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If you have local computer stores try those locations, I started at BestBuy I migrated to Tiger Direct but after a few weeks of being dicked around by the Canada government was unable to start at TigerDirect so I moved into the grocery business which has a decent amount of computer system related tasks for those that are interested on the file maintenance side.

Corsair is good but their RMA's suck ass if you aren't in the united states, they don't provide pre-paid shipping labels for most RMA's even if the shipping costs half as much as the product itself. They are one of my preferred brands when it comes to hardware but due to their RMA process in Canada I cannot help but feel like I may not be purchasing as many Corsair branded products anymore. Get a RMA Depot in Canada and I'll change my opinion completely.

If you're purchasing something 'Used' from Amazon make sure it's actually from Amazon Warehouse Deals, I personally have purchased Used products from that specific subsection of Amazon because their used products are typically brand new products that had irreparable damage done to it's packaging and had to be opened and inspected. Besides that I would base it on a case by case basis for other retailers or individuals, look at their feedback, see if you can contact them for pictures, at the end of the day most 'Used' pairs of headphones are from people who purchased them and immediately were dissatisfied with their purchase and are trying to recoup some of their money back. If you do buy a used pair of headphones make sure you clean them really well with isopropyl alcohol just to be extra sanitary.

They shipped it in the retail packaging, the second one they shipped was wrapped in bubble wrap in it's own box which was also surrounded by another box which was packed with additional packing materials to stop the box from moving inside and thus reducing the chance for damage to the HD. This has only ever happened to me with Amazon Retail HD's, I have never had it happen with anything else. There is a reason why the replacement was so terrifically packaged. The first time Amazon destroyed it, that is why they cross shipped me a second drive free of charge with one day shipping and then gave me a partial refund on Amazon.ca for the product.

I am reviewing the service Amazon offers when it comes to Hard Drives, this should serve as a warning to people looking to buy hard drives from Amazon. If you purchase the retail packaging version of a hard drive they will ship it in that box with no additional protection, this resulted in my first Western Digital Blue 1TB (EZEX Model) having a delayed death and finally dying completely after under a month of usage as a movie storage drive. Upon replacing it with Amazon the replacement drive I had them send me was an OEM product so they shipped it wrapped in bubble wrap which was put into a box which was then placed into another box with additional packing material. The whole time for this process took 2 business days, the second drive seems to be working flawlessly but I'm hoping to save other people the trouble of dealing with this issue, Amazon seems to have a bad reputation around the Hard Drive reviews that I've seen for delivering dead drives due to shipping damages. The customer service more than makes up for my issues but the shipping shouldn't ever be a concern when I'm buying something and for hard drives I can confidently state that I wil never purchase another hard drive from Amazon.

The only issue I had with my M50's was the clamping, that was solved by bending them slightly, I simply didn't want to wait for several weeks for the headband to break in so I chose to do it manually. Overall these are the best headphones I've owned but I am now planning on taking another step up to something better in the future. I like them, I find them kind of low on the bass side of things compared to what I was used to but it's definitely there. It made me enjoy a genre of music that I had grown tired of again.

This isn't going to be a full review, I am creating this topic so that people with a similar (or the same) power supply will know that the CyberPower CP1000AVRLCD functions correctly with the Corsair HX650. - This PSU has Active PFC - This UPS is not a Pure Sine Wave model - The estimated run time with 225w is between 10 - 14 minutes - The UPS smells like new plastic - The UPS is dead silent except when it is using it's battery which causes a noticeable hum for both the PSU and UPS - The AVR functions correctly and is quiet while doing so! - There is a self test function with the included software download for PowerPlan Personal Edition Let it be known, people with HX series power supplies are probably A-Okay to use these non-Sine Wave UPS offerings from Cyberpower without issue, it functions for me, tried it with maximum load from my PC with FurMark & OCCT (or Prime95) running and a decent overclock (1GHz) and still at 300w was able to switch to and from battery backup power without issue. The basic specifications for my PC are below. Intel Core i5 4690k (4.5GHz) Gigabyte GTX 760 OC Corsair HX650 Western Digital Blue 1TB Hard Drive (7.2k RPM) Crucial MX100 128GB SSD BenQ GL2450 24" LED Monitor BenQ GL2460 24" LED Monitor I'll update if there are any issues, .

Not to be mean but it seems like something that wouldn't be entirely useful, the color coding system is rather clear cut as is and expanding on it with performance numbers for various tasks would simply reinforce their current desired methods of use. At most a comparison between the Blue offerings and Red or Purple would be the only test I think would be valuable as the other drives have been tested, reviewed and benchmarked across the internet for years and most people seem to know Black > Blue > Green. Blue: Solid performance and reliability for everyday computing. Black: Maximum performance for power computing. Green: Cool, quiet operation with massive capacity. Purple: Built for personal, home office or small business surveillance systems using up to 32 cameras. Red: Designed and tested for RAID environments. Source: Western Digital

I've only tried it with internal DAC's, the most recent being the powered headphone amp / audio chip on the Z97X-UD3H-BK motherboard and there isn't much of a difference in terms of quality but there is in terms of loudness. Most of what I've read seems to say that these work well with everything and that there isn't much of a difference unless you're willing to spend a lot on a DAC/AMP setup over a good onboard audio offering.

Online Store: Out of Stock I feel like people who buy this will be waiting for a few weeks to get their products.

It's only present when C3/C6 states are enabled, EIST has no effect but based on Google seems to also cause humming for some people. The power supply was swapped out for one that I know have absolutely no coil whine at idle / load with a similar draw and the noise persisted. I don't believe it is coil whine unless that's something that can also happen to a motherboard and not just a power supply, video card, etc.

It didn't happen on my old AM3+ platform with my FX6300, however with my 4690k & Z97X-UD3H I can hear an electrical hum randomly if any of the 3 options mentioned in the topic title are enabled. Is this a common issue? Disabling them doesn't have an impact on my idle temperatures or overclock stability so I'm not too concerned about disabling them I'm more interested in seeing if this is a common occurrence or just with my build. It's a curse, I spend money building a silent PC only to have random normally unnoticed noises become noticeable.

It's going to be my OS Drive, I'll probably just end up installing basic applications and the OS on it with one or two games and then just making sure it's not defragging (which should be done automatically by Windows when an SSD is detected) and move my desktop 'Stuff' folder to the HDD.