Shooter only said they were going to revert back for s17 and that they would be letting us know earlier with the amount of teams in playoffs for future seasons. Since they haven't said anything so far, I can only assume that they are staying with their 4 team im playoffs.

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A very, very important reminder. There is a very good chance that playoffs will only be four teams this season especially after what happened last season and the fact that the top teams are clearly better than the rest.

Oops, in my tiredness last night I forgot to actually give my recommendation for you. Provided you have no audio issues (when the card was working) I would just get another xdg and save the rest of your money for a future headphone upgrade. Outside of having a good source (your music tracks), headphones will give you the most bang for your buck sound quality to money spent ratio.

And for the bass issue, just use an equalizer and boost the bass. Your only other option for a stronger bass would be to buy a new set of headphones. Amps only help underpowered headphones get some more control on the bass, but your headphones aren't underpowered.

As for the other stuff in the thread:

#12, as I said in my post, unless you hear noise when there should be silence or you hear random pops and cracks you don't need to spend your money on a DAC. The AKG k70x are a very power hungry (low sensitivity) headphones for whatever reason so you do probably want to pick up an amp.

Okay, upgrading is always cool.

That is not how soundcards work. Soundcards are a two device component a DAC and an Amp. A DAC turns the digital information (the 1s and 0s) of your harddrive into something physical that can be played by speakers, headphones, etc. If you are listening to something that comes from a computer (ipod, phone, computer, etc.) then it must pass through a DAC for you to hear it. What qualifies a better dac is both the accuracy of converting these 1s and 0s to electricity and the amount of noise created from the process. Technology has advanced enough that the noise generated from the DAC is almost negligible, but other currents running in close proximity to the DAC can add their own noise. This is why a DAC should be as far away from all other electricity as possible (and why people recommend that you use an external DAC for best sound quality).

An amp on the other hand, boosts the strength of the electric signal so that it can power whatever device it is being sent to. If not enough electricity is the signal, then defects can be heard in the sound. An amp is qualified by one major factor, how much extra noise is added to the process of amplifying the signal.

Now as for real world stuff. Most low end to lower mid end headphones are actually efficient enough to run off the built in amp of most electronics (and definitely your motherboard). The hd598 fall into this category, purchasing a better amp really isn't going to do much in the grand scheme of things. The DAC on the other hand, is dependent on what you hear. Do you hear pops and cracks in otherwise silence? Is there a slight hissing in the music that you hear? These are signs that your current DAC really isn't doing your audio justice. Honestly, most motherboards these days have pretty good DACs in them that are shielded decently well.

However, you are using an XDG, an upgrade to whatever motherboard sound you have. An xdg has sufficient amping for almost everything in the mid tier range except headphones like the akg k70x and the hifiman he-400. Buying a better amp really is only going to be for future proofing yourself in case you upgrade your headphones later down the line. As for the DAC, the xdg also has a pretty decent DAC in it as well. If there is any noise that you hear it is probably from being inside of your case rather than the DAC itself. This means that buying another pci card isn't going to help. You are going to need an external DAC for the job if the noise is a problem.

Honestly, spending significant cash on an internal soundcard is pretty silly when it is just going to have as many problems as one that is significantly cheaper.

Video games have pretty crappy sound. The biggest thing that really matters for (competitive) gaming is having a good soundstage, something that is impossible to do with a soundcard (unless your headphones are severely underamped.

Volume has nothing to do with amping. There are volume knobs on amps for a reason. Outside of not introducing errors, providing headphones with extra power than it needs gives you extra headroom to prevent clipping and makes silence even quieter.

This is a great budget. The low end products from Schiit as well as the O2+ODAC are great products.

They are just buttons that have the command of "connect SERVER". If you don't know how to do that check out doodles in-depth sections on buttons and main menu. Or you could just edit the buttons with whatever servers you want them to join.

Unless those desktop mics are mid-tier or higher (e.g. not a snowball) a mod mic is a better quality microphone, especially if you are not in an anechoic chamber. And, unless those earbuds are mid-tier or higher (really high quality iems and low end Ciems) an open headphone in the $100 range is going to give you better sound quality in every aspect.

Would getting the required IM teams paid keep invite around then? Nobody from invite has paid and I'm not sure how many teams are dead. To me it sounds like the best we can do at this point is have a two division season unless every invite team is planning on playing.

Do you know how many teams we need for invite and how many of those are coming from the current pool of IM (should the divisions remain the same)?

That is indeed what mana said. What mana was asking was what is the status for esea TF2 considering the amount of teams that have fully paid.

What do you mean doesn't work the way I think?

Why bother loading another font when you can either just replace the tf_english definition (remove the x) or for a lasting solution just edit the capnumplayers label text to just %numcappers%.

What do you mean it requires apt-get? Are you using a different distro that uses a different package manager? Every distro that I know of has nmap in its repos. Even if it doesn't you can always build from the source code.

Are you on a network without root access? IF yes, then why the hell are you trying to scan addresses of other people's computers without their permission?

you can also use nmap to do this, just use /24 to scan all the addresses (192.168.0.0/24)

Edit: Arie is faster than me.

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