What'd you buy yourself today?

[LNCPapa]

Bought these today - Denon AH-D600

They sound okay - not great, but okay so far. I'm going to give them a little more time to see if they grow on me.

 

[St1ckM4n]

They look pretty sexy!

 

[St1ckM4n]

I got myself a new CPU heatsink and additional case fan for my HTPC. The stock i5 3570K one is the loudest in the system. Now I just have to pull everything apart again...

Noctua NH-C12P SE14:


Noctua NF-B9 PWM 92mm:

 

[LNCPapa]

That looks awesome - and low height. Please let me know how quiet it is and post pics after install please. That looks like a great fan for an HTPC and you know I've been wanting to build a new one for some time now.

 

[St1ckM4n]

114mm height, I have room for around 130mm. The noise is supposedly 19.6dB(A) at stock, which is less than the 21dB(a) stock fans that came with the case. However, I'll be using this with the included ultra-low noise adaptor.

Will post pics for sure.

 

[St1ckM4n]

I installed it last night. This thing is pretty awesome. Using the Ultra-low noise adaptor, I can't hear it. At all. Well, I lie - I stuck my ear right next to it in order to hear the faintest whir. I was scared my ear would be lopped off!

Temp drop is >15% on idle. The massive fan also blows a nice stream of air over NB, RAM and other caps.

 

[LNCPapa]

OMG that thing is massive - much bigger than I was expecting.

 

[SNGX1275]

OMG that thing is massive - much bigger than I was expecting.

Thats what she said...

 

[LNCPapa]

Thanks for making me smile - been having a crappy day at work Even I didn't see that setup.

 

[captaincranky]

Bought this for myself today

It's much bigger than I expected it to be.

Thats what she said...

OK, I"m pretty sure neither one of you have seen LNCPapa's....

 

[LNCPapa]

Yeah - I'm huge in Asia.

 

[captaincranky]

Yeah - I'm huge in Asia.

He said with a great deal of humility and modesty.....

 

[LNCPapa]

Local Tiger Direct store is closing down in my area so they're selling things at huge discounts... Here's what I got yesterday and today:
Samsung 43" 720p Plasma for my daughters' room

Samsung 46" 1080p 120Hz LED UN46ES6500 for my bedroom

Corsair Special Edition White Graphite Series 600T to replace my younger daughter's Antec 200

Samsung E2420L 24" Monitor just because it was so cheap

Samsung S24B350 24" Monitor to do a little monitor swapping

ASUS VS239H 23" IPS Monitor for more monitor swapping

ASUS VS247H 24" IPS Monitor because it was actually pretty nice looking

I also returned those Denon AH-D600 headphones... they were just too bass heavy for me. Almost felt like I was wearing Beats with more clarity but it just made it too hard to listen to certain genres of music.

 

[St1ckM4n]

That's a tidy haul! What were the prices, may I ask?

 

[LNCPapa]

Monitors ranged from $90-118, case was $106, TVs were $300ish and $600ish respectively.

 

[St1ckM4n]

Those are pretty decent prices indeed, nice snag.

 

[LNCPapa]

I forgot to mention that I also got a decent computer for my wife's church. Paid $479 for an ASUS Essentio CM6870 with the following specs:
Ivy Bridge 3770
16 GB RAM
GT520
2TB HDD
Bluray Reader DVD-RW
Wireless card
Win7 HP - 64-bit

After a little testing and swapping things around I think I'm going to swap my kids' current monitors out for those ASUS monitors. They just look stunning compared to what they already have and the two Samsungs I just got. The IPS panels are just night and day compared to the TN panels.

 

[hellokitty[hk]]

That's pretty impressive and nice prices!
I got an Intel X25-M G2 160GB from Tigerdirect for $120, and I'm supposed to get a $30 mail in rebate.

 

[captaincranky]

Local Tiger Direct store is closing down in my area so they're selling things at huge discounts... Here's what I got yesterday and today:

Samsung 43" 720p Plasma for my daughters' room

Hm....., plasma huh? Kudos to the ballerina! I bet she's been hanging in mid air for quite a while now.....

I do love the case. Although...., I hope you don't have any smokers in the house.....

(Apologies. You know with me what you always get, is a glass half full of unsweetened lemonade ).

 

[LNCPapa]

LOL - no smokers cap'n.. I'm allergic. So far I'm happy with the purchases but it'll be a little while before I move my daughter's machine into her new case. I also can't use the larger TV till I get it mounted on my bedroom wall. There's just nowhere to put it.

Now that I look at my girls' monitors a bit more (and side by side) I think the smaller one (23") actually looks a bit better. I may need to check cables or something.

 

[slh28]

Picked up a new camera kit while I was in HK (saved a few hundred £££ due to no sales tax/VAT):

The upgrade to full frame is just incredible, and while I was a little skeptical of the 36MP resolution I'm now completely sold - the pictures are crystal clear and sharp and noise is not an issue at all.

The only problem is when it comes to buying my next lens(es) I'll have to sell my other kidney...

 

[LNCPapa]

OMG. That's awesome slh. Seriously jealous here.

 

[Dat1Gamer]

I bought Black ops 2

 

[St1ckM4n]

Nice camera!


Edit: As I've been doing for the past few weeks, I've tried checking out a 16GB Nexus 4. I was plagued by the infamous error. For some reason, it went through just now, so I bought it on a whim. :O

 

[St1ckM4n]

I bought myself a Dell U3011. I've been looking at it for over a year and it had a nice 30% discount on it. Yes, the 3013 came out, but I don't need LED and the massive price gouging in Australia.

It's currently sitting on a standard-sied student desk looking very ridiculous.

Also, my parents' PC has not been booting into even the BIOS, so we made the decision to just buy a whole new rig.