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  1. dewi

    Business laptops vs gaming laptops

    An update: I eventually bought a Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 with an Intel Core i7-10875H and an RTX 3080. I also bought a Thunderbolt dock. I'm very impressed by the build quality of the Razer. It's a bit heavier than I'm used to, but I'm doing much less travelling than I did pre-COVID. The...
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    which is the very best razerblade 15 advanced model for 4k games

    There isn't a laptop made that will play all 4k games currently out there at max resolution settings. Laptop RTX 3080s are much slower than their desktop counterparts. I have a Razer Blade 15 Advanced. Razer laptops are extremely well made, but as others have written, you can buy faster...
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    Business laptops vs gaming laptops

    I'm still torn between the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 and the Lenovo Legion 7i. The specifications I'm interested in are only available to pre-order in any case. I could get the Asus with an AMD Ryzen 7 and an RTX 2060 for £1,499.99. I like the fact that the Zephyrus G14 only weighs 1.6 kg and that...
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    Business laptops vs gaming laptops

    Thanks for the advice. The Lenovo Legion 7i is my favourite at the moment. It seems worth accepting a little more size & weight compared to my current Dell in return for much more capability. I'm going to wait for a larger selection of configurations to become available on the Lenovo site since...
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    Business laptops vs gaming laptops

    Thanks for the very helpful suggestion. £1,799.99 for an Intel Core i7-10750H and an RTX 2070 seems very competitive compared to the Dell, Asus and Razer. I like the idea of a 4 year on-site warranty...
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    Business laptops vs gaming laptops

    I currently have a Dell 7440, which I use for my small business. In the office, it's connected to a Dell docking station and two 1920x1200 monitors. In normal times, I travel a fair bit, so it's important to me that the laptop is lightweight. I tend to keep my laptops for about 5 years. I've...
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    Asus Essence STX II owners

    As someone who's just upgraded from an Asus Xonar Essence STX (not STX II), I think I know what you mean by the Essence ST having a wam, analogue sound. The Sound BlasterX G6 that I also own sounds cleaner than the STX, but clinical in comparison. I upgraded to an Audeze Mobius, which is a USB...
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    Audeze Mobius - Closed Planar magnetic headphone, gaming headset, head tracking, bluetooth and more!

    I've gone back to the stock pads. The Audeze Mobius with the stock pads is acceptably comfortable, though still a long way behind the Sennheiser PC 360 and the Sony WH-1000XM3 in comfort. I appreciate that everyone's head is different, but I found the gel pads to be extremely uncomfortable. I...
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    Expensive USB Cable To Connect PC To DAC

    How about £450 for an Ethernet switch? It does come with a free Ethernet cable worth £40. https://www.whathifi.com/news/chord-companys-reborn-english-electric-launches-its-first-product
  10. dewi

    Gamers, What's Your Audio Set Up?

    It's not so much that mechanical keyboards have got louder but that people have got used to the (low) noise of membrane keyboards. I remember the IBM AT keyboard used to be really loud back in the day. Mechanical keyboards are an addiction. I started off with a Filco Majestouch-2 (£125) and...
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    Expensive USB Cable To Connect PC To DAC

    That's exactly how I feel. Maybe, just maybe there's something going on in the digital to analogue conversion. Even so, I'm not convinced by some "expert" reviewer claiming to hear a difference between two cables. I'd want to hear the difference for myself and/or for him to back up his...
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    Expensive USB Cable To Connect PC To DAC

    I'm very, very cynical. I can just about see how a long digital cable could introduce jitter and how that could lead to an audible difference. Even then, you should be able to measure the effect of the jitter by doing a bit-comparison of the data received with the source data. Most of the time...
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    Expensive USB Cable To Connect PC To DAC

    How about: https://petertyson.co.uk/audioquest-rj-e-diamond
  14. dewi

    Audeze Mobius - Closed Planar magnetic headphone, gaming headset, head tracking, bluetooth and more!

    I thought I'd share my thoughts on my Audeze Mobius. I've owned them for a month now. They replaced a Sennheiser PC 360 that was connected to an Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card. The PC 360 and the Xonar were 9 years old. I replaced them because the pots were getting noisy on the headset...
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    Audeze Mobius - Closed Planar magnetic headphone, gaming headset, head tracking, bluetooth and more!

    It's not so much that it gives me an advantage (I play Lord Of The Rings Online), but with my previous headset, I found it immersion-breaking when I turned my head, even if was only to look at the second monitor. It felt unnatural that the sound turned with my head, as if the world was spinning...
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    Audeze Mobius - Closed Planar magnetic headphone, gaming headset, head tracking, bluetooth and more!

    I'm surprised you went for the model without the head tracking. I find the head tracking to be one of the best features on the Audeze Mobius. I thought it would feel gimmicky, but it's the complete opposite - it feels very natural and makes it very easy to figure out exactly where noises are...
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    Wireless headphones for gaming

    Are you looking for wireless headphones for PC or for console gaming? I have both Bose QC 35 and an Audeze Mobius. I recently purchased the Audeze Mobius to replace a Sennheiser PC 360, which was connected via an Asus Xonar Essence STX soundcard to my PC. The Bose QC 35 and Audeze Mobius are...
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    SSD for Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK?

    According to UserBenchmark, I'm getting 244 MB/s sequential read. I can't say I notice any difference in performance compared to the Crucial M4 128GB 2.5" SSD drive that it replaced, but I'm certainly appreciating the additional disk space. Any SSD is way faster than a mechanical drive. You'll...
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    SSD for Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK?

    Well, that was easy. I inserted the M.2 SSD, clone the old drive, removed the old drive, rebooted and I was done.
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    SSD for Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK?

    I decided to buy a Crucial MX500 1TB M.2 SSD since it was the same price as a 2.5" SSD. I hadn't realised that I'd need to remove my CPU cooler to gain access to the M.2 slot, so I'm now waiting for OC to ship me some Arctic MX-4 thermal compound.
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