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I had a 4800 series (i think?) a few years ago. It would tear across the screen on some (not all) games. It got super annoying. Maybe I had a bad card but it pissed me off.

4800's were made 4 years ago. It would be silly to base your hate for AMD on something so old in computer terms.

I agree with Koden. All manufacturers have bad products sometimes. Should we hate on Nvidia for the 4xx series being power hungry or for failing so hard with PhysX? AMD and Nvidia compete with each other, they have different release cycles and varying performance in cards. They both screw up and they've both been in first place in terms of raw power.

My case lights up. Sup?

Must make it go faster eh? lol at the "sup".

Alright, now we're getting somewhere

What should they be?

that does not have a shitty radeon card.

This guy obviously knows a lot about computers. Probably makes uber 1337 builds with the cheapest case he can find, blue/red LED's everywhere and an OMG PWNZOR Fatal1ty X-Fi sound card.

Don't get a kit, those have shitty motherboards and power supplies in them.

I would also ignore reddit, useless faggotry going on there.

In a nutshell; Gigabyte AM3+ 8+2 power phase (look it up in the specs, very important) motherboard, Quad or 6-core AM3 or AM3+ chip, 8GB (2 sticks of 4GB, I like G.Skill but Corsair is good too) 1866MHz or higher memory, Corsair PSU (5 or 7 year warranty ones like the TX650, TX750, AX850), Crucial M4 or Samsung 830 SSD, Whatever GPU and case suits your fancy (I'm currently eyeballing the NZXT Source 210).

I've never tried one of these things. Maybe set it up and wait until tomorrow to see if it works?

Here is one:

sk8rboi

Playing on hospital with him, he picks sniper assault and rushes through parking.  Watched him do this about 6 times.  He uses pistol when he gets there, and shoots faster with pistol than ar shoots.  Watched him kill four people at once on two separate rounds.  Def was there with 2 sf, ar, rpk and he killed them all with the pistol.  Twice.

Oh yeah, he is a 10 honor who just started today.  His account number is 818470

5 accounts on the same hardware ID:

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I have been wanting to ask you why this is. I mean, x-fi's are still respectable sound cards, why would they bottleneck the AD700's? What kind of hardware do you suggest to take full advantage of the headphones?

X-Fi was strictly popular for sound processing for gamers. In the higher-end audio world, you don't want to mess with or process audio during playback. Smallest circuit and less handling as possible so your equipment reproduces the sound as accurate as possible. Sure, processing is a good thing but only for an engineer who is composing and mixing the audio in a studio with the proper equipment and training. Back to X-Fi, games don't use it anymore. The hardware processing on it is old and it's gone the way of PhysX. There's plenty of threads on the Creative forums where people wonder what the point of X-Fi is because Creative isn't really doing anything to ensure it's future or merge over to OpenAL.

So, the hardware processing is worthless on your X-Fi, that leaves an audio circuit that's mediocre at best. It's something comparable to modern motherboard audio, unless again, you have an Auzentech model which is made with better components. The only way I would use one that's made by Creative is to use SPDIF output. The analog output is passed through crappy OPAMPs and low-end capacitors. Also to think about is the DAC chip which is not high-end by any means. DAC technology changes very fast, chips made in the 90's that were implemented in units costing several thousand dollars are beat by units today that cost maybe $200. The DAC chip in the X-Fi is nothing special.

real hardware, with OPAMPS(correct lol?) ;D
Spanky is the sound man, so he will explain it correctly.

X-Fi has OPAMPS, they generally suck though unless you go for one of the Auzentech models but by the time you spend that much money, it would be better to get an external solution that's not X-Fi.


I really ran out of steam to finish this post the way I wanted. Here's a few outside links that might give you some more knowledge:
http://www.audio-gd.com/Pro/Headphoneamp/NFB12/NFB12EN.htm
http://www.mav-audio.com/base/product/tube_magic_d1
http://www.head-fi.org/t/524263/audio-gd-nfb-12/225
http://www.head-fi.org/t/226975/hotrodding-the-x-fi-a-laymans-guide-no-56k
http://www.head-fi.org/t/589078/almis-x-fi-mod-hotrodding-sound-blaster-x-fi-models