What's your latest tech purchase?

[PLAfiller]

Nitro has arrived...docking with mothership



No dust plugs, or plastic cap on the PICe. Light box/card. Can't wait to pop it in the system.

 

[wNotyarD]

Nitro has arrived...docking with mothership

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No dust plugs, or plastic cap on the PICe. Light box/card. Can't wait to pop it in the system.

When you said a Nitro was incoming, I was expecting a Sapphire

 

[Morgoth]

just ordered my new case Silver stone 383 , getting it this week

 

[PLAfiller]

When you said a Nitro was incoming, I was expecting a Sapphire

YES! My plan of deception has worked! Thank you

just ordered my new case Silver stone 383 , getting it this week

CS383....oh...wow 8 hot-swappable drive trays....whatcha doin with this thing? I am gonna jump on a leg here and suppose some really expensive NAS?

 

[Morgoth]

YES! My plan of deception has worked! Thank you

CS383....oh...wow 8 hot-swappable drive trays....whatcha doin with thing? I am gonna jump on a leg here and suppose some really expensive NAS?

right now i got a cs380v2 but its way to damn cramped inside. the 383 has more room for larger mainboards and large video cards
i run couple of raid 1 for my *media* and copys of differend disk

 

[FoulOnWhite]

It is much heavier than I was expecting

 

[Fokker]

It is much heavier than I was expecting
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If I'm looking at the right model, it lists 830g.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It is much heavier than I was expecting
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That look nice! How's it feel?

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Here is the keyboard with the UK pudding caps on off the apex pro, good thing is, 99% of the keys match the UK layout in windows.

That look nice! How's it feel?

It's very nice, not clacky and the keys don't seem to wobble much. For what I paid for it, it is a bargain TKL with the nice cherry switches.

 

[avidgamer121]

That look nice! How's it feel?

my brother has something similar but not TKL

 

[TheLostSwede]

Here is the keyboard with the UK pudding caps on off the apex pro, good thing is, 99% of the keys match the UK layout in windows.
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I'm curious, what didn't match? I mean, I have used UK keyboards for a very long time, but I can't think of anything in the ISO layout that isn't identical between a Swedish keyboard and a UK keyboard when it comes to key placement. Yes, the keys obviously have different functionality, but that's expected.

You mixed up your Insert. Pause and Scrlk buttons when you swapped the key caps though.

 

[GamerGuy]

Not exactly tech, but perhaps tech peripheral(?), got a couple of earbud case covers (best way I can think of to describe 'em), yes, I know they're frivolous purchases, but I wanted to spruce up my otherwise drab looking Buds2 and Buds3 Pro cases....

Yes, I'm fully aware I went overboard with the supplied stickers, but hey, I'm having fun!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

A hint of what i should be collecting on Sunday

Spoiler

I think its an i7 10700k with 64GB of ram in an Lian Li O11 (if you like what you see. Keep an eye on the BST forum as some of the parts are going to get sold to recoup some costs)

And what I have prepared for it since its going to be repurposed as an office machine instead of a gaeming one.

 

[Morgoth]

just bought

 

[Yukikaze]

Do I really need these? Nah. Do I really like these? Yah.



Snappy boot disks for some things around the house where capacity doesn't really matter.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

I'm curious, what didn't match? I mean, I have used UK keyboards for a very long time, but I can't think of anything in the ISO layout that isn't identical between a Swedish keyboard and a UK keyboard when it comes to key placement. Yes, the keys obviously have different functionality, but that's expected.

You mixed up your Insert. Pause and Scrlk buttons when you swapped the key caps though.

Basically extra keys, no FN key in replacement of the right win key, and the steelseries key next to it that has a steelseries symbol on it, hence 99% match. The only other thing is the special funtions on the original number keys are not theere but i can manage, same with the 9 keys above the arrows, they are colour change functions with FN but i'll bw ok withouth them. It does look good with the puddings. It's handy having a nice spare UK set of good keycaps i suppose.

EDIT

The scrlk, insert and pause buttons were in a different position on the original layout so i got a bit mixed up. i put them on in the positions they were in on the apex pro, did the person who swapped the caps on that get them wrong? What positions should they be in? thx for noticing

 

[TheLostSwede]

Basically extra keys, no FN key in replacement of the right win key, and the steelseries key next to it that has a steelseries symbol on it, hence 99% match. The only other thing is the special funtions on the original number keys are not theere but i can manage, same with the 9 keys above the arrows, they are colour change functions with FN but i'll bw ok withouth them. It does look good with the puddings. It's handy having a nice spare UK set of good keycaps i suppose.

