What's your latest tech purchase?

[khemist]

interested in what brand that MP3 is? Back when I only bought from COWON which those are $$ but now hard to find unless you'd what current which are meh

Edit: it would appear it's "unbranded ' but from the images I looked up is a K1 model. The UI looks like old Linux like but tell me if the Battery Life is actually 60HRs

A video

The one in the video is different to this one, the model number on the back of this says D29, not sure on the battery life though as i only use it around 5-6 hours per day.

The touch sensitive buttons are a little too sensitive but it's not expensive and suits me just fine.

 

[theFOoL]

Hmm so THIS but says only 20HRs but it's OK. Just use to COWON D2

This is me taking my D2 apart

 

[Nuckles56]

The parts for my major rig upgrade

 

[JATownes]

It is about time for a platform upgrade. Fun weekend ahead! Back to AMD I go.

JAT

 

[kurosagi01]

Been wanting physical copy of this franchise since finding out about it years ago. Now need to get 2 and 3...

Super robot wars T

Didn't post here but here's my MSI GF63 8RD I bought few months ago.

 

[sam_86314]

Coming soon for my next project, an overhaul to my Plex server...

Gonna put the i5 650 back in the Dell and use the X3470 with this board. I'll need to see if I have any coolers that'll fit (I think my 2600K's stock cooler might work temporarily).

At some point I really want to get a Fractal Node 304. It looks like the perfect case for a NAS or Plex server.

As far as processing power and power consumption, it'll be a slight downgrade, but the upgradability and expandability should make up for that.

If anyone knows about other ITX cases with tons of 3.5" bays, please let me know.

 

[Dinnercore]

I just bought radiators for my new project and got really lucky with used B-Stock. Got it from Aquatuning, a german seller for watercooling. Sometimes they offer B-Stock stuff that was used and send back for a very cheap price. I paid 45€ for these (total for both):



In this case I got a 280mm and a 240mm full copper radiator from Alphacool. Description said missing screws, water residue and scratches/minor damage. I was very pleased to find all fan mounting screws in the box, only the plugs were missing which is no problem cause I have exactly 4 of them left over after Alphacool send me a bunch for free because my reservoir arrived with a broken acrylic plug.
20€ for the 240mm and 25€ for the 280mm and they are in perfect shape. The 240mm looks untouched apart from the water and the 280mm has 2-3 bend fins. Tested both and no leaks.

I can only recommend considering B-Stock stuff. If you get unlucky you can always return it.

 

[Splinterdog]

I bought a new pair of Rev'it! motorcycle gloves yesterday which have a strip of rubber on the left forefinger for wiping the visor when it rains.
Such a small, yet thoughtful detail, but probably not tech enough to feature here

 

[Calmmo]

New gpu! Also a comparison between the new card and the old (970)

 

[HossHuge]

This is me taking my D2 apart

I only watched it to hear your voice.

 

[Shou Miko]

I purchased the vault girl from Fallout 4 at Gamestop a couple of months ago she goes great with the Mirror's Edge Catalyst Collectors Edition statue and Shadow of the Tomb Raider Collector's Edition statue



Last week I got Grand Theft Auto Vice City for PC home got it second handed of ebay. I purchased this game because I always wanted to own the physical version of this game not just a digital version

 

[Chomiq]

A 5-pack of PC-speakers, because Gigabyte can't be bothered to include one with their board that has no debug LEDs or post code.

Anyone wants a spare PC-speaker?

 

[TheLostSwede]

A 5-pack of PC-speakers, because Gigabyte can't be bothered to include one with their board that has no debug LEDs or post code.

Anyone wants a spare PC-speaker?

They used to come with the case, never seen one bundled with a motherboard.
Also, I thought modern boards could do the post beep codes via the line out jack as well?

 

[Chomiq]

They used to come with the case, never seen one bundled with a motherboard.
Also, I thought modern boards could do the post beep codes via the line out jack as well?

Except at one point case manufacturers must have though "hey, most of board manufacturers have debug LEDs or post codes, lets skimp out on pc-speakers and save $0.05 on a case". As for beep codes with line out, dunno, my last board was from 2013.

 

[sam_86314]

My Zotac H55ITX-A arrived today. It was packaged extremely well and had a small piece of cardboard protecting the socket. It included 4GB of memory.

I stuck the X3470 in it and it worked right away.

