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[TahoeDust]

1 minute ago, UrbanFreestyle said:

it's a beaut! i thought you had taken sandpaper to the std ihs!

Thanks.  It was swapped durring delid.  This IHS actually has a 15% larger surface area.

[soldier_ph]

11 minutes ago, ReggieGRS said:

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I just expect little hardware looking components in toy size to be flash drives, lol.

[TahoeDust]

 

[Mutoh]

I got this puppy recently:

 

[MEC-777]

46 minutes ago, Mutoh said:

I got this puppy recently:

 

Gorgeous!!!  

[Mr.Meerkat]

On 2/13/2019 at 3:36 PM, DrMacintosh said:

I actually just sold my “new” 3DS XL to help finance my upgrade from 4th Gen Intel to Ryzen. 

 

I liked the 3DS, but I just never used it. 

Yeah, I totally don't have a a drawer full of portable consoles that I no longer really play on (but did put plenty of time onto all of em, easily have 2K+ hrs per console)

Glares at a drawer across the room, which contains a PS vita (with Henkaku), a PSP 3K, DS lite, GBA SP, OG GB and finally, the mother of all: a limited-edition, titty-cam Pika 3DS XL...

 

On 2/12/2019 at 6:09 PM, WereCatf said:

I bought this puppy:

-snippy time-

How about making a SFF out of it? 

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

How about making a SFF out of it? 

Temporarily, yes, since I can't afford to buy all the replacement-parts yet, but my boyfriend needs a better laptop than the one he has, so there's that. If he didn't, then keeping it as-is would be fine, tho -- could always 3D-print a case for it and all.

[Mutoh]

2 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Gorgeous!!!  

Thanks. It's pretty striking. Especially after the minor cosmetic modifications I made 

 

 

Plays great!

[TahoeDust]

Welp...

 

[MEC-777]

8 hours ago, Mutoh said:

Thanks. It's pretty striking. Especially after the minor cosmetic modifications I made 

 

 

Plays great!

Makes me wish I could play, lol.

[nbrowser]

Finally upgrading from my iPhone 8 Plus to a X...I know...just an X...but Bell is offering them up at $0...so why not?

[Drak3]

Bought KH3.

 

Incredibly disappointing. Not worth playing, IMO.

[n0v4]

Bought a Asus ROG Strix GL702zc, with Ryzen 1600 6 core CPU(Desktop CPU, so i can replace it like a normal PC with any other Ryzen cpu ;P) 
8 GB DDR4 RAM, 1000 GB SSHD and AMD RX580 and 17,3 IPS screen(Freesync)  for 700 euro/  790 Dollar @ Mediamarkt Germany(sold out). (it was 1499 dollar)

Upgraded it with a m2 SSD 500 Gb and 16 GB DDR4 RAM(24 GB RAM now).Costs: 140 euro's

The 1000 GB SSHD will be replaced with 2 TB SSD and going to 32 GB of Ram and maybe the CPU to Ryzen 1700 or 2700 8 Core. 

Added a picture of the motherboard before adding the upgrades. Rendering and gaming is great.

It's acts and feels like a Desktop PC you can replace everything, HDD,RAM and CPU!

BF5 at Ultra@1080 is 60-70 fps
 

It's a Desktop replacement, not a travel laptop.
https://www.asus.com/en/Laptops/ROG-Strix-GL702ZC/ 

 

 

Linus review with the 8 Core Ryzen 1700 configuration:

Linus Tech Tips

Published on Feb 4, 2018

A desktop Ryzen 7 processor - in a laptop? Oh yes, and the multi-core performance is insane.
 

 

On the left the Dektop Ryzen 1600 Cpu and on the right the RX580

Asus ROG Strix gl702zc versus a 6000 Dollar laptop from Asus(Predator 21X). Just watch the Linus Review above

[n0v4]

Bought a Fallout 4 Pip-Boy and the Fallout 76 Helmet everything included for 70 dollars.(Both are limited/collectors editions)

(When Fallout 76 came out the Pip-Boy was like 100 dollars and the Fallout 76 Helmet still is @ 200 on ebay

Any players who still play Fallout 76 on PC and wanna team up? Please let me know!

