What's your latest tech purchase?

tabascosauz · Wednesday at 6:48 AM

Super Firm Tofu said:
I’ve only tried the 120’s and they’re… ok. Worth about the $11 each you pay for them. I’d be concerned about being able to attach the 30mm thick 140’s using the stock clips. They’re both thicker and have a larger mounting pattern than the stock fans.

My 1.5 cents worth.

T30s are already hard enough to mount with stock clips - I'd imagine 140x30s borders on impossibility lol.

That said, the fan blade geometry looks really, really unoptimized for heatsink use. Case fans should be fine.

Space Lynx · Wednesday at 6:48 AM

Super Firm Tofu said:
I’ve only tried the 120’s and they’re… ok. Worth about the $11 each you pay for them. I’d be concerned about being able to attach the 30mm thick 140’s using the stock clips. They’re both thicker and have a larger mounting pattern than the stock fans.

My 1.5 cents worth.

I just measured the in-between space on my FC140, its 34mm thick, so, I may not need to use any clips at all, I might just drop it in, angle it a tiny notch... might work...

I will await @freeagent advice before I order though, worst case is I could take some gorilla tape, fold it on itself until the gorilla tape became 4mm thick , then put a tiny piece of this 4mm thick gorilla tape on all 4 corners and squish it in... the other 140 well, maybe i will just use stock 120 on the first intake fan on the FC140, the 30mm in the middle.

leaves me with a spare 30mm thick fan though... hmmm... i guess i could put it as an extra exhaust at top. not really needed, but oh well

tabascosauz said:
T30s are already hard enough to mount with stock clips - I'd imagine 140x30s borders on impossibility lol.

That said, the fan blade geometry looks really, really unoptimized for heatsink use. Case fans should be fine.

ok, maybe i will just save money and keep using stock fans. honestly stock fans are fine, they don't bug me at all, and are surprisingly quiet even at 100% fan speed. meh

tabascosauz · Wednesday at 6:53 AM

Space Lynx said:
ok, maybe i will just save money and keep using stock fans. honestly stock fans are fine, they don't bug me at all, and are surprisingly quiet even at 100% fan speed. meh

They could certainly be worse. If you really want to get a better fan though, probably just buy 1 instead of 2, and get a P14 or Silent Wings 4 140mm. Middle 140mm fan is much more important than whatever is mounted on the front.

FC140 has no problem fitting 30mm thick fans in the middle. PA120/PS120 has less space and sucks.

FoulOnWhite · Wednesday at 9:04 AM

Bought a giant anthem 1 frame, shock and rear wheel yesterday, built it up into this-

PLAfiller · Wednesday at 9:39 AM

Nnnnice

Ride on!

but that...fork...spacers....extension..ufff you got solid 6cm or so? stem length - at least 8cm? How long are the handlebars? You are a tall dude I reckon, I hate cramped cockpits as well, so I "get you".

GamerGuy · Wednesday at 10:51 AM

Here're two pics of my purchases:

The T40 Series II speakers, pardon the mess, was just testing the speakers with my laptop, the sound is pretty good given its size...

Chomiq · Wednesday at 11:00 AM

GamerGuy said:
Here're two pics of my purchases:

The T40 Series II speakers, pardon the mess, was just testing the speakers with my laptop, the sound is pretty good given its size...

Nice, but I would consider getting new cable with L shaped connectors on both side instead of that flimsy stock 3.5mm cable. Would help avoid potential failure in future.

freeagent · Wednesday at 12:14 PM

Space Lynx said:
I will await @freeagent advice before I order though

I tried running 2 NF-A14 3Ks once.. other than being loud, it didn’t make much difference.

nomdeplume · Wednesday at 1:26 PM

PLAfiller said:
Nnnnice Ride on!

but that...fork...spacers....extension..ufff you got solid 6cm or so? stem length - at least 8cm? How long are the handlebars? You are a tall dude I reckon, I hate cramped cockpits as well, so I "get you".

I'm more surprised to see an actual stem.
You are correct that the bike shows signs of being a size too small or the geometry is far from an ideal fit for hard trail use.
@de.das.dude was in a different situation where I was fairly sure directness would be taken as inspiration. Just reinforcing the ?? here without any real comment on the unknowns.

Zyll Goliat · Wednesday at 2:41 PM

Last week I swapped my 6700XT and add 180€ for new 6900XT.....Yes it's Biostar nothing fancy no lights and other BS but cooler is pretty good and card is basically the same as reference model when it comes to the VRM.....so far so good no complains.....

