Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

Work travel: 1st class train tickets for the trip and a nice hotel for a night. The only good thing about the trip will be the time spent in 1st class... one of the perks of working for a company running a train network, I guess.

 

Finally got around to ordering my upgrade parts so received a nice care package from Scan about an hour ago...

 

First of a couple of purchases over the coming weeks to get me back into overclocking


(it's a liquid nitrogen dewar, specifically an International Cryogenics Model 35DX)

 

Ooh fancy, how are you going about getting the actual Nitrogen itself? I've been toying with the idea of getting one for food use

 

Either via my university or Mansfield Cryogenics.

 

Don't look at the website for that company if you value your sight.

 

Haha yeah I know!

 

Picked up a pair of Bose QC35s, very please with them!

 

Finally found a mATX AM3+ Motherboard based on the AMD 970 Chipset so have ordered one of these - http://www.ebuyer.com/743814-asrock...1-ch-hd-audio-micro-atx-motherboard-970m-pro3

Will be able to have my FX6300 running again - can't wait for it to come either - due for delivery next Wednesday.

 

Got myself a new car; A Mk6 Golf GTD. I love it. I've had it a couple of weeks now so I've gotten pretty used to it. This is my first diesel and I have to say i'm a convert. I do about 20 miles each way to work each day so it's just about worth while. The car reckons i'm averaging 43mpg with a heavy right foot, which destroys my 1.6 petrol focus which returned 30mpg.



As its my new shiny baby, I invested in a discreet dash cam which had good reviews;



Then I grabbed the necessary gubbins to hardwire it in;



At the same time I picked up a cheap multi meter



And a decent soldering iron;



Then I grabbed the Haynes manual for reference.



And finally, lastnight, I got caught out needing a torch during a night-shift. I had a tiny crappy keychain xmas cracker quality torch which just was terrible. This one was well over budget as the range of choice on Amazon is staggering and one thing led to another, ended up ordering this one. It seems good with a magnetic usb charger which seems handy. I'll know for sure when it turns up.

 

New aerial for the Yaris. The problem with driving a tiny car with a long aerial on it is that it doesn't look too far off an RC car...

From this:



To this:



I highly doubt that it has ever seen anything to do with TRD for real but hey, looks better. No idea how well it does or doesn't work (didn't drive in to work this morning) but I'm not really that bothered as I never listen to the radio, just a CD or two.

 

Did things the old fashioned way - went to PC World, bought a laptop. Lenovo Ideapad 310 with AMD A10 and 8GB DDR4.

 

The parcel fairies, today they be generous:

 

The Cult Files: Re-Opened.

Ahhhh classic TV show noises.

 

Got one of these already for myself, just found a refurbished unit on Scan for £99.98 that'll go on the kids PC!

 

8TB ! Great Scott, you'll go blind man !

 

How do kickstart backings intergrate with the forum, in here? New thread.

Kickstarter is pretty cool man.

 

I'm pretty taken by it so far; like you say, the build quality is very impressive and I'm amazed by how bright the torch is in such a small package. The magnetic charger is a USB one, so it'll charge off a power bank or a standard plug. Makes it super handy.

 

New monitor, Acer XF270HU:



New GPU to go with it:



Then thought I might as well throw in a new case too: