... American prices are moronic. ._.
With those prices, GTX 770 is a better deal.
In Sweden, the 280X is a better deal, it costs 10-20% less than the GTX 770 and is a better GPU. But for those prices? Yuck.
... American prices are moronic. ._.
With those prices, GTX 770 is a better deal.
In Sweden, the 280X is a better deal, it costs 10-20% less than the GTX 770 and is a better GPU. But for those prices? Yuck.
Yeah I play bf4 and wow mostly plus I got 1 day shipping for $4 so I figured why not just get the 770. I like the 280x and have nothing against and but the 2 asus products I've owned so far have both had problems so i think I'll try my luck with evga
On Komplett and Webhallen the average aftermarket GTX770 is priced at ~2800kr which converts to $430 USD, while 280X are slightly cheaper at ~$410-420 (same as of USD price of 280X).
I'm thinking 770 prices haven't cascaded down to that country yet, but at least we know which place has the moronic prices :P
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Cheapest 770 -- 2687 SEK or 412.85 USD
Cheapest 280x -- 2485 SEK or 383.10 USD
Given
a) 25% MOMS (mervärdesskatt / VAT), which I believe is not present in at least the price listings at Newegg, maybe not even something that the Americans pay at all, so, at *.8 it becomes 330.28 and 306.48 USD respectively for the two cards.
b) The SEK is increasingly becoming stronger and stronger toward the USD, which makes these comparisons more and more skewed. I think it was >11:1 SEK:USD in 2011, now it's 6.4866:1. The stronger the SEK will become, the more USD the conversion rate will become without becoming relatively more expensive here compared to other living expenses - probably the other way around in fact. I should just convert all my SEK to USD once they become 1:1
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Oh, that was only of those that were actually in-store. There is a 280x shortage in Sweden as well, there were cheaper offerings not in-store.
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I got the chance to talk to one of Dell's tech programmers(not sure but exact title) for their cloud based soctware. We have a pretty nice talk, I was mostly liked talking about the gaming capabilities about it. But it seems like we are still a far away from actually really doing it nicely. Though other companies might have better ways dealing with it. I went for some work thing, but a lot of the stuff ended up being over my head, I understood it mostly though.
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I might have to buy another 780. :/ Assassin's Creed 4 is giving me gray hair, runs so poorly.. Also thinking about getting a new higher impedance, open design headphones to go along with my Xonar STX. Perhaps in the 200-500€ range, any suggestions?
Depends what you already have? K/Q 701 or HD650 are good to start with, sounding quite different.
Dunno if buying another 780 is the best solution, last I checked the scaling wasn't the greatest.
As for headphones...jee that's a pretty large bracket. A short list:
Sennheiser HD600, HD650
HiFiMan HE400, HE500
AKG K701, K702
BeyerDynamic DT880, DT990
Grado SR325i, PS500, RS2i
Shure SRH1440
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Yeah I have a pair of older Sennheiser HD280 Pro's at the moment which are quite good for their price but the head pad is starting to wear down. I was looking to replace it but then started thinking maybe I wanna get a new ones altogether. They are also closed-back with tight grip so they tend to start feeling heavy after longer periods.
So I figured I should keep these if I ever needed the isolation and noise cancelling and get a different type ones with open design and more comfort for my daily use. Also, if I'm perfectly honest, since the HD280's are rated for 64 ohms the sound card isn't doing me much over onboard audio at the moment.
And I know there's quite a lot of good ones out there especially with wider budget. Was more asking if anyone has personal opinion about a specific model that hits the sweet spot of actually delivering something and not just ending up costing shit tons of money more then I really needed to spend. Then shortly after realizing how silly of me that was seeing how uptight the audiophile community can be when it comes to these things. I mean, "this 2k speaker setup surely must be better then the 1k one since it costs so much more money!".
Well I haven't personally owned any of the ones listed, but I've heard nothing but good things about the Sennheiser and HiFiMan cans. So I'd probably recommend looking into those before the others.
Errm...you can get a headphone amp for like $10-15, all it does is increase the amplitude of the signal. The signal ITSELF is what you are paying for with the Xonar STX, that sound processor + op-amps + caps aren't there just for show :P they are doing 95% of the work. Then all that finally goes through a simple amplifying circuit which gives it a boostie.
I think you've vastly over-estimating the importance of impedance/amping.
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Well as far as sound processing on the sound card side goes, it's hardly relevant seeing how powerful today's CPU's are anyway relative to the workload of sound processing. The headphone op-amp on the STX is nice but nothing that special either (if I recall correctly it costs like $3-5).
Now in the end it all does help and improve the sound quality to some extent but, and this is what I meant originally considering the impedance, since the STX has relatively high output impedance (~10Ω) compared to say, onboard audio, it doesn't work quite as well with lower ohm headphones. To my understanding, what this means in the end is, you lose some lower end frequencies which makes the bass slightly lacking and muddy. Then again I'm not that experienced with this matter and am only repeating what I've read but the basic principal with STX and headphones seems to be you'll wanna pick a higher impedance ones for the better overall experience.
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Going back to the headphone chat for a sec: I love my HE-400s. A bit heavy compared to something like the Grados, but what planar magnetic headphone isn't at least a little heavy? (the HE-400 is 440g)
SQ is lovely, though amping is definitely recommended. They just gobble up power.