I have it temporarily set up in a case I had lying around until my Node 304 arrives. I used the cooler my 2600K came with. So far temps don't look good with Intel's crappy stock cooler, so I'll have to get a better one .

EDIT: Oof, just realized one of the DIMMs wasn't fully seated. And I call myself an enthusiast... It's fixed now (that was causing the boot issue).

EDIT 2: It turns out that temps are much better in Windows than in the BIOS. Sitting in the 30s and 40s with the 2600K's stock cooler while installing programs.

 

[biffzinker]

I've been looking at a replacement for the MSI B350M Gaming Pro I've been using since it was new out of box. Originally it was first paired with a Rzyen 3 1200 as a temporary replacement for my ASUS Z97-E with a 4790K. I later upgraded it to a Ryzen 5 2600X and I noticed a large Vdroop when under medium/high load. Since then I was looking at replacing the motherboard with something else but couldn't decide. I then recently swapped out the 2600X for a Ryzen 5 3600 but the Vdroop issue made me wonder if I'm running the 3600 with a higher voltage than is needed. So I was comparing the B450 Tomahawk to the MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi. Fingers crossed I hopefully I made the right decision picking the B450 Tomahawk.

The aluminum heatsink on the CPU VRM is massive in size, and heft only second to the SoC heatsink.

 

[tabascosauz]

I finally got my ED500 back. Well, not specifically the original one, as that one is 220V and sitting in a box across the pond. It looks like Metrovac has updated their labels and packaging in the 3 years that I was away. Anyways, it looks the same, save for the label, and still requires industrial hearing protection for extended use. And still as gobsmackingly simple and powerful.

The powdery, fine dust still requires a human touch to remove completely, as you'd expect, but all other bits of dust are fair game for the ED500. Glad to have it back in the family and back on the job.

 

[GamerGuy]

I've been looking at a replacement for the MSI B350M Gaming Pro I've been using since it was new out of box. Originally it was first paired with a Rzyen 3 1200 as a temporary replacement for my ASUS Z97-E with a 4790K. I later upgraded it to a Ryzen 5 2600X and I noticed a large Vdroop when under medium/high load. Since then I was looking at replacing for the motherboard with something else but couldn't decide. I then recently swapped out the 2600X for a Ryzen 5 3600 but the Vdroop issue made me wonder if I'm running the 3600 with a higher voltage than is needed. So I was comparing the B450 Tomahawk to the MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi. Fingers crossed I hopefully I made the right decision picking the B450 Tomahawk.

The aluminum heasink on the CPU VRM is massive in size, and heft only second to SoC heatsink

You chose wisely, the MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge WiFi overheats like a bad mutha....

Forgot to add, I did buy something last week, an Oppo AX5s (64GB internal storage, 4GB RAM, mSD slot + dual SIM) and a Samsung 256GB EVO mSD card. Reason why I'd gotten it is because a new telco in my neck of the woods is offering free trial (1 year) of their network by giving anyone who qualifies up to 4 SIM cards with daily data usage of up to 2GB, this is an offer I couldn't pass up. The Oppo AX5s will be my spare/backup phone to be used when I go overseas, my Samsung 10+ will be used only in my home country. The AX5s surprised me, pretty good specs for a budget phone, liking it thus far....

 

[GreiverBlade]

ok ... some might say i change mouse and keyboard as i change my underwear ... (a bit more often tho, for the underwears ... )

with the GMMK-TKL i finally found my dream keyboard (switch swapping is perfect and well ... as long as the main board keep up i am not changing the barebone ever)

so i have my Corsair Dark Core RGB SE with a Qi fast charging pad for a value of 107chf+28chf and a friend with small hands bought something ... you know what they say for peoples with small hands ...
"small hands small.... mouse" it turn out that "idiot" bought a ....

yep ... Asus ROG Spatha .... the biggest ass wireless mouse of all he could get (smallest are from Logitech and the Dark Core is also quite smaller ) value 137chf (BNIB just opened for fit testing... unsuccessful )


i have big hands ... to the point that the original Xbox controller was the freaking most comfortable controller i ever put my bear paws on .... so he came to consult with me,
i tell him to get a refund or exchange it, to what he answer :
"you took a GMMK-TKL for swap switch ability, right?"
uhhhh yes ....
"well you can swap the left and right click OMRON switches ...." *wink wink*
aaaahhh for fudge sake ... taking me by the sweet feelings to incline me to be willing to help him ... ok .... i am willing to trade my Dark Core and the Qi pad plus a beer to make up for the usage period of it.
seal the deal.

