Dunkan77

Well looks like I'll buy the HD599s! I'm not going to commit to buying a standalone amp just yet. Thanks everyone

Ok I get it, thanks!

Ah.. I see and yeah it would make it hiss and distort

Alright, you all pretty much said I won't be able to drive them to the full volume. I however rarely raise the volume within windows above 30% (with all other in-line rockers/app master volumes to the max). Would it still affect my experience? And I might indeed go with Sennheiser

Hello guys, I am currently shopping for some new headphones as my old Siberia V2's just gave out. I narrowed my choice down to the Sennheiser HD599, Beyerdynamic BT880 pro and 990 pro. These have the most features I want in a headset and at a price point I'm comfortable with. If any of you have experience using any of these let me know, I'll greatly appreciate any additional feedback! I wanted to know in the event I went with one of the beyerdynamic ones, whether or not I'd be able to drive them without having to turn my volume all the way up as they have a 250ohm impedance. I have a Maximus VIII Hero and from what I've heard it has great built-in audio, I wanted to know whether or not this was true and whether I could trust Asus' marketing material advertising it would drive anything with up to a 600ohm impedance. Thanks in advance!

Update: This thread heloed me a lot with my first time ever using LM, I'm grateful to you all who have participated. I have however found out that the most counter intuituve thing to me had happened. Applying LM and reducing the temps in doing so has rendered my one and a half year old 4.7 GHz overclock at 1.37V unstable... My CPU now need over 1.39V to run stable at the same 4.7 GHz. The issue has technically been resolved but I wanted to know what could've caused instability in an overclock that's been running fully stably for nearly two years AND at higher temps than today. This to me goes against everything I've ever seen and learned about overclocking (colder chips tend to overclock better and be more stable). At the very least reducing the temps shouldn't have changed the stability, but to me having it decrease is bewildering. Thanks again for your support! I'd be happy if someone knew why this happened.

Alright, I'll do all of this today. I have already lowered my CPU overclock my 100 MHz. It's a real shame if that's what happened... I don't know why delidding would make the CPU less stable

This has fixed it for only one game that doesn't put the CPU under a lot of load. BF1, Forza and other more intensive games still crash and even hard lock my pc... I don't know what else to do at this point

This is after adding some LM to the die, I have also cleaned the contact pads and will reinstall the CPU for further stress testing and in-game testing Update: The added LM dropped the temperatures even further, I was running 73 C on average with prime95 small FFT and now it's in the mid 60's. Stability testing is still underway

Well, wouldn't shorting two non power carrying pins still mess with the system and prevent it from booting?

Wouldn't that have shorted and killed the CPU instantly?

I was thinking the same thing. So in summary I will add more LM to both the IHS and the die and clean off the contact pads which somehow got dirty enough to crash under load but not enough to crash right away.

Time to break out the old flathead then (not) I think I never had problems not cleaning the pads because I never really handled a CPU as much as I did today, oh well you learn everyday.

I might just go buy some silicon to reseal the IHS for convenience' sake. Also, LM can be "reused" right? As in I don't need to clean it all out after each taking apart like I have to with paste?

You are correct, the 6700K like the 8700K has no SMD's thankfully. I don't know if by "under side" you meant the contact pads, but I did manipulate the CPU and forgot about cleaning them out before installing it in. I will try this tomorrow.