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Jul 12, 2017
New Experience for Gaming
1 of 1 found this helpful It's incredible to hear just how much audio depth there is to my favorite video games, and the 3D audio experience is fully realized with these speakers. From games like Battlefield to Planetside 2 and War Thunder, you can actually hear your opponents moving around you, which direction the shots are coming from, the thrum of the engine in your vehicles...
The only downside is that the right headphone is seemingly weaker than the left; multiple people have confirmed this with my set and I've tried it on multiple devices. Adjusting the balance in my computer's audio panel compensates for this.
Full-ear coverage means you can get a little warm during the summer months. Power through it.
Jan 04, 2018
Not entirely what I expected
2 of 4 found this helpful It's Ryzen! AMD comes swinging out of the red corner and finally offers powerful, more energy efficient processors with higher per-thread performance to compete with Intel! Well, so we hoped. Sure, it IS a lot faster than my FX-8320 and paired with DDR4 memory the performance in games IS noticeable, but... I guess I expected more. This processor runs cooler at 4 GHz on a Corsair Hydro H110i than my FX-8320 did at 4.3 GHz with a 212 EVO, but not as much as you'd expect. It's still a pretty warm chip even though it's only 95w at stock boost speeds compared to the FX-8320 at 125w with a slight O.C. Hopefully with liquid cooling and lower TDP I can get some more thermal headroom over the FX-8320 and explore over-clocking it in the future/after the warranty expires.
Multi-core performance is great and I can run two monitors simultaneously, one with a game running and multiple tabs open in Opera on the other with office open (I get bored doing homework, judge me) without any noticeable drop in performance. I don't know about it being the "most powerful 6 core gaming processor" as AMD boasts, but it can multi-task very, very well.
I don't know if it was just because it was my "luck of the draw" or what, but my unit arrived with a whole row of bent pins- with a steady hand and a dental pick this was remedied over a painful amount of time (this is why I said it wasn't easy to install). it's been a little over a month and there haven't been any problems as a result of this.
All in all, I'm happy.