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The real question is why do they make motherboards period?

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The real question is why do they make motherboards period?

Performance wise you will get more for your money out of a desktop.

I mean I wouldn't recommend that as if would mean more chances for EMI and electrical noise. I would recomend just getting a longer USB cable. What headphones are you using BTW?

HD6XX is pretty good for gaming. Please excuse Turtle here as he hasn’t the slightest clue what he is talking about.

I thought we went over how this was not true?

HD6XX is pretty good for gaming. Please excuse Turtle here as he hasn’t the slightest clue what he is talking about.

Wait what?

It won't work. Razer support is worthless. They told me 110C is a ok operating temperature for a CPU.

Ok well first of all if you are spending money on a custom loop for this system, don't. You could put that money towards a new much better system. Even overclocking this now that it is on water is not going to come even close to making up the gains you could get by just putting the loop money into new parts.

CPU bottleneck. We told you a million times.

I'm well aware of that. 

CPU bottleneck. We told you a million times.

I'm well aware of that. 

CPU bottleneck. We told you a million times.

What's the difference between buffered and unbuffered?

Nor should anyone else as Razer sends cherry picked units to reviewers. Any testing anyone reviewer does of thermals is 100% irrelevant. Their stuff is total junk as you guys found out a few years back when you actually bought Blades like everyone else and almost all of them had problems. Just look at the massive complaints in the review sections on Amazon of the major issues people have with them. Razer laptops are a massive trap.

Nor should anyone else as Razer sends cherry picked units to reviewers. Any testing anyone reviewer does of thermals is 100% irrelevant. Their stuff is total junk as you guys found out a few years back when you actually bought Blades like everyone else and almost all of them had problems. Just look at the massive complaints in the review sections on Amazon of the major issues people have with them. Razer laptops are a massive trap.

Nor should anyone else as Razer sends cherry picked units to reviewers. Any testing anyone reviewer does of thermals is 100% irrelevant. Their stuff is total junk as you guys found out a few years back when you actually bought Blades like everyone else and almost all of them had problems. Just look at the massive complaints in the review sections on Amazon of the major issues people have with them. Razer laptops are a massive trap.

As many of you know, I am a very outspoken critic of the Audio Technica ATH-M50X headphones. I have written an entire thread on why I think they are terrible headphones and explaining the hype behind them and why that is all based out of ignorance. Speaking of which, I got someone who asked me why all these different platinum album artists use them then? And his logic was that since all these famous people use them, they must be good. While I understand the logic that would make you come to that conclusion, that position is also based out of ignorance of how the music production industry works. Let me give my insight as someone who works with sound and has been in and around studios.
 
You often see the term "Studio Headphones" thrown around. This leads many people to believe typically one of two things. 1. They must be good since they are used in a studio. 2. That they are neutral because they make music with them so they must not color the sound. Both of those things are wrong. The thing you have to understand is that studios are businesses. In today's world of mainstream music, there are very few artists and producers that put in the time to make a really well recorded and master track, because it is time consuming and time is money. Also, 99% of people have no idea the difference between a well recorded and mastered track, and a bad one. So, by their logic it is not worth the time are effort if no one is going to care.
 
Continuing with this idea of studios being a business, studios don't use what is best, they use what is cheap, durable, and gets the job done. Less money spent on gear means more profit for them, so why spend thousands of dollars on headphones? Cheap and durable is what they look for.
 
Now going back the notion that studio headphones are neutral, that is not true. You see, music is not mixed and mastered on headphones; it is done on speakers. Headphones when it comes to mastering are only used as a check to see what something sounds like on another devices besides the studio monitors. People who care will typically also check mixes on say a phone speaker to see what other people will hear. Now people also see people using headphones will recording, DJing, or performing live. In these cases what headphones you use makes no difference whatsoever. When recording, your headphones are only for you to hear the mix, say a singer recording vocals will have the music playing through the headphones. DJs look for headphones that can be played loudly to drown out the crowd, are durable for them to be thrown in a bag and not break, and many look for ones that can be worn on one ear. Performing live is a similar situation, it is just to hear your mix, you don't need accuracy. Also, you can theoretically mix on any headphones as long as you know their sound signature and know how to compensate for it. So studio headphones don't have to be neutral.
 
This is one of the reasons why the M50X is so popular, it is cheap, durable, folds, and can be worn on one ear. It covers all the basis for studio use, DJing, and live performance. However, this doesn't make it good for you to use for music or gaming as I described in my M50X thread. 
 
Finally I want to give a list of some of the most common studio headphones I see and show you how they are not neutral. 
 
Audio Technica M50X: Bloated bass, sharp highs, terrible grainy mid range:

Audio Technica M40X: Same as M50X

AKG K240: No bass and sharp peaky highs. Also very narrow and intense

Sony MDR 7506: No bass, elevated mid range, very grainy.

Beyer Dynamic DT770: Insanely bloated bass with sharp highs

Beyer Dynamic DT990: Painfully sharp and peaky highs

Sennheiser HD280 Pro: Huge dip in the lower and upper treble with an insane 9K peak.

Sennheiser HD380 Pro: Bloated bass, inconsistent mid range, and peaky treble with rolloff.

 
I hope you learned something from this thread. And remember, the term "Studio Headphones" means basically nothing and doesn't mean they are good or neutral.

Considering this CPU doesn't exist, that could be your issue.

Look up the GMMK. It is pretty cheap for the base and it is a hot swap so you can pick your own switches and change them out, and you can pick your own keycaps and stabilizers. I would just get the frame and PCB from them, and then get switches, caps, and stabs from elsewhere. 

4K 144hz has some problems right now. First off you can't get it without overclocking the monitor which causes some loss in color space. Not to mention the monitors are $2000. I would stick to 144p 144hz for now.