DrewZealot

Welp, now the Asus Ares II 7970 is the fastest dual GPU card in the world, or, more simply put, the fastest video card in the world.

Haha, I'm not about to drop my friends just because they don't agree with me on the subject.

Oh oh oh and I am in no way saying that one is better than the other, that is preference, only that mice are indeed more accurate than a thumbstick

"I feel the need - the need for speed!"

Hey guys, So my friends were arguing with me that mice are in no way more accurate than the thumbsticks on a gamepad. I proceeded to argue that mice are far more accurate and it was silly of them to think otherwise. I brought up the fact that PC FPS don't have auto aim enabled by default while consoles do, and that if they were to play on CS:GO with their gamepads, against people using a mouse they would get thrashed. They continued to say I was wrong and they were right, and since I had no evidence on hand or scientific data and I was outnumbered in the argument, they won by default. However, I plan to be prepared next time! I need evidence, data, case studies, videos, examples... Anything to make them see the truth! Thank you :)

God help you. That does sound like an interesting combination of food. I wonder if it's ever been done before?

OOOOOH. Minority Report

Those temps are a little hot. Have you dusted out your computer and your graphics card? Are you overclocking at all?

Looking good. I, personally, would take out the pink lighting and add some red instead, just cause I am sort of OCD about color matching haha.

Lookin good. Did you work to get this money yourself or was it a gift?

That is unfortunate that you feel this way. I personally am an MSI fanboy, and have loved their products to death. As for the owning up to the mistake part, that sounds a little harsh. I doubt MSI is trying to hide something, as there really is not benefit to doing something like that. Maybe they were telling the actual truth, and you really do need a BIOS update? Have you tried that yet?

Sound cards are technologically superior to almost any onboard sound you can get, with the exception of some ultra high end motherboards. Depending on the sound card, they can be better at different things. The Essence STX is good for headphones, because it can push impedance of up to 600 ohms. This means you are getting well over $1,000 headphone range before you can't run your headphone off of that sound card. With onbooard sound, they can generally only push around 32 - 80 ohms of impedance, which is what mid range headphones generally have. Not to mention signal to noise ratio. The Essence STX (this is what I will use for my examples because it is the one I own and know the most about) has 124 dB SNR. Every 3 dB is a doubling of sound quality and crispness. I am not totally positive on the specification of most onboard audio for SNR, however I would assume it is in the 100-110 dB range. This means that sound quality difference between my STX and onboard is 4-8x better. Not to mention the fact that usually onboard does not have input for things like 7.1 surround. It also does not usually come with the suite of software that people may like for their audio equipment, such as Dolby Headphone. Now, if you have $50 headphones or some cheap speakers, will having a nice sound card make a difference? Probably not, because the bottleneck in that setup is probably your equipment, not the actual source of the sound. However, if you have really nice speakers or headphones, you would most certainly notice a difference between onboard and dedicated. Most notably would be the background static. Also, just as an example, my Beyerdynamic DT770's have a technology in them that allows them to amplify lower noise signals, so I can pick up bass that would otherwise not be heard. If I were to plug these into onboard sound, the source of the sound itself will not pick up this low frequency, making that technology in my headphones useless. tl;dr: Dedicated sound is better in every way, shape and form to onboard sound as long as your actual sound equipment is not the bottleneck.

Well, I think you explained the whole subject rather well. Basically, gaming laptops are for people who move around a lot, not necessarily gaming on the go. Maybe for people who travel a lot and are in hotels a lot of the time. They may want a laptop for mobile purposes, and then while they are at the hotel they can play games or something.