Lauen

Just goes to add further weight to what many of us have been saying for years now,  All companies lie, cheat, say whatever to get the job done, but when one gets caught out everyone carries on like no one else does it.  It doesn't matter if you bought shares in AMD or GTX970 an unethical outcome is an unethical outcome.
 
Let's hope this is just a storm in a teacup or we might be looking at another takeover.  Part of me really hopes for a Samsung v Nvidia GPU shootout.  But I don't want to see AMD go the way of 3dfx. 

Last I checked you don't even need the @
 
test: Dark_wizzie
 
EDIT: Test successful.
 
 
also: I've used two dedicated soundcards in my life, both Asus Xonar, one DX and one D2X. the DX got some weird interference on the mic, directly related to the graphics card (at the time I had an XFX HD6870), there would be a noise (on the mic), and the pitch of the noise changed with the FPS I got in games. Minecraft would give it a very high pitched whine, and DayZ gave it a low hum. I then swapped it out for a D2X, and no more trouble with that.
 
Later down the road I have upgraded my setup a bit, I now have a pair of ATH-M50's, SRH440 from Shure, Sennheiser PC360 (basically 518's), and CHC Silverado, JBL J33 in-ears, and Soundmagic PL50 in-ears. When I got the J33s, I tried to plug them into the D2X card, and the high output impedance of the D2X (10~ ohm) barely gave me sound through the 16 ohm in-ears. the dampening factor actually broke the J33s. So there's that. And I can't hear any difference at all between that card and my onboard (Realtek ALC892 on an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0). I have also checked with other people, and they can't hear any difference either. My hearing isn't bad either, I used to have slightly impaired hearing but over the years my ears have become more sensitive than any of my friends (who supposedly have perfect hearing).
 
Sure, there might be super high end soundcards, but those are ludacris amounts of money. and it being inside the case doesn't exactly help. Then there's output impedance, which pretty much all of the ASUS Xonar cards (and most of the Creative Soundblasters) usually put out like 10 at least. the new STX II has, by my research, around 40 ohm output impedance, rendering it useless for any headphones with less than 320 ohm impedance, due to the dampening factor where headphones should be 8 times the impedance of the output of the amp.
 
 
 
If you want good onboard, there's stock Realtek, and then there is ONE good solution: ASRock's Purity Sound. It uses a Realtek ALC1150 dac, which is very good spec-wise, and then a TI NE5532 headphone amp, which is a transparent amp, no coloring of the sound, 0.3 ohm output impedance, and enough power for most headphones on the market, and the amp itself is less than a dollar if I can remember correctly.
If you absolutely need an internal soundcard for something, just grab a cheap Asus card, like the DGX. I wouldn't trust it to be AMAZING or anything, but it would probably do its job quite fine.
 
and then there's the best solution from my perspective, just getting an external setup. it'll be outside the computer, you can have it on optical for no ground loops and as little as possible interference, it can have its own psu for cleaner power, and you can even use it on different computers just by unplugging it from your pc, and into another, even laptops, where a dedicated soundcard wouldn't be usable.
 
And not to mention: the STX II is like $300 or something, while you can get an o2 and odac for less, which will be better for straight up stereo music listening, cus it has low output impedance (0.1 ohm or something), enough power for pretty much any headphone ever, and it's a completely transparent amp, no sound coloring. For $40 you can get the Syba dac which also works absolutely great, it even has a mic input on it.

Last I checked you don't even need the @
 
test: Dark_wizzie
 
EDIT: Test successful.
 
 
also: I've used two dedicated soundcards in my life, both Asus Xonar, one DX and one D2X. the DX got some weird interference on the mic, directly related to the graphics card (at the time I had an XFX HD6870), there would be a noise (on the mic), and the pitch of the noise changed with the FPS I got in games. Minecraft would give it a very high pitched whine, and DayZ gave it a low hum. I then swapped it out for a D2X, and no more trouble with that.
 
