14th week: I spent a shit load of money

About GPU

I bought a GPU this week, first GPU in my life. A computing card Tesla P40. Can read How to use tesla P40 to make it work as a gaming card. To use it as a display card can try this document. Because the fan has not been arrived, I cannot use it for some hardwork.

Learnt a lot. Like the PICe connector actually shares 75W power. A 6pin GPU power source gives away 75W. A 8pin(or 6+2 pin) gives 150W. A GPU like Tesla P40 uses 250W power, means it needs 75W from PCIe, 75W from 6pin, and 100W from 8pin. Since there is not a power supply only for GPUs, I can only buy a PC power supply. Luckily, the Delta NX450 I bought, has one 6pin and a 6+2pin.

I did more research, If I don’t have another 6pin, I can use a SATA port as a replacement, a SATA port supplies 54W, only need an adapter, it can support GPUs.

Strongly suggest to read egpu.io before buying. eGPU has cut a lot price, but it is still expensive for thunderbolt devices. TH3PG3 is the cheapest I can find.

Sadly, thunderbolt works on my laptop, not my ITX, so I have to buy a NVME dock, say ADT R43SG. Thank god it is a lot cheaper. I bought the disk box to run the OS through USB, sadly hackintosh is not supported, I can only work in Windows when I use the GPU.

Surface Dial

I want a surface dial the day I saw it. I don’t know what I gonna do with it, but I just want it. I have been waiting for a cheap alternative for a long time. I finally found one, a robit dial. It is a cheap alternative for surface dial.

And a mushroom shell! Why can it be so cute!

betterjoy

This is like the only thing I got in this week that costs me no money. It is a driver for Joy-cons. I can reuse the Nintendo Joy-cons on PC.

As I share this APP to others, I got a lot negative responses. Clearly, Switch players despise PC players, and PC players don’t use gamepad to play games.

iPhone Pro Max 12

Yes, I am going to use an iphone the next week. The MIX 2s frequently restarted last week. Firstly I thought it was the battery problem, But nothing happend as I changed it. It may be a motherboard’s or some buttons’ problem. I don’t want to waste more time to fix it now. So I bought a second hand iphone 12 pro max.