What's your latest tech purchase?

Aquinus · Sep 1, 2018

The middle of next week I’ll have something to put in it. :clap:

P4-630 · Sep 1, 2018

Got a new 100 Watt toy :rockout:

Dinnercore · Sep 1, 2018

Take cover! Hide the PSUs!

phill · Sep 1, 2018

What might you be needing that for??!!

GreiverBlade · Sep 2, 2018

phill said:
What might you be needing that for??!!

a double Vega 64, duh?

which ironically is blue ...

Dinnercore · Sep 2, 2018

phill said:
What might you be needing that for??!!

GreiverBlade said:
a double Vega 64, duh?
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which ironically is blue ...
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Actually... I will not create a singularity... yet.

I will double up a double GPU and go 3870 x2 x2. This is a bit redundantly redundant, but I have a thing for that era and mGPU stuff.

GreiverBlade · Sep 2, 2018

Dinnercore said:
Actually... I will not create a singularity... yet.

I will double up a double GPU and go 3870 x2 x2. This is a bit redundantly redundant, but I have a thing for that era and mGPU stuff.

ah! i get the "hide the psu's" :laugh:

cucker tarlson · Sep 2, 2018

natr0n said:
Some parts for my server board.
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I didn't know such pci-e x1 to usb cards exist, I need one! Are they all full speed ?

ViperXTR · Sep 2, 2018

phill · Sep 2, 2018

GreiverBlade said:
a double Vega 64, duh?
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which ironically is blue ...
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I wondered since I thought the newer AMD cards didn't actually require the crossfire cables?? I don't need them on the 4 480's I have??

I thought it was for some slightly older cards for benchmarking or something

Dinnercore said:
Actually... I will not create a singularity... yet.

I will double up a double GPU and go 3870 x2 x2. This is a bit redundantly redundant, but I have a thing for that era and mGPU stuff.

I don't think that you'll have that much of a problem with just two 3870 X2's

I tried 3 GTX 580's without overclocking on a 920 D0 rig, that was pretty fun considering it would take 1000w from the wall without any overclocking on the GPUs.. Reminds me, I would really like to find another GTX 580 3Gb for some silly 4 way GPU fun for giggles... Ummm.... Just need a bigger PSU to make sure I could overclock them!!

GreiverBlade · Sep 2, 2018

phill said:
I wondered since I thought the newer AMD cards didn't actually require the crossfire cables??

yeah i know ... but i always wanted to do that joke ... :oops:

with the pictures and mad paint editing skilllllz (that one is a joke too ... )

phill · Sep 2, 2018

Ah I thought someone was trying to confuse me :laugh:

natr0n · Sep 2, 2018

cucker tarlson said:
I didn't know such pci-e x1 to usb cards exist, I need one! Are they all full speed ?

Havent used it yet. Waiting on case to ship. According to the newegg reviews it does work at full speed. Just search "speed" under reviews.

Jetster · Sep 2, 2018

phill · Sep 3, 2018

When you order a few Haribo but get something else instead....

Well oops.. They must have sent me the wrong stuff.....

Dinnercore · Sep 3, 2018

phill said:
When you order a few Haribo but get something else instead....

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Well oops.. They must have sent me the wrong stuff.....

I would send them back, I mean what on earth could one ever use these strange metal squares for? The pins are not even long enough to be a proper comb.

phill · Sep 3, 2018

What's worse, I don't even have enough hair to comb!! :laugh:

DR4G00N · Sep 3, 2018

I received a couple of these recently. Their performance @ 3.8GHz is very nice, a good boost from the dual E5420's @ 3GHz. I only wish that this board could do more than 405MHz FSB running dual.

phill · Sep 3, 2018

Some very nice results there @DR4G00N

sam_86314 · Sep 3, 2018

Now I don't need to be at work to play with one of these...

It's an Anet A8. I bought it because I have experience with them from my job training. I think it's a great budget platform to start with and build upon if you want to get into 3D printing.

Also got a new laptop for work a few weeks ago; an HP Stream 11 with a Celeron N3060, 4GB of DDR3, and 32GB of storage. I also got a 64GB MicroSD card for it.

I needed a laptop that was small and had good battery life. It didn't need to be powerful. This little laptop has fit the bill perfectly, making it through an 8-hour work day without being charged, and it has been able to do everything I need it to.

Dinnercore · Sep 3, 2018

The first piece for my childhood dream build has arrived!