FoulOnWhite · Wednesday at 3:19 PM

PLAfiller said:
Nnnnice Ride on!

but that...fork...spacers....extension..ufff you got solid 6cm or so? stem length - at least 8cm? How long are the handlebars? You are a tall dude I reckon, I hate cramped cockpits as well, so I "get you".

Just don't want to cut the steerer too short. People buy a 500 quid fork, then cut it to 170mm for their bike, basically means you cannot sell it on. The Yari's are great forks so not gonna cut it below 200, i will just use the spacers to adjust the bar height with spacers above or below the stem.

The head tube on the frame is about 102mm, so with a 20mm spacer and 40mm stem height the steerer would be only 162mm, so unles the buyer has a short head tube it is no good. I have seen loads of great forks on ebay with steerers shorter than 180mm, they will have trouble selling them.

The bike is great, but yeah the fork is probably too much for the frame. Fork is 150mm travel and the frame probably only needs 120-130, but shrug, i love the yari fork so not bothered.

GreiverBlade · Wednesday at 8:31 PM

a little something for the amp ...

also received another 120 set of Poron pads ... must have ordered them when i saw the other package going : "eh?"
oh well now i have 240 of them, surely enough for all my needs :laugh:

harm9963 · 2024-04-25T05:20:11+0100

harm9963 said:
My VIEW 37 case is made for 420 , my old AIO 360 has push /pull setup , rad vs rad , may not be able to do a push/pull with the new rad , might run in to my 4090 , 0.5 inch now space now , 38mm rad vs 28mm rad , about 0.4 increase , would like to do 6 fans , will find out tomorrow , also my MB is compatible ,ASUS DARK HERO X570 .

-10c drop vs old AIO , using default fan settings , very Quiet vs loud 120 fans x6 , on new AIO rad 140 x6 , moves a lot of air .

de.das.dude · 2024-04-25T10:22:03+0100

nomdeplume said:
I'm more surprised to see an actual stem.
You are correct that the bike shows signs of being a size too small or the geometry is far from an ideal fit for hard trail use.
@de.das.dude was in a different situation where I was fairly sure directness would be taken as inspiration. Just reinforcing the ?? here without any real comment on the unknowns.

those words are english but i dont know what any of them mean :cry:

but i dont do trails, just smooth ish roads

nomdeplume · 2024-04-25T13:35:44+0100

de.das.dude said:
those words are english but i dont know what any of them mean but i dont do trails, just smooth ish roads

It meant I tore down every issue your bike was likely to have been manufactured with. Expecting it would inspire great care or even greater force in the correct places. Such as grinding down a wrench to a few mm thick without undoing the metal tempering. Or putting it in your mind to pull out your fork to check for damage, relube the headset, and make sure it everything is put back together tight.

jallenlabs · 2024-04-26T04:17:14+0100

Just won an ebay auction for a Dell Optiplex 7060 sff to replace my aging Optiplex 3040 and take over network router duties. $58 US. Will also run PFSense and a Intel x550t2 network card.

harm9963 · 2024-04-26T05:43:16+0100

harm9963 said:
-10c drop vs old AIO , using default fan settings , very Quiet vs loud 120 fans x6 , on new AIO rad 140 x6 , moves a lot of air .

“The more things change, the more they stay the same”

Outback Bronze · 2024-04-26T07:07:44+0100

Trying to help them not go out of business, or is it too late? :ohwell:

Chomiq · 2024-04-26T09:37:11+0100

Outback Bronze said:
Trying to help them not go out of business, or is it too late?

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I haven't watched the YT videos but isn't all the stuff mentioned there related to the US branch?

Outback Bronze · 2024-04-26T10:09:20+0100

Chomiq said:
I haven't watched the YT videos but isn't all the stuff mentioned there related to the US branch?

I really got no idea mate. Just seen a bunch of posts about them going bust, but those rads I just purchased are very nice quality. They don't look like they've come from a company that's going under.

FoulOnWhite · 2024-04-26T10:55:28+0100

Outback Bronze said:
I really got no idea mate. Just seen a bunch of posts about them going bust, but those rads I just purchased are very nice quality. They don't look like they've come from a company that's going under.

EK going bust?

Maybe they need to revise their EK tax pricing and they might sell more stuff.

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What's your latest tech purchase?

tabascosauz

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Space Lynx

Astronaut

tabascosauz

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FoulOnWhite

PLAfiller

GamerGuy

Chomiq

freeagent

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nomdeplume

Zyll Goliat

FoulOnWhite

GreiverBlade

harm9963

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

nomdeplume

jallenlabs

harm9963

Outback Bronze

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Chomiq

Outback Bronze

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FoulOnWhite

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