Waiting on Newegg :(

i consider my pc350 headset to be one of the most important upgrades i have made from my old laptop setup, i can now shoot people behind me just from the sound.
 
Personally, I can't stand the on-board sound and I think anybody who says they are fine with it has never heard the difference between that crap and even a decent sound card, much less a nice one.

I'm no audiophile, but I like my games to sound crisp, lots of bass, and to hear positional sounds accurately. On board sound always sounds like its muffled, weak, and tinny in comparison to any sound card I've ever owned from $50 and up.
 
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Finally! Gotta put it together now :) See you guys later!
 
Fucking Creative Labs useless fucking drivers created more problems for me than anything, and no one else (until recently) has really been in the discreet soundcard game
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That's why I'm using an Asus Xonar sound card now. No more static, popping, or crackling like I got with creative drivers...ugh! Plus, this sound card kicks the shit out of Creative's...it's a beast!
 
Updating Winderz, etc. as I type this from my craptastic laptop. Few things:

Case: I had the OG HAF, amazing case, and this one improves on it. I know a few of you (Six and Balls I'm pretty sure) have it, so here's the differences: Black interior, black motherboard screws...small detail, I know, but still...in the 2nd pic, the long black cable is for the front USB 3.0 ports, long enough to route effectively, the top 2 HDD "cages" are made for SSD's (will provide pics if requested), big ass retard video card support bracket (attaches to the HDD cage), comes with no-shit thumbscrews for the panels (my original HAF didn't). I didn't think this case had room to improve, I was wrong.

Mobo: It's an Asus Maximus board, what can I say except it has everything. The whole GUI BIOS is alien to me, will take some getting used to. Very well packaged. Everything booted on 1st try, haven't dicked around at all with it yet, so wouldn't be fair to say !!!1111!!11!!!! awesome.

Chip: i2600K-----MOST CERTAINLY NOT HAPPY with how it was packaged, CPU was AT THE TOP, VISIBLE in the package...I would think it would've been protected a wee bit better. Wish I would've got a pic, but was in a hurry. Booted, showed 4/8 cores, can't bitch yet really.

GPU: Very well packaged. No benchmarks/stress yet, so really no verdict.

Memory: Board detected XMP Profile on boot, runs at advertised timings, no opinion yet (benchmarks).

That's my base opinion so far. Still updating crap, mostly Windows. The BIOS GUI is soooo strange after all these years lol. Probably not gonna bench until tomorrow, will take a SS of default crap, etc. BIOS showed 60C @ idle, so I need to reset the HSF before I get stupid anyway :)
 
Very nice. I love the HAF 932 I've got, but it's the older version not the sleek black inside like you've got. I hope you do a bios update and it shows all your cpu cores. Stupid question, but is HT enabled in the bios?
 
sixer9682 said:
Very nice. I love the HAF 932 I've got, but it's the older version not the sleek black inside like you've got. I hope you do a bios update and it shows all your cpu cores. Stupid question, but is HT enabled in the bios?
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Yeah, I had the same HAF as you, pretty neat changes. HT was enabled by default in the BIOS :)
 
Damn. I hope the bios update changes that core status. BTW, are the bios and Win both showing the same CPU?
 
sixer9682 said:
Damn. I hope the bios update changes that core status. BTW, are the bios and Win both showing the same CPU?
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No no, sorry. When I said 4/8 I meant 4 physical 4 virtual. And yes, BIOS/Windows/Asus AI Suite shows same :) I'm getting nervous, this build is going WAY to smooth lol

Oh, and CPU temp is down to 35 C thank God, had to reset HSF. Gonna post some pics in a minute.
 
Holy piss this thing is fast. Anyway, loading BC2 and updating, will post benches and crap sometime tomorrow.

Edit: Talking 980X/990X faster---could be the newer SSD and wee bit faster ram than last rig, but it's noticeable. Enough that I notice a difference, which is the really surprising part.
 
I don't doubt the speed at all. I put an I5 2400 in my wife's new pc it's faster at stock speed than my I7 920 at 4.0ghz.
 
I was personally disappointed from actual performance differences (between a 3.3 Yorkfield and 4.5 i7-2600K). RAID was the biggest boost by far--and I definitely miss that feature the most. I'll never buy another motherboard (for personal use) without RAID.
 
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