Nerdy Awesome shit you bought!

[Bodhi]

Utterly shocked you went for a Sony :O

Took me ages to decide

 

[Moriath]

Full sun and no breeze I'll be doing something other than sitting under a shelter

Will be used for evenings sat around a fire, keeping the rain away. Bought a side panel in case it gets mondo windy too.

Borrowed one s couple of years ago. Worked a treat

Hope the fire doesnt melt it hehe

 

[Syri]

After a few issues with my previous phone, mostly that the charging socket had become extremely loose, I decided to order a new phone. My budget would only allow so much at the moment though, so I got a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 for £200. It's turned out a lot better than I'd expected for the price, beating my expectations in pretty much every area. Definitely recommended for anyone after a cheap Android phone and willing to look outside the usual suspects. About my only annoyances are the lack of NFC (not a major issue for me, think I only used it once on my last phone) and the iOS-style launcher installed by default, though that can easily be changed if you don't get used to it. I'm giving the default launcher a try though, but I do have apex launcher standing by just in case as I bought it ages ago when I had a Samsung s3.

 

[Hawkwind]

Upgraded phone to OnePlus 6 256MB

 

[Moriath]

256gb ? @Hawkwind

 

[Hawkwind]

256gb ? @Hawkwind

LOL, yeah

 

[MYstIC G]

After a few issues with my previous phone, mostly that the charging socket had become extremely loose, I decided to order a new phone. My budget would only allow so much at the moment though, so I got a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 for £200. It's turned out a lot better than I'd expected for the price, beating my expectations in pretty much every area. Definitely recommended for anyone after a cheap Android phone and willing to look outside the usual suspects. About my only annoyances are the lack of NFC (not a major issue for me, think I only used it once on my last phone) and the iOS-style launcher installed by default, though that can easily be changed if you don't get used to it. I'm giving the default launcher a try though, but I do have apex launcher standing by just in case as I bought it ages ago when I had a Samsung s3.

Only really useful application for NFC is card payment by phone. If you don't need that it's no loss.

 

[Hawkwind]

Only really useful application for NFC is card payment by phone. If you don't need that it's no loss.

I honestly would not activate that. Too many skimmers about in crowded areas like airports, Cafe's and train stations. Not big news right now but it is happening. People literally walk up behind you whilst paying at coffee shops or ATMs and if the can get the device close enough to activate the handshake your charged, or worse cloned. A lot of people don't realize it is not a touch it is proximity.

Contactless card fraud overtakes cheque scams for first time

 

[MYstIC G]

I honestly would not activate that. Too many skimmers about in crowded areas like airports, Cafe's and train stations. Not big news right now but it is happening. People literally walk up behind you whilst paying at coffee shops or ATMs and if the can get the device close enough to activate the handshake your charged, or worse cloned. A lot of people don't realize it is not a touch it is proximity.

Contactless card fraud overtakes cheque scams for first time

Fair point. All this stuff gets exploited eventually.

Personally I only use mine with a credit card and the card never leaves home, so anything that doesn't match my phone would be something I could spot.

 

[Hawkwind]

Fair point. All this stuff gets exploited eventually.

Personally I only use mine with a credit card and the card never leaves home, so anything that doesn't match my phone would be something I could spot.

Get an RFI wallet for when it does leave home on hols etc.

 

[Bodhi]

Only really useful application for NFC is card payment by phone. If you don't need that it's no loss.

Not so, it's also great for pairing with Bluetooth Devices. I have a few that are shared between 3 or 4 phones/tablets, and NFC makes using my awesome headphones with a different device a piece of piss. In fact the only problematic one is my laptop, which hasn't got NFC...

 

[Moriath]

I honestly would not activate that. Too many skimmers about in crowded areas like airports, Cafe's and train stations. Not big news right now but it is happening. People literally walk up behind you whilst paying at coffee shops or ATMs and if the can get the device close enough to activate the handshake your charged, or worse cloned. A lot of people don't realize it is not a touch it is proximity.

Contactless card fraud overtakes cheque scams for first time

I dont do the phone thing. Cant see the point. Just another thing i can lose that would need sorting out.

Scanning cards in peoples pockets is a thing now?

 

[Hawkwind]

So my OnePlus 6 got dropped on floor at just the wrong moment, friend reversing Car out of space.
Screen broke and was quoted 250 GBP to repair. OnePlus site says 80euros for screen so will send it there eventually.

Can't live without phone so got Huawei P20 pro to test out. Decent so far and photos are excellent. Early days though.

 

[Scouse]

My credit card is crying today.

But it's for a pretty fucking nerdy and awesome reason - considering there's only ten of them in polished titanium on the planet - and one of them is mine

 

[Bodhi]

My credit card is crying today.

But it's for a pretty fucking nerdy and awesome reason - considering there's only ten of them in polished titanium on the planet - and one of them is mine

Shit the bed! How much for a bike frame? That could get me a whole new set of golf bats and all the golf I can play for 3 years.

 

[Scouse]

Shit the bed! How much for a bike frame? That could get me a whole new set of golf bats and all the golf I can play for 3 years.

The cost of the full build could get you a reasonable second hand car

In terms of £/hour though, it won't take me long for it to work out cheaper than going to the cinema. Then after that it'll just be the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[Hawkwind]

A coworker is a serious biker, group 4 am rides every week, plus nightly rides in Dubai. Spend $16K-1$18K on his bike. Including handles bars that are extraordinarily light for $900!!!

