New Hardware What did you pick up over the holidays?

[Simon]

I'm seeing lots of nice boxing day sales going on right now! What did you pick up over the holidays to upgrade your machine or build?

I'm contemplating upgrading my 120GB 840 EVO to a newer Samsung 850 with more space still. Boxing day sales tend to last a few days up here usually so no rush. Thinking I may shoot for 500GB, stack my few games on there

 

[runo]

A bigger and better SSD is never a bad buy, and the post-Christmas sales on SSDs have been pretty good to us this year -- I think I saw the 850 EVO 500GB for around $170 the other day. Not a bad deal at all IMO

I upgraded my sound system:
-- FIIO E10K Olympus 2
-- Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro
-- AntLion ModMic 5

 

[Simon]

A bigger and better SSD is never a bad buy, and the post-Christmas sales on SSDs have been pretty good to us this year -- I think I saw the 850 EVO 500GB for around $170 the other day. Not a bad deal at all IMO

I upgraded my sound system:
-- FIIO E10K Olympus 2
-- Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro
-- AntLion ModMic 5

Woah. Nice set up! That headphone amp is actually something I've sorta been looking for..

 

[Mhayden]

I got a new monitor, 27” 2560x1440. Compared to my old 19.5” 1600x900 monitor. It’s s HUGE difference

 

[ModusPwnens]

two entirely new desktops for me and the spouse.

Mine:
i7 Coffee Lake
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080
64 Gb DDR4 RAM (on order)
750 W EVGA Supernova modular PSU
Cooler Master MasterCase 5
Samsung 27" Monitor (1920 x 1080)
32 Gb Intel Optane
ASUS Z370-Plus "TUF Gaming" mobo

His:
i7 Kaby Lake
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080
32 Gb DDR4 RAM (on order)
750 W EVGA Supernova modular PSU
SilverStone Primera case
Samsung 27" Monitor (1920 x 1080)
32 Gb Intel Optane
ASUS H270-Pro mobo

We've both got the Razer Blackwidow and Razer Naga. He got the new Chroma ones and I'm suuuuper jelly. My Blackwidow has green backlighting and I've got the special edition Molten flavor.

 

[Simon]

Those are some nice builds Modus! Any photos?

 

[CrossCheck]

I upgraded my network. I bought a Netgear c6220 ac1200 cable modem/router, a Wavlink ac1200 range extender and 2 Wavlink ac1200 wireless network adapters for my 2 daughters computers

 

[ModusPwnens]

Those are some nice builds Modus! Any photos?

naturally I'm especially proud of the desk set up. I used "closet solutions" to build a modular desk and basically mounted the computer on the wall below my desk table.

yay! standing desk

here's my partner's:

 

[Simon]

Love it! Beautiful set up.

Crosscheck, can?t go wrong with good wifi in the home Less complaints from all haha.