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This was a fun read.
OP: As long as your headphones get loud enough, there's no need to get an amp. The DT990s (yes even the 250 ohm) are fairly efficient / sensitive headphones and an amp won't make it sound any better unless your current setup is 15 year old onboard audio. Only reason you'd ever need an amp is to make stuff LOUDER. Which is what an amp does.
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6 hours ago, Rodinski said:
It was the low ends that killed me for the Sennheiser 555/595s. It's an incomplete headphone I no longer recommend. The AKG 240s are a lot better.
Oh, there is also a nasty spike in the upper ranges that when heard, from a gun being shot off, the crackle absolutely destroyed my ears every time I heard it. I really dislike the 555s/595s.
595's had a more prominent mid and high range. 598's have less highs and mids, also making the bass stand out a bit more, but they are still far away from something like a pair of M50's or even the HyperX Clouds in terms of bass.
OP: I am sure a set of 598s (that you mentioned) will do you GREAT for gaming. They have a really open and wide soundstage, a very user-friendly, laid back sound with decent bass (no basshead headphone tho) However, keep in mind that they are open, so they do not isolate outside sound at all, and your sound (if you're blasting your ears to oblivion) will leak out to your surroundings. They are definitely better for gaming than those Monsters, as those are closed, giving you a narrower soundstage (worse positional audio)
Also the 598s don't have a mic, so if you need that, look for a zalman clip on mic, or if you have the cash, Samson Meteor, C01U, Blue snowball (ice version is cheaper) or snowflake are good
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3 hours ago, spwath said:
And i googled it and found it does not have a removable cable.
Though i guess its technically user replaceable.
everything is user replacable if you can source the parts and use a soldering iron and / or hot glue gun
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3 hours ago, Prysin said:
Jim keller hasnt been working for em before now.
wrong. He designed the Athlon 64.
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Just now, patrickjp93 said:
For Opterons, AMD was accurate. For FX and Athlon, they went with consumer-typical workloads.
Fair enough.
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Just now, ZetZet said:
i3 is a quad.
in one way, yes. they all have hyperthreaded cores. 2 of them. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/processors/corei3/sb/IntelCorei3ComparisonChart10.pdf
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Just now, patrickjp93 said:
Anandtech proved AMD wasn't going by torture tests, but no one actually knows the metric. It does line up rather well with heavy gaming workloads though.
the toms hardware slides posted in this thread earlier showed that power draw in torture tests were like.. one or two watts under rated TDP.
EDIT: in this document, Intel have gotten details from AMD about it.. apparently.
screencap:
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Just now, DocSwag said:
People keep saying 40% IPC gain for Zen, but I recall some reports a while back saying it was greater than 40%. Just saying. Plus estimates have put Excavator+40% more around Haswell, not below it.
Yeah this is what I found.
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Just now, patrickjp93 said:
No, AMD uses max of common use cases,(gaming)and Intel uses an average of AIDA64, Prime95, Intel Burn Test, and a couple other torture tests. If you throw Prime95 on all 4 cores of an Athlon 860K, you definitely wind up with way more than 95W being produced.
I did realize that Intel uses torture testing for that, but source for AMDs TDP testing?
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Just now, ZetZet said:
I'm looking at the TDP and manufacturing process. Will it have hyperthreading? Can't find any confirmed source of that.
Sure it's not AMD-confirmed, but I believe it. At least it's not WCCF.
Off topic: I can't use multi-quote for some reason so bear with me.
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Just now, ZetZet said:
lower clockspeeds. And even then, your assumption that intel measures normal load is just bullshit. i5 6600k is 91w tdp and gets 73 under torture.
Alright I will agree, after reading a bit on a document Intel published on TDP. Strange how the 6600K is nearly 20 watts under rated TDP in a torture test though.
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Just now, ZetZet said:
No I didn't say that. I said, the 6 core is going to have to be 200 to compete with i5 which is 200...
You're the only person saying a 6 core + hyperthreading Zen will compete with a 4 core no hyperthreading i5.
You're being quite negative about the future of AMD. It's in our best interest, all of us, that AMD actually does well with the Zen series. Don't dismiss them just yet. It's basically their last effort, let's all just hope they don't die. Don't assume they'll kick Intels ass either, just hope they don't die.
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Just now, ZetZet said:
yeah, because 6700k is being tortured with cpu and gpu at the same time... And AMD isn't under, it's pretty much exact.
and the 6600K isn't?
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Just now, ZetZet said:
*snip*
sure...
Notice how the 6700K is above Intels rated TDP on maximum load, 6600K is under, and AMDs offerings are also under their rated TDP?
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Just now, ZetZet said:
well, I don't think they can. The TDP is low and the core count is high. 8 core engineering sample was 3ghz. That's not beating 6700K anytime soon.
