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ED E · 01-03-2016 03:26PM

TheDoc wrote: »

I'm kinda hoping I'll get that blown away **** immediately.

Forget the DAC then, its a minor increment.

TheDoc · 01-03-2016 05:38PM

ED E wrote: »

Forget the DAC then, its a minor increment.

Cheers.

I think I've NOW narrowed down to

Sennheiser HD598
Sennheiser GAMING ONE

Both appear they will work wonders for me, and require no additional components. So DAC/AMP etc can be maybe something for down the line.

Now to see if the savings between going 598+ modmic make a significant difference over going GAMING ONE of the bat, or if there is a bit quality difference between the mic's.

Appears from initial feedback the audio quality is pretty much the same.

Fakman87 · 01-03-2016 07:34PM

TheDoc wrote: »

Cheers.

I think I've NOW narrowed down to

Sennheiser HD598
Sennheiser GAMING ONE

Both appear they will work wonders for me, and require no additional components. So DAC/AMP etc can be maybe something for down the line.

Now to see if the savings between going 598+ modmic make a significant difference over going GAMING ONE of the bat, or if there is a bit quality difference between the mic's.

Appears from initial feedback the audio quality is pretty much the same.

From memory I think the 363d is better than Game One if you don't have a soundcard, as the 363d comes with an external one.

Headshot · 01-03-2016 09:06PM

Hopefully Microsoft fail miserably with Microsoft store for pc games

Squaredude · 01-03-2016 09:15PM

Headshot wrote: »

Hopefully Microsoft fail miserably with Microsoft store for pc games

I second this. Just bought gears of war and theres absolutely no indication thats its downloading or how fast its downloading. Rubbish.

Headshot · 01-03-2016 09:28PM

Squaredude wrote: »

I second this. Just bought gears of war and theres absolutely no indication thats its downloading or how fast its downloading. Rubbish.

I was thinking of getting that but man Iv read that this game is a mess at the moment

Squaredude · 01-03-2016 09:33PM

Headshot wrote: »

I was thinking of getting that but man Iv read that this game is a mess at the moment

Yeah saw that it was horrible for amd but running fine on nvidia cards. I'll let you know, if it ever downloads.

wotzgoingon · 01-03-2016 09:37PM

Don't think I will bother with that game, have it already on xbox one.

Headshot · 01-03-2016 09:38PM

Squaredude wrote: »

Yeah saw that it was horrible for amd but running fine on nvidia cards. I'll let you know, if it ever downloads.

G Sync doesnt play nice with it either

Serephucus · 01-03-2016 09:40PM

Western Digital Infuses Consumer HDDs with HGST HelioSeal Tech - Increases Capacity to 8TB

About. Damn. Time.

ED E · 01-03-2016 11:53PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Western Digital Infuses Consumer HDDs with HGST HelioSeal Tech - Increases Capacity to 8TB

About. Damn. Time.

wotzgoingon · 01-03-2016 11:59PM

Squaredude wrote: »

I second this. Just bought gears of war and theres absolutely no indication thats its downloading or how fast its downloading. Rubbish.

They picked that up from the xbox as it's the same on there no percentage to how much you have downloaded or even speeds or anything. I find it really frustrating on the xbox with my slow internet. It is grand if you had really fast download speeds and a game only takes half an hour or so to download but for me it takes a day or two.

The Randy Riverbeast · 02-03-2016 12:14AM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

They picked that up from the xbox as it's the same on there no percentage to how much you have downloaded or even speeds or anything. I find it really frustrating on the xbox with my slow internet. It is grand if you had really fast download speeds and a game only takes half an hour or so to download but for me it takes a day or two.

Half an hour? The kids on the trocaire boxes get better than that :pac:

challengemaster · 02-03-2016 08:51PM

Wright wrote: »

Why that much wattage? Had you gone for a 500/600w PSU you could've bumped up the specs in the cpu or gpu.

Xenoronin wrote: »

Those temps are very very nice, should overclock very well!

This is why I didn't go for a better CPU. Bios flash worked perfectly - Took a while to get back into BCLK overclocking though!

Might even be able to push that up to 4.5Ghz without much hassle. Memory is running ~2600Mhz.

Headshot · 02-03-2016 10:58PM

Im tempted to call it a day on 21:9 3440 x 1440. Im just so tired of games not supporting it. I really thought its the resolution of the future but looks like devs think other wise

ED E · 02-03-2016 11:02PM

Headshot wrote: »

Im tempted to call it a day on 21:9 3440 x 1440. Im just so tired of games not supporting it. I really thought its the resolution of the future but looks like devs think other wise

It probably IS, but its a long way from its prime. You're very early into the space.

Headshot · 02-03-2016 11:04PM

ED E wrote: »

It probably IS, but its a long way from its prime. You're very early into the space.

hmm

I wouldnt personally say im early into this space, its a space that has been around for quite awhile now. Devs have no problem with 4k resoutions thou.

