Huge audio or bulldozer

Is this for real :confused: Car audio in his bedroom :confused: I've heard it all now :p
Ummm, car audio is designed for cars, home audio equipment for the home. Unless you live in your car, get home audio ;)
 
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I can't see this ending well..

and i help my friend (Lakeway, singed Dj to morbit records)at party's and such so i am often relied upon to have a good sub and amp
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This made me pee my pants.. :D
 
Zzzac, seriously, just buy all the car **** you want, set it up, use it for a few days until it fails and post back here so we can have a laugh.
You have people here STILL trying to give you good sound advice, but you won't listen to it. The only way you'll learn is by continuously screwing up and wasting lots of money. In a few years you'll hopefully realise the error of your ways.

Fix your computer, (don't buy broken parts and claim to be electronics guru). Buy an amp, cd player and some quality speakers (buy home audio equipment).

I just look forward to the hilarity and number of facepalm images this thread will get.
 
computer wise, heres a much better suggestion for not a lot more money:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £94.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £44.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.98
Total : £179.96 (includes shipping: FREE).


motherboard supports crossfire/SLI at x8/x8 (speeds which wont bottleneck the card except for on massive resolutions)
RAM is compatible with all air coolers
hard drive is much faster

as for the audio, do the sensible thing and get home theatre stuff. no matter how much you go on about it being good quality the home theatre stuff will be better (and going for massive power low quality speakers will sound poor and **** off the neighbours)

while i think about it, you said you knew of a good cheap 1300W PSU to power some stuff off of. there is no such thing as a good cheap PSU, they are mutually exclusive. you will not find a 1300W PSU that is of a high enough quality to even consider powering expensive equipment for under £125 new in england. you might do in different countries, but with import costs and taxes it will almst certainly go above that
also, you keep going for cheap stuff and it keeps breaking. everyone else on these forums goes for more expensive stuff and it rarely breaks. there might just be a connection there
 
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I'll put the one I put in the other thread here :D it's my favourite facepalm image :d

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ZZZAC said:
Buying a strange CPU from China(or India cant remember) when you were told not to.

To mention the cpu was fine, it worked 100% and was a great clocker
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You bought it from China and then sent it back using airmail as you thought it was blown, if you had made your purchases from a UK based seller like you were told to those many moons ago, then you wouldn't have had to spend that much on postage.

demotivational-posters-quadruple-facepalm.jpg
 
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Reaper 392 said:
computer wise, heres a much better suggestion for not a lot more money:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £94.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £44.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.98
Total : £179.96 (includes shipping: FREE).


motherboard supports crossfire/SLI at x8/x8 (speeds which wont bottleneck the card except for on massive resolutions)
RAM is compatible with all air coolers
hard drive is much faster

as for the audio, do the sensible thing and get home theatre stuff. no matter how much you go on about it being good quality the home theatre stuff will be better (and going for massive power low quality speakers will sound poor and **** off the neighbours)

while i think about it, you said you knew of a good cheap 1300W PSU to power some stuff off of. there is no such thing as a good cheap PSU, they are mutually exclusive. you will not find a 1300W PSU that is of a high enough quality to even consider powering expensive equipment for under £125 new in england. you might do in different countries, but with import costs and taxes it will almst certainly go above that
also, you keep going for cheap stuff and it keeps breaking. everyone else on these forums goes for more expensive stuff and it rarely breaks. there might just be a connection there
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actually on the psu jobby, its a server psu out of a hp, its 1300watt and designed to run constantly at load without failing
 
ZZZAC said:
a 12v "automobile" set-up in you're room is really very simple... because i know the right computer psu to power the amp and its cheep relable 1300watts and can easily provide 100amps + on 12v
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Oh Jesus, here we go again! Look, the way I see things is the reason you have decided to go for a car audio setup is 'because you can'. Listen to what people are saying, car audio is designed for cars, you'd be much better off getting a nice Logitech surround system which would give you some excellent audio and directional sound for games without the hassle of trying to rig up an amp using a PSU, adapting the inputs to work from your sound card and not to mention driver issues.

You are simply asking for problems, and you've run into enough of those already. You also have to remember that knowing how to build a computer or bake a graphics card does not make you an electronics engineer- it's pretty simple stuff. I'm your age, and I review PSUs for eTeknix, taking them apart, looking at the components, analysing the various stages inside the unit, then testing the unit using an oscilloscope, load tester and power meter- I still wouldn't think that using a PSU to power an amp would be a good idea, nor would I even consider it a viable option. I know a hell of a lot about how computers and PSUs work, but I would by no means consider myself a 'pro', especially compared to the knowledge of many users here who have been in the game decades. Do yourself a favour- take their advice!

I would strongly recommend going for that SB setup. It is an enormous upgrade from your current setup, and Bulldozer has proved that there is no future for enthusiasts in the AMD platform. I'm going to be getting out of AMD around Christmas to go for a very similar setup.

EDIT- May I ask the make and model of that PSU?
 
it is the HP DL580 G3 ML570 G3 power supply
eitehr looking localy at 2x 6" subs with 2 amps cheap or an vibe black air 10" active sub and amp for a little more
 
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what's the point in making threads asking for advice if your just gonna do what you were gonna do in the first place?
 
Go for Reaper's suggestion, then save up the cash for a proper sound system... now that will blow your ears away ;).

Although it seems you're already set on what you want... but Reaper's suggestion is by far looking like the most money worth and more reliable too.
 
Be very careful with that PSU mate, it's a server PSU as you know. Server PSUs will be geared primarily to powering peripherals so whereas in an enthusiast PSU a large proportion of the wattage will be delivered through the 12V rail, I suspect that a much lower proportion of the total wattage is being delivered as 12V. Also, I'm not sure how well it will respond the the fast variations in power that the amp will demand, as I expect it goes fluctuates from low to very high wattage quickly.
 
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Be very careful with that PSU mate, it's a server PSU as you know. Server PSUs will be geared primarily to powering peripherals so whereas in an enthusiast PSU a large proportion of the wattage will be delivered through the 12V rail, I suspect that a much lower proportion of the total wattage is being delivered as 12V. Also, I'm not sure how well it will respond the the fast variations in power that the amp will demand, as I expect it goes fluctuates from low to very high wattage quickly.
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Its ok mate,

ZZZAC said:
but with audio i do know what im doing,
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Please, let me give you some advice. Maybe coming from someone who is nearly the same age as you, you might take it in:

Listen to these people. They know **** loads more than you probably ever will.
 
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