Ah, so it's a Cherry issues, not a UK/Nordic layout difference issue, I think I misunderstood, hence the confusion.

EDIT

The scrlk, insert and pause buttons were in a different position on the original layout so i got a bit mixed up. i put them on in the positions they were in on the apex pro, did the person who swapped the caps on that get them wrong? What positions should they be in? thx for noticing

It goes Prntsc, Scrlk, Pause on the three button row and that should allow you to figure out where insert goes.

 

[Athlonite]

A hint of what i should be collecting on Sunday

How on earth did they do such a shit job of cable management in that case mine is clean as and I didn't even try

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Ah, so it's a Cherry issues, not a UK/Nordic layout difference issue, I think I misunderstood, hence the confusion.

It goes Prntsc, Scrlk, Pause on the three button row and that should allow you to figure out where insert goes.

Yes it is/was a nordic layout, with nordic keycaps, but changed to UK keycaps and UK layout in windows, it is fine. Thanks, switched them keys to correct positions.

 

[toooooot]

Case for the upcoming water loop. I am a bit ashamed because I am letting go my 3yo Geometric future case.
I did not realize that the very features that made it attractive to me will be the features that will make it very hard
to do what I planned. Specifically, using a beautiful distro plate

https://thermaltakeusa.com/cdn/shop/files/ca-1z8-00mgwn-00_05.jpg?v=1724971691&width=1426

 

[Sithaer]

Case for the upcoming water loop. I am a bit ashamed because I am letting go my 3yo Geometric future case.
I did not realize that the very features that made it attractive to me will be the features that will make it very hard
to do what I planned. Specifically, using a beautiful distro plate

https://thermaltakeusa.com/cdn/shop/files/ca-1z8-00mgwn-00_05.jpg?v=1724971691&width=1426

Do I see an upcoming Noctua themed build?
Idk but that color theme would fit that well I think.

 

[PLAfiller]

A little feedback on the B580 Nitro:

4K youtube: video codec load ~52% at 4K native monitor @60mhz
2160p HEVC (h265) 143GB movie: video codec load ~26% at 4K native monitor @60mhz
Average power on desktop: 20W with my two monitors
First boot after I plugged the card: Firmware update started before driver installation
Only game I tested is Rogue Company (I know it's old, but I really like it). The game had an immediate problem with the card. From time to time the screen would go black for 2-3 seconds and then proceed as normal. I turned off Steam overaly which helped a bit by reducing the number of black outs, but didn't solve the problem. What DID, however, was turning on Vsync in the game. Not a single black out after I turned on the Vsync. I think the driver's option about "variable refresh rate" messes with the game.



EDIT: and a little observation of mine, which may or may not be correct, but I was looking into their professional line up. So they debuted in workstation GPUs with Arc Pro A60 and A50. And back then compared to their desktop line there was some difference. The Pro-line supported:



Interestingly, the A770 was also ICV certified for Autodesk Inventor, which was a "gaming" card. Deep Link, was discontinued though. And in this year's second gen I can't really tell what's different hardware wise between their desktop and workstation line. I mean sure the B50 Pro is a 16GB and my Nitro is a 12Gb card, but the rest is pretty much the same. Same node, same architecture, same codec engines (B580 does support AV1 decoding). Might as well certify their whole desktop line as workstation GPUs IMO.

 

[Shou Miko]

I took a gamble on a Lenovo ThinkPad L14 Gen 2a laptop listed for £59 in my country. (The price included shipping)

Ot have a couple cracks nothing really bad to be honest.

The laptop still have about 2 months of warranty but Lenovo have tried to fix it.
The seller states it can run for days and weeks no issues suddenly it freezes and Lenovo have changed the keyboard and motherboard without luck.

From the model number it's the following spec but now it only had 16GB of RAM and a 256GB NVME.

Official Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5850U
RAM: 32GB
SSD: 1TB NVME
WiFi: MediaTek WiFi6
WWAN: Quectel 4G.
Screen: AUO FHD IPS 250nits 45% NTSC

My mods:
RAM: 32GB
SSD: WD Red SN700 500GB NVME
WiFi: intel AX210 WiFi6E
Screen: Innolux N140HCG-GQ2 FHD 400nits 72% NTSC (100% sRGB)

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Half of today's loot

 

[lexluthermiester]

Half of today's loot

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I think the warranty on the 1080ti may have left it's run a bit late..