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[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, 8tg said:

I completely forgot there were two of them 

Sorry man

[8tg]

Todays new CD, Rubycon by Tangerine Dream

1975 German electronica

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, 8tg said:

Tangerine Dream

My Dad used to like Tangerine Dream

[SimplyChunk]

My little baby heatsinks came today 

 

Ain't they the cutest?? 

[Kilrah]

$69 iMac DV SE finally arrived. No peripherals but those I got a couple of years ago with a laptop turn out to be exactly the ones that would have come with it.

Seems it was used until 2010 but basically only for writing letters and for e-mail...

 

[atxcyclist]

3 hours ago, Kilrah said:

$69 iMac DV SE finally arrived. No peripherals but those I got a couple of years ago with a laptop turn out to be exactly the ones that would have come with it.

Seems it was used until 2010 but basically only for writing letters and for e-mail...

 

 

I imagine you're aware of this, but if you haven't replaced the PRAM battery, you may want to think about doing it soon. They are notorious for leaking after about 20 years. My 2001 iMac needed one a couple of years back, you can finagle the old one out without doing much more than opening the access panel, but they can fall in. I chickened-out and took the bottom of the case off when I did mine.

[Kilrah]

6 hours ago, atxcyclist said:

I imagine you're aware of this, but if you haven't replaced the PRAM battery, you may want to think about doing it soon.

Yup it's gone

Will get a new one at some point when I have to order other stuff...

 

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

The LTT screwdriver looks great, but the EU price of 120€ is insane.

 

 

 

[8tg]

$6 motherboard was another case of “untested” meaning dead

at least I got a cpu and cooler out of it? Im also gonna yoink some board components as spares for my other board

No hardware configuration changes the black screen, dgpu, different ram in various configs, different cpu even

Just rip

 

so I put the i3 and cooler on the Z97m oc formula as a placeholder

 

This board is cool but unrelated

 

also the Titan arrived 

[sub68]

[Rarity]

ram for the laptop which i got earlier ... cheaper then having a meal at the local McD`s .. lol  but then again its an old ddr 2 based system . lol 

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[Jorgemeister]

Not as recent but I started using it recently.

 

 

Also, this game is more fun than any football game EA can make

[dogwitch]

replacement screen for laptop i was gifted

[kaiju_wars]

 

Redragon K631 PRO keyboard and Tangerine 62G switches.  The keyboard is hotswappable with 3 and 5 pin switches, I've already applied them to the keyboard.  Love how these switches feel!

[SimplyChunk]

Fan splitter 1 in to 2 and some black pop rivets.

 

The pube was free by the looks of it XD

[Poinkachu]

Been wanting it for like 2 years. Held myself back due to price, got some sort of discount for this one.

Yea I know there's a bigger refresh rate out there, but I need to have type-c input & good gamut as well. Laptop is 165hz and I don't play competitive games anyway.

Not to mention I don't really like huge monitor feet, this one's kinda perfect.

 

Although I do kinda hate how asymmetrical the looks of the back side is. But oh well, not like I'm gonna have to look at it often.

 

Now to rent calibrating device or pay someone to come calibrate for me. :x

 

 

 

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

 One of, if not the best looking bits on the market. Nano coated like endmills.

 

$2-3 per bit  Bought them for the most common sizes/heads. For everything else Wera toolcheck.

[Skyesgaming]

Got myself a little beginner crochet kit. I'm super excited to get started on it. 

 

The Adorable Mailbag It Came In:

 

The Adorable Little Packaging:

 

All The Items That It Came With:

 

The tin was a seperate thing that I received for free on my purchase. I'm so excited to start crocheting

[bluessorrow]

3 hours ago, Skyesgaming said:

Got myself a little beginner crochet kit. I'm super excited to get started on it. 

 

The Adorable Mailbag It Came In:

 

The Adorable Little Packaging:

 

All The Items That It Came With:

 

The tin was a seperate thing that I received for free on my purchase. I'm so excited to start crocheting

You got to send us the finish product!

[Rarity]

Got a proper ssd for the laptop (previous owner had a m.2card on Sata adapter ) , mouse is to replaced the wired g502 on the desktop (the mouse costs more then the laptop, ram,ssd,win Xp pro disc  combined) 

 

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[dogwitch]

APCRBC124-UPC Replacement Battery

[GamerDude]

The stuff I'd ordered have arrived, I've already installed these badboys in my main rig, the SSD enclosure's for a 2TB  PCIe3 NVMe M.2 SSD that I'll have as spare after upgrading my 2nd rig with 2x 2TB PCIe4 NVMe M.2 SSDs (in addition to a 4TB SATA SSD already installed).

[SimplyChunk]

Found a NOS, unbranded, curved PS/2 keyboard for £15 on eBay

 

a NOS, Microsoft Curved PS/2 mouse for £7.50

 

and a couple of nice, domed, case badges on Etsy for a couple of quid each

 

These have come out of some of my eBay money I've been making over the last couple of weeks.  I've put quite a bit of effort in to eBay the last few weeks so i thought I'd treat myself  

[avidgamer121]

On 8/21/2023 at 10:31 PM, 8tg said:

$6 motherboard was another case of “untested” meaning dead

at least I got a cpu and cooler out of it? Im also gonna yoink some board components as spares for my other board

No hardware configuration changes the black screen, dgpu, different ram in various configs, different cpu even

Just rip

 

so I put the i3 and cooler on the Z97m oc formula as a placeholder

 

This board is cool but unrelated

 

also the Titan arrived 

that monitor though, here i thought my 22" was small

[TetraSky]

Bought a new monitor and new headphones

 

 

I wasn't sold on the curve, but at 32", this is quite nice while sitting at arms length away from it.

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And I replaced the pads on the Nova Pro Wireless. There's some sort of nub inside the cups that was rubbing against ears and it was uncomfortable.

Replaced them with these thick pads. It really does improve the sound isolation, too.

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I quite like the headphones, the ANC almost remove my pedestal fan's noise completely and I had zero issues in games with it. Unlike my friend who got some Sennheiser headphones and he had issues with the ANC fucking up when he was "communicating" with his mic.

 

 

All that said, I will be returning the monitor.

It ... Is not what I was expecting out of a 165hz panel. There's a dizzying amount of ghosting/smearing when moving things around on the screen.

(potato quality, but you can clearly see the smearing around the blacks of the avatars)

 

I would definitely get another 32inch monitor in the future... but I'm returning this as soon as I get the vesa mount adapter for my old AOC U2879VF monitor, to put on the monitor arm I got with this 32inch monitor.