What tech did you buy?

IrishGrimReaper

What case are you putting all that into?

Solitaire

You'll see...

..if I can get that ****ing DVD working :mad:

nvus

NZXT Sentry LXE on a Fractal Design DEFINE R3

I was equally happy about getting one an terrified about installing one:o


Two more NOCTUA NF-P14's one for the Top-Front and one for the door/side panel


Temp Sensors on the CPU (under the clip/lock) and on the RAM


Some how spending all this cash on Air makes sense....right?:o


NZXT Sentry LXE internal fan & Sensor controller board (wires all tidied away)


The NZXT Sentry LXE's desktop touch-screen remote control fan controller


Now I think I need a break:p

Ryan451

This is the shipment I received from HWVS today! Sorry about the quality, taken with phone

Venom

Acer GD245HQ 120mhz 3D monitor

Tea_Bag

Venom wrote: »

Acer GD245HQ 120mhz 3D monitor

what is it like? im looking for a new monitor, and ive been wondering what it would be like to game in 3D. do you have an nvidia GPU?

any if you dont mind telling, how much did it cost?

Venom

Tea_Bag wrote: »

what is it like? im looking for a new monitor, and ive been wondering what it would be like to game in 3D. do you have an nvidia GPU?

any if you dont mind telling, how much did it cost?

Iv haven't tried the 3D stuff as you need Nvidia glasses along with a card for that but running games at 120mhz is sweet. The screen is very vibrant and Iv yet to see any ghosting. Cost wise it was 340ish including delevery.

Deano12345

Venom wrote: »

Iv haven't tried the 3D stuff as you need Nvidia glasses along with a card for that but running games at 120mhz is sweet. The screen is very vibrant and Iv yet to see any ghosting. Cost wise it was 340ish including delevery.

Thinking of trying 3D myself (on ATi) at christmas if I sell the Mac. Gonna go with dual 6870's

And to keep it kind of on topic, i got one of these.Free



Also Sol. my 5850 and your 6850 seem to be related in the cooler department.

Solitaire

Why can't I get that teeny €250 Sony Android phone with the slide-out QWERTY keypad free??

Tea_Bag

Dunno what the old thread was called where you post up your new stuff you bought, so ill put it here till someone with more time can move it

tomorrow zero work will be done.



hehe

Tea_Bag

resurection time...

Logitech X530 5.1 Surround.



obviously not a photo by me, but my desk is a mess at the moment and ill update ye with a nice shot when i get around to cleaning it up.

the pic doesnt do them justice really, they look far nicer in reality.

Serephucus

I have the 540s. Great speakers for the price. You really need sound card to do them justice though.

Just ordered one of these. Might end up cancelling and picking one up in PC World instead though.

deejer

Tea_Bag wrote: »

resurection time...

Logitech X530 5.1 Surround.



obviously not a photo by me, but my desk is a mess at the moment and ill update ye with a nice shot when i get around to cleaning it up.

the pic doesnt do them justice really, they look far nicer in reality.

Nice speakers for the price. How do they sound?? Still have my speakers that I bought in Lidl about 5yrs ago. Thiink its time to update!

Serephucus

deejer wrote: »

Nice speakers for the price. How do they sound?? Still have my speakers that I bought in Lidl about 5yrs ago. Thiink its time to update!

The €30 2.1 Trust set? I've had those too. These are far superior.

Brian

Logitech make good gaming mice and webcams. They do not make good audio.

Tea_Bag

Baza210 wrote: »

Logitech make good gaming mice and webcams. They do not make good audio.

Z5500's get better reviews than anything electronic ive ever read about?
ive actually never come across a review that didnt praise it endlessly. apparently a few people had to replace a fuse after a year.. €1 worth of repairs for years of service. not bad.

EDIT: and FWIW, i got these second hand, lightly used and look perfect for... €20. and another €20 to get them delivered. they're £80 on amazon.

deejer

Serephucus wrote: »

The €30 2.1 Trust set? I've had those too. These are far superior.

ya thats them. Will keep an eye out on adverts now I think!

Tea_Bag

deejer wrote: »

ya thats them. Will keep an eye out on adverts now I think!

It must be said, but my speakers go through random moods of what can only be described as "popping" which can be activated by the fridge or shower kicking in. apparently its due to my electrical wiring in my house being very "noisy". it only happens late at night and when the speakers are on but not in use.

deejer

Tea_Bag wrote: »

It must be said, but my speakers go through random moods of what can only be described as "popping" which can be activated by the fridge or shower kicking in. apparently its due to my electrical wiring in my house being very "noisy". it only happens late at night and when the speakers are on but not in use.

mmmm....... sounds like ghosts to me.

