http://www.modmic.com/collections/frontpage/products/modmic-4-0
So I've recently discovered these, and I find it to be a very cool solution, as I'm someone who would rather put the money into good headphones and have a separate microphone, than to have a mediocre "Business Headset". The recording quality on these little guys is astounding for the price point, I'll link a YouTube video on it down below.
@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
Me? Yeah, could make one of the Servers run Skyrim in 1080P glory
No GPUs.
Shouldn't need them. Theoretically (Don't quote me on this lol) I should be able to make it run on the CPU.
Me? Yeah, could make one of the Servers run Skyrim in 1080P glory 
Steam now supports this natively, no additional software needed. It will work on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
@Reid-Cooper said:
I have a feeling that everyone likes music. Never met someone who didn't
Sadly, I have,
I guess another part to add to this would be who here is a musician of any sort haha. I've got a wide but very particular music taste, most people tend to dislike it. I like Metal (specifically things in the vein of Metallica and such), I do enjoy Alternative Rock quite a bit. I listen to anything classical, a very small amount of Pop, a lot of older things (i.e, The Five Keys, Elvis, Victor Borge). I also enjoy Techno and Dubstep quite a bit, as well as Funk and Classic Jazz. I currently only play guitar, but I'm working on Bass, Drums, and Violin. I would call myself an Audiophile, but the general "Audiophile" crowd is not something I associate with. I've got a nice setup for listening, an ASUS Xonar Phoebus and a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 990 Premium 250 OHM versions.
Completely random, but who here likes music?
What music do you like?
What kinds of equipment do you use for your listening experience?
What would your top five songs be?
Any music suggestions for anyone else here?
Also, any fellow Audiophiles?
Killing FreePBX for like the fifth time in the past few days.
@StrongBad I've used an android tablet for it and they run very well, but on the Shield I would imagine it runs even better. I know Half Life 2 is quite impressive on it.
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Yeah, had an AMD chip for a year or so and had PhysX. I'm somewhat sure (Don't quote me on this lol) that the Shield uses the GPU exclusively for rendering, and then CPU does the PhysX end.
The particle effects and physics for Half Life 2 are done via CPU. And my mistake, by natively I mean that it isn't getting hardware support from PC streaming or anything. So far as I've seen, PhysX and video encoding are the most taxing CPU processes, and this has been running them without a hitch or hiccup. I know a few people who have 3770K's that choke with PhysX rendering.
Well, I'm currently sitting here playing Half Life 2 Natively. It looks better than it if were on highest setting on a PC, full particle effects and such. No other mobile device can do that.
@Nic said:
I would have gotten it for the streaming, but you can't run anything else on the computer at the same time, which defeats the purpose.
Now you can stream games from outside your home network, with relatively little lag, and there's only room for improvement.
@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
Have you seen the specifications on it? On paper, it's faster than an i5 2540M.
On paper it is faster in what way than an i5? It's a fraction of the CPU power.
The SHIELD 2 will be running an overclocked, unlocked version of the K1 chip. The K1 they're using is not even a stock K1, or even a boosted K1. It's one developed specially for this platform that will be able to run a lot of PC titles natively, as well as mobile emulation of possibly last gen Game Consoles like the Xbox 360. The stock K1 can preform all the necessary operations that are required to drive a car, all by itself, and it does it better than Google's several hundred pounds of hardware they've been using. This is the single beefiest mobile processor in existence, and it's just gonna get better.
Have you seen the specifications on it? On paper, it's faster than an i5 2540M.
My bad, I didn't mention that it's a special K1 with a separate GPU on it's own chip for the Shield 2. Probably should have specified 