Keep in mind that AMD and Intel rate their TDPs in a different way. Intel use a common use case, while AMD is more like.. 100% AIDA64 type thing.
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Just now, ZetZet said:
in theory. IPC is one thing, but if the 6 core runs at 2.5 ghz it won't outperform the i5.
That's why I also mentioned " and they manage to keep clocks at a decent level,"
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Just now, ZetZet said:
yes, but then he said 6 core should cost 350-400 that doesnt make any sense. it should be 200.
IF we look at the numbers we have been presented with before (40% more IPC than Excavator), which means the IPC ends up about the Haswell area, and they manage to keep clocks at a decent level, that's a way too low price. a 6 core Zen cpu would outperform an i5, and mainstream i7s with hyperthreading in multithreaded applications, and would be 10-15% behind in single threaded applications, possibly bringing overall performance to about the same level. Should then be priced just a bit lower than a 6700K, in my opinion, and what seems a lot like his opinion as well.
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Just now, ZetZet said:
Your post disagrees with itself. I said they should price for direct competition, then you said you disagree and then you said
SO WHICH IS IT
Not sure what you're not understanding. What he's saying is: AMD need to price it according to their performance relative to Intels CPUs.
They can't really afford to undercut Intel as they don't have a whole lotta money, while Intel does.
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20 hours ago, Enderman said:
you download the media creation tool here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10
then you choose your USB and it will download windows to the USB for you
Yeah I did that when I saw that I couldn't just download the ISO. All is well now, Windows 10 has been installed. Thank you!
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11 minutes ago, Enderman said:
Looks like the option to just download an ISO straight off MS' site is gone, but the Media Creation Tool thing is currently downloading it for the upgrade through that. Hopefully this one works.
I would look you in the eye and thank you but looking at endermen isn't a good idea for noobs like me.
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I reinstalled Windows 7 yesterday (as it was the only option I had in terms of what I had lying around on a USB drive), and after some updating issues (which got solved with a Microsoft FixIt thing that I can link if necessary), and then hours of updating, I got the GWX app again. As I actually quite enjoyed using Windows 10 on both my laptop and desktop, I hit upgrade. Then something close to a minute passed, and all that happened was: GWX closed, and Windows Update opened.
I've been googling almost all day trying to figure it out, but it seems like I'm the only one in the entire world with this issue.
My laptop is an HP ProBook 4330S, 13.3" 1366x768, i3 2350M or something, 4 GB ram, Intel HD3000 gfx.. and I have my ASUS PA238Q connected via HDMI to have a proper screen while I wait for my desktop PC to arrive. I am running WIndows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Same ISO used for installing Windows 7 as last time I did it, and same used on my desktop PC as well, which also had no issues.
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Now I need more volts. All good.
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It seems I have solved it by disabling power saving features such as the C6, AMD Cool n Quiet, and some protection thing that "keeps your system from having sudden issues". Seems stable right now. I'll watch a couple episodes of Hunter x Hunter, if nothing happens I'll mark this as solved in an hour.
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I just set my FX8320 to 4 GHz using multiplier in the BIOS on my MSI 970 Gaming board, just to get 4 GHz all the time, as I have good enough cooling. I already know that I can't overclock it as well as I could my old Sabertooth board but what's happening is weird. I set manual voltage to +0 just so auto voltage wouldn't fuck up my temps like it used to do, but during this stresstest I've hit a max of 62 C, which I never saw happen, but as of typing this, my temp hit 58 C, and then core speed dropped to 1.4 GHz on all cores, and voltage dropped to 0.8 volts or so. Prime95 is of course running, I'm not getting any errors. The drop goes on for like 10 seconds then goes back up to 1.248 volts and 4 Ghz and climbs up to 58.1 C then drops again... But now temps climbed to 57.9 and then it dropped.
EDIT: forgot to mention that core usage stays at 100% all the time
What is going on?
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Normally you'd change your DPI so everything in Windows would be the same when you change the resolution, but in CS:GO the resolution and sensitivity have no correlation.
For CS: Keep your DPI the same and you'll play the same. If you decide to change your DPI in order to make Windows feel the same, you can use this equation to get the same sens in CS:
DPI * ingame sens = actual DPI if your sens was 1.
example: 800 DPI * 1.7 ingame = 1360.
then if you change your sens to for example 600, just do this: 1360 / 600 and you'll get the sens you need ingame to get the same movement you had before.
Also @CatXice why would you say "dpi is wrong its ppi" when those are two completely different things? DPI = Dots per inch which is how many times the sensor in the mouse counts 1 pixel change per inch of mouse movement and PPI is Pixels Per Inch which is just measuring how many pixels there are per inch on your screen. Those two are mostly unrelated. What you said about adjusting DPI is right though.