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    Hi-Fi headphones and DAC/Soundcard for £200?

    That is outside my budget unfortunately. I am deciding between Creative G6 or Fiio K5 PRO. Any preferences? Are Creative still not to be trusted?
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    Hi-Fi headphones and DAC/Soundcard for £200?

    Hi all. As title. Stereo headphones and DAC or Soundcard for around £200. Mic is not essential, would be nice but only if not compromising sound quality and from experience, "gaming" headsets are mostly garbage compared to HI-FI kit. Thanks.
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    Would a "standard" AV Amp with "standard" speakers be better than a medium spec PC Speaker setup?

    It was a bandwidth issue and the game devs did not pay the roaylties, that was down to the manufacturers of the soundcard. At the time, it was either Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect. Both were hardware solutions and the games themselves were not part of the "encoding" process. The hardware...
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    Would a "standard" AV Amp with "standard" speakers be better than a medium spec PC Speaker setup?

    My understanding is that if you HDMI from PC to AV Receiver, the receiver will output the LPCM to the speakers accordingly? The reason for DDLive etc in the past was that Optical did not have enough bandwidth hence why the DD Live compression was needed.
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    Would a "standard" AV Amp with "standard" speakers be better than a medium spec PC Speaker setup?

    All of the above. Is for a second room setup. Not for main rig or lounge or the like. Not expecting the Yamaha kit to be "world beating"... just wanting to know if better than the PC speakers relative to bang for buck. A lot of Hi-fi kit is 6 ohms. As much as I love Logitech kit, I...
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    Would a "standard" AV Amp with "standard" speakers be better than a medium spec PC Speaker setup?

    Specifically, looking at this for £350... https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/home_theater_systems/yht-1840/index.html Compared to a Z906 PC speaker setup for example which is "mid range" for PC speakers, would the Yamaha "standard" system offer better performance? Thanks.
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    Which budget B450M board?

    Even in a poor airflow case with a single rear exhaust fan, the system is VERY quiet, I would say silent but put it this way, it cannot be heard over the ambient noises in the room. The AMD Stealth cooler is great value for a freebie. Another plus for the Pro4 was the 4 DIMM slots. I have had...
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    Which budget B450M board?

    Thank you for the replies. I did indeed go for the Asrock B450 PRO4 (before seeing that reply). Seems the best specced board, ample fan headers AND a decent board layout with USEABLE expansion slots. Even though the PRO4 was £20 more than the others, it was worth it for the PWM fan headers...
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    Cooling for a simple case?

    Hi. I got this for a cheap HTPC build. https://aerocool.io/product/bolt-mini-tempered-glass/ The front intake is not great, a small vented section on one side. Could the top fan slots be used for intake or is that a no no? With the front intake being next to useless, if I put a single...
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    Which budget B450M board?

    https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B450M-HDV R4.0/ https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450M-PRO-M2-MAX Personally, I am leaning towards the Asrock as it features two system fan headers, one PWM, the other a 3 pin. The MSI just has one PWM fan header. Yes, I could get a PWM splitter but why do that if...
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    TV STB replacement PC spec?

    Thanks for the opinions guys. I went with the 3200G in the end. Was not an easy choice as I would have preferred to have a passive heatsink but with more strenuous decoding becoming the norm, made sense to go with the 3200G as it has more "omph". The fact the 3000G is only 35w made it a...
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    TV STB replacement PC spec?

    For a PLAYER/Streaming box only, which would be preferred.. AMD Ryzen 3 3200G AMD Athlon 3000G This is a client only build, I already have a strong server. This is needed for Plex playback (sometimes 4k, direct play preferred) and Youtube, iPlayer etc. £35 price difference so about 45%, not...
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    TV STB replacement PC spec?

    I can get a 3200G for £20 more so I think that seals the deal :D Thanks guys. Will keep this thread for the build info. Am going to put it in a Jonsbo G3 case.
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    TV STB replacement PC spec?

    That CPU has 4 CPU threads. Are you saying I need 4 cores/8 threads? I do not use Netlfix or Amazon. Youtube occasionally. I use Fyte.TV and New Japan World services the most and maybe Crunchy Roll. Plex above all else. This is not being built for performance, it needs to do simple tasks...
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    TV STB replacement PC spec?

    You have summised what I need perfectly and understand what I need it for :D The ROKU is fine but I despise "apps". Emulator would a great use. I suppose you can go "low spec" as you like and any modern desktop CPU would be adequate above 2.5Ghz, 8GB RAM...
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