Impulse buys........

[ha_banos]

Yup. So mine's been the Private Stock 230. I'll grab a fresh picture tomorrow. Would love to have dropped less money on a cab like above. What an impulse!

 

 

[fryguy]

My 1977 Motobecane 40T moped. Ain't she a beaut!

 

[MrBirdman]

On 11/18/2022 at 7:25 PM, Lamboinee said:

What monitor do you have paired up? 

Samsung Neo G7

[Lamboinee]

@MrBirdmanESL X.  They replaced an older set of Acoustats that I loved dearly for several years.  The ESL's sound just as "big" as the 8' Acoustats while also producing much better mids/lows without huge power requirments.

[Bijan]

Guess this is now a 2023 impulse buy:

Celebrating day 2 at my new job 😂

[El Presidente]

2 hours ago, Bijan said:

Guess this is now a 2023 impulse buy:

 

...changed the title for you 

[MC4]

On 11/23/2022 at 5:10 AM, Bijan said:

I put together 2 work from home setups, one on the main floor and one in the basement.

Two, 4-monitor/2-computer setups. As I'm generally debugging graphics drivers bugs.

@Bijan What are your thoughts on curved monitor screens?  maybe instead of having two monitors, have one larger curved?

[Corylax18]

18 minutes ago, MC4 said:

@Bijan What are your thoughts on curved monitor screens?  maybe instead of having two monitors, have one larger curved?

I think its highly use case dependent. I have a 39" curved Ultrawide 4k samsung monitor. I use it almost entirely as a flight Sim  between actual lessons and the immersion is really amazing. I'm still pushing it with an old 1070ti, at roughly 30fps it works great. It wouldn't be great setup for FPS or other games that require higher frame rates though.

My work setup is still 3 28" widescreens setup next to each other and my laptop monitor running emails. I really don't see the curved/ultrawide monitor adding much if anything to the work experience though. I'm mostly reviewing large format drawings, GIS, SiteTracker, etc. The thin bezels I have make a nice break when you have 2 of the same program open on screens next to each other. 

If I won the lottery, I'd by looking into something like the curved 55" 4k monitor below and a 4090ti(when released) to drive it. 

https://hypebeast.com/2022/8/samsung-odyssey-ark-55-inch-1000r-curved-gaming-monitor

[Bijan]

20 minutes ago, MC4 said:

@Bijan What are your thoughts on curved monitor screens?  maybe instead of having two monitors, have one larger curved?

Curved ones are OK. Top right one is actually curved.

3 of the monitors are 34" ultra wide: 3440x1440, top left one is standard 4k, 3840x2160.

There are some even more ultra wide monitors: 5120x1440 or such, but you get more pixels / real estate for less money with 3440x1440 times 2.

Also with 3440x1440, you can fit 2 apps side by side very nicely on each monitor.

In any case I needed 4 monitors mainly for my last job where I was using using one computer to program and debug a second computer.

Now that I'm mainly working on a single computer and running things on a remote server farm, I can reduce the setup to 2 monitors (probably the two top monitors, one 4k 144Hz and one curved ultra wide 1440 144Hz, the bottom two are cheap 1440 ultra wides at 75Hz).

[El Presidente]

1 hour ago, Bijan said:

Curved ones are OK. Top right one is actually curved.

3 of the monitors are 34" ultra wide: 3440x1440, top left one is standard 4k, 3840x2160.

There are some even more ultra wide monitors: 5120x1440 or such, but you get more pixels / real estate for less money with 3440x1440 times 2.

Also with 3440x1440, you can fit 2 apps side by side very nicely on each monitor.

In any case I needed 4 monitors mainly for my last job where I was using using one computer to program and debug a second computer.

Now that I'm mainly working on a single computer and running things on a remote server farm, I can reduce the setup to 2 monitors (probably the two top monitors, one 4k 144Hz and one curved ultra wide 1440 144Hz, the bottom two are cheap 1440 ultra wides at 75Hz).

