New gaming rig, yay!

[ruairi.C]

As the owner of the Deluxe - It's a pretty big waste of money

you don't get many people who admit that about what they've bought

 

[jamesriley94]

you don't get many people who admit that about what they've bought

Yes, but we're a good forum, and we can take our egotistical views of what we own out of the equation and just advise what's best for the person who asks

Don't get me wrong - it's a good board. But - I bought it purely because of the integrated wifi, which turned out to suck - as does all wifi on desktops. Then looking at the bigger picture, it costs £50 more than the GD65, and the only difference if a wifi card that isnt good enough to game on anyway.

Having said that - I've not had any problems with it at all other than the wifi, and it has performed great too - still just not worth more than the GD65

 

[Ylaana]

Regarding the sound, you'd be way better off getting good speakers than an internal sound card and gaming speakers. You've got a perfectly clean signal coming from the mini-jack connector on your motherboard that you can plug into a decent hi-fi auxiliary, for example.

I currently have a set of Edifier Aurora 2.1 speakers but I'm looking for something better. Unfortunately I don't have the space on my desk for a hi-fi system so I'd prefer a good quality 2.0 or 2.1 speaker set. I've heard good things about the Audioengine A2 and the M-Audio Studiophile AV40 mk II, can anyone comment on them?

 

[Kanped]

I've used M-Audio stuff before and generally found it pretty amazing for the price. Actually preferred them to the £400 near-field monitors my college used. I had a look at the Audioengine system and it seems pretty solid. TBH, though, if you want to go down that route, you would need a sound card of some kind to get the most out of them, I think, unless you do go for ones with a USB interface. Basically, a nice amp and cross-over to get a good signal to the speakers.
I would also say that the M-Audio Av30s are half the price or near enough and the main difference seems to be that they're slightly quieter at 15 watts per speaker rather than 20, but I doubt you'll ever have them at full volume anyway. Personally, I would just get those over the Av40s; in terms of listening to pre-recorded, mixed/mastered material, I doubt you'd notice much of a difference.