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    EsaT got a reaction from Exaco in Beyerdynamic DT 880 or Steelseries Arctis Pro ?   
    As rule there's zero reason to trust really any gaming brand headset to be better than shoe string budget Superluxes.
    With rare exceptions those are bling blinged cheap production trinkets.
     
    How did you think gaming brands are able to afford all that legalized lying called marketing?
    Any Asus ROG, Razer, Roccat, Steelseries would be the least trustworthy ones.
    This is what kind bass boom garbage frequency response very advertised Shitberia v3 has:
    https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/6080/17/13-headsets-review-listen-in-higher-quality-testresults---frequency-response
    With most of the mids being 15dB below bass and treble couple spikes, only immersion it can likely give is head in bucket under water.
    That Turd Beach Z60 with less horrible frequency response sounds that compared to lowly Superlux HD-330, which is step below DT990.
    Didn't even know there could be that bad sound, until having chance to test that Turd Beach.
    Instead of good directionality and even feel of distance with binaural sound (on good headphones) sound collapses to having head in bucket, with everything coming from next to ear and other sounds just being more ambiguous/muffled than others.
     
     
    But audio maker product or gaming trinket, do you have quiet or noisy environment?
    Isolating noises of loud environment needs closed ear cup design.
    Which as downside isolates also heat especially with (p)leather pads increasing risk of ears sweating, which is bad for comfort of long gaming sessions.
     
    Also would you prefer to have some above neutral bass punch for good "fun factor" or neutral bass, which can feel "shy"/lacking impact?
    Knowing your current headphones could give some kind reference.
    Though from gaming garbage there's very little actual measurements.
     
    What motherboad you have?
    Some of them have actually usefull stuff bundled for headphone gaming.
    For gaming or movie watching with headphones most sound cards have even more important features than microphone input:
    Algorithms simulating binaural sound.
    Assuming your head shape is close to average and game producing good surround output, you can get good directionality and even feel of distance when using good headphones.
     
    And good sound cards use top quality digital to analog converters (that DAC) and some have very good headphone outputs enough for most headphones except worst power hogs.
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    EsaT got a reaction from c0mplexx* in Bought my first audiophile headphones (ath m40x), how should I take care of them?   
    Cable is likely the weakest point if mishandled.
    So like said above try to avoid tight bending stresses on it and especially near connectors.
    Also depending on cable length try to make sure that cable isn't falling to floor as big loop.
    Would be pretty easy to get that loop caught on something/step on it.
     
    Of course use both hands to take them off from head and set them on table gently etc, instead of just pulling with one hand and dropping them to table.
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    EsaT got a reaction from Kaylen in DT 990 600ohm Premium with Creative Soundblaster X7   
    Sound Blaster X7 is more than enough for them, unless you want to "retire" your hearing prematurely.
    (where's the fun in that if you can't enjoy good sound for as long as possible?)
     
    For music listening you might want to adjust 8kHz down some dBs in equalizer, but for gaming/movies you should like their sound if you're after good fun bass.
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    EsaT reacted to Arika in Why aren't there hybrid air/water coolers for CPUs?   
    well, I mean, technically water coolers are still air coolers, the heatsink and fans are just moved away from the CPU. 
  5. Informative
    EsaT got a reaction from TechyBen in Which is more important? Anti-static wrist strap or anti-static mat?   
    Most important thing is common sense.
    (even if it isn't that common)
    And thinking at least twice before doing anything when you're new to building PC.
     
     
    Depends entirely on environment and climate.
    I can guarantee there are places when ESD zapping stuff would be as easy as sitting into chair and touching exposed circuitry.
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    EsaT got a reaction from Ruffleduffle in lookin for a new pair of headphones   
    While likely those others have no problem with spending some 700-800€ to PC component, which loses majority of value in couple years and becomes mostly valueless in five years...
     
    There are some very good open headphones for gaming little above 100€, so buying affordable open ones now to test sound leaking and saving little more could be one option.
     
