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It's a big boy as well! Cleared a little space, looking forward to seeing it take pride of place in my current generation AV setup!

Still waiting for confirmation on despatch. Have a feeling it might be weeks instead of days away. Which is a pity as my console gaming has gone on hold until I get the Series X. Although I do still need to finish off Ori and the Blind Forest. Final Swan song for the XBOX ONE X I suppose!

 

i just hope both sony and ms have done a better job cooling over long term this time round. i have found ps4/pro and xbone/scorpio to get louder an louder as time goes by. no amount of cleaning the dust out fixes it for either

 

That is stunning . I want

 

Nixie tube clock

 

Elgato HD60 S.

The capture card I should have bought in the first place.

 

Bought me a it dustbuster for my pc as a prezzie from my daughters for my birthday.

 

Assassin's Creed Valhalla


MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming X TRIO

 

More keyboard switches, a lot less silent this time. I’ve also got some silent Alpacas on order, I may be developing a problem...

Holy Pandas Batman! by BeauchN posted 13 Nov 2020 at 12:09

 

Once you yourself recognise you've got a problem, it's too late.

 

You need to join the CKSSA (compulsive key switch swappers anonymous).

 

I’m hoping I’ll settle on one of them, or possibly two. The Pandas feel really nice to type on stock, but are a bit noisy, I’ll see what they’re like once lubed though. The Zilents have a nice tactile bump and are pretty quiet. But I’ve heard good things about the Alpacas and fancy trying a linear switch again

 

Looked at the posh brands. About £5 per meter. Looked at RF, £1.75 a meter.

 

I'm a fan of the Glorious stuff, have the Model O and GMMK here, fiancée's using the Model O-. Also, anything with a panda in the name or on the packaging is awesome.

 

How do you find the GMMK? I was tempted to pick up the compact, but then decided to build my own 60%

 

If you think £5 per meter is expensive, you've been looking in the wrong place: https://www.futureshop.co.uk/nordost-valhalla-2-speaker-cable-pair

In your position I'd be looking at 79 strand copper speaker cable.

 

I've got Van Damme now. IIRC it was a fiver a meter. Problem is one side is too short. It wasn't made up to be where it will be now.

Yeah, quite familiar with expensive wires. Rogers used to do a 99% silver cable. IIRC it was about £500 a meter. Was part of the Crystal Link series that we never got to release because the new Japanese owners closed us down after 3 months of ownership.

 

I love it. The only issue I can see down the road is the use of a micro USB port instead of a USB-C one.

I do however think the Ducky One 2 Mini I bought for my fiancée might be slightly better. Both have been good build quality, assembly was a breeze on both, they've been faultless in daily use. But the Ducky feels that tiny bit sturdier, heftier, ... better, for lack of a better word. Maybe this grass is greener on the other side speaking, but it's more than just the USB-C port on her keyboard that makes me think it might be just a fraction better.

I'm tempted to build my own, but prices are sharing me away, to be honest.

 

I think, looking at Glorious’ website, they’ve refreshed the GMMK to use a USB-C port now. But if you pick one up from a reseller I guess it’s pot luck as to which you’ll get.

Ducky boards are well made, I’ve got a Shine 3 TKL from years ago that is just solid. I was very tempted by the Mecha mini because of the aluminium case, but finding one in stock somewhere is a nightmare.

Building one can get expensive, especially if you keep needing to pick up parts from different places because not everyone has everything in stock. But I figured it would give me a bit of a project and I’ve gone hot-swap so I can test out different switches fairly easily. Once I settle down on what I like I might go for a higher-end build, but I don’t think that will be for a while.

 

Decided to replace my 2tb portable drive with an SSD, but I already had a spare 2TB SSD so I just ordered a rugged case.


and...


...because they were gurt cheap.

 

A fine 'ruffty tuffty' looking case to protect all those delicate moving parts in your SSD.
What did the 1TBs come in at?