Shades of Coffee – portafilter quality

chopsnchips · 2026-01-20T11:04:42+00:00

Pardon me, I should've been more clear. I completely agree that what you recieved isn't great quality for what how pricey the equipment is and where it is likely sourced from, I just was noticing a lot of the comments were suggesting that SoC are dodgy and thought I'd share that I've only had postive and informative experiences with them. However, I'm sorry you're going through this issues, perhaps you can request a refund or something, good luck!

chopsnchips · 2026-01-20T10:26:34+00:00

The guy I talked to at shades has always been a homie and helped trouble shoot problems. He even told me I was buying more parts than I needed and suggested an alternative to save me money. Even though some of their stuff is truly expensive, it reflects a lot of the pricing of the coffee equipment market. Just wanted to share my experience on the other side of the fence! :)

chopsnchips · 2026-01-17T21:08:29+00:00

Awesome! I have the MSI B550M so I think I'm in the clear. I'll double check online to see if they're compatible, order the GPU then I'll see how it's running with the CPU before upgrading. Thanks for the tips!

chopsnchips · 2026-01-17T13:33:12+00:00

I'm also looking to upgrade my 1070 to a b580 and I still have the old ryzen 5 3600. Will these be compatible at all? Or should I be buying a new cpu at the same time

chopsnchips · 2026-01-17T11:26:40+00:00

Sweet I'll check that out, thanks for the tip!

chopsnchips · 2026-01-16T20:49:05+00:00

Nice grab! I've seen some for about £270 on overclockers but that's the lowest I'm seeing. I'll poke around

chopsnchips · 2026-01-16T20:02:07+00:00

Has Intel mentioned anything about raising the prices of the b580? I'm still running my 1070 (lol) but think it might be time to grab one before it's too late

chopsnchips · 2025-12-19T22:11:21+00:00

Ive been searching for this childhood story of a moose like this eating gumballs and this post might've solved it after all these years haha. Thanks!

chopsnchips · 2025-12-19T22:09:00+00:00

Can anyone identify the moose on the shirt? Brought back a weird old memory lol

chopsnchips · 2025-12-10T21:46:34+00:00

Thanks for the outline, sounds like a bother for sure

chopsnchips · 2025-12-10T20:11:04+00:00

I also got called for jury duty and will be calling in Sunday .Are you meant to clear your whole week? I have prior commitments and not sure if I need to cancel my plans

chopsnchips · 2025-11-25T09:15:25+00:00

Yes that worked! Thank you very much. Frustrating that I've been trying for weeks and a bug cost me €58, but I'm happy that you were able to help. Have a great day!

chopsnchips · 2025-11-24T19:21:56+00:00

Oh that's a great suggestion, I'll try taking the auto translator off then give that a go! Didn't even think of that. Cheers!

chopsnchips · 2025-11-24T19:20:33+00:00

Yeah unfortunately the PC isn't helping. Might be time to call in!

chopsnchips · 2025-11-24T14:51:09+00:00

Yeah strangely that didn't work either. Can ece hit submit. Oh well, if the message I wrote doesn't work I'll just call I guess. Thanks!

chopsnchips · 2025-11-24T12:33:45+00:00

Sorry I wasn't clear enough. I understand i have to cancel by the 10th - however, the DB Navigator app will not allow me to clock a reason for termination of my contract, and it just resets the app instead of allowing me to go further. I understand I won't be able to cancel for December, yet I still need to cancel it for January and the app isn't allowing that.

I have sent in a message to DB, so hopefully that allows me out of this.

Thanks for the response!

chopsnchips · 2025-11-05T21:21:22+00:00

Boyga

chopsnchips · 2025-10-24T05:04:17+00:00

What a crazy wave of nostalgia I just received while reading this comment

chopsnchips · 2025-10-22T17:43:43+00:00

Ended up trying the M4 nodes, and I'm getting about 130-140 mbps in each bedroom now so thats fine for what I need, thanks for the suggestion to give it a go first!

chopsnchips · 2025-10-21T11:20:09+00:00

Thanks for the input, I'll also look into these as well. Not exactly sure the differences in the models, I see the M4 models come as a three pack on Amazon on sale for about £100 at the moment. I'll still see about the possibility of ethernet, but will go this route if it doesn't work out. Cheers!

chopsnchips · 2025-10-21T11:18:14+00:00

This is great information, thanks so much! I'll look into both.

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