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Whats your latest purchase?

SugarJ said:
Hilti makes good tools too. I have a preference for them and Bosch. My dad liked Delta, Grandpa was a Craftsman guy so I have a mixture of everything in my shop. If I was starting over with an unlimited budget, Festool and Milwaukee would be where I'd start for power tools.
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Hilti has the best service and protections from theft by far.
 
2x HR-09 M.2 heatsinks.

New NAS has m.2 (sata not nvme) cache drives. I'll get a small bursts of 300MB/s transfers then suddenly drop off. After some investigation turns out these cache drives are thermal throttling. The owners manual actually suggests only using m.2 drives with heatsinks on them. Previous owner didn't take that into account, might have been one of the reasons they were unhappy with it.

They are going to be rotated the wrong way to really take advantage of the natural air flow of the NAS. So a little 40mm noctua fan I have laying around I think will help with that or maybe I'll 3d print a duct to help out not sure about that part yet. Get the heatsinks installed and see what happens.

(would be nice to swap out the 70mm fans as well but thats an odd size to find a quality replacement that isn't as loud)
 
Just grabbed an EcoFlow River 3, 245WH, 2 AC plugs rated for 300watts with spikes up to 600, a DC car plug, 2 USB-A and 1 type C rated for 100watts. my main reason for buying is the pure sine wave and the UPS function with 20ms max. I have tested it already and I think it's much closer to 10ms or lower since it has the same hardware as the new River 3 pro that supports 10ms switching.

So far the little guy is very impressive and very handy, They are on sale right now on Amazon for $209, I am thinking about grabbing another couple of units maybe to replace my APC UPS units.

if anyone is interested this is the unit no clue when the sale ends

 
Izerous said:
2x HR-09 M.2 heatsinks.

New NAS has m.2 (sata not nvme) cache drives. I'll get a small bursts of 300MB/s transfers then suddenly drop off. After some investigation turns out these cache drives are thermal throttling. The owners manual actually suggests only using m.2 drives with heatsinks on them. Previous owner didn't take that into account, might have been one of the reasons they were unhappy with it.

They are going to be rotated the wrong way to really take advantage of the natural air flow of the NAS. So a little 40mm noctua fan I have laying around I think will help with that or maybe I'll 3d print a duct to help out not sure about that part yet. Get the heatsinks installed and see what happens.

(would be nice to swap out the 70mm fans as well but thats an odd size to find a quality replacement that isn't as loud)
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Heatsinks are working really well. Instead of getting alerts that the drives are hitting 70'c within a minute of starting a large transfer they are not breaking 60'c now even after 500G sustained transfer.

Also means it is able to maintain above 1Gb/s transfer rates without thermal throttling. And since not thermal throttling fans are not kicking into turbo mode anymore.

Only 1 comapint about the heatsinks. Because these drives are so close to eachother and the screws holding the heatsinks are not counter sunk I had to only use 3 screws of the 4 from the heatsinks. Removing 1 close to the socket and 1 away from the socket where they touch. Otherwise they were pushing eachother out of alignment.
 

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GregH said:
Bought a used RTX 3080 here from a fellow HWC member, but it feels wasted with my old 1080P display, so last night I ordered the AOC Q27G3XMN monitor from Amazon as they had it on for 10% off. Seems to be reviewed very well. Can't wait to get it & see if it lives up to the hype.
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You will never want to see 1080p game play again :) Enjoy!!
 
Bond007 said:
Wow. A big change!
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Yeah, it was a relatively big change to the pocketbook as well. :)

I was conflicted very shortly after jumping on the 9800X3D bandwagon. I don't do any kind of first person shooter gaming so probably wouldn't benefit significantly from the "gaming" aspect of X3D.

I was also having second thoughts on dropping core count from my 5900X for number crunching. Quick checks suggested that the 9800X3D would post numbers close to the 5900X, but still slightly below when it came to multi-core crunching.

Switching over to the Strix (from the MSI MAG Tomahawk) was mainly about the beefier VRM for the 9950X.
 
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