Fucking insane, but if he wants to have the best shiz for his hobby who am I to argue against it. Good luck with the new bike

 

[Scouse]

Including handles bars that are extraordinarily light for $900!!!

Fucking insane

Yeah, the crankset for this bike is fucking insane. Absolutely batshit.

I'll feel totally different in five years time though. It'll be amazing value for money by then.

 

[Moriath]

Bought a Hauwei P Smart mobile.

Its a second phone so didnt need all the trimmings of a high end.

But man for the price it has a lot of good features and beats most of the price bracket competition hands down.

 

[Zarjazz]

Shit the bed! How much for a bike frame? That could get me a whole new set of golf bats and all the golf I can play for 3 years.

I hate to think what you are going to say when I eventually buy my new custom PC. I've already started on spec'ing it and when I saw the price so far I broke into a cold sweat.

 

[Moriath]

I spent best part of 1600 quid i guess upgrading my pc earlier this year. And i made compromises on that.

I still want a new case, closed loop water cooler for cpu and modular psu. Which will be another 300

And i didnt get a ti 1080 and just the top i5 rather than i7.

With the 2080s out you could easy 3k if not more.

 

[MYstIC G]

I hate to think what you are going to say when I eventually buy my new custom PC. I've already started on spec'ing it and when I saw the price so far I broke into a cold sweat.

Don't tease, build list!

 

[Moriath]

I would go something like that atm. I want to get that case and cpu cooler for my current setup. Which is similar except its a i5 8600k and a 1080 not ti.

Also have an extra ssd as a drive.

 

[Zarjazz]

Don't tease, build list!

To give you a rough idea, this isn't accurate since I'm waiting for a few months, maybe even early 2019 for the next gen Intel chips. I haven't even selected a MoBo or case or new chair or the raid controller and storage disks yet ...

 

[Moriath]

To give you a rough idea, this isn't accurate since I'm waiting for a few months, maybe even early 2019 for the next gen Intel chips. I haven't even selected a MoBo or case or new chair or the raid controller and storage disks yet ...

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Just saw the jiggery pokery they are doing with the 9th gen intels.

I9 is getting the hyper threading and removing it from the i7 itseems.

6 cores i5, 8 i7 and 8 ht tp 16 for i9

Intel announces its latest 9th-Gen chips, including its ‘best gaming processor’ Core i9

 

[Zarjazz]

Just saw the jiggery pokery they are doing with the 9th gen intels.

I9 is getting the hyper threading and removing it from the i7 itseems.

6 cores i5, 8 i7 and 8 ht tp 16 for i9

Intel announces its latest 9th-Gen chips, including its ‘best gaming processor’ Core i9

HT is great for marketing but it's always been a hardware hack and when it comes to gaming it's pretty much useless. It's more a benefit for servers using Xeon chips that are running highly-threaded applications like databases. There are actually lots of examples when disabling HT actually increases performance. Also many of the most recent CPU security issues have been due to HT. Talking of which those new i9's are the first desktop chips to have hardware based fixes to some of the Meltdown and related problems, but not all of them. The rest will be fixed in later chips. However I'm going to wait for the die shrink production to kick in, those models are still using 14mm. When I build a new PC these days I want it to last many years. My current PC is nearly 5 years old but still pretty good.

 

[Moriath]

HT is great for marketing but it's always been a hardware hack and when it comes to gaming it's pretty much useless. It's more a benefit for servers using Xeon chips that are running highly-threaded applications like databases. There are actually lots of examples when disabling HT actually increases performance. Also many of the most recent CPU security issues have been due to HT. Talking of which those new i9's are the first desktop chips to have hardware based fixes to some of the Meltdown and related problems, but not all of them. The rest will be fixed in later chips. However I'm going to wait for the die shrink production to kick in, those models are still using 14mm. When I build a new PC these days I want it to last many years. My current PC is nearly 5 years old but still pretty good.

Yeah i dont see the price benefit of an i7 8700 vs the i5 8600 which is why i got the latter.

Your talking a year or so in the future then? In that case why dont you go for a 3440x1440 @ 144hz monitor.

34" Ultrawide Curved, Nano IPS, 3440x1440, G-Sync 120Hz, DCI-P3 98% - June ish
- 34" Ultrawide Curved, Nano IPS, 3440x1440, Freesync, 144Hz, HDR, DCI-P3 98% - July ish

Should be available by then.

And i love my 3440x1440 @ 100hz

 

[Zarjazz]

Your talking a year or so in the future then? In that case why dont you go for a 3440x1440 @ 144hz monitor.

34" Ultrawide Curved, Nano IPS, 3440x1440, G-Sync 120Hz, DCI-P3 98% - June ish
- 34" Ultrawide Curved, Nano IPS, 3440x1440, Freesync, 144Hz, HDR, DCI-P3 98% - July ish

Should be available by then.

And i love my 3440x1440 @ 100hz

I may very well go for something like that when it comes closer to the time but I like my pixels and I'm used to multi-screen for working / gaming. However if there's a 30"+ 5k IPS at a minimum of 100Hz coming out any time soon that would go top of the list.

 

[Moriath]

I got the curved 100hz screen with 2x 1920x1200 either side of it. Works quit well. Games etc on the centre with netflix or twitch next to it

 

[Moriath]

Love my monitor