idk man steam isn't that bad. I just heard people were complaining of uplay crashing all the time

is uplay still shit

Do you mean gsync or lightboost? I thought this came out before gsync was announced...

Good monitor though, just beware of washed out colors (might need a calibration)

It's a joke; I had neighbors from Brazil. They were pretty chill. Go streaming m8

i put them on the center of my monitor
close to the crosshair
u know i dont wanna lose track of them

rite?

do you swear in brazilian or portuguese

[*] Don't go with only a 600w PSU...you'll hate yourself for it in the long run; I've built multiple systems with the Corsair HX850w and haven't had a single issue. If you stay with the 600w, just beware, you'll need to upgrade soon
[*] I've got that monitor on another build at my house, good choice on it. No issues with it thus far
[*] Since you're going with a K series intel chip, I would suggest you get a better cooler (assuming you'd overclock, otherwise there's no point in getting a K chip) and some better thermal compound (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835209053 ; it costs 2x as much but you'll get better temps + heat dissipation)
[*] While I'm no expert on SSDs, I'm not 100% sure about the kingston ones, if you have any doubt: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147247 (used it on 3 systems, not a single flaw on any of them)

Aside from that, good build choices. I'd personally just go with the intel one because having 8 cores is kinda useless unless you do video encoding. Plus, seeing that you're going with a K series chip, I'd assume you'd want to overclock?

Biggest issue is see is your power supply; that's the last thing you'd want to cheap out on, because you're riding too close to the minimum psu requirement.

yo when will google start making 120hz monitors

Comfort and necessity are two completely different things. That warranty costed more than the mic.

And no, it doesn't mean buying an mx0 model. I just gave some names of some budget headphones that were moderately good that I have listened to. Nobody is going to sit here and rattle off a list of every good/moderately good headphone for you. Clearly, you're drawing straws here.

That's your fault for picking something that sounds worse and costs more and needs an amp.

Yes. I would figure that you would understand that the k240s were $100 (give or take a few dollars), and that excluding the m50s, it would be less money because 125+7 is indeed 132 (132>105). You're really drawing straws here.

To put it bluntly, you're arguing just for the sake of arguing. If you would like to disagree with me, just say so.

Of course; I'd never post something like this on Head-Fi, but this is teamfortress.tv. I can agree with you that it's not absolutely right; I found errors in it myself. Point is, the name of the video was, "Gaming Audio Myths: Avoid The BS & Save Your Audio Life". As the title implies, it's targeted towards gamers (most, not all of which do not have a very good understanding of audio) and is fairly easy to understand without much prior knowledge.

Also, no, they did not encode both the flac and the mp3 over with AAC. They played it through his headphones and then through video editing software, they just inserted the song they were playing as a track. By your logic, if I took my .aiff files and recorded a video of them and uploaded it to youtube, that would make all of my .aiff files on my hard drive aac files.

I feel like a dick for posting this but, there's always google's caching feature @ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OVvsKfPCVyYJ:teamfortress.tv/thread/17633/family-issues-when-playing+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

By all means, do NOT go for a soundcard; they're overpriced and their output impedance is too high and as a result you end up truncating the low and high end of your sound output moreso than if you just used onboard sound. Also, a computer tower is one of the worst places to do audio processing, as there is a tremendous amount of electromagnetic interference inside a computer case. This can cause distortion in your audio, with or without a sound card. Don't forget that most soundcard drivers are poorly written (read up on how often users have to modify creative soundcard drivers. However, the Xonar is a better soundcard).

Your best bet is to process audio outside of the computer case through a digital to analog converter (DAC). You'll also need an amp. From my experience, the best bang for the buck would be the Fiio e10 Olympus (don't get the old version; it has issues with 24-bit audio clipping). Also, all of the hardware functionality of a sound card is now done at a hardware level, meaning less delays, less resource usage, and less of a headache in the end.

Below is a video link with further information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1rXcJuEsy0

First of all, the $15 for "3 year insurance" was a waste for headphones that cheap (if it was for something like Stax SR-007/SR-009s, electrostats, or any other high end dynamic driver, that would make sense. But for k240s...no). I don't see why you would buy k240s without a decent dac/amp combo.

The reason you spent "4x what the headset cost" is because you didn't do your research prior to buying your equipment. As a result, you spent way more money than you should've. If you want to keep it simple, go for something like the m30 ($40), m40 ($50), or m50 ($125). Either way you go, you get good sound quality and you don't have to bother with an amp. Then you can get a decent mic and you're still spending less money than what you spent for the headphones alone. But if you don't do your research, more likely than not, you'll end up wasting your money.

By all means, get a decent pair of headphones. In general, the build quality and audio quality sucks on "gaming" headsets. If you haven't heard anything better, then maybe a headset will sound fine or even good to you. But honestly, check out head-fi (forum with reviews), headphone.com (review and frequency response graphs), and goldenears (review frequency response graphs). If you want help deciding, feel free to contact me on steam and I will do my best to assist you.

Also the MMX300s are good. They are just the crappier version of the DT770s with a mic attached that costs more than twice the price of the regular DT770s.

But for the most part, be really careful where you find reviews; I saw that Asus's headphones were given a rather good review. The frequency response was awful:

http://img1.lesnumeriques.com/test/71/7193/vulcan_pro_frequency_response.jpg

*Ideally, you want something that is flat (linear response with a slope of 0)

do you live in zimbabwe or something