Other stuff will take a while for me to sort out. I want to stay more or less authentic to that era, so no fancy new waterblocks for the CPU. None of that cheap bulk DDR2 800.

What troubles me the most is the case that I adored at that time. I can´t find it and nvidia branded cases are not very common today or very nvidia-like priced....

phill · Sep 4, 2018

I so remember having this board..... I believe I still have the photos from the rig I bought/built!!

Dinnercore · Sep 6, 2018

Dinnercore said:
What troubles me the most is the case that I adored at that time. I can´t find it and nvidia branded cases are not very common today or very nvidia-like priced....

I found something very close to it, just from a couple years later. Wasn´t that difficult to find, there was a single one left in stock new on amazon. Last one I found inside my country, there are two more I found from UK new. Only difficult bit was the price, but I had to do it for that 13yo nvidia shill boy that I was back then (he would have loved it, and I have to admit I shed some tears of joy looking at it sitting here now) and that still has a corner in my heart. I´m not sorry for it, only my wallet is. Sold my old rig just to get this case.

Set in stock for quite a while this thing. Must have been something around 5 years.

It´s a Silverstone Temjin TJ10B Nvidia Edition...

Oh the feels. Goosebumps.
The build quality on this thing is from another star. I started buying cheap way back in the day, now that I have a job I go for mediocre cases but THIS one. This one feels like it was made by a Formula One Team.

The screws for the sidepanels... Dampened with O rings, 3 for each side to really hold it tight and still EASIER to get off because to top and bottom one are made with an offset so you only need 2 turns to undo them while to one in the middle is set in.
That shiny metal accent on the PSU.

The whole motherboard tray, e.g. all the silver you see, can be taken out with thumbscrews on the back. How cool is that?

Speaking of cool... The HDD-Trays are completely seperated and can be fitted with their own airflow. The compartment in the middle between HDD space and Motherboard area has a fan in it that takes air in directly from 2 ducts in the side of the panels to supply fresh air to the GPUs.

I start to wonder why I ever bothered to build my current setup. Oh right, work.

You have no idea how excited I am about this. My 775 build in this thing has to get a project log.

Ahhzz · Sep 6, 2018

Congrats @Dinnercore . Enjoy it!!

Frick · Sep 6, 2018

I am now part of the Mechanic Keyboard Association, with the newly arrived Cherry MX Board 3.0 (as reviewed by VSG here) with red switches and first impressions are below.

- It's heavier than I thought it would be, which is a Good ThingTM.
- Cable is in the middle (it's the detachable version), I prefer them off to the right ad the monitor is in front of the keyboard. Doesn't matter though.
- Low profile will get some getting used to, if I use it. The only desktop keyboards I've used in any capacity the past plenty years have been those chunky Dell keyboards, which I absolutely love. I do most of my real typing on the laptop these days though, the desktop is solely for gaming, which tends to be games where you don't have to hammer away at the keyboard.
- It's not as loud as I thought it would be. This is also a Good ThingTM.
- Typing feels quite nice actually. Less force required than the aforementioned Dell keyboards, and it's springier than them. I wrote a few hundred words just to get the feel of it and my hands feels a bit worn because I'm used to higher force and longer keytravel so I bottom out with speed. I'll get used to it I guess.
- The space bar doesn't wobble or rattles or clatters. The mechanical keyboards I've previously tried have had horrible space bars in that regard, and that includes that Das Keyboard Pro for what was it, +€150? This does not clatter. Good ThingTM.

On the whole it's not something I would spend real money on, and I feel the same about all the mechanical keyboards I've used so far, but I got it for €15, new in box, which was nice.

System Name	Apollo
Processor	Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard	Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory	64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage	1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s)	Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case	MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s)	AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply	96w Power Adapter
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard	Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software	MacOS 12.1

