Kelp5127

If your headphones are breaking in a year, it's possible that you might need to shift your behaviors. I have a pair of HD800s that have lasted me around 10 years. They're seemingly fragile and the only thing I've done is swap a cord. I probably need to replace the earpads but that's easy to put off.


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I haven't researched budgety options for a while but ATH-M50 and DT770 are pretty solid and I've used both.




As far as open backed headphones leaking noise... ehh... I've listened louder than I felt comfortable with at work using my HD800s and asked my coworkers (5' away) what they thought. None of them could hear it.

If you have a keyboard, the keyboard is going to be FAR FAR louder than anything coming from your headphones.

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Doing some rough math, assuming 1/3rd the sound is leaked out (so you get 2x as much) - that implies that 3db less sound goes out. Let's say that it's 1/2" to your ears. Every doubling of distance cuts sound pressure by half. let's say the other person is 128" away (10 feet roughly) - that means 8 doubling or another 17dB softer (20 total). If you're listening at 70dB, the perceived sound would be around 50dB, or about what a "quite office" is.

If you want to do a sanity check - listen to music on closed back headphones at normal levels, then turn it down a dash. Then walk 5 or 10 feet away. See how loud it is.
 

If you want to hear footsteps properly you gonna need a good amplifier + a good software. The kind of hardware the headphone is not going to do much if anything for that. You gonna just hear more close to real sounds + more low and high frequency sounds. Footsteps, explosives or all other similar sound effects have really much higher frequency than being not present by any kind of headphone.
 
On the other hand better headphone can give better sound staging more close to real and with that kind of vibrance footsteps would be more clear from which direction, but you can still determine where are these footsteps even with dump headsets with good software processing. It comes down to how good the game engine handle these 3D sound and output it properly to your headset so that you can easily determine these sounds and where they came from.
 
It is all about software in the end + good amplifier for clear sounds while the premium sound staging is an additional very expensive and not a vital feature that helps you to win your games.

Which might also be my problem, I've removed/replaced the heatsink a few times and couldn't be bothered to re-paste as I was planning to replace the motherboard, got one that didn't work right, put it back in the old board, then Z390 boards became impossible to source for reasonable prices and I gave up, thinking I would just replace everything later with either Zen 3 or Intel once they launch PCIe Gen 4.

At the end of the day, there is no way to know how much life were going to get out of any piece of silicon.  We could have a good or bad part that will stress more or less under the same conditions.  So at some point you have to either be really paranoid and not do folding, or just be somewhat cautious and aware that it could reduce the life span, but then you could also get a power surge that fried the whole PC at any time.

Update:
Sorry i know i already commented on this post. But i was watching todays WAN show and they talk about it there:
at 51:50
They say that they are following all recommendations and will continue to follow and give updates as time goes on. It is still 5 months out so we are not sure if it will be fine, or if it will be bad.

I don't really have any more information then you at the moment.
But just one thing i saw on the website at the bottom where you guy tickets it says
"In the case of an event cancellation without a rescheduled date, a full refund will be automatically issued to each patron on the credit card used to purchase."
I don't think this is directly put there because of this situation. But its just something i saw. So at least if it comes to the worst. If the event is full on canceled, at least their will be a refund.
I don't know if this has anything to do with the information you were looking for. But hey its a thing.

No real difference. The labeling of Ryzen or intel compatible is mostly marketing bullshit and has no real baring on the actual support or performance. Get whichever is cheaper and you should be OK. Here is a video explaining it more in depth from Steve over at Gamers Nexus from a recent Ask GN video: (it should be at the correct time stamp of when hey starts talking about it, if not, it starts at the 7:20ish second mark. 
 

Hello everyone, hello Linus, this is my deskpc inspired by yours, I improved some things and also did to my liking. Enjoy, it took a long time to make and i want to improve it even more.
100% hand made
 
It is now necessary to upgrade the monitor to an ultrawide, and tidy up the cables too, which do not like confusion