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Beyerdynamic DT880. Comes in a variety of ohm ratings, very neutral but lively sound, suits gaming, music, and movies. Should be supported by a high quality sound card and high quality music (read: lossless source)

I use Arctic Silver 5 and I've never had any issues, despite the supposed capacitance.

DT880's while tick all those boxes. Not quite as good a soundstage as AD700's etc but they sound better and are definitely neutral. I have the 250ohm version

Glad I still have six of the buggers... pitty they make so much damn noise in my case for some reason... they aren't so loud when not mounted... might get a new case

The big difference for me is that vinyl masters aren't nearly as fucked as the CD version. For example, the CD may have the following: 1) Clipped the transients of the audio which results in data loss 2) Dynamic range compression, which results in wimpy sound at regular listening volume 3)...

I work at a place that supports multiple large companies. All of them are moving from traditional PC-based environments to thin clients and citrix on my company's server farms. Aside from transition pains and the current inability to access the C:\ drive on locked down PC's running Wyse pc...

Counter-Strike Source. 1449 hours and counting

Electronic Arts Headquarters. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Interesting indeed ;)

I think that one is complete fabrication, they ruin your eyes more than anything else.

Note that it only covers A3 DLC's only (Think PMC/BAF/ACR) and not separate expansions like Arrowhead. It's quite misleading unless you read the fine print. I've preordered a physical copy so I'll get the cheap version :)

According to who? Overclockers have a tendency to think "damn the rules, this is what I want"

You really shouldn't mess with the BIOS if you want to keep your overclock, you really only need to update it for major bugfixes and to support new hardware.

"Microsoft Wants You to Switch to Outlook.com" Microsoft can go kiss my backside.

If you're buying 1600MHz CL10 you're doing it wrong (unless this is something like a 16GB or 32GB kit, but even then...) Fastest speed your CPU supports (being a mobile chip, probably 1600mhz or even 1333mhz) See if you can find a 1333mhz cl7 kit or a 1600mhz cl8 kit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_WVwW62seA :D

The only reason I use origin is because of Battlefield 3. I activated my MoH key from steam for shits and giggles as well.

I've tried WASAPI, ASIO, Kernel Streaming, and another one. I forget which. All of them give me problems when I play something that's really high bit rate or perfect rip, eg I have some PCM 1411kbps files from a playstation 1 game that had no copy protection, and they stutter all the time...

No, MSI were really good to me. Within the week turnaround. No one international can beat that without considerable expense.

Par for the course sucks :( I was looked to snap up a cheap 2500K and board, but it looks like I might have to drop the "cheap" part :(

This is why I just buy last gen stuff. Too expensive to buy brand new on release.

Sounds like maybe a PCI-E issue or just that motherboard is too old the GPU. Sometimes you get certain motherboards/cards that just hate each other.

Hell no, their warranty sucks now, and they revise their cards without changing the model number or part number. Stick to EVGA, MSI, Asus, Gigabyte.

I don't live in America. :(

Thanks :)

Three days of hard work done! I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

No codec can beat an actual chip in my opinion. Any onboard sound is pretty much guaranteed to sound like crap, no matter what quality your source files are, and no matter how good your speakers/cans are. If one part of the loop is garbage, it's all garbage. Garbage in, garbage out, as they say...

XFX take their sweet time as well. I had an RMA that took 6 months because they gave me a wrong address (or they moved location, as was the case). Corsair, on the other hand, were really good, but slow to update details or tell me what was going on. Once they received my faulty RAM, I heard...

Does the side panel have anything obstructing air from getting to the fan? I don't stick any fans on the side of my Scout, because they all make this "chopping air" sound if I do, because of the stupid extra plastic bits.

I'd say this dude is irrelevant, or his opinion is.

6GB will be nice and 8GB will be better, because having some stuff running in the background, plus origin, then plus your browser with battlelog runs me up into 2GB territory. The game then easily eats 4GB on its own.

Find a 5770 or 6770 for $50.

I used a Sansui R-50 for a while, but unfortunately it developed problems :( And now I have an STX...

Take a peek in the slot with a torch and see if there's anything damaged or obstructing the electrical contact (like dust, etc) A trick that works with RAM is to rub eraser on the stick/slot and insert it/remove it a few times to clear any obstructions

Ah okay. Fair enough then. Though maybe you should get a higher-tier board that is known to have percentage based LLC settings ;)

* Hypothesis. Theory implies it can be tested and proven :)

Sounds like a rubbish board or bad design. Perhaps even a faulty board not behaving as it should. Got latest BIOS? All I can add is that I don't get VRM throttling or excessive vdroop on my Fatal1ty. I have LLC set to 25%, vcore at 1.425v and I get between 1.416v to 1.424v under load. Idle...

Go with EVGA in light of their new warranty policy (lifetime transferable)

All of this would be solved if AMD either: Managed to get more performance out of the 7xxx cards (wishful thinking, but driver improvements can help) Dropped the price on current cards and released revised versions with better performance, at the original pricepoint of the high end 79xx cards...

That's a definite PSU issue. Replace it. If it fails, it's not stable. Try stock clocks on everything. Keep in mind that this will also reduce your power draw and may stop the system from shutting off entirely. The TDP for the Q9650 at stock is 95W. For your overclock, the TDP is a massive...