System Name	AlderLake / Laptop
Processor	Intel i7 12700K P-Cores @ 5Ghz / Intel i3 7100U
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master / HP 83A3 (U3E1)
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12A 2 fans + Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme + 5 case fans / Fan
Memory	32GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 6000MHz CL36 / 8GB DDR4 HyperX CL13
Video Card(s)	MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio / Intel HD620
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro 1TB + 970 Evo 500GB + 850 Pro 512GB + 860 Evo 1TB x2 / Samsung 256GB M.2 SSD
Display(s)	23.8" Dell S2417DG 165Hz G-Sync 1440p / 14" 1080p IPS Glossy
Case	Be quiet! Silent Base 600 - Window / HP Pavilion
Audio Device(s)	Panasonic SA-PMX94 / Realtek onboard + B&O speaker system / Harman Kardon Go + Play / Logitech G533
Power Supply	Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 750W / Powerbrick
Mouse	Logitech MX Anywhere 2 Laser wireless / Logitech M330 wireless
Keyboard	RAPOO E9270P Black 5GHz wireless / HP backlit
Software	Windows 11 / Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	Cinebench R23 (Single Core) 1936 @ stock Cinebench R23 (Multi Core) 23006 @ stock

System Name	FATTYDOVE-R-SPEC
Processor	Intel i9 10980XE
Motherboard	EVGA X299 Dark
Cooling	Water (1x 240mm, 1x 280mm, 1x 420mm + 2x Mo-Ra 360 external radiator)
Memory	64GB DDR4
Video Card(s)	RTX 2080 Super / RTX 3090
Storage	Crucial MX500
Display(s)	24", 1440p, freesync, 144hz
Case	Open Benchtable (OBT)
Audio Device(s)	beyerdynamic MMX 300
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova T2 1600W
Mouse	OG steelseries Sensei
Keyboard	steelseries 6Gv2
Software	Windows 10

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

System Name	main/SFFHTPCARGH!(tm)/Xiaomi Mi TV Stick/Samsung Galaxy S23/Ally
Processor	Ryzen 7 5800X3D/i7-3770/S905X/Snapdragon 8 Gen 2/Ryzen Z1 Extreme
Motherboard	MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk/HP SFF Q77 Express/uh?/uh?/Asus
Cooling	Enermax ETS-T50 Axe aRGB /basic HP HSF /errr.../oh! liqui..wait, no:sizable vapor chamber/a nice one
Memory	64gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 3600mhz DDR4/8gb DDR3 1600/2gb LPDDR3/8gb LPDDR5x 4200/16gb LPDDR5
Video Card(s)	Hellhound Spectral White RX 7900 XTX 24gb/GT 730/Mali 450MP5/Adreno 740/RDNA3 768 core
Storage	250gb870EVO/500gb860EVO/2tbSandisk/NVMe2tb+1tb/4tbextreme V2/1TB Arion/500gb/8gb/256gb/2tb SN770M
Display(s)	X58222 32" 2880x1620/32"FHDTV/273E3LHSB 27" 1920x1080/6.67"/AMOLED 2X panel FHD+120hz/FHD 120hz
Case	Cougar Panzer Max/Elite 8300 SFF/None/back/back-front Gorilla Glass Victus 2+ UAG Monarch Carbon
Audio Device(s)	Logi Z333/SB Audigy RX/HDMI/HDMI/Dolby Atmos/KZ x HBB PR2/Edifier STAX Spirit S3 & SamsungxAKG beans
Power Supply	Chieftec Proton BDF-1000C /HP 240w/12v 1.5A/4Smart Voltplug PD 30W/Asus USB-C 65W
Mouse	Speedlink Sovos Vertical-Asus ROG Spatha-Logi Ergo M575/Xiaomi XMRM-006/touch/touch
Keyboard	Endorfy Thock 75% <3/none/touch/virtual
VR HMD	Medion Erazer
Software	Win10 64/Win8.1 64/Android TV 8.1/Android 13/Win11 64
Benchmark Scores	bench...mark? i do leave mark on bench sometime, to remember which one is the most comfortable. :o

What's your latest tech purchase?

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man

P4-630

Dinnercore

phill

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GreiverBlade

Dinnercore

GreiverBlade

cucker tarlson

ViperXTR

phill

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GreiverBlade

phill

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natr0n

Jetster

phill

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Dinnercore

phill

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DR4G00N

phill

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sam_86314

Dinnercore

phill

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Dinnercore

Ahhzz

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Frick

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Motherboard	Zee 490 Aorus Elite
Cooling	Noctua D15S
Memory	16GB 4133 CL16-16-16-31 Viper Steel
Video Card(s)	RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio
Storage	SU900 128,8200Pro 1TB,850 Pro 512+256+256,860 Evo 500,XPG950 480, Skyhawk 2TB
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Mouse	G903 lightspeed+powerplay,G403 wireless + Steelseries DeX + Roccat rest
Keyboard	HyperX Alloy SilverSpeed (w.HyperX wrist rest),Razer Deathstalker
Software	Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	A LOT

