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X3 looks like a cheap Genelec ripoff.

Aren't the majority of commercial music mixed on Yamaha NS-10s? I don't think they cost $7000 a pair.

Many flagship receivers measure just as well as top end separates, and often use the same components too. Receivers like the Yamaha RX-Z11 and Denon 5805 have measured in power output and vrms pre-amp output as clean as any good seperates.

Want to clarify that point?

1) All surround sound receivers have a sub out. 2) The most expensive component in an audio/video receiver is the amplifier, since its generally the heaviest component and requires a large metal heatsink and transformer. In the last 5 years, tradiational amplifiers have been getting smaller...

You can't use a stereo receiver to power a 5.1 system. You need a 5.1 receiver. The best connection to use would be HDMI from your video card to the receiver. You also need some speaker wire for the 5.1 receiver to send power to the speakers. You can go to monoprice, or maybe use your newegg...

Where?

The review says this motherboard only supports dual cards for multigpu, but that's actually incorrect? So you can run SLI on it with a bridge?

Probably, since it is atypical, but not here in hardforum! I think spent 4 or 5 times more on my sound system that my PC, which has a Titan, a 3770k, and 4 SSDs including two SLC SSDs.

Yeah but I'm kinda anal about noise. In fact I spent $1500 on this 32" TV because it was the flagship at its size by LG. Two main issues arrise from cheap TVs 1) cheap power supplies, caps, and power supplies are not tied down with mass, so they are pretty noisy especially if you plan to use...

All GK104s automatically throttle right? So technically there is no such thing as overheating, more likely you can't rely on more than base 3d clocks for continuous performance.

Moved my Revel Voice to the rear as a rear center, upgraded to a Voice 2 in the front:

Some older games only have drivers for surround sound if you have a legacy soundblaster card, but newer games (2009+) should all have working surround through HDMI, provided you set it up through the Windows Sound Control Panel.

At 1920x1200 780 SLI is 29.8% faster than GTX Titan in average framerate. However, I generally prefer single GPU, since you don't have to deal with microstutter/high frame latency, also dual GPU profile does not exist in every game. Also you can't overclock SLI as well as you can a single...

Try reseating your hdmi cable.

See if you can get it down to $80, then I'd say its a killer deal. That said, isn't msrp only about $20 more than a BIC H-100? I don't know how much difference you will be able to tell.

RTM?

Unless you have a multichannel music collection, you should stick to 2.0/2.1. Since you are listening to MP3s...

Velodyne DD-10 Plus, very nice and tight bass.

Well if you are going to play the passive game, I would suggest the Dynaudio Contour SRs, only $2600/pair and only slightly bigger than the B&W MM-1s :D

Why don't you email audioinsider maybe they will be able to tell you when they will be back in stock.

I think the B&W MM-1 is better in the slim form factor category.

Kef x300a http://www.amazon.com/KEF-X300A-Digital-Speaker-System/dp/B00AXYKF30/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367271654&sr=8-1&keywords=kef+x300a Swan T200a http://www.theaudioinsider.com/product_info.php?products_id=78

OP asking for SLI benchmarks from the beginning of time, does not run SLI himself.

Yeah it's a $800 upgrade, just call or email Ascend and they will do it for you. It was going to be a product that Ascend was going to sell last year on their website, but the price was too close to the stock Sierra Tower, so Ascend decided with designing a more affordable upgrade called...

If you are using multiple outputs it drives your video card to 3d base clocks, just remember that, so your idle temps will be halfway between full gaming load and 2d idle. So if you idle at 35C, gaming load 70C, using multiple outputs will result in constant idle probably in 50+C range.

Ascend Acoustics Sierra-1 with RAAL 70-20XR ribbon tweeters.

I liked the AMD HDMI outputs better, it had support for more sampling rates than the Nvidia one; there was 88.2KHz and 176.4KHz sampling rates which I liked to use with the SACDs I ripped from my PS3 =\

In AVERAGE framerates...frame latency might tell a completely different story due to SLI. GTX 690 is considerably faster than a GTX Titan too, in AVERAGE framerates...in frame latency aka observable framerate its sometimes considerably slower.

Lot of the cheaper mobos don't really come with anything. I didn't get a CF or SLI bridge on an "SLI Ready" MSI Z77 mobo that was $80 at Fry's.

Some games are more cpu intensive within a genre, it's true, but you can't say "not necessarily the genre" because there there isn't a single rpg that isn't cpu intensive, or racing game, or RTS, by definition they all require a lot of CPU calcs because they are large open worlds with a lot...

Hey, don't hate on overcock.net, those guys are awesome believe all the frame time graphs on SLI benchmarks don't mean anything, only nominal fps graphs Ideal repeat customers. :D

Each full generation of cards is generally about 40-60% more performance (see 285 -> 5870, 6970 -> 7970), and that's about a 2 year period. So in 2 years there should be a $399 card that can either match or beat the Titan by 0-20%, maybe a Radeon 9970. A flagship from 2 generations ago like the...

I think just 1 is good, 2 is kinda inefficient for the amount of power it draws:

Considering multiple [H] forum goers are reporting ~60% ASIC quality on their gpu-z readings, its pretty clear most of the Titans are truly Telsa rejects and not just rebadged products that were sold cheaper.

Yeah I agree with the RAM speed, I can't even get the RAM to run stable with 100MHz overclock, although I don't even see 1fps improvement in any of the games I've tested from increasing RAM speed, whereas increasing core clock speed has very real gains. I think ASIC quality may be critical in...

So Titan Ultra will occupy $1000 msrp, and vanilla Titan drops to $900? Titan has only been out about a month and its already obsolete?

I disagree, there are better out there, and that's not even true within the Swan brand, the T200b is clearly marketed as a higher tier in their line of computer speakers.

Depends how long it takes for the 8970 to come to market. If its manages to be 20% faster than the 7970 GHz, it'll basically be 95% as fast as a Titan. If its a $499-599 part, then the price of the Titan plummets. In 24 months no way the Titan can compete with a $500 card unless AMD completely...

Depends on the genre. If you plan rail shooters, yes there's gonna be very little difference in CPU. But RTS or RPG, a 3770K would be quite a bit faster. I was running a i7 920 @3.8GHz with a Titan, and changed it to a 3770K, and my average fps in NWN2 went up about 30% and in Witcher 2 it went...