......Ken has a similar set up 

[JohnS]

2 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

......Ken has a similar set up 

[amberleaf]

7 hours ago, Bijan said:

Guess this is now a 2023 impulse buy:

Celebrating day 2 at my new job 😂

Very nice. I'm looking to upgrade to a 4K setup as I've regained an interest in flight simming. I'm just loathed to give Nvidia any of my money right now as the price of cards is obscene. AMD aren't much better either.

[Kitchen]

9 hours ago, Bijan said:

Guess this is now a 2023 impulse buy:

Celebrating day 2 at my new job 😂

Are you converting your oven into a convection oven?  

[Bijan]

7 minutes ago, Kitchen said:

Are you converting your oven into a convection oven?  

Upgrading the graphics card in my computer from space heater, to space heater with optional fireplace feature 

Although it would the packaging in the second photo could work nicely for a high end microwave 🤔

[Arabian]

1 hour ago, Bijan said:

Upgrading the graphics card in my computer from space heater, to space heater with optional fireplace feature 

Although it would the packaging in the second photo could work nicely for a high end microwave 🤔

a massive card, Did you have to upgrade the PSU as well for their new cable thingy. 

[Bijan]

16 hours ago, Arabian said:

a massive card, Did you have to upgrade the PSU as well for their new cable thingy. 

I already had an unreasonably beefy 1200W PSU, and my last card (an AMD Radeon 6950) took 3 8-pin connectors, even though it only really needed 2 when not overclocked.

So I used the provided 8-pin to 16-pin adapter, and connected the 3 8-pin connectors I was using before.

The provided adapter could take up to 4 8-pin connectors but I don't think the card actually uses that much power, as each 3-pin connector is supposed to be able to supply 150W, plus the card can potentially get another 75W from the PCIE slot.

Since the card as shipped doesn't draw more than 450W, I won't need to run the 4th cable from the PSU, unless I overclock it.

 

22 hours ago, Bijan said:

Now that I'm mainly working on a single computer and running things on a remote server farm, I can reduce the setup to 2 monitors (probably the two top monitors, one 4k 144Hz and one curved ultra wide 1440 144Hz, the bottom two are cheap 1440 ultra wides at 75Hz).

I made the switch to 2 monitors (and got rid of the second desktop too). My wife should be happier going into Valentine's day, given that this work area is in the corner of our living room 😂

[El Presidente]

 

Vintage 1970s Cigar Smokers Have Nice Butts Shirt

  $160?

 

[WarriorPrincess]

3 hours ago, El Presidente said:

 

Vintage 1970s Cigar Smokers Have Nice Butts Shirt

  $160?

 

Now I know what to give you for your Birthday coming up soon 

[BrightonCorgi]

4 hours ago, El Presidente said:

 

Vintage 1970s Cigar Smokers Have Nice Butts Shirt

  $160?

 

Fashion comes at a cost.

[joeypots]

On 12/19/2022 at 3:52 AM, fryguy said:

My 1977 Motobecane 40T moped. Ain't she a beaut!

She is indeed. 

[Arabian]

Impulse enough?

[daleighan]

I bought this Eames chair at a steep discount when I was at the DWR outlet. I had been eyeing this exact combination for quite a while, but wasn't planning on buying one anytime soon. I've also been thinking about upgrading my GPU to one of the new ones, but I really can't justify it as I got a 3060ti last year and it does pretty much everything I need it to.

[El Presidente]

On it's way. 

I have an affinity for Franck Muller. Saw this one come up and loved the tobacco brown number and hand accents. Case size 47mm x 37.  New brown leather band and good to go as a casual dress watch. 

That reminds me I have 4 watches I should sell 

 

[dominattorney]

This just came in. My favorite out of three. 

[BrightonCorgi]

18 hours ago, El Presidente said:

On it's way. 

I have an affinity for Franck Muller. Saw this one come up and loved the tobacco brown number and hand accents. Case size 47mm x 37.  New brown leather band and good to go as a casual dress watch. 

That reminds me I have 4 watches I should sell 

 

You bought it off of Chrono24?  I've bought and sold watches on there.  Great platform with low commissions.