Later down the road I have upgraded my setup a bit, I now have a pair of ATH-M50's, SRH440 from Shure, Sennheiser PC360 (basically 518's), and CHC Silverado, JBL J33 in-ears, and Soundmagic PL50 in-ears. When I got the J33s, I tried to plug them into the D2X card, and the high output impedance of the D2X (10~ ohm) barely gave me sound through the 16 ohm in-ears. the dampening factor actually broke the J33s. So there's that. And I can't hear any difference at all between that card and my onboard (Realtek ALC892 on an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0). I have also checked with other people, and they can't hear any difference either. My hearing isn't bad either, I used to have slightly impaired hearing but over the years my ears have become more sensitive than any of my friends (who supposedly have perfect hearing).
 
Sure, there might be super high end soundcards, but those are ludacris amounts of money. and it being inside the case doesn't exactly help. Then there's output impedance, which pretty much all of the ASUS Xonar cards (and most of the Creative Soundblasters) usually put out like 10 at least. the new STX II has, by my research, around 40 ohm output impedance, rendering it useless for any headphones with less than 320 ohm impedance, due to the dampening factor where headphones should be 8 times the impedance of the output of the amp.
 
 
 
If you want good onboard, there's stock Realtek, and then there is ONE good solution: ASRock's Purity Sound. It uses a Realtek ALC1150 dac, which is very good spec-wise, and then a TI NE5532 headphone amp, which is a transparent amp, no coloring of the sound, 0.3 ohm output impedance, and enough power for most headphones on the market, and the amp itself is less than a dollar if I can remember correctly.
If you absolutely need an internal soundcard for something, just grab a cheap Asus card, like the DGX. I wouldn't trust it to be AMAZING or anything, but it would probably do its job quite fine.
 
and then there's the best solution from my perspective, just getting an external setup. it'll be outside the computer, you can have it on optical for no ground loops and as little as possible interference, it can have its own psu for cleaner power, and you can even use it on different computers just by unplugging it from your pc, and into another, even laptops, where a dedicated soundcard wouldn't be usable.
 
And not to mention: the STX II is like $300 or something, while you can get an o2 and odac for less, which will be better for straight up stereo music listening, cus it has low output impedance (0.1 ohm or something), enough power for pretty much any headphone ever, and it's a completely transparent amp, no sound coloring. For $40 you can get the Syba dac which also works absolutely great, it even has a mic input on it.

It's still pretty lackluster, but I myself have what I need. 

The suppository speaker!
 
No, in all seriousness, it looks beautiful, very stylish, would be proud to showcase it in my living room.

Well, it's relatively high end. It's no benchmark crusher, but it's way more than enough to run WP smoothly for a long time. It doesn't hang and lag nearly as much as Android.
 
Also there just hasn't been any windows phone thats not budget for such a long time, the line's are blurred. And it looks like a high quality phone

Source
 
A guy on Twitter linked me this when I tweeted that there were no good waterproof windows phones (bit of a coincidence it was launched on the same day) 
 
And it looks pretty damn nice! 
 
It's a 5.5" display, you can apparently choose between an HD (I assume this is 1280x720) and a full HD (1920x1080) display! It's got Gorilla glass on the screen but the article doesn't mention which generation..
 
It comes with a Qualcomm Cortex 64 bit, quad core at 1.2 GHz, it doesn't mention the model number or anything. 
 
 
2 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage, and a microSD slot with support for up to 32 GB (slightly disappointing, 128 gb would be sick imo).
 
13 MP Sony camera, 5 MP selfie. There's even a heart rate monitor in it. 4G and all that jazz, but no word on which category it is. and last, a nice 2600 mah battery! 
 
 
It's pretty slim too.

 
Price has not been released, but it's supposed to come to EU, Asia and the US! Looks like if Linus wants to review it he'd have to get it from the US then, even though he doesn't really like Windows Phone. 