Maybe its time to go 4k with my 2 980ti's

ED E · 02-03-2016 11:30PM

Well, if you want to play devils advocate you could say that hollywood are unlikely to ever use it so OEMs will always treat it as second fiddle.

Wright · 02-03-2016 11:46PM

Headshot wrote: »

Im tempted to call it a day on 21:9 3440 x 1440. Im just so tired of games not supporting it. I really thought its the resolution of the future but looks like devs think other wise

It was always gonna be like 3D. Still there are hacks for getting it to work if you look around. It'll never be a staple though, no.

TerrorFirmer · 02-03-2016 11:49PM

I had a 21:9 as well since 2012 as it was really irritating, most games did support it but every now again an AAA title would come along and not support the resolution. I think Fallout 4 doesn't for example even now, though most do. But that one in five can really test your patience when you've shelled out big money for the monitor.

Headshot · 02-03-2016 11:55PM

I must research a 4K monitor with high refresh and gsync

Anyone got suggestions?

TerrorFirmer · 03-03-2016 12:15AM

ED E wrote: »

Well, if you want to play devils advocate you could say that hollywood are unlikely to ever use it so OEMs will always treat it as second fiddle.

Actually, aren't most movies filmed in a similar format? That was one good thing about the superwide I found, movies looked incredible as they almost all fit the screen perfectly, no black bars as with standard 1080p/1440p/4k.

Luck100 · 03-03-2016 12:15AM

Headshot wrote: »

I must research a 4K monitor with high refresh and gsync

Anyone got suggestions?

I don't think there any 4K monitors over 60Hz yet.

Headshot · 03-03-2016 12:17AM

Luck100 wrote: »

I don't think there any 4K monitors over 60Hz yet.

Your right.

They appear to be all 60hz and the odd one Gsync

Ill have to do some serious thinking about my monitor situation

AlmightyCushion · 03-03-2016 12:17AM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Actually, aren't most movies filmed in a similar format? That was one good thing about the superwide I found, movies looked incredible as they almost all fit the screen perfectly, no black bars as with standard 1080p/1440p/4k.

Yeah, most movies are 21:9 hence the black bars on pretty much every film when watched on 16:9 screens.

Serephucus · 03-03-2016 12:18AM

What exactly is the problem with games not supporting it? You're still running it in 25x14 I assume, surely that still looks nice.

To be honest, I wouldn't call 21:9 "out for a while" yet. It actually has been out for a while, but that doesn't necessarily mean "should have gotten some sort of wider adoption by now" even though we might like this to be the case.

I think (unfortunately) we'll have to wait until manufacturers start launching 21:9 TVs. Then we'll see it supported by AAA titles in a snap.

ED E · 03-03-2016 12:41AM

ED E wrote: »

Well, if you want to play devils advocate you could say that hollywood are unlikely to ever use it so OEMs will always treat it as second fiddle.

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Actually, aren't most movies filmed in a similar format? That was one good thing about the superwide I found, movies looked incredible as they almost all fit the screen perfectly, no black bars as with standard 1080p/1440p/4k.

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Yeah, most movies are 21:9 hence the black bars on pretty much every film when watched on 16:9 screens.

Got it backwards, doh. TV standardised to 720, Cinema to Letterbox which is almost 21:9 (2.37 vs 2.39).

Gumbi · 03-03-2016 12:42AM

challengemaster wrote: »

This is why I didn't go for a better CPU. Bios flash worked perfectly - Took a while to get back into BCLK overclocking though!

Might even be able to push that up to 4.5Ghz without much hassle. Memory is running ~2600Mhz.

Looks like a nice chip. Temps are great on Skylake chips compared to Haswell, a heck of a lot cooler. You can put 1.4v through them no problem and keep temps under 70, even on air.

Not sure how well they scale as I've not overclocked them myself or read a lot about them, but but it looks like there is at least another 100mhz there to be had with ease.

challengemaster · 03-03-2016 01:09AM

Gumbi wrote: »

Looks like a nice chip. Temps are great on Skylake chips compared to Haswell, a heck of a lot cooler. You can put 1.4v through them no problem and keep temps under 70, even on air.

Not sure how well they scale as I've not overclocked them myself or read a lot about them, but but it looks like there is at least another 100mhz there to be had with ease.

The only "issue" with running a bios that can enable BCLK overclocking in non-K chips is that there's no temperature reporting anymore. It really shouldn't be an issue with the H100i GTX anyway, bit it's just a little niggle.

I just went for 4.1 as a "safe" overclock I knew wouldn't fail, didn't try anything else before that.

vlad2009 · 03-03-2016 01:58AM

Not gonna lie, I make love to my 21:9, it's amazing, I wouldn't go back to a normal screen. I've only encountered the fit in one game out of like 20. However I'm only on 2560x1920, so I can Imagine the 3440x1440 has less support.

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