    Myself bought these just as experiment some years ago.
    https://www.thomann.de/de/superlux_hd_330.htm
    If their ear pads didn't feel like made for small Asian head and cable was better (rather stiff coiled cable) those would be for its price very good for fun gaming.
    (reference points Beyer DT990/HD595 Sennheiser)
    Though it's "only" semi-open even that doesn't make any real difference to sound isolation, except high frequencies.
    HD-681 would be even cheaper.
    https://www.thomann.de/de/superlux_hd681_b.htm
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    EsaT got a reaction from TaxxiDriver in Adding 2 new fans with a limited number of fan connectors   
    There's really no sense to have for example front intake fans doing same job running at different speeds.
    (or if having two fans in CPU heatsink)
    Unless being some super high speed noise makers at least two fans can be connected to pretty much any fan header.
    So it's easiest to use splitter for connecting them in parallel to same output.
    Though fans should be identical, or there's going to be speed disparity.
     
    Also fans must be controllable same way.
    PWM signal won't do any good with 3 pin fan.
    Though voltage control should be available from pretty much any motherboard and works with most fans.
    (except Corsair maglevs whose bearing malfunctions if fed lowered voltage)
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    EsaT got a reaction from Ruffleduffle in lookin for a new pair of headphones   
    When not listening anything you'll basically hear environment's sounds mostly normally through open headphones.
    (certainly with very open back mesh of that ATH)
    Though with driver only few centimeters from ear, it doesn't take much volume to bury sounds of non-noisy environment.
    But sounds of noisier environment will come through, unless listening at hearing dangerous volume.
    Also if your keyboard is one of the noisier ones, that could be very noticeable over quieter music.
    (especially MX Retro alias Blue switches)
     
    But closed ear cup's acoustical behaviour certainly makes it hard to get sound anything close to good open headphones from them.
     
    Though not sure if you would like AD500x, what I've seen in measurements ATH-ADs tend to be light on especially lower bass.
    While that HyperX Cloud should have clear bass emphasis with its closed design.
    AKG K612 should have little above neutral bass.
    https://www.thomann.de/de/akg_k_612_pro.htm
    Though for ~110€ there's Beyer DT990 Pro with good fun bass.
     
    If you're willing to experiment (deciding later if wanting to get closed or open headphones) and you're not sure about background noise with open headphones, there would be also some affordable headphones from Superlux.
    Of course if you have friends who could borrow you open headphones, that would be also good way to test if background noise bothers you with open headphones.
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    EsaT got a reaction from vanished in Can't hear certain fragments of a song, please help   
    If paying more than cheapest membrane keyboard price, you should choose keyboard with dedicated physical volume control.
    After all that's where you fingers/hands usually are, or at least close.
     
    Though as emergency solution NirCMD could be use for making "hotkeys" for changing volume by making desktop shortcuts for volume change commands and adding shortcut key for executing it.
    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
    https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-a-shortcut-or-hotkey-to-turn-off-the-monitor/
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    EsaT got a reaction from Lathlaer in Can't hear certain fragments of a song, please help   
    If paying more than cheapest membrane keyboard price, you should choose keyboard with dedicated physical volume control.
    After all that's where you fingers/hands usually are, or at least close.
     
    Though as emergency solution NirCMD could be use for making "hotkeys" for changing volume by making desktop shortcuts for volume change commands and adding shortcut key for executing it.
    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
    https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-a-shortcut-or-hotkey-to-turn-off-the-monitor/
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    EsaT got a reaction from _Hustler_One_ in The Most Defining Key Factor of Air Cooler Performance?   
    Bigger fan can move same airflow at lower RPM, but that means greatly decreased pressure.
    So it's not that straightforward and needs compensating in heatsink design.
     
    And same applies also to waterpipe coolers.
    Compact and/or slim radiators simply don't have excess of surface area.
    Which is why with additional noise sources those often struggle against good heatpipe coolers in cooling per noise.
     
    In similar type coolers weight is pretty good consultant for how much surface area there can be.
    Though making fins thinner gives more area per weight...
    While increasing thermal resistance of fin in spreading heat from heatpipes to whole surface.
     
    Set heatsink size also affects to how much surface area can be crammed into it.
    Bigger dimensions (or multiple fin stacks) allow more surface area, but that leads fast to issues with DIMM/PCI-e slot clearances.
    So some heatsinks pack fins lot denser than others.
    While that gives more surface area per cooler dimensions, it causes consequencies elsewhere:
    Densely packed fins have higher impedance for airflow and need more pressure from fan to have any airflow.
    So even if they have more surface area, they can do worser with quiet low speed fan, than lighter heatsink with less surface area, but with less airflow impedance.
     