It's still pretty lackluster, but I myself have what I need. 

I disagree, stick with childish zoom zoom names for maybe Gaming monitors, but give a real monitor a real name, the monitor you own you will probably know its name, PA248Q is simple but means something ROG Swift just means I GO FAST

holy crap

Why doesn't valve just fix the matches themselves instead of letting other players deal with these broken matches.

Just a reminder that although you are allowed to indicate that a thread is a repost, please don't do so in anything other than the default font size, and please include a link to make it much easier for us to verify and to allow other people to migrate to the original thread.
EDIT: I am still looking for a link to the original thread. If nobody can provide one, this thread will be reopened.

so since were pulling news out of our butts now, AMD and NVIDIA are working together to make a gpu that combines a 980 and a r9 390x.

All these people complaining about power draw lol.  970 G1 has a 250W bios on it by default, any overclocking and you're already up there in power draw. The G1 980 has a 300W bios on it as well.
Just because the TDP is low doesn't mean the power draw is.  Yes they are very efficient, but they aren't as efficient as people think, especially not once you start overclocking.
 
 
If this card outperforms a 970 or 980, who cares if it uses more power? If it's faster it's faster. 

Hurrayyy!!!!!!'
 
(on a side note i may be slightly too drunk to forum properly)

Dual PCB design perhaps, like the old Nvidia GTX 295?

I was reading the thread and I got to page 23 before I realized there were 220 pages..
 
My favorite car is a VW Golf Mk3 1.9 TDK (75 hp). Manual transmission is a must.
 
I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but those specific cars hold a lot of sentimental value to me. My first car was a "tornado red" variant of the Mk3 Golf, and it had said 1.9 TDK engine. When I got it, it had gone 270K miles, and the clutch, engine and suspension felt pretty good. As far as I know, what was done to get it legal before I got it (my dad has been a mechanic for 30 years of his life, not anymore though) was: replaced entire brake system in front, new handbrake wires, replaced air, oil and diesel filters, LOTS of welding and rust treatment, and more that I can't think of right now.
 
The car started as long as it had power in the battery and diesel in the tank. During my time with it I changed the transmission (reverse disappeared and I had issues actually changing gears) and all engine and transmission mounts. New tires too.
I had many adventures with it. Trips around in the snow, summer cruising with friends, a LOT of just roaming around listening to music. The car in general was in really really bad shape, but the engine just worked.
Only pic I have of it, sadly.

This was right after I polished it with "color polish". Before polishing, most of it was pink LOL.
 
Eventually I realized this car was not meant for keeping, it had too much rust. I had it for about 9 months. The total miles when I scrapped it was 300K miles. I then bought a Peugeot 307 hatchback off my dad, and scrapped the Golf. It only cost me 400 USD anyway. PURPLE! A nice car to drive actually, but it didn't feel right. It was a really efficient car too, it had a 2.0 HDi engine with 90 hp, but I got almost 50 mpg with it, very nice. I sadly crashed it after only owning it for 6 months, and I also lost my license because of said crash, I was an idiot. Here it is after the crash.

 
Then my sisters boyfriend who runs a small workshop and often gets cars in trade for fixing other cars got a VW Golf Mk3, imported from the US actually, with a 1.9 TDK engine, and they decided that it was the perfect car for me, so I got it as a christmas present. I opened up a small box on Christmas eve and inside it was a VW key, and they led me into the garage so I could see it. Happiest moment of my life. it was an estate with a sunroof, imported from the US (just a year after it was purchased in the US actually and I got it on the 24th of december 2013)
 

 
Eventually we realized this was a lost cause too, as it had INSANE amounts of rust.
 
