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I owned a Razer Kraken Analog version years ago and they were awful. I ended up returning them. Everything sounded so muddled and there was no detail in anything. To be blunt, it sounded like complete shit. Maybe the newer ones are "better", but I would highly avoid them.

I have this same RAM kit. Excellent kit for the price and provides great value when using motion graphics. This drive might struggle with your 4k footage from the Canon. Are you going to be using proxies? I had to move away from a mechanical drive recently as it just could not handle our GH5's 4k footage. If you could find some more money in your build to get a 1TB SSD you would benefit greatly from it. I think the Crucial MX500's 1TB drives are only $50 more.

I've found that Focurite's are super finicky on Windows machines for whatever reason. When I would troubleshoot them on Windows machines there would be all sorts of problems like you described, but then when we would plug the same device into a Mac it would work flawlessly with no issues. Only way we could resolve these issues would be to do a fresh install of the application (adobe audition, audacity, etc) or do a fresh windows install. Annoying for sure.

Seconded on the Focusrite. Amazing build and solid quality for the price. I've installed these mics at some radio stations years past and they are decent for the price. You definitely get what you pay for, but if this is all your budget allows, it's pretty good.

When I worked in the radio industry back in 2014-2016 there were tons and TONS of software companies that would only have Windows XP versions of their software and nothing else as they feared if they stopped supporting XP and moved onto Windows 7 and beyond it would alienate their customer base since a majority of stations couldn't afford to upgrade their systems past XP. The amount of systems still running on 2000 and XP in the radio industry, especially in very small markets and small stations is astonishing. It's like a blast in the past everyday. There were so many stations, especially college stations, that had their entire automation system on a Windows XP machine. It was nonsense. This is probably similar for Avast, trying to support the businesses that haven't made the push yet to upgrade from Windows 7.

God, I did exactly this for my first build ? Take your time, and watch a video while building it and treat it like someone is physically there guiding you on what to do. When I did my second build last year I had a video walk-through on the TV and would constantly pause it to make sure I wasn't forgetting anything. I think Linus recently released a first time building video that is pretty good at walking you through what you need to know and do.

Agree 100%. Every smart TV I have owned and used at a relatives or friends place is horrible to use. Buggy, slow, crashes, unresponsive and a miserable user experience. I have been clinging onto this Best Buy 55 inch Insignia dumb TV that I purchased for under $250 for a couple years now and I love it. My ps4 is hooked up to it so no need for it to have any smart capabilities. Some smart TV's even lack basic features, like those Vizio smart TV's that weren't on the latest version of Chromecast so you couldn't use it for Disney+. My girlfriend has one of those Vizio smart TV's, and it's legit one of the worst TV's I have ever used. Easily the most frustrating TV imaginable.

I have been looking at Viotek a lot on Amazon and I love that they have a specific dead pixel policy. So far it is between that and this monitor.

Any monitor with dead pixels or backlight bleed. I simply cannot justify paying $300 for a monitor with a dead pixel.

It really is. I bought five from Microcenter and four from Best Buy. Only possible thing I can think of is that since it was the holiday's they were marking down known "defective" units and selling them just to get rid of inventory, but that seems like a stretch.

Recently, I went through the peril of going through nine defective out of the box monitors in a row last month. I am in need of a new monitor very badly, as my current monitor is a 1080p monitor from 6 years ago. I have purchased and exchanged two Acer Nitro XV272U, two Dell SE2717HR, MSI Optix MAG27CQ, Dell S2716DGR, and three (yes, three), Samsung Space Monitors before giving up on my quest for a monitor. Am I looking at the wrong monitors with bad quality control, or do I need to up the budget a bit to get a "better quality panel". I really liked the Samsung Space Monitor, but three in a row doesn't give me the best confidence in buying another. The Acer Nitro was awesome as well, but one had dead pixels and the other had severe backlight bleed in one corner. Anyways, I am looking for a 27 inch, 144hz 1440p monitor used for equal parts gaming and video editing (I don't do much video editing at home anymore as I use my work computer more and more for that) for $300 or under. If there is a 32 inch or even a great 1080p 24 inch model available then I am all ears as well.

Well, fingers crossed I suppose ?

I am actually going to send this monitor directly into Samsung to have them repair it. Figured instead of doing the lottery every time at Best Buy that I should just send it i and wait a few weeks for them to repair the screen. I got nothing left to lose at this point. But seriously, I cannot believe that quality control has gone down this much. I know it's the holidays coming up so they are trying to push out as many units to stores as possible, but to encounter 9 straight dead pixels from different brands and models from two entirely different stores (one store being two separate locations) is absurd.

Just exchanged the monitor once more during my lunch break and the 9th monitor now has two dead pixels ? I'm just going to chalk this up as a loss and try buying monitors again at a later point in my life lol.

