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Guys, say it with me : "THIS IS NOT A GAMING LAPTOP".

For the many people complaining about the GPU, this isn't a gaming laptop.

If you consume any gaming-related media, you've likely been assaulted by headset advertisements sporting 5.1 or 7.1 "Surround Sound" for the best 3-D gaming experience. "Well gee," you're thinking, "that must be great, maybe I should try a pair." However, between all the different options, and your general lack of knowledge about audio, you feel a bit lost. Don't worry - we can help.
 
Surround Sound - what is it, and why do you want it?
Trick question! You can't get surround sound in headphones/headsets. Wait what? As our deer lord Linus once said, "You have two ears. You only need two drivers." Indeed, the majority of 'surround sound' headsets out there merely have two drivers. How do they intend to replicate a multichannel surround sound home theater setup with merely two drivers?
 
In real life, your brain interprets the lag between sound hitting one of your ears vs the other into directional information for you to process. It's what makes you aware of the predator sneaking through the grass behind you, or your prey hiding in the bush to your right. A home theater surround sound system imitates this by simply placing multiple channels of audio around you in a large room. Any sound from a single speaker will eventually arrive at both your eardrums within a small difference of time, and your brain can determine the location of the speaker afterwards. In a headphone, you only have two drivers to work with, and each driver can only be heard by a single ear. So, what do?
 
 
Virtual Surround Sound - Software Trickery
If a sound is played in one ear slightly louder than the other, your brain may interpret the sound as coming from that direction. The bigger the difference, the more towards that direction than the other. This is known as panning audio, but still only nets us with 2-D audio. The time difference which we talked about earlier gets us 3 dimensions to work with. So it's pretty simple really, just delay the sound going into one ear slightly and then send it to the other with a slight pan effect. Right?
 
The problem is, there's no consensus on the correct amount of delay or panning to achieve different virtual positions in a headphone. Even with all the scientific measurements that have been done over the decades, and all the math involved in virtual surround sound equations, science can't account for the fact that everyone's ear is shaped differently. Everyone's brain interprets locational information differently. What seems perfect to me may be disorienting to you. When you buy into a surround sound headset, you're accepting a static effect which may or may not even work for you. The worst of it is, many of these included effects also perform some EQ on the headphones making them sound too different to even accurately compare with/without virtual surround sound enabled.
 
Binaural Audio - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks
Nature has spent billions of years developing the auditory sense in your head right now. If it aint broke, why fix it? Until recently, binaural recording has been an expensive niche hobby. Mostly because it seems too simple to be a good idea. All you have to do is use two microphones spaced like the average human's head width, one for each channel, and suddenly you have a natural vast 3-D landscape of sound!
If nothing else, recordings like this can prove to you that your current stereo headphones are perfectly capable of reproducing 3-D audio. You don't need a gimmicky hunk of plastic specifically marketed towards gamers in order to have directional audio. Most modern games have a "headphone mode" which emulates binaural audio as close as you're going to get in a game. If that mode seems insufficient to you for your headphones, that's where good open-backed audiophile grade headphones come in. Stereo imaging on open-backed headphones is typically phenomenal, and recently there has been quite a few good options on the market for relatively cheap. If you're playing a game without a headphone audio mode, and try Razer Surround, free downloadable software.
 
Mono vs Panning vs Delay vs Binaural - The Nerdy Explanation
 
"True" Surround Headsets - Even More Marketing Garbage
There are, of course, still those pesky pricey headsets out out there which throw multiple drivers into a single ear cup. This is bad because 1) you're spending money on a bunch of tiny inferior drivers as opposed to two good drivers and 2) a single ear cannot determine locational information. It's like being in a car with a single window rolled down - no matter where noises come from around the car, your brain will make you think they're all coming from the direction of the open window. These headsets still use DSP effects just like all the non-"true" surround headsets for virtual surround, it's just processed differently than the kind for two drivers.(*)

You dont need to pay to get to Mr.TechTips to upload on time. He uploaded like a bunch of vidoes at a time at vessal. Those videos are than uploaded to youtube. There is still 1 video per day.

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ       Sarude - Dandstorm      ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
 
 
I'm sorry ill go now.

http://www.anovos.com/collections/star-wars/products/star-wars-classic-trilogy-imperial-stormtrooper-pre-order
 
It's a pre order, will ship in Q4, but this is Anovos, and you can definitely trust them.
This is a special price, that will last until the 4th of may. At which point it doubles to it's permanent price of 700. Grab it now if you want, trade in your 970s!

i guess once the 1000 series is released
 
or if the raedeon 300 series wipe the floor, then they will drop to compete

From original post:

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/amdnvidia-market-share-graph-shows-nvidia-conquering-3-out-of-4-pc-gamers-own-an-nvidia-gpu/
 
How big will the impact be when AMD releases their 300 series cards?

Thoughts?
 
*Title corrected

This weekend on steam Fractured Space is free, if you play the game during this weekend you can keep it, as simple as that.
 
http://store.steampowered.com/app/310380/
I didn't know about it, just posting to see if anyone wants a free game. 