Then I sold the Peugeot 307 back to my father as he wanted to get something done with it and help me towards getting a new car, and it was decided that my sisters boyfriend had a Peugeot 406 with the same 2.0 HDi as the 307, and it was the perfect car for me, a much more stylish saloon / sedan in a lovely blue color, with a nice diesel engine. Here are some of my best pictures of it:
 



 
 
I really like simple, mid-sized diesel engines such as the VW 1.9 TDK (AAZ). Both the Golf's I had did close to 300K miles with mostly just oil and filter swaps. the Peugeot 2.0 HDi is a good one too, decent power (90 hp is okay for me) and good mileage.
 
EDIT: The 406 is currently not working, as it had some issues with the rocker arms or what you call them (I'm not that savvy and I don't know half of the words in english, my general vocabulary is good though) but all the parts have arrived and my dad is gonna start work on it tomorrow I think.

I was reading the thread and I got to page 23 before I realized there were 220 pages..
 
My favorite car is a VW Golf Mk3 1.9 TDK (75 hp). Manual transmission is a must.
 
I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but those specific cars hold a lot of sentimental value to me. My first car was a "tornado red" variant of the Mk3 Golf, and it had said 1.9 TDK engine. When I got it, it had gone 270K miles, and the clutch, engine and suspension felt pretty good. As far as I know, what was done to get it legal before I got it (my dad has been a mechanic for 30 years of his life, not anymore though) was: replaced entire brake system in front, new handbrake wires, replaced air, oil and diesel filters, LOTS of welding and rust treatment, and more that I can't think of right now.
 
The car started as long as it had power in the battery and diesel in the tank. During my time with it I changed the transmission (reverse disappeared and I had issues actually changing gears) and all engine and transmission mounts. New tires too.
I had many adventures with it. Trips around in the snow, summer cruising with friends, a LOT of just roaming around listening to music. The car in general was in really really bad shape, but the engine just worked.
Only pic I have of it, sadly.

This was right after I polished it with "color polish". Before polishing, most of it was pink LOL.
 
Eventually I realized this car was not meant for keeping, it had too much rust. I had it for about 9 months. The total miles when I scrapped it was 300K miles. I then bought a Peugeot 307 hatchback off my dad, and scrapped the Golf. It only cost me 400 USD anyway. PURPLE! A nice car to drive actually, but it didn't feel right. It was a really efficient car too, it had a 2.0 HDi engine with 90 hp, but I got almost 50 mpg with it, very nice. I sadly crashed it after only owning it for 6 months, and I also lost my license because of said crash, I was an idiot. Here it is after the crash.

 
Then my sisters boyfriend who runs a small workshop and often gets cars in trade for fixing other cars got a VW Golf Mk3, imported from the US actually, with a 1.9 TDK engine, and they decided that it was the perfect car for me, so I got it as a christmas present. I opened up a small box on Christmas eve and inside it was a VW key, and they led me into the garage so I could see it. Happiest moment of my life. it was an estate with a sunroof, imported from the US (just a year after it was purchased in the US actually and I got it on the 24th of december 2013)
 

 
Eventually we realized this was a lost cause too, as it had INSANE amounts of rust.
 
Then I sold the Peugeot 307 back to my father as he wanted to get something done with it and help me towards getting a new car, and it was decided that my sisters boyfriend had a Peugeot 406 with the same 2.0 HDi as the 307, and it was the perfect car for me, a much more stylish saloon / sedan in a lovely blue color, with a nice diesel engine. Here are some of my best pictures of it:
 



 
 
I really like simple, mid-sized diesel engines such as the VW 1.9 TDK (AAZ). Both the Golf's I had did close to 300K miles with mostly just oil and filter swaps. the Peugeot 2.0 HDi is a good one too, decent power (90 hp is okay for me) and good mileage.
 
EDIT: The 406 is currently not working, as it had some issues with the rocker arms or what you call them (I'm not that savvy and I don't know half of the words in english, my general vocabulary is good though) but all the parts have arrived and my dad is gonna start work on it tomorrow I think.

I was reading the thread and I got to page 23 before I realized there were 220 pages..
 
