Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])

Greebo · 16 Nov 2022 at 16:24

Mysterae_ said:
Winter tyres are awesome for repelling snow. I fitted a set for last winter and it magically never snowed once .

I dont mind if that is what happens. I hate driving to work in the snow. Its not because I struggle as I always have a 4x4 and suitable tyres but its when you come across people in cars like BMW with low profile summer tyres and they are going sideways at every stage or backwards down hills towards you.

Mysterae_ · 16 Nov 2022 at 16:44

Greebo said:
I dont mind if that is what happens. I hate driving to work in the snow. Its not because I struggle as I always have a 4x4 and suitable tyres but its when you come across people in cars like BMW with low profile summer tyres and they are going sideways at every stage or backwards down hills towards you.

I agree, I was one of those BMW drivers in 20" summer tyres that got stuck in snow the year before I fitted the winters

. I couldn't even get the car up a small hill so had to abandon the car for the week. I'm going to be putting the winters back on the car this weekend.

R-evans · 16 Nov 2022 at 20:39

Keep telling myself I'm not a Lego collector but after buying my first set in Feb I'm now 10 sets and a grand in.

Batman was just for free delivery. I've only bought cars up until now, but couldn't say no to this at the price it was, should be a decent investment.

JonRGV250 · 16 Nov 2022 at 21:09

Should let the 4090 stretch it's legs a little bit more

Greebo · 16 Nov 2022 at 23:55

JonRGV250 said:
Should let the 4090 stretch it's legs a little bit more

Great choice. In benchmarks it’s only a few fps behind the 13900s so a bargain at the price they are shifting them more. Makes you long for nvidia and max to have proper competition again.

cpus seem to be now miles faster than a few years ago for half the money, maybe a third if adjusted for inflation. If we still had $2.4 to the pound, they would be low hundreds to buy

Cosimo · 17 Nov 2022 at 10:48

Released today, another flight stick for MS Flight Simulator for when I don't feel like setting up the Honeycomb stuff.

khemist · 17 Nov 2022 at 14:04

Bought these for no good reason.

mrk · 17 Nov 2022 at 18:11

IF22A! I have that and it's immense for long distance illumination, don't shine it in your eyes though else you'll feel physical pain for 30 minutes from just a split second of exposure. The SP33 and SC21 are also immense :cool:

Gots me a donut.

aVdub · 17 Nov 2022 at 18:56

Overnight bag for when you have to be on the Polish border in 4 hours.

bensonchi · 17 Nov 2022 at 19:24

Saw this on offer and impulse bought it... only 300W AC output which is meh

mrk · 17 Nov 2022 at 19:48

Keep in the car for when you get stranded or something one day lol.

JonRGV250 · 17 Nov 2022 at 20:08

I can order a single toothpick from ***elsewhere*** and it'll be insanely well packaged, but order an AIO and...

Still, it was cheaper than the usual suspects and all brand new, so it's no biggie

After the 4090, 5800X3D and this, it's time to let the debit card cool off a bit :eek:

Bring on the Callisto Protocol

LiE · 17 Nov 2022 at 20:13

Swapping cases. RGB didn't do it for me so going back to black stealth build.

All the Chromaxs. No prizes for guessing the case.

R-evans · 17 Nov 2022 at 20:20

Almost bought the blue one in London a few weeks ago. Glad I didn't as I found it online 40% cheaper, so I bought two.

aVdub · 17 Nov 2022 at 20:21

Ninja kitchen.

AndyCr15 · 17 Nov 2022 at 20:30

bensonchi said:
Saw this on offer and impulse bought it... only 300W AC output which is meh

I've always wanted something like this. I have zero need for it... but... I don't seem to usually let that get in my way of purchases.

ChrisD. · 17 Nov 2022 at 21:13

Forgot to post this in here, the two cases on the left are new, cheap Silverstone ones housing my vSphere lab. The room gets warm but no concerns with temps or stability. I really ought to fix the rear wall but meh, can't see it 99% of the time. This is the inside:

Pair of Xeon W-1290 10 core CPUs in each, 128GB of RAM and 3x NVMe drives, plus dual port 10 Gb NIC. Been running for a few weeks and no issues at all and very, very little noise (my 10 Gb switch makes more!). I pulled the CPUs out of Dell 3440 workstations, where I was getting stability issues due to the heat, so found some second hand boards on eBay, bought a pair of cases and used some other cheap 2nd hand parts or bits I had laying around.

Also, just noticed the HSF text is upside down, that's going to trigger some people.

Matty8787 · 17 Nov 2022 at 21:35

aVdub said:
Ninja kitchen.

I have one of these, yet to use the blender but the processor/small blender cup get used most days.

LiE · 17 Nov 2022 at 22:13

LiE said:
Swapping cases. RGB didn't do it for me so going back to black stealth build.

All the Chromaxs. No prizes for guessing the case.

And done.

So got a NZXT H5 Flow, 4x Noctua a12x25 Chromax and 32GB 3600 C16 Corsair Vengeance RAM.

cu3ed · 18 Nov 2022 at 00:38

LiE said:
And done.

So got a NZXT H5 Flow, 4x Noctua a12x25 Chromax and 32GB 3600 C16 Corsair Vengeance RAM.

Not saying its wrong but trying to understand fan placement. The one in the bottom blowing to the gpu, is that not countering the gpu fan blowing down? Wouldn't the top fan be best to pull air from the air cooler alone and out the back?