The best tech purchases you ever made?

[Squirrel724]

20 minutes ago, mrchow19910319 said:

Try MX master. Especially on a mac. You will be amazed. Again. 

I have tried a MX master and I prefer the extra buttons (for work) and improved sensor (for gaming) of my G502.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

My speaker system. Bought it for 1/4th the price of it today and it is still working after 5 years

[mrchow19910319]

4 minutes ago, Squirrel724 said:

I have tried a MX master and I prefer the extra buttons (for work) and improved sensor (for gaming) of my G502.

Oh. I felt that the G502 is too "hard" for me to press. Don't you feel that way??? The mouse button, those left click and right click is quite hard?? Compared to MX master and sensei? 

[TechyAlex]

Easily my logitech g900 Chaos Spectrum. Bought it when it came out, never looked at mice the same way. 

[NannerBeans]

Perk of working in the tech field, I make large purchases of tech almost every day. My biggest single purchase was probably 7 EVGA B-stock Titan X's on black friday.

[Guest]

Red dragon Rx480. Crashes too often than normal so I would say it's the best

[Lays]

9 minutes ago, NannerBeans said:

Perk of working in the tech field, I make large purchases of tech almost every day. My biggest single purchase was probably 7 EVGA B-stock Titan X's on black friday.

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[Shiv78]

My Jaybird X2s. Not a day goes by I don't use them, or love having bought them. If I forget to charge them for like a week and they die, I feel so sad lol

[NannerBeans]

45 minutes ago, Lays said:

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[Mooshi]

The 2500k. I have a 6700k now and the only reason I upgraded was my GF's PC died and we shared my rig till I built a new one and she inherited other build.  Damn chip still holding its own in 2017!

[AlphaGamer46]

6 hours ago, mrchow19910319 said:

I think for every day usage 8GB is enough. I am not sure what's your daily workflow is like. If you need to open a lot of apps in the background and switching between them, (Like photoshop in the background, 20 chrome tabs open, IDE running, evernotes for taking notes, and pdf files opening) then you need 16GB  lol. 

Alright, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!

 

[themctipers]

r9 380

 

bought for $200

sold for $170

as @chickennuggetstyle said, its like renting a gpu for a year for $30

[KE2012]

Either my jabra revo's (wireless) because they have lasted some serious abuse and I use them all the time, or my 64gb Kingston g3 usb drive, I would feel naked now if I didn't carry it around with me. 

[slightlyjaded]

On 26/01/2017 at 9:45 PM, TheRandomness said:

My Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark I board, which will soon be transferred over to my sister's rig when I downsize my current one. 

My 290, which is out of commission for the moment because the BIOS(s) that it's running are slightly broken. 

asus sabertooth and WS boards do not die. they just get passed down like heirlooms.

[KuJoe]

I pre-ordered two Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lites a few months before they were available and they were one of the best purchases I'd ever made for my company, now I only buy Ubiquiti for my home and business and it's saved me a fortune in hardware costs and power bills.

[Ostwind]

Some of my best buys were my G602 and my G510s which I cant live without now. While they aren't perfect they are far and above anything else I can buy right now and have become almost necessary for me to enjoy using my PC. Another would be my APC UPS, the power at my house is trash at the best of times. This led to tons of dead hardware and frustration and when I had some cash to upgrade my system with I decided to take a hit on the performance and instead of buying the i7 that I wanted I split the money between an i5-4430 and an APC 1300va UPS. It was hands down one of the best things I've bought in a long time and I regret not getting one sooner as it would have saved me from loads of stress and troubleshooting. Honestly nothing else I've bought can compare when it comes to the best thing I've bought.

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33 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

I pre-ordered two Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lites a few months before they were available and they were one of the best purchases I'd ever made for my company, now I only buy Ubiquiti for my home and business and it's saved me a fortune in hardware costs and power bills.

And power bills?  Interesting.  How?  Just direct consumption or something indirect?  I never would have thought networking gear used that much energy  

[KuJoe]

5 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

And power bills?  Interesting.  How?  Just direct consumption or something indirect?  I never would have thought networking gear used that much energy  

The routers I was using before (Vyatta) used 2 amps which costs me $35/month, the EdgeRouter Pro uses a small fraction of that so I'm really only paying for the space in the cabinets. Networking gear can be very power hungry once you get up there in processing power, we tried some $500 100Mbps Cisco routers off eBay before we tried Ubiquiti and they were using a little over 1 amp but couldn't even handle BGP with SSH enabled at the same time.

[desertcomputer]

On 26/01/2017 at 8:46 PM, XCalinX said:

People will hate me for this but  a FX 8350. It was my first PC component that doesn't suck. I still have it in my secondary rig today

Similar with 6300, now works as home server. 

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43 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

The routers I was using before (Vyatta) used 2 amps which costs me $35/month, the EdgeRouter Pro uses a small fraction of that so I'm really only paying for the space in the cabinets. Networking gear can be very power hungry once you get up there in processing power, we tried some $500 100Mbps Cisco routers off eBay before we tried Ubiquiti and they were using a little over 1 amp but couldn't even handle BGP with SSH enabled at the same time.

hm, I suppose.  I knew it would be in the 1 - 2 amp range and just brushed this off as nothing, but I guess when you think about it, at 120 v, that's 100 - 200 W, which isn't insignificant, especially if it's on 24/7.  Still, to cost $35/month, that must have been a lot of routers  

[KuJoe]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

hm, I suppose.  I knew it would be in the 1 - 2 amp range and just brushed this off as nothing, but I guess when you think about it, at 120 v, that's 100 - 200 W, which isn't insignificant, especially if it's on 24/7.  Still, to cost $35/month, that must have been a lot of routers  

Nope, each router was $35/month (and roughly $16.67/month just for the 1U space if you split up the cost of the cabinet by 42). We have A+B network so it was $70/month for 2 routers (excluding cost of space and power/space for both switches).

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3 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

Nope, each router was $35/month (and roughly $16.67/month just for the 1U space if you split up the cost of the cabinet by 42). We have A+B network so it was $70/month for 2 routers (excluding cost of space and power/space for both switches).

Wait... 2 amps at 120 V is 240 W, running 24/7 for a month is ~180 kWh, which cost $35... that's ~19.4 cents / kWh!   Well best of luck saving energy where you can  

[KuJoe]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Wait... 2 amps at 120 V is 240 W, running 24/7 for a month is ~180 kWh, which cost $35... that's ~19.4 cents / kWh!   Well best of luck saving energy where you can  

In data centers you pay by the amp, not kWh like people do in their homes.

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4 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

In data centers you pay by the amp, not kWh like people do in their homes.

Wait, amp what?  It must be Ah or something since amps is a rate and not a quantity.

 

Well, regardless that's the equivalent price, unless it was running at some other voltage, and that's pretty high by home power cost standards  

[Atmos]

Hmm, not strictly computer related but it is technology :3 

Bought a Casio PX160bk digital piano for $400, $100 off the retail. It has let me practice through the early morning without waking everyone up, or driving them insane by making them hear me play the same piece over and over again for hours on end. Seriously great buy, couldn't be happier.