The "New Toys" Thread

[Vltros]

Originally Posted by Nabster

This counts as a new toy right? Bought it a few weeks ago, spent about 2 weeks restoring it, the electronics inside weren't working and people I contacted who know these old machines and work on them have never seen one with them, so it's apparently quite rare. Regardless I had to search for a while to find the right little electromagnetic solenoids to make it work properly, I had to resolder in 4 new rectifier diodes on the small board, and build a wiring harness for the lights (which was the easy part). Pulled lots of the mechanism from the back to clean and adjust, so now the machine works as close to original as possible.

You bought a Pachinko machine?? Cool!!

[NooDle]

re : the weird pinball machine

I dunno what that does, or what it's for, but I want one.
it's like a pinball machine with 500 balls and no flippers!

[Solberg]

I got Harman Kardon SoundSticks 2 a few days ago

[killpanda]

I need those things

[Polygon]

Originally Posted by NooDle

re : the weird pinball machine

I dunno what that does, or what it's for, but I want one.
it's like a pinball machine with 500 balls and no flippers!

I believe it's a pachinko machine.

[jeffy777]

Just got a Logitech G5 to replace my dying MX518. It's basically the same mouse with a few extra bells and whistles (sensitivity LED indicator, adjustible weights, etc.) and most importantly: a better cord that isn't supposed to short out after about a year!

[Raparperi]

I bought something a bit more efficient to cool my slightly overclocked x2 4000+. The standard hsf was working pretty ok until the fan began making an ugly noise. I tried to fix the situation by replacing the stock fan with a slightly bigger 80x80mm Papst fan, but performance was rather lousy (I got the temps a bit over 70C while stressing the cpu, which was too much for my liking. Now I'm running this ->



Nexus AXM-8200. Not the cheapest one I could've bought, but it was available straight from the shelf and I needed it asap. Well, actually it was quite cheap at 32,90e, costing roughly half of what most hsf's cost these days And a pretty good performer as well: the cpu is barely 7-8 degrees over the ambient temperature while the fan is running at 50% speed, which is nice and quiet. Even under stress it was 20C cooler than the stock heatsink with the papst fan

[Crazyjeeper]

Nice cooler. Nexus fans cost like 14 dollars, so that is a damn good deal.

[klankymen]

Unless you just buy Yate loon fans, who are OEM for nexus, so same product for like 3$.

Anyways, my new toy, just got it in the mail (may only make sense to the Germans here....):

[NooDle]

isn't that some sort of car registration sticker? but 1988?

[Peter3hg]

Originally Posted by NooDle

isn't that some sort of car registration sticker? but 1988?

I seem to remember something about Germany now having environmental zones that you cannot drive into unless you have the correct permit. I assume to stop the most polluting cars from entering the various zones. I think there are 4 different types of zone with this pass allowing klankymen to essentially drive unhindered as it's the highest pass (the greenest).
I may be completely wrong however.

[klankymen]

Originally Posted by Peter3hg

I seem to remember something about Germany now having environmental zones that you cannot drive into unless you have the correct permit. I assume to stop the most polluting cars from entering the various zones. I think there are 4 different types of zone with this pass allowing klankymen to essentially drive unhindered as it's the highest pass (the greenest).
I may be completely wrong however.

Well done! rep power to you.

NooDle, the 1988 part of the sticker can be explained by looking in my avatar....

[AxlxA]

Got this tonight when I wasn't intending on buying it in the first place since I already *acquired* the offline version...



Gonna play it with this:

[devil500]

I have to get GTR Evo in a while not just yet since there's been no decent mods out for it.

[Nabster]

I may be spoiling myself. But hey, my old receiver wasn't HDMI so I needed an upgrade anyway.

[AxlxA]

Just wanted to put it all together for some live action on Nordschliefe. Guess it's hard to see but i'm driving the BMW M3 Challenge Mod. (Love the E92)

[Polygon]

Originally Posted by AxlxA

Gonna play it with this:

Here's the questions on my mind. First, when you shift do you only have the option of up or down or can you go through the gates like a real shifter. Second, what's the steering feel and pedal feel like? Is it remotely close to the real thing?

I know I just did a serious upgrade of my computer but I was helping a friend pick out a sub woofer for his home theater and came across a good pair of speaker at a good price that I couldn't turn down. No pun intended. They are Polk TSi 300s and I must say they are worth every penny after tuning the system with them it sounds ten times better.

[Shawn]

^ Do you live in the local games console museum by any chance?

[klankymen]

Originally Posted by Nabster

I may be spoiling myself. But hey, my old receiver wasn't HDMI so I needed an upgrade anyway.

that's the 606 right? great choice, what'd you pay for it?

[matt2000]

Don't have my new toy yet, but I ordered it this morning. With part my first wage I've bought an Icybox RAID NAS drive, a pair of Seagate 500GB HDDs and a copy of Acronis True Image 11. I'm very chuffed.

Here's a pic of the NAS drive from the intarwebz.