Trevor451

Just bought myself a LG optimus 7. Cant wait to try out windows phone 7

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/22/lg-optimus-7-review/


the specs are great for the price (€200 :eek: )

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056263837

Solitaire

Ick. I neeeeeed a QWERTY keyboard on a smartphone or its a no-go!

Serephucus

Solitaire wrote: »

Ick. I neeeeeed a QWERTY keyboard on a smartphone or its a no-go!

I assume you mean a hardware keyboard? Desire Z might be something to look into if you're an Android fan.

If this counts as tech, I picked up Singularity on Steam for 66% off. Looks very Wolfenstein-esque (which is to be expected, I suppose, running the same engine and designed by the same company), but a little different. One of those fun-to-play but not-too-serious games.

One cool multiplayer option being that you can play as one of the uglies you spend most of the game killing.

Solitaire

AFAIK there are eleventy-seven BILLION keyboard smartphones in the US.

In Ireland, there's... two

I'm waiting for the Z to come down in price but its going to be weak compared to upcoming phones - it only has an 800MHz CPU Not as fond of the Torch though...

Serephucus

There is that. Pick one up using MyUS.com or something? I'm assuming you'd root it anyway, so network restrictions shouldn't be a problem.

Tea_Bag

I was going to get a Z purely for the fact it has a keyboard, but i got a good deal on a Desire HD, so went with that. i must admit, im not fond of txting on a touch screen, but most people with the Z would tell you that they dont really use the keyboard after a few wekks/months anyway. the bigger screen is a bonus too.

dont be ashamed of the 800Mhz processor, its very capable and is the same as the DHD, only downclocked. it can be OC'd to 1.5Ghz apparently, and fully stable.

Serephucus

I used to think I needed a hardware keyboard, but after using a Desire for a few months, I have to say, I don't think I'd go back. It's harder to get used to, and probably a little less accurate, but it's a fair amount faster once you get used to it, simply for the fact that you don't need the pressure of actually pressing a button.

Brian

I reviewed the Desire Z here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/02/24/htc-desire-z-long-term-ownership-hardware-review/. Suffice to say I completely disagree with your "software keyboards are faster" conclusion.

I have a Nexus One (identical to the Desire) and it has the most frustratingly inaccurate capacitive touch panel I have used. I'm probably not your typical user, but I certainly found that a hardware keyboard was extremely useful and I feel compelled to consider it a mandatory feature in my next phone. With that said I don't have a great deal of experience with non-crap touchscreen typing, so that opinion might change somewhat when I get my hands on the Samsung Galaxy S II tomorrow/Monday.

My latest tech purchase was a Giant Squid Audio Labs mono omnidirectional microphone which I plan to use for gaming. http://www.giant-squid-audio-lab.com/gs/gs-mono.html. Most, if not all, gaming "headsets" sacrifice sound quality for style and convenience, while my preferred option is separate microphone and headphones. It took me some time to find an adequate microphone for a price that I was happy to pay, but this lavalier-style seems ideal. Its intended use case is with field recorders or camcorders, but it seems to work quite capably plugged straight in to my laptop's soundcard ports. I may try it with a cheap amplifier in-line (eg FiiO E5) to see if I can boost the volume a bit, as it is slightly quiet right now when clipped to my shirt.

Solitaire

AFAIK the Viewty is considered "good" and I still can't stand typing on it for long periods. Add the fact that your average software keyboard takes up one-half to two-thirds of the screen and it strikes you as a very backward way of doing things on a phone you want to use as a pint-size laptop...

I was actually thinking about how OCable the Z was...

Brian

*cough* http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/11/14/t-mobile-g2-overclocked-to-1-9-ghz-hitting-2700-in-quadrant/ *cough*

Tea_Bag

Baza210 wrote: »

*cough* http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/11/14/t-mobile-g2-overclocked-to-1-9-ghz-hitting-2700-in-quadrant/ *cough*

thats insane. how is it not seriously overheating? thats double the stock speed!

Trevor451

Baza210 wrote: »

*cough* http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/11/14/t-mobile-g2-overclocked-to-1-9-ghz-hitting-2700-in-quadrant/ *cough*

Enjoy the 5 minutes battery life :P

Tea_Bag

Thanks for putting up with all my annoying threads everyone..


these pics are straight from my D40 so they could be huge...:o

Burgo

Not jealous... i swear! pic size are grand.