yep pretty much ... bigger heavier (not much tho the magnesium alloy bottom looks gorgeous nonetheless ) also another good coincidence ... i am more a MMO player than shooter while he's the opposite, so we are also trading 3 side button for 6 (the distinctive shape of each make it easy to tell which one is ... mapped as top 2 : 1-2 middle 2 : 3-4 bottom 2 : 5-6 just as i liked with my Roccat Nyth)

charging station (and receiver) is not bad at all and the feet is actually made of cast iron it seems (just needed my Y-USB splitter, when charging it seems it use a little too much power for a single USB port but that's not a big issue .... the Qi pad was connected to a phone charger )


nice carrying case ... some goodies in... and well what the ... ah ok you can either pack the receiver in or only the mouse plus the cable oh well for my holiday i will take it wired, the base will stay at home


OMRON swappable switches... SWAPPABLE! ahhhh how i love that ... actually you open the whole mouse you have access to all component you can even 3D print your own shell or finger rest and also the battery is accessible (with a pull connector and not soldered )

(last pics credit: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/reviewing-asus-rog-spatha-gaming-mouse-mmo-warriors?page=1)

 

[Shou Miko]

You chose wisely, the MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge WiFi overheats like a bad mutha....

Forgot to add, I did buy something last week, an Oppo AX5s (64GB internal storage, 4GB RAM, mSD slot + dual SIM) and a Samsung 256GB EVO mSD card. Reason why I'd gotten it is because a new telco in my neck of the woods is offering free trial (1 year) of their network by giving anyone who qualifies up to 4 SIM cards with daily data usage of up to 2GB, this is an offer I couldn't pass up. The Oppo AX5s will be my spare/backup phone to be used when I go overseas, my Samsung 10+ will be used only in my home country. The AX5s surprised me, pretty good specs for a budget phone, liking it thus far....

I hope that Oppo phone right there is a beautiful styled phone, how is it performing with only 4GB of RAM? I know it's only on Android 8.1 Oreo.

I miss my Oppo phones I had the Find 7 and the 7a models back in the day.

 

[GreiverBlade]

how is it performing with only 4GB of RAM?

just like any other probably ... just as i can't see any real difference between my shield tablet and my Pocophone F1 which have 2 and 6gb respectively .... in the same daily task

under 2gb is indeed on the low side, 2gb is fine and above is just extra

 

[sam_86314]

Ordered a Fractal Node 304 for my new Plex server build. I wanted it since it has 6 3.5" bays that have fans blowing over them.

Here's the finished product. It's my first time working with an ITX case, and we all know how mediocre my cable management can be.

Ideally, I'd like to get fully modular PSU. All of the cables from this one are crammed behind it.

The server has a Xeon X3470 underclocked to 2.5GHz to keep temps down, the Zotac H55ITX board, 4GB of memory, a 120GB PNY CS900 as the boot drive, and an 8TB WD White that I pulled from my EasyStore external drive as the data drive (with the 3.3v mod done).

As for the case, it's solidly built and looks great. I'd recommend against using the fan controller it has. The wires are very thin and moving the switch sometimes seems to cut power to the entire system (Maybe shorting out the Molex connector it's plugged into, which isn't ideal to say the least ). Eventually I plan to replace the fans with PWM ones and get another Silverstone fan hub like I have in my main rig. For now, I have the rear fan plugged into the one leftover fan header on the board, and the front two are unplugged.

 

[GamerGuy]

I hope that Oppo phone right there is a beautiful styled phone, how is it performing with only 4GB of RAM? I know it's only on Android 8.1 Oreo.

I miss my Oppo phones I had the Find 7 and the 7a models back in the day.

It's pretty good, I have no problem with using my Samsung Tab S2 (only 3GB RAM) , so far, I'm impressed with its performance and battery longevity. I've not experienced any slowdown or lag, but do bear in mind I don't use this phone heavily as my S10+ is my daily driver......the AX5s has, thus far, shown itself to be a pretty reliable backup daily driver.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Bought this the other day for £700 used and never delidded, I received it yesterday.

1.8v input voltage, 1.21v core, HT off, 4.7ghz

Seemingly it's a reasonable overclocker, however I can't be certain until I've delidded and upgraded the cooling solution presumably the end of this year or next year.

 

[HUSKIE]

Corsair peripherals...

Ready for pick up tomoz morning.

Very cheap under £50 and never been used. Ex display