arrival, the new Ryzen was firmly installed in its new home and it was only when I looked at device manager that I realised that I had forgotten to update the X470 chipset drivers, hence the three question marks. Duh!
Anyway, it's lightning fast and ready for some benchmarks and 1440p gaming.
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You're going to be a very happy man when you start doing some gaming benchmarks. My before and after results were jaw-dropping (up to 60% improvement in some instances from Zen 2).

Uh oh, reportedly, based on what I saw over at OCF, ones before week 48, are terrible news, prepare for sudden loss of stability.

Relax, mine is 2020 Week 40 and is doing just fine with C-states disabled. Sounds like yet another one of those generalised myths that the tech community like to hype up.

 

[Keullo-e]

Got a new board yesterday, installed it already and flashed the newest BIOS.

 

[stinger608]

Got a new board yesterday, installed it already and flashed the newest BIOS.

Have one of those exact boards myself. Just did a review on it at another site. Pretty decent B550 board for the price point.

 

[Keullo-e]

Have one of those exact boards myself. Just did a review on it at another site. Pretty decent B550 board for the price point.

Sucks tho that with a long graphics card, the placement of the SATA connectors suck balls. Luckily the 90 degree ends of a cable solve that issue.

 

[stinger608]

Sucks tho that with a long graphics card, the placement of the SATA connectors suck balls. Luckily the 90 degree ends of a cable solve that issue.

Yeppers, that is for sure one of the draw backs. That and only having 4 SATA connectors.

If you get the chance, jump on a NVME SSD that is 4.0 capable. They are stupid fast! Have to install it under the NVME socket with the little heat sink.

 

[Keullo-e]

Yeppers, that is for sure one of the draw backs. That and only having 4 SATA connectors.

If you get the chance, jump on a NVME SSD that is 4.0 capable. They are stupid fast! Have to install it under the NVME socket with the little heat sink.

I guess that I can manage with a 3.0.. as this is a budget gaming rig after all.

 

[GreiverBlade]

well, i was waiting on something like that since 1992 when i discovered the tabletop game

Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood

Cyanid is a studio i know and like and Nacon ... well ... i knew them more for being the maker of "ergonomically correct" PS controllers (imho ofc) but little did i knew they were BigBen Interactive previously ...

ALSO! SHOCKED! that one actually has a media support for the game in the box!!!! WOOHOOO (CP2077 did not count ... the CD's were OST one ... )

alright time to launch and see (probably in easy mode for the story on the initial run )
i can relate to the protagonist ... Cahal,
he has a shaved haircut ... i have a shaved haircut
he has a beard... i have a beard (ok might need to grow it a bit more)
he has tatooes on the right arm... i have a wolf on the right arm (ok ... way smaller scale ... )
he has a daughter... i ... scratch that ...
he has muscles... i have .... SCRATCH THAT TOO! (well ... i am not scrawny either ... time to hit the gym ... after some couch gaming )


runs fine ... UE4 but console main focus i guess (albeit receiving most negatives reviews on PS4 ) 3k max settings but low AA is perfect for that (who need AA at 3k ... pfftt )

 

[Splinterdog]

Uh oh, reportedly, based on what I saw over at OCF, ones before week 48, are terrible news, prepare for sudden loss of stability.

I certainly hope not, otherwise it goes back. Anyway, I'm having trouble finding the manufacturing date/week/month because the chip doesn't show a UA or SKU number.
Not that I'm overly concerned.