No, first 5 were from Microcenter, next 3 from Best Buy (first was at one best buy and the other two were at another location since they didn't have the Dell or Samsung in stock).

This is my stance on this issue as well. I am paying $300 of hard earned cash to buy something and expecting it to work properly without any issues. I am trying one last ditch effort tomorrow to exchange it once more, but I have a feeling that I am going to receive the same result. I actually tried doing this in store the 2nd time when exchanging for the Samsung monitor, but they were only able to power it on and not attach it to any desktops in the facility so I wasn't able to see the dead pixel on just a black screen very well. It was only when using EIZO that I was able to catch it immediately. I just plugged my 6 year old 1080p monitor back in just as a sanity check and everything is working as expected. It is crazy that quality control for monitors has gone down significantly and yet my 6 year old monitor that I bought while in college is still going strong. Makes me wonder if I should even bother buying a new monitor and save myself the headache.

Microcenter gave me a full refund after the 5th exchange. Granted this was within their 30 days return window. I am going to go to Best Buy tomorrow to try one more time, but it just feels like 8 monitors in a row with dead pixels out of the box is extremely fishy, especially since there were all different brands and models.

No, every time it was in a different spot.

Hello, I seem to be having some insane bad luck with purchasing monitors this year. I bought a Dell SE2717HR from the local Microcenter near me. It had a dead pixel, I then exchanged it for another Dell and got another monitor with another dead pixel. I exchange that Dell for an Acer Nitro XV272U and what do you know? Dead pixel. Did another exchange for another one and got severe backlight bleeding. Exchanged that for an MSI Optix MAG27CQ and boom, dead pixel. At this point I threw in the towel at Microcenter and got a full refund. I decided to give Best Buy a try and bought a Dell S2716DGR and I was in shock when a dead pixel showed up out the box. Best Buy didn't have this Dell in stock anymore, so I exchanged it for a Samsung monitor and got a dead pixel, I exchange it once more and dead pixel out of the box. I literally spent my entire Sunday driving back and forth to Best Buy exchanging a monitors. Here is my question, this cannot be anywhere close to being normal to have 8 monitors all having dead pixels out of the box. Could something be wrong with my PC that is causing these dead pixels right out of the box?

Where are you seeing $1,000? On eBay right now I see a listing for $57 and a brand new one for $220 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=razer+diamond+back&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1

Might be a little unorthodox, but have you considered Google One? I pay $9.99 a month for 2TB of online storage. Whenever I need to back anything up or just archive photos I dump them into my Google One account.

For what it is worth, I do video editing and color correction/grading on this monitor hasn't been much have an issue and it is actually a really pleasant experience. Are there better monitors out there? Absolutely. But for the price point of $299 you are getting a lot.

I think you could save some money on the motherboard and case fans, that should give you some extra room in your budget to play around with. The PSU you picked is absolute overkill as well. You do not need 750W PSU if your output is going to be 400W estimated. I took your build and made some tweaks to it: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($326.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: MSI X570-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard ($139.99 @ Amazon) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($109.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Crucial MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($64.50 @ Adorama) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($79.99 @ Newegg) Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB GAMING X Video Card ($409.99 @ B&H) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($81.98 @ Newegg) Total: $1213.43 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-25 15:51 EST-0500 The SSD will be your systems and applications drive while the HDD will be your main footage/editing drive. The 7200rpm drive should be able to handle the footage (unless you are working off of high end cinema cams). We edit 10bit 422 GH5 footage on 7200rpm drives and haven't found any issues with it. If you want something faster, then I would take out the HDD, get a bigger SSD and get an external RAID 0 drive like this: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1467967-REG/lacie_sthj4000800_4tb_2big_2_bay_usb.html Hope this helps!

My work has an MSI Aegis 3 Desktop from 2017 that is used for video editing that is in need of upgrading. https://www.msi.com/Desktop/Aegis-3 It is currently equipped with an i7-7700 cpu, gtx 1070, 16gb ram, 256gb ssd and 2tb hdd. My boss gave me $500 to upgrade it to give it better video editing capabilities. My initial thoughts is to replace the hard drives and put in 32gb of ram in it. PCPartPicker Part List Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($109.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Crucial MX500 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($107.49 @ Amazon) Storage: Western Digital Black 6 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($227.99 @ Amazon) Total: $445.47 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-25 15:40 EST-0500 The ssd that's in the machine now is pretty slow, so upgrading it seems like a no brainer. The 2TB hdd could also use a face lift. 32gb of RAM seems like it would be more beneficial than say upgrading the cpu or gpu. Thoughts?

I second this. I just recently bought this monitor on sale at Microcenter and I can't believe how solid of a monitor it is. Going to pick up a 2nd one very soon.