    Alternatively heatsink can use offcenter design moving fin stack backward to make space for fan without it covering DIMM slots.
    For example Thermalright uses that widely with their big dimensions low density fin stacks good for low airflow or even passive cooling.
    Also Scythe Mugen 5 uses that design for great effect challenging many bigger (and lot more expensive) coolers in cooling performance per noise.
     
     
    As for part of transferring heat to fin stack there's limit for how much heat single certain heatpipe can transfer.
    So higher end coolers often use more heatpipes or in some cases bigger ones.
    Though while thicker heatpipe has big increase in cross sectional area, their surface area doesn't increase as much.
    And that surface area is needed for contact with fins and moving condensed heat transfer liquid back to heatsink base.
    That's likely why 6mm heatpipe diameter has stayed as standard.
     
    Though you don't need ten heatpipes to do well, unless heat load is huge.
    For example Cryorig H7 has three heatpipes and performs great for its size and especially price.
    Its otherwise good design simply compensates that single heatpipe difference to many cheap four heatpipe coolers.
    Its heatpipes also likely have good design/construction capable to moving liquid fast back to base area.

     
    Third part is getting that heat out from CPU to heatpipes.
    Good firm contact between CPU and base of heatsink is crucial for good heat conduction.
    So any cooler using those crappy plastic push pins is in major disadvantage to same size cooler using mounting to backplate behind motherboard.
    And actual heat producing silicon die of CPUs is lot smaller than size of heatpsreader.
    So naturally it's better to have heatpipes densely packed and as close as possible to center of heatspreader.
     
    All traditional design coolers have heatpipes tighly packed and soldered into base of cooler.
    But many so called "direct contact heatpipe" coolers even have space between heatpipes, pushing other than centermost heatpipes away from hot spot.
    That hinders heat conduction to those, even if they're actually soldered on their place.
    There's lots of marketing hype about direct contact heatpipes, but in the end its just cost cutting design:
    If it actually performed better expensive high end coolers would certainly use it!
     
    Also all around penny pinching Intel has problems in making heatspreaders flat and many of them are actually slightly concave.
    That easily leads to increase in TIM layer thickness possibly greatly hindering heat conduction.
    Hence some coolers have tiny bit convex base to increase chances for good contact in center where it matters most.
    Not sure if bases of direct contact heatpipe coolers can be machined that way.
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    EsaT got a reaction from Zik in Airflow+Aoi vs Aircooler question   
    I would add only one intake fan and second exhaust fan to top rear position.
    Adding second fan to top closer to front can start drawing out air straight from intake, without that airflow really cooling anything.
     
    Though depending on how good stock fans are, changing those could improve airflow some.
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    EsaT got a reaction from Zik in Airflow+Aoi vs Aircooler question   
    Yep, that's already good temperature for "hot as coffee spilled on pants" Coffee Lake.
    Cryorig H7 Quad is really good cooler, so temps might well be caused also by Intel's use of toothpaste under badly mounted heatspreader.
    (Intel likes milking consumers with substandard work for high end price)
    In which case even bigger AIOs wouldn't help that much.
    Cheap compact/slim radiator AIOs aren't even really better in cooling per noise than good heatpipe coolers.
     
    But adding case fan (another intake) or two (intake+exhaust) could shave some degrees.
    That graphics card simply pees on case cooling dumping its heat into case to warm up CPU, so you should make sure there's good case airflow.
    If it were reference design card then its heat load on case cooling would be miniscule and it would actually help to maintain organized airflow through case.
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    EsaT got a reaction from Zando_ in Which CPU Cooler to get for i7 7700   
    As you're living in EU country I don't think you'll want to buy from out side it.
     
    Cryorig H7 should be available for very good price.
    And its design avoids any DIMM/PCI-e slot clearance issues.
    Mugen 5 which can be had for below 50€ is likely strongest cooler without potential size issues, while challenging many bigger and more expensive coolers.
     
