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[Rarity]

unluckily , my b550A-gaming board had issues with the x1 slots(not to mention the usb issue) , so looked around for another board ,to use ,, saw this being sold online ,  its kinda old by now. pretty sure its from China market , judging by the stickers on the box .

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[RasOls89]

Logitech MX vertical  

 

[SimplyChunk]

Not really a purchase but i got a few bits from my Uncle the other day when I went over there.  I won't share all the pics cause they're pretty generic looking but I'll snap the two things I'm keeping.

 

Generic internal 56k Modem PCI

 

A Trust 511 5.1 PCI Sound Card with a E3DX 6Channel chip  

 

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A(nother  lol) Black Sata DVD Multi drive (I have quite a few of these kicking around now)

 

An IDE DVD Rom drive in Beige (might keep this cause of the colour but it won't be going in Frog)

 

Now the good stuff..

 

A StarTech.com PCI425USB 4 port add-in card

 

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and a wonderful Liteon 40x12x48 IDE CDRW.  So paired with the Hercules CDRW (with the weird card readers built in to it)  I can finally have two CD drives both the same colour in Frog  

 

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[GoStormPlays]

On 2/27/2024 at 6:24 PM, CommanderAlex said:

A new mouse because of circumstances...

 

 

bro my mouse is so much more expensive and so much nicer than that oh my gosh

[Bitter]

On 3/9/2024 at 6:29 PM, Bitter said:

"Certified refurbished by Geek Squad" 870 Evo 1TB SSD for about $20 off. I need some laptop storage that doesn't need to be blazing fast but also needs to not be a spinning disk but I also need it to be reliable, I haven't had a Samsung SSD fail me yet. Now I can easily have my /home directory on a different drive entirely should I need to do a clean install or something nukes the boot drive.

Well I guess fuck you Best Buy.

Certified Refurbished my ass. At least it seems to be empty of data so either broken and returned before it was used and missed on inspection and never even wiped or it was broken after being wiped. Currently running data recovery on it to see if there was anything left on it then I'll check disk info on it to see how much it was read/written just out of curiosity before returning it. I'd rather have a working drive than my money back.

[vetali]

4 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Certified Refurbished my ass. At least it seems to be empty of data so either broken and returned before it was used and missed on inspection and never even wiped or it was broken after being wiped. Currently running data recovery on it to see if there was anything left on it then I'll check disk info on it to see how much it was read/written just out of curiosity before returning it. I'd rather have a working drive than my money back.

Geek Squad certified refurbished inspection:

 

 

[wasab]

9-day cruise to Alaska. I got another cruise to Bermuda in late August. I will be taking roughly 4 vacations this year. 

[IkeaGnome]

11 hours ago, wasab said:

9-day cruise to Alaska. I got another cruise to Bermuda in late August. I will be taking roughly 4 vacations this year. 

Doing the full loop or hopping off up here to explore? If you end up in Whittier or Seward you won't be all that far from me. 

[wasab]

4 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

Doing the full loop or hopping off up here to explore? If you end up in Whittier or Seward you won't be all that far from me. 

doing the full loop. i cant survive in the wilderness on my own lol

[IkeaGnome]

Just now, wasab said:

doing the full loop. i cant survive in the wilderness on my own lol

If you don't mind, what are your ports of call? Might be able to make suggestions for things to do. If it goes up to south central, Seward, Whittier, Anchorage etc, that's where I live. If it stays in SE I work down here just outside Juneau. 

If it's Juneau/SE and you're planning on getting off the ship bring rain gear for sure.

[Bitter]

17 hours ago, vetali said:

Geek Squad certified refurbished inspection:

 

 

Decided to be petty about this, found a corp contact email for customer experience, wrote a professional email asking about their processes, gonna blind side them with the picture of the item I received after I speak with them a little bit.

 

Email formatting is a bit donked up on my phone, wasn't that messed up IRL lol but I tried to pass myself off as older by using indents for paragraphs. I mean I guess I am older lol but you know what I mean.

[wasab]

4 hours ago, IkeaGnome said:

If you don't mind, what are your ports of call? Might be able to make suggestions for things to do. If it goes up to south central, Seward, Whittier, Anchorage etc, that's where I live. If it stays in SE I work down here just outside Juneau. 

If it's Juneau/SE and you're planning on getting off the ship bring rain gear for sure.

not sure. these are all a couple of letters. also, I'm not sure why Vancouver cruises to Alaska are so cheap compared to Seattle. I should've just book the Canadian cruise and traveled 3 hours north across the border. sigh*

[IkeaGnome]

3 minutes ago, wasab said:

not sure. these are all a couple of letters.

SGY is Skagway, GBY is Glacier Bay, PSO I would assume Petersburg since that would be on the way down from Glacier Bay but before Ketchikan(KTN).

I've never actually been up to Skagway or Glacier Bay even though I work so close to both of them.

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I'm not sure what actually happens in Glacier Bay. I know it has a summer only airport large enough for 737s, but that's in Gustavus. Of all the stops you have in AK, that's the one I'd get a flight seeing trip if possible. It's going to have the most to see there. Besides that, from what I've heard word of mouth it's kind of hiking and sea kayaking/boating to glaciers there.

 

Skagway is an old Klondike town. It's the port everyone from Seattle would hop off on to go into Canada. There's going to be tons of hiking, mining things to see, and on the way there you go past Comet Beach on the Lynn canal. That's our secondary escapeway in a fire. If I was at work, I'd be able to go out side and watch you sail by. 

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-picture just in case maps imbedded wrong-

and a picture of dragging Google man to where that picture is at in case you're curious and want to explore.

Petersburg and Ketchikan I've only overnighted in once or twice when weather in Juneau rerouted flights. Fishing towns with a lot of touristy things to do in summer. 

I've only ever grabbed hotels by the hour and bar tabs there. 

[TheNaitsyrk]

Just bought 14900KS. It's most likely to be a dud tho, so an inevitable return is on hands

[Stahlmann]

25 minutes ago, TheNaitsyrk said:

Just bought 14900KS. It's most likely to be a dud tho, so an inevitable return is on hands

2-3% faster than the regular 14900K under "optimal conditions", whatever that means. Still not as fast in games as the 7800X3D though.

[Rarity]

got the new board installed and running on the system , couple of things to note .. the side  mounted power connectors are a pain to connect the atx 24 pin to , as you can see in the pic , the cable has to turn 90deg to plug into the motherboard , probably going to get one those 90deg connector , so the cables wont be bent like that .. and one of the two internal usb c headers cant be plugged in because of the gpu(xfx 6800xt), another 90deg connector time .. overall the board is good minus the two small issues i mentioned ..

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[Lord Sephington]

Picked up this KOORUI monitor (left) to replace an aging and badly scratched acer monitor. so far i can say its so much nicer to have both monitors running at 1440p 144hz and both being non curved panels. 

 

Managed to snag this for £150 (£30 a month for 5 months) getting a monitor arm for it tomorrow as its very very close to falling off my desk due to the position

 

been on a bit of a tech buying spree recently, as replaced joycons on my switch for new ones. got myself a Xiaomi redmi note 12 pro as a daily driver, and a set of anker soundcore Q30's, then also came in ownership of an honor X6a and also a samsung galaxy A15.

 

Alot of shiny new tech to play with not enough time in the day for it all XD

(sorry for the mess on my desk but i work on too many projects and have things everywhere lol)

[wasab]

20 hours ago, IkeaGnome said:

SGY is Skagway, GBY is Glacier Bay, PSO I would assume Petersburg since that would be on the way down from Glacier Bay but before Ketchikan(KTN).

I've never actually been up to Skagway or Glacier Bay even though I work so close to both of them.

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I'm not sure what actually happens in Glacier Bay. I know it has a summer only airport large enough for 737s, but that's in Gustavus. Of all the stops you have in AK, that's the one I'd get a flight seeing trip if possible. It's going to have the most to see there. Besides that, from what I've heard word of mouth it's kind of hiking and sea kayaking/boating to glaciers there.

 

Skagway is an old Klondike town. It's the port everyone from Seattle would hop off on to go into Canada. There's going to be tons of hiking, mining things to see, and on the way there you go past Comet Beach on the Lynn canal. That's our secondary escapeway in a fire. If I was at work, I'd be able to go out side and watch you sail by. 

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-picture just in case maps imbedded wrong-

and a picture of dragging Google man to where that picture is at in case you're curious and want to explore.

Petersburg and Ketchikan I've only overnighted in once or twice when weather in Juneau rerouted flights. Fishing towns with a lot of touristy things to do in summer. 

I've only ever grabbed hotels by the hour and bar tabs there. 

i see. my plan is to see the wildlife and the remote landscape and, hopefully, also glimpse some glaciers. hehe. 

[Sir Asvald]

Finally got it after searching for a long time.  

 

 

[SimplyChunk]

7 hours ago, wasab said:

also glimpse some glaciers.

Before they all disappear 

[Ripred]

Always wanted to try this game years ago, then totally forgot about it until the recent remake of the first one, today saw it for $4 and couldn't resist , not only enjoying my first playthrough of the game but also enjoying the max settings, 500 fps average on my first run

 

 

 

[undergroundbeef]

I was running into some issues with my windows randomly getting stuck to my cursor. I picked up a new mouse, a Logitech MX Master 3S, to see if that was the issue. So far so good. I'm still getting used to the horizontal scroll; I like having it, but keep forgetting about it.

 

[NumLock21]

A new PSU to replace the old one, I had been using for the past decade or so. New one brings me up to specs with ATX 3.0, PCIe 5, and the must have features in a new PSU, them 12VHPWR melting connectors!  /s

[Yone]

I got a pretty good deal on a WD Black SN770 to use as a second SSD for my laptop. And I got some more RAM that I haven't installed yet (and probably don't even need...).

 

I also got some Steam games on sale. I guess a weird mix of things, but I'd never played any of the Half-life games, and I lost access to my old Steam account which had Portal on it. I wanted to try the new version of Dwarf Fortress, and have been meaning to pick up RDR2 now that I have a computer that should be able to play it.

 

 

[wONKEyeYEs]

On 3/15/2024 at 1:37 PM, Lord Sephington said:

sorry for the mess on my desk but i work on too many projects and have things everywhere lol

Well, at least there's no bottle of hand creme and box of tissues.