Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

2 x 1tb samsung F3's
Netgear stora (driveless)

New cupboard/drawer fronts for the whole kitchen thanks to B&Qs crazy sale on kitchen doors, (at £2.50 a door it would have been rude not to!).

 

150mm digital calipers
AR500 2.4ghz rx for my r/c buggy
mixed pack of sandpaper (600,1000,2000 grit)
2x lipo batts for r/c buggy
1/4 scale servo for my r/c truck

Always nice to know almost exactly how much disposable income one has every month; soon as the 1st rolls around again its spending time...

 

9 square metres of tile in our bathroom (inc fitting)

 

NEC MultiSync FE1250+ from a garage sale for $5. 1920x1440 makes me happy.

 

5$ ?

WTFH

 

Pair of Mordaunt Short Aviano 2s from Richer Sounds.

 

I've given in and finally went to the dark side....



also pre-ordered Kick ass on Blu-ray/DVD combi pack!

Both should arrive on Tuesday

 

$10 to see the movie The Expendables yesterday.

 

Second Ati 5870 bought from yoyotech today and a heatgun for the resleeving. start my rebuild this week

 

just got a bargin off ebay,

BMX - £16
New set of old school tyres - £15
(still to come are a pair of orange or red Mags ~£25-35)

Cruising around on a BMX from my childhood? Priceless!!

 

Slot-loading DVD-drive, SATA/Molex-slimline adapter cable, 4GB of DDR3.

The project log draws ever nearer...

 

M16 VN style solid stock, 8.4v 3300mAh battery, magpul vented grip end

****-tonne of Lego for Metal Gear Rex build.

 

first i7 rig

Just took the plunge on an i7 rig after i saw OcUK were doing an deal on the 930 i've been eyeing up

Spec is as follows:

- Intel Core i7 930 @2.80Ghz
- Asus P6X58D-E Motherboard (Thanks to Bit-Techs review)
- Corsair XMS3 6GB 1600MHz
- Gainward GeForce GTX 460 GLH 1024MB
- Corsair Hydro H70 + 2 Akasa Apache fans to replace the stock ones.
+ other goodies such as NZXT presleeved cable in white.

I'd like to try and get this to a stable 4Ghz and the beefy rad on the H70 seemed worth the extra £££, over the H50, to keep temp as low as possible.

Very much looking forward to seeing the performance increase from my Q6600 + 9800gt

Goodie pics will follow tomorrow after the postman pays me a visit

 

Bought a couple of Discworld books:

• 25th Anniversary edition hardback of The Colour of Magic / Light Fantastic
• I shall Wear Midnight

Only a few short of having all of the Discworld books in hardback now.

and Nier for the PS3

 

You've obviously not ben here long enough to have read all the complaints and problems that bit-tech members have had with OCUK in the past. That's unfortunate. My advice would be this; be very careful when putting that PC together and very gentle with your overclocks. If you have to RMA anything to them, you're screwed.

 

Admittedly I have seen some of the negative feedback OcUK seem to get around here but my personal experiences with them have been nothing but positive . I must have handed over a couple of grand now to them, both before and after I joined Bit-Tech and using the philosophy "If it aint broke, don't fix it" i'm happy to keep using them for now.

I've not used Scan yet, but judging from the glowing reviews found here I know where i'll be headed if things ever did go tits up

 

Well in that case, all I can say is I'm glad to hear that at least some of their customers get the correct service and treatment (and that you're one of them) and enjoy your new rig. I made the same move as yourself from a Q6600 and 9800GTX to an i7 920 and GTX 260 about a year ago and couldn't believe the difference

 

Thank you very much . And thats just what I needed to hear with the Q6600 being such a good overclocker I was a little uncertain as to whether the difference would be that noticable!

I don't suppose someone could point me in the direction of some rough bios settings for achieving a 4GHz overclock to use as a starting point????

 

Overclocking Intel's i7 920
i7 920 VS i7 930 Comparison
i7 930 review - Including benchmarks and overclocking

The OC settings aren't too different for the 920 and 930

 

bought a plush chocobo for the missus. She's been complaining ever since i first showed her a final fantasy that she wanted a chocobo.

more importantly while doing shopping today i got a large multipack of TUNNOCK'S CARAMEL WAFER BISCUITS!!!!! The single most awesome confection creation.

Oh and another fenrir for the second rig