Show off your latest purchases

[Arika]

22 minutes ago, BigRom said:

Australia right? Are prices reasonable for these used Civics there? My area/country is ridiculous for these Civics due to the tuner scene

yeah, Aus.

 

it's just a 2011 Civic VTi, not special badge, no type-R. just stock standard. i didn't get it to tune, There's not a big tuning scene in Aus so their price is about what you would expect

[D13H4RD]

Got a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7

 

It normally costs $200 but I got it for $4 from my carrier. It's a heck of a deal even at $200. Has a Snapdragon 660 SoC, 64GB of eMMC flash storage, 4GB of RAM and runs Android Pie with MIUI 10 laid atop. Also has a notched 6.3" 1080p IPS LCD display and a 48MP 1/2" CMOS sensor that uses pixel pinning to basically act almost like a 12MP sensor on its rear camera module, aided by a depth sensor. 

 

Spoiler

Yes, that box and name are familiar to another phone.... 

 

[soldier_ph]

7 minutes ago, D13H4RD said:

-snip-

  Hide contents

-snip-

 

*Calls in bombsquad* 

 

 

 

 

[bob345]

New tire pressure gauge. 

[Guest]

I bought a thing.

 

 

[MEC-777]

1 hour ago, King Poet said:

I bought a thing.

Just saw your thing over on Level1Techs.  So Jelly.

 

And here are the 2 things I bought for less than the price of one. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Just saw your thing over on Level1Techs.  So Jelly.

 

And here are the 2 things I bought for less than the price of one.

 

Hell of a score!

[handymanshandle]

well I did a store pick up for a Steelseries QcK Heavy XXL today and got it on my way out of work after closing and also pictured is the monitor and speakers I posted a few days earlier.

The wallpaper is a macOS one because no matter what you feel about Apple, you have to admit. They have the best default wallpapers.

I really need to get a new keyboard lol
hopefully before the start of June

[RoseLuck462]

18 hours ago, King Poet said:

I bought a thing.

 

 

Radeon 7!! Finally back in stock!

[RoseLuck462]

I thought MS had retired the Intellimouse!

 

Also I like Roccat keyboards! v

 

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Klipsch R-41PM speakers + Klipsch R-8SW subwoofer.  Bit of an upgrade from my Bose Companion 5 speakers. 

I wanted to go 1 step up for both the speakers and the sub (R-51PM and R-10SW), but I got a killer deal on this particular combo that I couldn't get on the larger ones.

 

Can't comment on the sound quality yet, the speakers still need to be broken in and I currently have an ear infection so everything sounds muffled.  Oh, and I can't hook up the sub yet because neither the speakers or the sub came with the cable that connects them.

 

Also on order :

 

 

2m Oehlbach sub cable. 

 

-----

 



Speaker cable and banana plugs

 

-----

 



Soft isolating rubbers.  Even if they turn out to be snake oil in terms of sound quality, at least I won't have to worry about scratching my speakers or my desk.

 

I'm not going to be properly cable managing these speakers for now (or removing the Bose ones from my desk, for that matter).  I'll probably get me one of those electric sit-stand desks in the next couple of weeks.  Not going to waste 20 minutes messing with cable management now only to take it all apart again in a couple of weeks.

I'll probably post new pics of my complete setup once everything is here and set up properly.

[kaiju_wars]

 

New phone who dis

 

Got the iPhone XS Max.  I get a first responders discount with AT&T, so I went ahead and took advantage of it to upgrade.

[Guest]

20 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Just saw your thing over on Level1Techs.  So Jelly.

 

And here are the 2 things I bought for less than the price of one.

 

 

Might've just beaten your deal, lol. Asus Hypercard + 3x Crucial PM1 + Intel 660p (all 1TB) for $200.

[MEC-777]

4 hours ago, King Poet said:

 

Might've just beaten your deal, lol. Asus Hypercard + 3x Crucial PM1 + Intel 660p (all 1TB) for $200.

Damn! Nice! Well, we at least almost paid the same ($220 CAD for the 570's).  

