What have you purchased recently?

[FMPONE]

The fitbit is definitely a great choice. I had a fantastic experience with the HR and it's dirt cheap.

[Bunglo]

Just got done setting up the desk helder recommended, should be perfect for my needs. Plenty of room thanks to that monitor shelf, fairly solid quality for the price.

I still need to buy a floor mat but damn does it feel good to not be sitting on my ass while I'm working on shit. 

[WD]

Scratched some things off the "I'll buy it when I absolutely have to" list

a good bed

a car

Holy hell I did not expect how comfortable it is to sleep on a good mattress. My chronic sore back just completely relaxes for the night.

Though I don't think my sleep has gotten that much better after the later purchase, my previous car was really at it's last leg. Being this poor all of a sudden gives me anxiety.

[AlexM]

Broke my TV about 4 months ago and wasn't planning to get another one but a bunch of people talked me into the LG C2 TV. Supposed to get here in a week or so. I'm holding off playing the PS5 etc until then.

I'm most interested to see HDR since that's not something you can really show on youtube on an LDR screen.

[WD]

On 8/3/2022 at 8:25 PM, AlexM said:

I'm most interested to see HDR

It’s really frigging sweet. In movies it’s not so much of a difference. I’ve seen few blurays but I couldn’t tell the difference. But in games it really makes the image pop when used with proper tone mapping. It took me few months before I realized to turn off the horrible TV default HDR setting and use HGiG mode. I recommend looking that up. I just wish HDR were implemented in games more often. Playstation should have the XBox equivalent auto HDR feature so that we could play older titles with deeper colors.

Ghost Of Tshusima especially has some of the best HDR I’ve seen so far.

[0kelvin]

The blade cutter of my blender was cracked. I cannot believe this huge difference in price. Buying a replacement part in Brazil equals ~30$. The same thing from China's shopee ~4.50$. What??? I bought it from China and waited 30 days. For some absurd reason the same part from local stores costs six times more?!

Edited October 25, 2022 by 0kelvin

[AlexM]

On 10/24/2022 at 5:39 AM, WD said:

It’s really frigging sweet. In movies it’s not so much of a difference. I’ve seen few blurays but I couldn’t tell the difference. But in games it really makes the image pop when used with proper tone mapping. It took me few months before I realized to turn off the horrible TV default HDR setting and use HGiG mode. I recommend looking that up. I just wish HDR were implemented in games more often. Playstation should have the XBox equivalent auto HDR feature so that we could play older titles with deeper colors.

Ghost Of Tshusima especially has some of the best HDR I’ve seen so far.

Oh interesting. I'll look into HGiG

So the funny thing was I was playing Elden ring and thinking it looks really good with HDR. Then I realized HDR was off

After turning it on it REALLY looked good. Everyone noticed a profound difference.

[0kelvin]

A new laptop's battery to replace the busted one. Saved 44% in black friday.

I am now a fan of China's shopee. Bought 8GB DDR3L 1600MHZ Samsung. Saved 85% compared to Amazon. WTF??? Really. My laptop has 4GB soldered and 4GB in one slot. Broadwell U supports up to 16GB but it's impossible to install 16GB here.

Edited December 15, 2022 by 0kelvin

[0kelvin]

With currency conversion 5.15 -> 1$: ~1340$. CPU, RAM, SSD, VGA in Aliexpress. The rest in local stores.

MSI B550M Pro VDH

Case with Temp Glass panel + 3 fans and max VGA size 320mm

Ryzen 5700X

32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX

Corsair CX550W (already delivered. Just asked the store for a refund because I've found numerous reports of this specific PSU failing, blowing up. If the store refunds me I'm going to get another Corsair, the CX650F from another store.)

DeepCool AG300 (already delivered)

Thermal Grease Cooler Master Pro gel (already delivered)

LG 29 Ultrawide 75hz with HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2

Edifer X100B 2.1 speaker (already delivered)

WD SN570 500GB SSD Nvme PCie 3

One Aerocool 120mm blue fan

RTX 3060 Ti dual fan Soyo

Kingston Exodia 64GB USB drive

Aliexpress expected to delivery the parts by March 17/18.

Edited February 28 by 0kelvin

[0kelvin]

According to the tracking log the cpu, ram and ssd have passed the importing duty process and are to be delivered in the next hours or days. For some reason the GPU is stuck with the local delivery company and have been with them since one week ago.

The Corsair CX650F PSU is already installed.

The monitor is being delivered but for some odd reason the local store gave a time frame of 3 weeks to deliver it.

Edited March 11 by 0kelvin

[0kelvin]

All parts have arrived. Now the new desktop is up and running! I just found out that Soyo is rebranding GPUs. Mine seems to be a model for Lenovo systems. 

There is just one missing piece: Displayport cable. I bought one from Vention in aliexpress. It should arrived within a week. I've discovered that Nvidia GPUs can't use FreeSync over HDMI. For some reason it has to be DisplayPort.

Edited March 23 by 0kelvin

[0kelvin]

My new computer surely does produce a lot of heat.

Edited April 2 by 0kelvin