I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED

https://youtu.be/ZwWLns7-xN8
 
In game render

  
Well the question now is does the game run @30FPS(on console)? DICE seem to always push for 60FPS on "next gen" and hopefully it is for the console players, I'm hoping these options are actually available when it comes to the release. It seems like the most demanding part of the trailer would be all the environments with so many plants. Here's to hoping the gameplay is actually good. Do you think it will be first or third person mostly? DICE seem to do a lot of FPS games so I would probably say that first person is default and third person is an option. However I don't see using a lightsaber as a good experience in first person. 
 
Dice have confirmed that it will run @60FPS
 
https://youtu.be/ege4tPDSNoQ?t=4m14s
 
A mini-update:
The DLC "Battle of Jakku" will be free on december 8th. If you pre-order, you get it a week in advance.
Thanks @ionbasa    7 Minutes of Star wars Battlefront footage(only described sadly): 

A report from the sweclockers.com states that the Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 ‘Ti’ Graphic Processor is ready for launch. The 980 Ti is a card that would be the successor of the GTX 980.
 
 

 
The launch date remains approximately September of this month. The GTX 980 Ti will supposedly have the complete 3072 cores of the GTX TITAN X but with the memory buffer cut to 6GB from 12GB and maybe higher clocks.

Source:
http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/20332-geforce-gtx-980-ti-redo-for-lansering

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-ready-launch-wip/

*The information being reported shouldn’t be considered as official confirmation until an official announcement is made by Nvidia.

Seems like an AD, not legit.
But chrome is faster then other browsers. Thats why it hogs soo many resources.

Grand Theft Auto 5 is finally coming to PC about and it about God damn time here is a video how to make billions after beating the campaign I personally played GTA V already on my PS3 when there was no signs of Grand Theft Auto coming to PC.
 
After beating campaign without doing these steps you can't buy all the properties in GTA V and it really hard to make money after the game is completed
 
Make Billions

 
GTA V was an awesome game, I played it and I squeeze the life right out of that game, I played everything I played all the Sports, all the Side Mission , completed Main Story, buy all the Properties, Reach LVL 100+ (Legit), Did all the Online mission I even got it Platinum Trophy the Playstation Official App told me only 0.1% platinum that game on PlayStation I'm a feel amazed really.
 
I just hope they fix some of the bug with some side mission not popping up in the game that the only problem I had with the game. That I had found some solution to fix on the internet.
 
But I will gladly pay for it again once it get down to 30 dollars on steam.

cnet link: http://www.cnet.com/news/pebble-time-watch-most-funded-project-ever-on-kickstarter/
 
 
The news:-
 
So pebble has broken Kickstarter records.....once again to regain the top spot of the most funded kickstarter campaign. Its got, as you may already know good specs. The article says: 
 
 
 
My opinion on this and pebble in general(like anyone will give a damn about it!):-
 
 
 
 

Nintendo is out of touch with the modern age. 
 
They know nothing of how to handle modern PR and to embrace the internet age and people like Angry Joe who could otherwise have a reach with audiences that Nintendo can only dream of. This stuff is free advertising at its finest. But nope, greedy corporations going to be greedy. 

The popular YouTuber "Angry Joe" (Joe Vargas), is a video game critic with reaching nearly 2 million subscribers, and has received 300 million views on his review videos. He has been known for his honest video game reviews, and critics on corporate decisions such as overpriced DLC, day 1 DLC on disk, new games with less features of the old one (Sports games), crappy games that get near perfect scores from big sites, and other controversies in the gaming world.
He also does Let's Plays which are just highlights clips segments of a game he plays with other people, including his fans for online multi-player games. Usually these turn up as reviews. So you can see his (or group of people) reactions of the game and later his review. And if you have no idea on the game, you can get an idea of what the game is.
With support of a group of fans, they donated him money to spent more than 900$ on a WiiU, games for the console and accessories, to cover Nintendo games.
Currently his 2 videos on Nintendo has been flag, preventing him of making ad revenue from them (and the games aren't listed on the Nintendo ridiculous (in my opinion), Creator Program, where Nintendo takes 40% cut).

On Twitter, Angry Joe posted the following:
He says that will not make any videos on Nintendo games, as he had enough for this.
He posted this following ~11 min video on teh situation
Source: http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/4/8344341/angry-joe-nintendo-takedown-mario-party
Added by me:
He says in the video:
Sadly, he explains he sadden with the situation and Nintendo of Japan draconian policy, where he can't recommend the console, and show how fun it is.

Driver Booster 2 is the best in my opinion.

Last time i checked, there was a thing in the settings menu, which removes it.

DP is love DP is Life

Gold everything.

here's the link
 
http://store.steampowered.com/app/274940/

Last time i checked, there was a thing in the settings menu, which removes it.

Hello,
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Who do you think has the best April Fools joke?
Agri Bird

ASUS

BeQuiet

Blizzard - World of Warcraft

CERN

Corsair

Extremetech

Google - Fiber

Google - Mail

Google - Maps

Google - YouTube

Homestar Runner - Strong Bad

Lenovo

Microsoft

Motorola

Nvidia

Razer

Samsung

Sony - PlayStation

Techporn

Tesla

ThinkGeek

The Verge

World of Tanks: Tanks on the Moon


Fall outs - Did not make the cut
Dying Light

Tweaktown

Sweclockers

Path of Exile

Microsoft - Bing


Not part of the vote as this is sadly true:
Amazon

OnePlus

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