     
    Because of slim fans having super low pressure per RPM H5 Universal's cooling performance per noise is actually rather bad for its size and well behind Mugen 5's:
    https://www.nikktech.com/main/articles/pc-hardware/cpu-cooling/cpu-air-coolers/7565-scythe-mugen-5-cpu-cooler-review?showall=&start=5
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    EsaT got a reaction from WoodenMarker in i7-4770k heat issues   
    For chronically undersized Intel's stock noise maker 80C wouldn't be unusual, but for Mugen 4 it's definitely too much.
    Wouldn't myself like CPU running that hot.
  16. Funny
    EsaT got a reaction from dgsddfgdfhgs in The best way to clean pc?   
    If anything charge would get focused to extreme ends, like tips of object, because similar charges repel each others.
    That's why statically charged hairs rise up.
    (try not to sleep in school physics lessons, assuming your country has actual education going on in there)
    That long plastic tube only makes bigger static charge generator, with more friction happening.
     
    And static charges induce redistribution of electrical charges in nearby objects even without discharge.
    Similar charges repelling each others and opposites attracting is also what makes capacitors work.
    So depending on sensitivity of components damage/wear can happen even without discharge.
     
    There are good reasons why electronics industry pays so much for ESD prevention.
    Then to have all kinds of negligent users abuse their products...
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    EsaT got a reaction from sluz in Reliable tech stores in European Union   
    https://www.overclockers.co.uk/
    Well, at least until Brexit.
    (actually owned by Caseking)
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    EsaT got a reaction from Juvator in Weird red pixelation when tilting monitor   
    I suspect that tilting might cause bad contact for some cable of LCD panel.
    Does it have any effect if you hold monitor from other spot when tilting it?
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    EsaT got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Weird red pixelation when tilting monitor   
    I suspect that tilting might cause bad contact for some cable of LCD panel.
    Does it have any effect if you hold monitor from other spot when tilting it?
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    EsaT got a reaction from Origami Cactus in Weird red pixelation when tilting monitor   
    I suspect that tilting might cause bad contact for some cable of LCD panel.
    Does it have any effect if you hold monitor from other spot when tilting it?
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    EsaT got a reaction from TheFlyingSquirrel in Best songs to appreciate wide soundstage   
    Binaural sound is best for testing accuracy of headphones.
     
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    EsaT got a reaction from an actual squirrel in Is the Asus Strix Soar a good sound card?   
    Any kind stereo mix for speakers doesn't have any proper positioning with headphones, because of lack of interaural cues.
     
    We hear in 3D because head and ears cause direction dependant changes to signal received by both ears from sound course.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording
    http://berkeleybside.com/sound-dimensions-of-binaural-recording/
    Without those cues in signals of ears brain can't position sounds, no matter how good headphones are.
    Again inaccurate headphones can completely break immersion of binaural sound by not reproducing signal accurately.
     
    Having source audio with spatial information those cues can be simulated mathematically.
    Though just like recording using dummy modeled after average head shape, also used algorithms are based on average head shape.
    Which can lower/break immersion for people with different head shape and interaural cues.
     
    Though Asus advertising that Sonic Radar graphical overlay to show sound directions doesn't promise good from their algorithm.
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    EsaT got a reaction from Hi P in PSU Reliability?   
    There's nothing 100% sure for every sample, even things costing 100+ million suffer from "anomalies".
    But you usually get what you pay with more expensive PSUs using better designs and components.
     
    Anyway with that many expensive parts you certainly shouldn't have any problems in paying for PSU with 10 year warranty.
    Even premium PSU wouldn't out of place.
    Good PSU will outlive multiple consecutive graphics cards.
     
    What's available for good price depends somewhat on your location.
    Some brands price more agressively in one continent, with some PSUs being better priced in EU and others in NA.
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    EsaT got a reaction from Hi P in PSU Reliability?   
    You people should stop hallucinating that every single Nvidia card consumes only little power.
    Without frame rate capping or bottleneck from something else 1080 Tis can draw from 230W of reference to 280+W of non-reference as average/continuous gaming draw:
    https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_GTX_1080_Ti_Amp_Extreme/29.html
    Or another measurement:
    https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/galax-gtx-1080-ti-hof,5150-4.html
    And as people prefer non-reference models we can just forget that 230W...
     
    Then add rough (conservative) 100W for CPU and rest.
    Though with heavily multithreaded game (say RTS using other cores for unit AIs) CPU itself could peak toward that 100W.
  25. Agree
    EsaT got a reaction from TVwazhere in Help on which case to choose   
    BeQuiet is the most functional and versatile by about light year's distance.
    NZXT's just tick all the latest fashion fads.
     
    And that h200 wouldn't even accept anything but Mini-ITX motherboard.
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