Post in here when it's all built!

NTMK

I'll be up friday morning:D

Joseph

For your 21st?

deconduo

Grats on finally getting the stuff

Monotype

Quite the spread! Balloons and all to celebrate.

Unregistered.

Tea_Bag wrote: »

Thanks for putting up with all my annoying threads everyone..


these pics are straight from my D40 so they could be huge...:o

:eek:

Tea_Bag

I'm a little annoyed with HWVS, I ordered 2 reference design powercolour 6950s in the hope of unlocking shaders, and what I got instead in their boxes were a PCS++ version, which is good, cause apparently they can be unlocked to full 6970s (and it takes an 8+6 power cord to account for this) with copper heat pipes everywhere, and then the other was a dual fan custom cooled design that's shorter than the pcs but also has a BIOS switch...? they're in the wrong boxes so I know nothing about them yet. eventually got the PC up and running after having to reseating the GPUs a few times, installed Windows7 etc at 6am this morning. I installed all the drivers etc, then I download GPU-Z to see what's what (I had noticed that both of the cards had their BIOS switch to BIOS number 2, which I thought may be odd) anyway as soon as started up GPUz I got a BSOD and I got so annoyed I went to bed. I suspect my cards have been handled outside of the factory and someone tried to mod them and failed.

deconduo

Tea_Bag wrote: »

I'm a little annoyed with HWVS, I ordered 2 reference design powercolour 6950s in the hope of unlocking shaders, and what I got instead in their boxes were a PCS++ version, which is good, cause apparently they can be unlocked to full 6970s (and it takes an 8+6 power cord to account for this) with copper heat pipes everywhere, and then the other was a dual fan custom cooled design that's shorter than the pcs but also has a BIOS switch...? they're in the wrong boxes so I know nothing about them yet. eventually got the PC up and running after having to reseating the GPUs a few times, installed Windows7 etc at 6am this morning. I installed all the drivers etc, then I download GPU-Z to see what's what (I had noticed that both of the cards had their BIOS switch to BIOS number 2, which I thought may be odd) anyway as soon as started up GPUz I got a BSOD and I got so annoyed I went to bed. I suspect my cards have been handled outside of the factory and someone tried to mod them and failed.

Did it say 'Special Item' when you ordrered them? Thats HWVS code for open box.

Tea_Bag

Nope. I know to avoid that. So far I can see that flipping the BIOS switch on the pcs version it OCs to 880mhz but still 1408 shaders.

Tea_Bag

Installing the drivers for when I flipped the BIOS switch of the second GPU keeps crashing... :(:(

sink

Just placed an order for this bad boy, Dell UltraSharp U2711 IPS

I previously had 3 X 24" cheap BenQ monitors in an eyefinity setup and after a month I've decided I don't like eyefinity. The bezels are too annoying, only works well with some games, each game takes ages to configure and there are many glitches as no games are designed to work with that aspect ratio.

I will be selling my 2 month old 24" BenQ monitors on adverts next week.

NTMK

sink wrote: »

Just placed an order for this bad boy, Dell UltraSharp U2711 IPS

I previously had 3 X 24" cheap BenQ monitors in an eyefinity setup and after a month I've decided I don't like eyefinity. The bezels are too annoying, only works well with some games, each game takes ages to configure and there are many glitches as no games are designed to work with that aspect ratio.

I will be selling my 2 month old 24" BenQ monitors on adverts next week.

how much will you be selling the benq monitors for. i would be buying all 3

sink

NTMK wrote: »

how much will you be selling the benq monitors for. i would be buying all 3

They're BenQ G2420HDB and I would be selling them for €140 each.

Vikings

If you don't sell all 3 in one go I may take one off you.

deceit

My new purchases where two new cases. The 690 II I will move my main machine into as I want to put my server in the utgard because of the storage options. The other case I will be going for an extreme performance machine. It will have 3 480mm rads so everything will be ice cool

Unregistered.

Just installed new RAM kit with shiny blue heatspreaders....










Aren't they lovely! A BIG thanks to delly for allowing me to piggy back on his order from HWVS

Brian

Needs more Mugen.

Unregistered.

Baza210 wrote: »

Needs more Mugen.

Too heavy for my liking, man. Though I had ordered the Scythe fans that come with the Mugen 2 until they went out of stock!