 

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Just picked these up today. Mozart's Complete Symphonies In an 11 disc box set.

 

 

 

Now, the fun begins. I have to cut apart and scan the booklet, scan the backs of the CD sleeves, and the CDs themselves, then put the scans into a PDF (I'll put a copy of the PDF in each album folder). After that, I get to rip all 11 of the disks. After ripping them, I'll also need to put together a playlist that will play the symphonies in numerical order. They jump around on the CDs so fewer discs would be needed to hold them all (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble). All that is going to be so much fun.

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

7 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Damn! Nice! Well, we at least almost paid the same ($220 CAD for the 570's).  

 

That looks incredible!

[flibberdipper]

10 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Damn! Nice! Well, we at least almost paid the same ($220 CAD for the 570's).

Step one to my heart: dual socket.

Step two to my heart: dual video cards in a dual socket board.

[RoseLuck462]

More bacon!

 

 

for context, I eat a few strips of bacon w/ back coffee for breakfast.

[Velcade]

New NAS all set up.

• SuperMicro X9SRL-F
• Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2
• Samsung 64GB (4x16GB) 1600MHz ECC
• Dell H310 (IT mode)
• Seasonic Focus Plus 750w Platinum
• 2x Intel 320 series 2.5" 40GB
• 1x Crucial MX500 2.5" 500GB
• 4x Western Digital Red NAS 3.5" 4TB
• Fractal Design R6
• FreeNAS 11.2-U3

(I posted here since all of this hardware was purchased last week, and no one wants a build thread about FreeNAS, lol)

 

Burn in complete without cause for concern.  Plex is up and running and each 'client' has permissions to their networked folders.  10C/20T gives me plenty to play with in regard to VMs.  Much to learn still but she's a beauty.  Those SAS controllers run a tad hot so I rigged up some active cooling for it.

Spoiler

Case with front panel removed to improve airflow.

Spoiler

A shot of 'the goods' That noctua cooler is amazing and very quiet.

Spoiler

Here is my DIY solution to secondary active cooling on the SAS Controller.

[Boarder]

A week ago I went to Walmart to get some pants and thought I'd stop by the ammo counter. I noticed the 500 rnd box of Thunderbolt 22 LR for $14.99. I've read mixed reviews on it. For the price Walmart runs out of this ammo but there it is, all by its lonesome.

 

I bought it, WTH it's less than 3 cents a round. Couple of days later I shot it along with the other ammo I showed here. It shot good and haven't had a dud yet. I tossed one because it was bent. Yesterday I went to Walmart for grocery and stopped by the ammo counter and there's two of em. They were $16.99 this time but I bought one anyway.

 

[TVwazhere]

I bought the thing 

 

I really like the thing

[FmPhenom]

3 hours ago, Boarder said:

A week ago I went to Walmart to get some pants and thought I'd stop by the ammo counter. I noticed the 500 rnd box of Thunderbolt 22 LR for $14.99. I've read mixed reviews on it. For the price Walmart runs out of this ammo but there it is, all by its lonesome.

 

I bought it, WTH it's less than 3 cents a round. Couple of days later I shot it along with the other ammo I showed here. It shot good and haven't had a dud yet. I tossed one because it was bent. Yesterday I went to Walmart for grocery and stopped by the ammo counter and there's two of em. They were $16.99 this time but I bought one anyway.

 

snip

You got lucky. I bought that same box at Walmart also and had a lot of duds.

[IAmAndre]

So I bought a new Steelseries mousepad to go along my Logitech M705 mouse and K310 keyboard. This is the L version and it's pretty big but still not large enough to cover the whole desk so the keyboard is usually half on it, which is a little weird. But good mousepad overall. I'm also considering upgrading my keyboard because I type a lot, like 2000 words a day and knuckles tend to hurt at the end of the day.

[Derkoli]

my new bby

[mapegl]

Two U2419Hs. 

 

I wanted a two screen setup, mostly for productivity purposes and I love it.