Few little odds and ends for the fandom that has a stranglehold on my life.
Revenge Of The Sith 20th Anniversary Art Print.
Darth Nihlus 1/6th Scale Hot Toy
Revenge of the Sith 20th Anniversary T-Shirt
The 20th anniversary poster is one my favourite Star Wars posters, at some point is going to hang on my wall. Hopefully as Displate poster or framed printed poster.
It’s Fergusons strongest poster to date. Especially with all the little details that get lost with lower resolutions of the piece like the tear streaming down Anakins face.
Couldn’t pass the opportunity to get one, definitely will be what comes with me to Star Wars Celebration in 2027.
Bought some Solovair Boots for my wedding. This is the English company that produced Doc Martens before they were made in Vietnam. I have to say they feel very high quality but it will take probably a few weeks to break them in.
It’s 9x12 inches acrylic on wood and it’s original. I got it directly from one of my favourite artists.
Bought a 65" OLED TV
Went with the LG C4 OLED TV.
Now I can switch out the iPad (55" Sony Bravia) currently hanging on my wall.
Bought a summer jacket and a pair of sun glasses
I plan to use some fabric wax on the jacket, making it wind and waterproof.
Also my first sun glasses in light tortoise, normally I go for a darker colour. But I couldn’t pass down the brown glass, also it’s the first pair that isn’t Ray-Ban.
New PC on order (being built by an SI, because I haven’t got a clue about self-building PCs):
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 8-Core Processor (£442.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Light Loop Liquid CPU Cooler (£136.99 @ AWD-IT)
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X870-A GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard (£334.57 @ Newegg UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory (£221.48 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£149.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£248.01 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 870 QVO 8 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£502.00 @ Box Limited)
Video Card: Gigabyte AORUS MASTER GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB Video Card (£2699.99 @ CCL Computers)
Case: be quiet! Light Base 600 LX ATX Mid Tower Case (£155.00 @ Computer Orbit)
Power Supply: Corsair HX1200i 1200 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£219.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Retail - Download 64-bit (£180.24 @ Senetic)
Total: £5289.23
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Incredibly jealous, I hope you have a lot of fun with it.
Can it run Codename 47?
Yep, but if I load up H2:SA the motherboard commits seppuku as soon as Hidden Valley is reached.
That sounds like a mad computer, but what’s with the 14 TB of storage bro?
I like to have my games and media on separate drives from the main system boot drive, so if I ever need to do an OS reinstall/boot drive wipe I can do it without having to copy everything over from my backup storage. Smallest 2TB drive is the system boot drive, the 4TB is my games drive (can fit my entire Steam library, or one Call Of Duty game), and the largest 8TB drive is for all my Blu-ray rips for my home Plex server.
I recently bought a new gaming PC myself with really low specifications because I’m still on a 1080i TV and I am not sure if I will use it (I prefer the “it just works” idea of consoles ) . Congratulations, if you keep it for let’s say five years I think is a good investment for gaming. You could also have fun cracking passwords and install a local AI to be your assistant. Only thing not being proud of is probably Win 11. It’s a terrible OS, the new interface and the apps are just a wrapper for the old stuff which is actually easier to use.
Yeah, totally agreed on Windows 11 - I’m still running Windows 10 on my current PC and I’ll hold on until the bitter end in October. I’d like to learn Linux but I don’t have the spare time to really get comfortable with it - maybe when SteamOS finally appears for desktop platforms that will be the time to switch?
I have my PC in my living room on the TV stand and so I need a horizontal-orientation case - I know that there are still a decent number of traditional HTPC cases out there, but as internal hardware keeps getting bigger and hotter I’ve been waiting (got my current setup in 2021) for a suitable case to become available that would let you get a high-end GPU into a horizontal case without needing some gnarly liquid cooling solution (which I have in my current, smaller HTPC case). I’m going to use this PC as an opportunity to learn PC building in future, because I think I’ll be confident to swap out the air-cooled GPU in 4-5 years when I look to upgrade… but I’m not there yet so I need an SI to build me something that works now so that I can learn about what needs hooking up where now that I’m getting a new case that will be much easier to work with than my current smaller HTPC setup.
Think this should look spectacular under the TV (need to upgrade that too, I bought my current TV in 2016 for the launch of HITMAN!) in a horizontal setup:
