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G502 advertised on Amazon Warehouse as 'like new' with an additional 30% off so £26.26

G502 by veato posted 1 Sep 2021 at 09:40

 

Well that's a good buy. I think I paid around £50 for mine from Currys a couple of years ago. Great mouse.

 

Great price for a cracking mouse I've had mine for years now longest time I've stayed with a mouse.

 

Motorbike gear!

JTS Ultimate Hoodie (kevlar-lined, shoulder & elbow armour included, CE AA-approved). Getting a little late in the year for lighter bike jackets, but my bike generally does a good job of keeping the wind off you.



Richa 'Slick' Boots. Should be a lot more comfortable to wear around the office/uni all day, and hopefully won't wear out my 'proper' boots as quickly. Back in the BeforeTimes when I had my own desk I kept a pair of shoes in the office. Everything is hot-desking now though...



Furygan 'Jet' Gloves. More lightweight than my big heavy waterproof winter gloves.

 

It's been a cheap tools week.

A set of 325mm shank screwdrivers (including a Philips #0!), a saw guide & meter-long ruler (not the squares).


Lidl's finest cordless pressure washer, and a box of 50 velcro cable ties.

 

A little food dehydrator. Not really for food, but for drying 3D printing filament. Hopefully it will do exactly the same job as the dedicated filament driers (the size seems perfect for two rolls) while being a bit more flexible (homemade jerky!).

 

mmm, pixels...

 

tapitty tap

 

Because it works with the MX Master keyboard (I'm done with mech boards)... and it was gurt cheap

 

Just a few retro things to both expand my collection and provide specific platforms to run games on (I don't have the space to keep multiple desktops):

(Note - this will be a long one...)

Dell XPS M1710





Came rocking a maxed out 7950GTX which was a suprise. The seller on ebay just listed it as a Geforce 7 thus I assumed it would be the 7900GS like most of the 1710's had.


Acer Ferrari 3400





I blame LGR for this one as without his video I would have passed this series of laptops by without a second thought. Mine is slightly older than the one he has (4000 series IIRC) but it still has a Athlon64 3000+ and Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB (Desktop 9600 Pro basically).

Compaq N600c





A bit of an odd ball this one but I wanted something for pre Win XP games without paying stupid money. It has a 1.2Ghz Pentium 3 (Tualatin), 512MB RAM and a Radeon 7000 GPU with 32MB of VRAM. It is also in crazy good condition and came with a mountain of documentation and software:



Additionally I picked up a nifty little mSATA to PATA drive sled to replace the Ageing HD:



To my surprise it booted first time and works without an issue. As a bonus it is now stupidly quick compared to what it was like.


Final Ebay buy was a 90% complete in box (only missing the fans) Foxxconn BlackOps skt775 motherboard:





Fixed a couple of bent pins and booted up fine with a Q6600. Plan for this board is to see how far I can push my Q9550 compared to the Rampage board (it also looks like a cut price Rampage as well..)


Finally, not retro at all I managed to snag a Digital PS5 from the OCUK members market a couple of weeks ago.



Overall plans for the above are:

M1710 - Win 7 / (later) Win XP games
Acer 3400 - (Earlier) Win XP games
N600C - Win 98 / Win 2000 games (basically anything before the above)

Also want to thank Victorianbloke for kindly sending across some AM2 parts and a cooler for the cost of postage. Not had a chance to play with it yet but the cooler will come in very handy as my Freezer 7 normally reserved for retro builds is in use on a 775 build.

 

I used to have one of the Dell XPS machines, with two GTX somethings in SLI (in theory). Beast of a machine, but broke my shoulder carrying it back and forth through airports (it was my work machine and I was travelling to and from India a lot at the time).

 

That would be the M1730 which I also want but can't justify the cost - unlike the 1710 they seem to command £200+ still.

 

Start of a little project I have random timber and slat shelving for the rest of it

 

Whoever 'organised' that wall want's a damn stern talking at

 

Is it 1/1 scale or smaller? Asking for a friend...

... edit, Hasbro website says it's 28 inches long, so... is this a good enough excuse to get into Cosplay?

 

Yeah its some terrible work that, think its more "look it stores stuff" rather than actually being useable. I have a load more hooks spare from the other board so I'll be using those to flesh it out.

I keep seeing this, I have zero need but 100% want

 

It took me a minute. I just thought "nerf gun, meh". Then the Aliens' Pulse rifle lightbulb lit up and I was like ohhhhh.

 

Bought 6 magnetic knife racks for a simple tool wall I'm fixing to build.

 

Don't put files on them