[Timotheus2]

Got me a 960GB Corsair Force MP510 NVMe SSD for 186€. I had to mod my UEFI to boot from it.

 

[Velcade]

Snatched up some industrials. My first venture into Noctua cooling. Performance gains (on paper) show a 73% gain in static pressure with a 15% reduction in noise. 

 

Wiring them up tonight then running some stress tests.

[WannaCrypt]

On 2/13/2019 at 2:59 AM, ReggieGRS said:

paid 20 bucks extra for the cat

How's the static discharge?

[TahoeDust]

EVGA z390 Dark

 

[flibberdipper]

HD 3650 512MB for my XP rig. Can't wait to get home and slap this bitch in and pray to hell that it works.

 

[Sebbebengan]

On 2/14/2019 at 5:43 PM, Mutoh said:

I got this puppy recently:

 

That guitar is a freaking beauty! How much did it set your wallet back? Any custom pickups or just standard setup?

[Ja Krispie]

Got these 2 books (2 copies of The Stand. Different editions)

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Today was like Christmas. I got these goodies today.

 

 

I was driving by Ace Hardware today and decided to drop in and see what they might have on sale. They had two mpre of those 12" Quick Grip clamps I had gotten earlier so I glommed onto them.

 

Later in the day,  was driving by another Ace and dropped in. No clamps on sale but they did have an "imp" (slang for a midget tubing cutter for use in tight spots) on sale. I've been planning on getting one of them for quite some time and, for 4 shekels, I couldn't pass that up.

 

 

 

 

I've been wanting a set of self centering drill bits for a long time and have a project coming up that could use one so I ordered a set off Fleabay.

 

 

I already have one of these four port USB 3.0 hubs that will be used with my desktop machine (whenever I finish building the darn thing!) but I might need a second one. Also, the notebook I'm going to set up for Linux has only three USB ports: two USB 3.0 (excuse me, USB 3.1 Gen 1: a pox on the morons who made that change  ) and one USB 2.0 port located on the right side near the front. Besides the USB 2.0 (or is that USB 2.1 Gen 1? /s) being in a rather inconvenient location, I often need more than three ports (I'm often using five ports--one port has a two port hub plugged into it--on my Win 7 notebook). So I got two more of the hubs.

 

 

The first time I bought one of these, it didn't like more than two USB flash drives plugged into it and I had to return it for a replacement, which worked great. So when I got these, I tested each one with, first, three drives and a mouse dongle, then with four drives, plugging the hub into both a USB 3.1 Gen 1 () port and a USB 2.0 port. They worked great. My only complaint is the really bright, blue light that comes from that strip on top. I currently painting over the stripes to block the light. It will take several coats (that's what I did with the first hub I got).

[Mutoh]

5 hours ago, Sebbebengan said:

That guitar is a freaking beauty! How much did it set your wallet back? Any custom pickups or just standard setup?

Its an AS73 so it actually wasnt much! I paid around 550 CAD. As for pickups, threstock ones are fine after adjusting the height and pole pieces so they'll remain for now. I might reverse the magnet in the neck though because I like out of phase tones in the middle.

[kaiju_wars]

I'm a collector, and I've always vowed to get another Wii U when I had to sell mine for money in college.

Here's what I'm restarting my collection with.

 

 

Here is the console in my entertainment center, with the pro controller charging.  

 

A few things.

Yes I have a Switch.

Yes I prefer the Switch.

I rebought a Wii U because 1) I'm a collector.  2) I vowed to get another one.  3) It does hold a special place in my heart.  It was the first console I bought with my own money outside of high school.

[Mr.Meerkat]

Uhhhhh, a very necessary purchase? 

(car insurance)