It’s that time of the year again and we filed our taxes on January 31, 2014 and received a little over $7200 back, $5000 of that will be put into savings towards a trip to the UK later in the year (if we can save another $5 – $7k by that time). And traditionally this is the time when I spend a little money on myself, (read: buy gadgets), the rest of the year I rarely spend anything on myself.
The first gadget I bought was a new set of headphones to replace my ailing Sony MDR-V150; after a lot of research I ended up buying a set of JVC HA-RX900 full size headphones, which I received on Wednesday and thusfar I am very happy with their comfort and performance. I also bought myself a Corsair F120 SSD to replace my mechanical hard disk, which I discovered after purchase that it was SATA II, my motherboard is SATA III, it will still work fine, but won’t be as fast as a SATA III SSD. The F120 was supposed to arrive today (Friday) but despite paying for 2 day shipping, I wont get it until Monday; could be weather related, we’ve have a lot of snow in the US over the past week.
Yesterday, I ordered two Dell ST2421L 24″ LED monitors to replace the two AOC E2251S-WDN displays which I bought at the same time as building my AMD FX8350/32GB RAM desktop PC 12 months ago. The AOC’s are pretty poor, colours are subdued, it’s incapable of producing black and viewing angles are laughable. The Dell monitors have an average rating of 4.9 out of 5.0 on TigerDirect.com, I hope that I wont be disappointed again. Also while pricing up some additional components, I accidentally bought a second 120GB SSD, a Kingston SH103S3/120G HyperX 120GB, which is a SATA III drive to take advantage of the 6Gbps ports on my motherboard. I might return the previously mentioned F120; or maybe I will put that one in my laptop; we shall see on Monday.
Product Links
JVC HARX900 High-Grade Full-Size Headphone [Rakuten.com]
Corsair Force F120 120 GB 2.5″ Internal Solid State Drive [Rakuten.com]
Kingston SH103S3/120G HyperX 120GB Solid State Drive [TigerDirect.com]
Dell ST2421L 24″ Class HDMI, DVI LED Monitor Bundle [TigerDirect.com]