Recent content by criccio

I was in this predicament with a similarly old Asus PG348Q back in Jan 2023(original ultrawide, 3440x1440, 100Hz). I did not want another 3440x1440 display but I did want OLED. At that point, I realized that was the largest res they were going to be doing for a while so I decided to just get...

I feel like pictures and examples of PC's that were smoked around are quite commonplace. It should be extremely obvious that if you're going to do this, you need to be VERY diligent about regular cleaning. You'll never escape it entirely though.

That's the wild-tier level of audiophiles that I'll just never be down with. There is no way in hell i'm going to tell the difference. Everybodies got to have a hobby, I guess. Just don't be the fool in the old saying "a fool and his money are soon parted".

I'm done with Schiit. My Magni and Modi are both falling apart and I quite literally never touch them. Except I have to now more and more to fiddle with connectors and knobs just to get them to operate. The Modi just likes to disappear from Windows from time to time. Reseating the USB cable...

I moved this weekend and had an appointment with Verizon to move my FiOS connection yesterday. I've had the standard Gigabit so I kept that, but was surprised the router they brought out supports up to 10Gb on the WAN port and one of the LAN ports. The other two LAN ports up to 2.5Gb. The...

This story has been coming to this point for months now. When this first kicked off a couple of months ago with reports of instability it was said it likely has something to do with outrageous motherboard presets so its no surprise that this is where we'd end up, board vendors simply having to...

The Sys itself isn’t actually a preamp at all looking at it (while the others are) but essentially just a fancy potentiometer. Still, it’s going to do the job in this case.

No. But I mean it sounds like you're spending over $100 on a USB cable elsewhere (crazy..) so maybe just make sure you're using good RCA cables.

In that case then yes, a basic device like the Sys is the way to go.

A soundcard a full solution, meaning a DAC and pre-amp (along with A soundcard is a full solution including pre-amps, sometimes amps, etc.. A DAC part of a soundcard and it has just one job, converting digital audio to analog. Now, with a USB DAC at least on Windows you can still do volume...

Its a DAC, I wouldn't expect it to have volume control, right? That is something your amp/pre-amp would control.

Ha, yeah I wasn't suggesting actually doing that, just commenting on the issues you have with the HDD.

Heck a nice SATA drive would do that. 👍 HDDs are just problematic these days for anything but bulk storage.

For sure, and when HMB didn’t exist it was crucial. Today, HMB as part of NVMe makes it all but irrelevant for all but the most extreme workstation users.

Fair enough. I’m a firm believer that if it doesn’t matter it’s not a better option, especially if it costs extra, however.