My favorite car is a VW Golf Mk3 1.9 TDK (75 hp). Manual transmission is a must.
 
I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but those specific cars hold a lot of sentimental value to me. My first car was a "tornado red" variant of the Mk3 Golf, and it had said 1.9 TDK engine. When I got it, it had gone 270K miles, and the clutch, engine and suspension felt pretty good. As far as I know, what was done to get it legal before I got it (my dad has been a mechanic for 30 years of his life, not anymore though) was: replaced entire brake system in front, new handbrake wires, replaced air, oil and diesel filters, LOTS of welding and rust treatment, and more that I can't think of right now.
 
The car started as long as it had power in the battery and diesel in the tank. During my time with it I changed the transmission (reverse disappeared and I had issues actually changing gears) and all engine and transmission mounts. New tires too.
I had many adventures with it. Trips around in the snow, summer cruising with friends, a LOT of just roaming around listening to music. The car in general was in really really bad shape, but the engine just worked.
Only pic I have of it, sadly.

This was right after I polished it with "color polish". Before polishing, most of it was pink LOL.
 
Eventually I realized this car was not meant for keeping, it had too much rust. I had it for about 9 months. The total miles when I scrapped it was 300K miles. I then bought a Peugeot 307 hatchback off my dad, and scrapped the Golf. It only cost me 400 USD anyway. PURPLE! A nice car to drive actually, but it didn't feel right. It was a really efficient car too, it had a 2.0 HDi engine with 90 hp, but I got almost 50 mpg with it, very nice. I sadly crashed it after only owning it for 6 months, and I also lost my license because of said crash, I was an idiot. Here it is after the crash.

 
Then my sisters boyfriend who runs a small workshop and often gets cars in trade for fixing other cars got a VW Golf Mk3, imported from the US actually, with a 1.9 TDK engine, and they decided that it was the perfect car for me, so I got it as a christmas present. I opened up a small box on Christmas eve and inside it was a VW key, and they led me into the garage so I could see it. Happiest moment of my life. it was an estate with a sunroof, imported from the US (just a year after it was purchased in the US actually and I got it on the 24th of december 2013)
 

 
Eventually we realized this was a lost cause too, as it had INSANE amounts of rust.
 
Then I sold the Peugeot 307 back to my father as he wanted to get something done with it and help me towards getting a new car, and it was decided that my sisters boyfriend had a Peugeot 406 with the same 2.0 HDi as the 307, and it was the perfect car for me, a much more stylish saloon / sedan in a lovely blue color, with a nice diesel engine. Here are some of my best pictures of it:
 



 
 
I really like simple, mid-sized diesel engines such as the VW 1.9 TDK (AAZ). Both the Golf's I had did close to 300K miles with mostly just oil and filter swaps. the Peugeot 2.0 HDi is a good one too, decent power (90 hp is okay for me) and good mileage.
 
EDIT: The 406 is currently not working, as it had some issues with the rocker arms or what you call them (I'm not that savvy and I don't know half of the words in english, my general vocabulary is good though) but all the parts have arrived and my dad is gonna start work on it tomorrow I think.

The problem is you have cherry picked an almost three year old game.
 
It's far broader than F1 2013, sigh.

"Und zen we raise ze voltage up three-fold..."

well it's serious shit man, even though it might be sarcastic it's still a death threat.

dude death threats are not cool

That screenshot is fake. Here's the real one courtesy of NFOHump.com

it does actually do that yes. its removing very high frequencies that you cant hear. something above like 16khz is my guess. so its saves space that way too. there are also other stuff, but this is just basic that saves space and removes junk that you dont need. there is some tweaks so there is no weird anomalies when converted.
 

If you have big enough library lol, yes it will store twice the songs. 4TB FLAC = 2TB MP3 320kbps
90$ saved
 
i think this is more for portable players. i mean FLAC is kay if you have 2TB drive with cuple hundred songs on. Just wouldnt pay more for it, or waste space for it.