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Motherboard	MSI Mag B550M Mortar
Cooling	Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 rev4 w/ Ryzen offset mount
Memory	G.SKill Ripjaws V 2x16GB DDR4 3600
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Mouse	Steelseries Rival 3 Wireless \| Wacom Intuos CTH-480
Keyboard	A4Tech B314 Keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Pro

System Name	natr0n-PC
Processor	Ryzen 5950x/5600x
Motherboard	B450 AORUS M
Cooling	EK AIO 360 - 6 fan action
Memory	Patriot - Viper Steel DDR4 (B-Die)(4x8GB)
Video Card(s)	EVGA 3070ti FTW
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Case	Thermaltake Level 20 VT
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Memory	Corsair DDR4 3600 32gb //G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3600
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Storage	Samsung 970 EVO NVMe 1Tb, Intel 665p Series M.2 2280 1TB // Samsung 1Tb SSD
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Mouse	Cooler Master MM710 53G
Keyboard	Logitech 920-009300 G512 SE
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Processor	Ryzen 5 5600 @ 4.45GHz
Motherboard	AsRock X370 Taichi
Cooling	CM Hyper 212 Plus
Memory	16GB 2x8 G.Skill Trident Z 3600 CL16 1.35V
Video Card(s)	RTX 3060M 6GB @ 1750-2000MHz Core / 1875MHz Mem
Storage	1TB Kingston NV2 & 1TB Mass Storage HDD
Display(s)	LG 25UM57-P @ 75Hz OC
Case	Fractal Design Arc XL
Audio Device(s)	ATH-M20x
Power Supply	Evga SuperNova 1300 G2
Mouse	Evga Torq X3
Keyboard	Thermaltake Challenger
Software	Win 10 Pro 64-Bit

System Name	Space Heater MKIV
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Motherboard	ASRock B550 Taichi
Cooling	Noctua NH-U14S, 3x Noctua NF-A14s
Memory	2x32GB Teamgroup T-Force Vulcan Z DDR4-3600 C18 1.35V
Video Card(s)	PowerColor RX 6800 XT Red Devil (2150MHz, 240W PL)
Storage	2TB WD SN850X, 4x1TB Crucial MX500 (striped array), LG WH16NS40 BD-RE
Display(s)	Dell S3422DWG (34" 3440x1440 144Hz)
Case	Phanteks Enthoo Pro M
Audio Device(s)	Edifier R1700BT, Samson SR850
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x, CyberPower CST135XLU
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard	Glorious GMMK 2 96%
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System Name	OrangeHaze / Silence
Processor	i7-13700KF / i5-10400 /
Motherboard	ROG STRIX Z690-E / MSI Z490 A-Pro Motherboard
Cooling	Corsair H75 / TT ToughAir 510
Memory	64Gb GSkill Trident Z5 / 32GB Team Dark Za 3600
Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce RTX 2070 / Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X 4Gb
Storage	Hynix Plat P41 2Tb\Samsung MZVL21 1Tb / Samsung 980 Pro 1Tb
Display(s)	22" Dell Wide/24" Asus
Case	Lian Li PC-101 ATX custom mod / Antec Lanboy Air Black & Blue
Audio Device(s)	SB Audigy 7.1
Power Supply	Corsair Enthusiast TX750
Mouse	Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless / Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
Keyboard	K68 RGB — CHERRY® MX Red
Software	Win10 Pro \ RIP:Win 7 Ult 64 bit

System Name	Black MC in Tokyo
Processor	Ryzen 5 5600
Motherboard	Asrock B450M-HDV
Cooling	Be Quiet! Pure Rock 2
Memory	2 x 16GB Kingston Fury 3400mhz
Video Card(s)	XFX 6950XT Speedster MERC 319
Storage	Kingston A400 240GB \| WD Black SN750 2TB \|WD Blue 1TB x 2 \| Toshiba P300 2TB \| Seagate Expansion 8TB
Display(s)	Samsung U32J590U 4K + BenQ GL2450HT 1080p
Case	Fractal Design Define R4
Audio Device(s)	Line6 UX1 + some headphones, Nektar SE61 keyboard
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x v3
Mouse	Logitech G602
Keyboard	Cherry MX Board 1.0 TKL Brown
VR HMD	Acer Mixed Reality Headset
Software	Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	Rimworld 4K ready!