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[Faisal A]

@flibberdipper @Spotty I managed to cancel the ordé. BTW what was wrong with it ?

[ZXR]

30 minutes ago, Mr. horse said:

Picked up a asus x79 rampage gene for 250$ with a I7 3930K and deep cool heat sink.

Not a bad deal seeing that the x79 rampage gene sells for around 250$ by it self. I'll sell the cooler and i7 making it a 150$ deal. Sweet.

Ok, stupid question maybe, but why would anyone buy a relatively old board and CPU for the around same price as something like a ryzen 5 2600 and a good b450 motherboard? 

[Faisal A]

160gb hard drive for £5

Edited November 25, 2019 by LogicalDrm

[flibberdipper]

4 hours ago, Faisal A said:

@flibberdipper @Spotty I managed to cancel the ordé. BTW what was wrong with it ?

They're pretty subpar and pretty much any current budget PSU from any of the big boys will be better. The main exception are the 80+ white EVGA units which make my ass pucker a bit.

[RoseLuck462]

Basically components for a legit mining rig I’m building. My past ones were just regular PC cases Frankenstein’d with a bunch a GPUs, looked messy.

 

 

The items in the anti static bags are GPUs risers and the Hercules is a 1600w PSU!

 

 

[Drak3]

6 minutes ago, Mr. horse said:

Because a Ryzen 2600 would be slower then a x79 system with a overclocked 8 or 12 core Xeon with faster quad channel ddr3 ran.

Maybe comparing a golden Ivy Bridge to an average 2600. Otherwise, the IPC deficit of a chip like the E5-1680 V2 puts it behind the 2600 for everything other than all core performance (and in that case, the difference is pathetic).

 

The minuscule gain in all core is not worth the trade off in single core or quad core performance, or limiting the user to a dead platform.

 

 

 

And quad channel DDR3 on an older platform, on a Xeon, isn't going to beat out dual channel DDR4 on a far more current platform in most tasks. That becomes especially true if we're resorting to overclocking to get a decrepit system to just shy of parity of a mid end system.

[Drak3]

9 hours ago, Zeddex said:

Ok, stupid question maybe, but why would anyone buy a relatively old board and CPU for the around same price as something like a ryzen 5 2600 and a good b450 motherboard? 

Unless you're an enthusiast that likes old and retro components, need specific features of the platform, or what you're buying is genuinely more powerful (not the case here), you shouldn't.

[PlayStation 2]

I bought... a tool... that'll let me use my VCR with my new capture card.

That reminds me, I need to capture a couple of videos to hold my channel over while that ships.

[DrkLrdChckls]

I picked up an Alienware X51 R2 late last year as a project. It was barebones with just the case, motherboard, RAM, and external PSU. I finally got motivated and bought the rest of the build. I ended up with an i5-4460, RX 570 4 GB, and a TEAM 240 GB SSD. All in, I spent $268.60 for everything.

[airENOwevEr778]

A techie purchase still, but I recently bought a NETGEAR Nighthawk S8000. Been eyeing it for a while but I'm glad I finally did. Can't stop looking at it in the meantime as I would with other electronic purchases and new games, even when it is just a case. No photos as I can't be bothered to take a quick snap (haha) but an overview of it is here.

[Real_PhillBert]

I had some credit left at Menards that I have had sitting around for a while, so today I picked up the 10" and 12" Knipex Cobras for ~$7 out of pocket. 

 

[nbrowser]

Well, finally joined the mechanical keyboard owners club, Corsair K68 RGB set to all white at the moment, gonna take some getting used to over a near dead Logitech K800 keyboard. Definitely a different feel with real switches and actual keys like IO used to use when I was a child on an old IBM Model M.

 

 

[RoseLuck462]

@valdyrgramr I just traded my Regular PS4 for the PS4 Pro, Sekiro runs and looks better, I'm pleased : )

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

On 5/29/2019 at 2:37 AM, DrMacintosh said:

It's an iPhone 4s that I got for $20 on eBay. It's running iOS 6.1.3

forgive the stupid question but why? you could just get a 3gs. those are stuck on iOS 6...

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

forgive the stupid question but why? you could just get a 3gs. those are stuck on iOS 6...

Retina display, better design, old Siri. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

Retina display, better design, old Siri. 

fair enough.

[kaiju_wars]

16GB of ram for $40 (before tax)

[kaiju_wars]

The 2700 is on sale for $209... which is almost $100 off the regular price.  That's going for less than what they go for used usually.  I decided to jump on the sale as a result.  Idk when my ram will be here, Rakuten hasn't updated the shipping since the 29th, other than it shipped with UPS.

 

But once this and that get here, my upgrade will be complete.

 

[SeriouslyMikey]

[MEC-777]

Bunch of 1GB HD 6450’s from ebay for “modernizing” refurbished older desktops that lack DVI and HDMI.

 

[TVwazhere]

22 hours ago, kaiju_wars said:

But once this and that get here, my upgrade will be complete.

That's a good case  

 

My friend's birthday is coming up and he's using a 60gb SSD and a 1tb that might be showing signs of dying.... 

 

Also a wattage meter to monitor roughly how much ITNOS is costing me per month in electricity

[Guest]

1 hour ago, TVwazhere said:

Also a wattage meter to monitor roughly how much ITNOS is costing me per month in electricity

I have a kill-a-watt, super simple and easy to use. Also it's interesting to see how much electricity appliances like my toaster use.

[Nowak]

 

NVMe time 

[Volbet]

Feeding my addiction:

From the top:

Fangs of Miseries Past by Nocturnal Triumph, Nécrovortex by Outre-Tombe, Saint Marie des Loupes by Saint Marie des Loupes, Krieg & Blut by Moonblood, Wulkanaz by Wulkanaz, and When the Wind Blows by Various Artists.

 

Some Québécois death metal, black metal from all over the globe and the soundtrack to one of the greatest Cold War movies ever made.

 

[Ithanul]

Hardware I got off sale areas around some forums.

Two NVMe drives, 970 Pro 512GB and an Intel 660p 2TB.

Then nab some 32GB of DDR4 sticks off another chap.  Mostly just to throw into one of my systems to tinker with.

 

Now, back to eyeing those GTs I saw at another sales area.