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Chris M.

Chris M.

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Most Favorable Review

Fantastic Headset

SteelSeries H Circumaural Wireless Headset
SteelSeries H Circumaural Wireless Headset

Pros: The sound quality on these is amazing. These have the furthest range on a wireless headset I've ever had, and I've owned the Soundblaster World of Warcraft Wireless headset, Logitech G930, and Creative soundbaster EVO bluetooth. None of them compare with the Wireless H. Another bonus....BATTERY LIFE. These will last you 15+ hrs per battery and it has two. The transceiver also serves as the charger as well so you always have a fully charged battery. It does have an emergency power out if both batteries are dead too which is nice. Its simple to connect, you don't have to pair it with anything, it just works. Also like the LED indicator on the telescopic mic to indicate that the mic is muted.

Cons: Price. This will set you back $300 but its well worth it if you can afford it.

Overall Review: I haven't really messed with the sound mixing settings much but it's got a few presets that are pretty nice. I've just been using the stock setting and I was blown away by the sound quality. It multiple outputs, so you can hook it up to an XBox Playstation and or PC including optical if you want to hook it up to a stereo reciever. Over all a great headset and would recommend it to anyone will to spend the money on it.

Great performance increase over 14700k in WQHD gaming.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D - Ryzen 7 9000 Series Zen 5 8-Core 5.2 GHz - Socket AM5 120W - AMD Radeon Graphics Desktop Processor - 100-100001084WOF
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D - Ryzen 7 9000 Series Zen 5 8-Core 5.2 GHz - Socket AM5 120W - AMD Radeon Graphics Desktop Processor - 100-100001084WOF

Pros: Bought this guy 30 min early (Thanks Newegg lol!!) and have no regrets over the 14700k. I've benched several games and noticed anywhere from a 10% all the way to about a 25% increase in performance in a couple of games. It has reasonable production performance but I do think the 14700k was a slight bit better in that regard but I decided to pivot to an X3D chip because I hardly do any production work anymore and this processor perfectly acceptable performance for all the tasks I do now. Other machine stats: MSI X870E Carbon Wifi (fantastic board btw, BIOS flashback was super simple) Asus Tuf 4090 Cooling Solution: DeepCool Assassin IV RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator Titanium CL 30 PSU: Corsair RX 1200 Shift 1200W Case: Be Quiet! Lightbase 900

Cons: I had a bit of a RAM issue to start with it but I don't think the processor was the culprit. After a restart the RAM would not recognize properly with the EXPO profile but MSI had a default HK Hynix 6000 profile I've tried and seems to be working fine. I think it might have been an issue with the BIOS / RAM since the RAM has both EXPO and XMP profiles. It runs at slightly looser timings (CL 32 vs CL 30) but the difference is negligible I like the look of the Dominator Titaniums.

Overall Review: Over all I've been very happy so far with AMDs offering this go around and hope to not have to upgrade for a long time now.

11/22/2024

Great Card

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 04G-P4-2983-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, 26% Cooler and 36% Quieter Cooling Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 04G-P4-2983-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, 26% Cooler and 36% Quieter Cooling Graphics Card

Pros: Very good card. Expensive, but you get what you pay for. It is replacing a GTX 680 and I'm noticing about twice the frame rates as with the 680. It's a little bit quieter than my 680 as well.

Cons: Only one DVI. I had to buy two DisplayPort to DVI cables to do the quad monitor setup I was wanting to do.

Overall Review: If you are upgrading from and older video card and using the same video card you might have to upgrade the BIOS. I have a GA-Z77X-UD5H and I needed to upgrade the BIOS. When I originally put it in it wouldn't pass POST. So I called EVGA just to verify they didn't have any problems with any Gigabyte boards and he informed me I might have to upgrade my BIOS and if the problem was not resolved I'd have to RMA it. So I go to Gigabyte's website and download the BIOS update. FYI you can't use the flasher tool that downloads with it....it can only be ran on a 32 bit OS. You can go to Gigabyte's website and download @BIOS to flash it. Reinstalled the new card and the machine booted like a champ.

Amasing Monitors

SAMSUNG S27A350H ToC Rose Black 27" Full HD HDMI LED BackLight LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 DCR 1,000,000:1 (1,000:1)
SAMSUNG S27A350H ToC Rose Black 27" Full HD HDMI LED BackLight LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 DCR 1,000,000:1 (1,000:1)

Pros: I've got two of these bad boys hooked up to my rig. These are very high quality monitors. No issues so far and I've had the first one for almost a year now. Also they are very light weight and easy to carry around.

Cons: HDMI only. I had to buy HDMI to DVI for each monitor. Other than that no issues at all.

Overall Review: Rig specs: i7 920, EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR LGA 1366, 12GB RAM, EVGA GTX 570