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[Mister Woof]

Upgrade from a Vega 64 to an XFX RX 5700 XT RAWII, just picked up the last one at my local Best Buy

 

 

Cooler, quieter, and more powerful than the 64. Oh, and my kids got to take my leftovers. they are just waiting for me to die. 

 

On my overclocked 64:

 

On the new 5700xt

 

Looks like an improvement of around 17% in the lows, and around 11% average. Not really meaningful upgrade, but I needed another GPU and felt dumb spending $200 on a 1070-level performer.

 

Also, seems DRAM is going up soon. So I guess it's worthwhile.

[Scatology]

Karas Kustom Bolt V2 in brass!

[Anomnomnomaly]

Can we post silly stuff we got for xmas. 

[Tan3l6]

I bought these boots about a month ago and I love them. Arrived couple of days ago..

Warm an fuzzy. Comfortable and affordable.

24€ 

 

If these are not considered tech for a tech forum - they were bought from Aliexpress.

I bought those as of a whim ... and they fit me perfectly - 30cm from heel to toe.

[PhantomJaguarr]

Completes my set up for now. 

 

[Spotty]

New phone (Galaxy A50) + Phone case + Screen protector.

Just going to wait for it to fully charge then start swapping everything over to the new phone.

 

 

[Derkoli]

Essentally, analogueseduction.net had a sale on all things to do with turntables, so decided to hop onto my end-game turntable, going to keep my SME turntable, but this is my new baby. Still working on my endgame as far as the rest of the setup goes, thinking room correction with a McIntosh MEN220 next.

 

[PlayStation 2]

Oh man, I finally bought a god damn Gran Turismo demo that's remotely interesting. More details when I get it, because y'all are gonna like it.

[Spotty]

13 hours ago, Anomnomnomaly said:

Can we post silly stuff we got for xmas. 

Of course!

As long as it's safe for work you can post it.

[jakecrew]

I bought realme 5 and it's awesome.

[Beef Boss]

I finally got my first wireless earbuds, went with the jaybird vista's.

[Anomnomnomaly]

One of the silly little gifts I got for xmas this year... Currently starting to build a collection of movei/tv cars/ships to display on a wall unit halfway up the stairs.  So far I have a Delorean from BttF, Dark Knight Batmobile and and now the Planet Express Ship. I was going to buy the Ghostbusters car too (I'm doing either 1:24 or 1:32 scale only (aside from this PE ship obviously)... but had a HDD starting to fail and now need to replace it. Currently trying to move 3TB of movies onto my other drives as I have no backup for my media (it's very hard to backup almost 28TB of data) and looking at replacing the 4TB HDD with an 8TB one... So there goes the planned upgrade to my mediaserver in Jan (it's still on AMD FX hardware and Windows 7).

 

So suggestions for movie/tv cars I can add to the list... decent ones only please... Not any of that fast and furious crap you see everywhere... things like the Bond Lotus Submarine (that I actually had as a kid and lost/gave away at some point) and the DB5 from Goldfinger.... let me have you ideas. The display shelf unit has room for about 20-25 items on it.

 

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New camera - sony H300

[Derkoli]

Decided to tube roll my McIntosh MC2301 monoblocks. Thanks to @Metallus97 for help picking some 12AX7 tubes

 

I heard the Mullard KT88's in my friends setup, and had a minute of staring into nothingness listening to Basement Jaxx - Red alert, then fell in love with them.

 

[atxcyclist]

I just purchased a Fuji X-T100 camera that should arrive shortly, and a bunch of darkroom supplies for developing film.

[EL02]

On 12/31/2019 at 3:52 PM, jakecrew said:

I bought realme 5 and it's awesome.

Great! I originally wanted to go with that instead of the Mi A3. Is the 720p ips display good, because that was the only drawback for me?

[jasonvp]

There's a new ... thing ... in the picture below.  See if you can figure out which I'm referring to.

 

[Arika]

1 minute ago, jasonvp said:

There's a new ... thing ... in the picture below.  See if you can figure out which I'm referring to.

 

that trash can.

 

I mean the white one on the left. not the silver one on the right.

 

Spoiler

/s 

hope it serves you well.

 

Also your poor desk, im surprise at the lack of legs and support

[jasonvp]

Just now, Arika S said:

that trash can.

That trash can is probably older than you are.
 

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I mean the white one on the left. not the silver one on the right.

Awwww.  Is someone a little envious perhaps?

 

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Also your poor desk, im surprise at the lack of legs and support

I'd look a little more closely if I were you.  It has three very solid legs that are motorized, because it's an UpLift sit/stand desk that can hold well over 300lbs.

 

[Anomnomnomaly]

I know I'm a little late to the party, but I finally got around to buying Skyrim... I never used to like RPG's but the Witcher 3 cured me of that... and this is according to some as good as or better.

 

Now I just need to know what mods to install. Already added 'Enderal Forgotten Stories' which is more than twice the size of the original base game.... So what do I need folks?

 

[Anomnomnomaly]

2 minutes ago, jasonvp said:

I'd look a little more closely if I were you.  It has three very solid legs that are motorized, because it's an UpLift sit/stand desk that can hold well over 300lbs.

 

FFS, do NOT sit on it then. 

[jasonvp]

Just now, Anomnomnomaly said:

FFS, do NOT sit on it then. 

I've stood on it.  I'm only about 165lbs.

 

[Arika]

8 minutes ago, jasonvp said:

I'd look a little more closely if I were you.  It has three very solid legs that are motorized, because it's an UpLift sit/stand desk that can hold well over 300lbs.

 

that is a collosal sit/stand desk. i can see the legs, but normally corner desks (especially one s large as that) would have additional supports.

[Spotty]

 

iVANKY 2M long DisplayPort cable, $15 from Amazon AU

I've never bought a displayport cable that came in a box before.

[Ross Siggers]

6 hours ago, jasonvp said:

Awwww.  Is someone a little envious perhaps?

I mean, nothing about the comment came off as envious to me. The /s tag should have made that obvious