PC Tech Talk

[Steamer]

Nice find Zero. I'm using a cheap ass Plantronics 355 set. For 25$ I could never find a better "all around" device, less I get some lucky ass sale.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

@zero

i've changed my considerings. i'm now looking at:

http://www.amazon.com/Superlux-HD668.../dp/B003JOETX8

OR

http://www.amazon.com/Superlux-681-D...pr_product_top


they're headphones only, but seem to be very good.

'ill be picking up either a clip-on mic, or the antlion modmic due to a sudden gift-card i found. opinions? they weren't on that list you posted earlier, but they seem to be pretty good.

[ZERO]

Everyone looking <$75 seems to love them: http://www.head-fi.org/t/559856/superlux-hd681

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Everyone looking <$75 seems to love them: http://www.head-fi.org/t/559856/superlux-hd681

sweet! 30$ means i can afford a modmic easily. :ordered:!

[ZERO]

sweet! 30$ means i can afford a modmic easily. rdered:!

Let us know how they sound once you get them.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Let us know how they sound once you get them.

this close to christmas, i decided to wait. But they sure seem to be good quality.

http://www.vanillatf2.org/2012/01/an...-and-giveaway/

that review has a comparison between it and one of the more popular clip-on mics.

[StarsMine]

Ima stick with my blue snoball mic, though it is not the easiest thing to carry back and forth from DC to SD constantly.

[Carmichal]

For the last day or so when I play CS my frame rate decided to get all fucked up, and go bananas. I turned all the graphic settings down, but to no avail. Help would be much appreciated.

[XX0wnsXY]

For the last day or so when I play CS my frame rate decided to get all fucked up, and go bananas. I turned all the graphic settings down, but to no avail. Help would be much appreciated.

Are you running a custom config? Might try one for fps

[mrhappypenguin]

Apologizing for wall of text,

Last month I won a bid on a Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 motherboard for $79. It took 2 weeks to ship but no problem. When I opened the box I noticed the latch on the CPU socket was open but didn't think much of it. I took the board out of the box and looked over it and eveything looked great. I decided to move the box out of the way and this piece of metal falls out. I pick it up and it read "Phenom II" . Some of the pins were bent so I spent a few hours slowly straitening all the pins. Once they were strait I stuck it onto the board, mounted the heatsink and installed it in my tower. Pushed the power button and it posted. Windows boots up and I open up CPUz to verify what CPU it is and it reads "AMD Phenom II x6 1090T." My jaw dropped.

The ebay listing said that the motherboard was pulled from a working system and had a generic picture of the motherboard. I'm guessing the seller just pulled the heat sink off and sold it as is.

I think this was a lucky CPU. I overclocked it day one and got it up to 4.3GHz stable. I set it to 4.2GHz for daily use because I didn't like having the extra voltage and heat at 4.3. The CPU-NB (memory controller built into the CPU) is at 3.4GHz. I can't get that higher then 3.5Ghz, my motherboard just won't post above that, no matter what voltages/fsb/multiplier I use. I would mess with it some more but I don't want to kill it.

FYI I'm only running 4 out of the 6 cores to keep temps down. Full load temp at max is 48C. I'm using a Coolermaster hyper 212+ with a 120mm x 38mm 3000rpm fan, although I have it on auto and it rarely reaches 2000rpm. It does make some noise but my headphones block most of it.