Fair point, not sure how much of an impact it is, but I ran it with my old rig (4770k and gtx 1060) and didn't notice any major impact

Okay I did some tests recording with the mic with various settings and RTX voice basically completely eliminates any noise from my keyboard as well as making leaking music in the background almost inaudible too (only when I'm talking and its turned up REALLY loud, otherwise it basically just does a noise gate and doesn't have anything).

Will have to test in a mumble to see, only problem I can foresee is if other people are talking and I have my audio set loud and RTX voice detects the other people's voices leaking through my headphones, but I guess mumble's echo cancellation should hopefully fix that. For anyone who doesn't have an RTX card you can edit a few lines of code (link) and get it to work. It works surprisingly well and automatically pretty much eliminates all fan noise/background noise, although you can turn the noise reduction down and tweak it if you want.

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I just got open back headphones and I was wondering, are there any good plugins I don't know about for cancelling out echo/feedback loops into your mic? I am currently using RTX voice which does a pretty good job but maybe there's others. Mumble has multichannel echo cancellation which I have enabled but I'm not sure what the actual effect is from it. Would be nice to have something to cancel out the output from my headphones into my mic similar to how phones do it when on speaker mode. Don't listen to music that loud or anything but there definitely is some input to my mic that isn't wanted.

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i just ordered some and i live near boston, excited to try it out and see

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I picked up a 3600XT today at microcenter and I think it does actually include a stock cooler the 'wraith thermal solution', although from what I read the 3800XT and 3900XT don't include stock coolers. Got a pretty good deal with $50 off bundle when I got a motherboard with the CPU (only options for the deal were some way overpriced one and the asus TUF x570-plus (wifi) which is a solid deal at only $140 (compared to $190 regular price). Cleaned out my old PC but didn't have any extra thermal paste to re-apply and didn't want to bother with it so I decided to treat myself and spend some extra money on just getting a whole new setup. The advice to try and overclock my 4770k was definitely the better play financially speaking cause I'm sure there's more performance to be squeezed out but at the end of the day I decided I wanted to do an upgrade. Seems like the stock boost to 4.5ghz is pretty solid but I think I'll try to overclock a bit and see what I can do with the stock cooler. Microcenter had the 3600X at $200 which is less than I was seeing it online previously ($220) so I think the release today probably will drive the prices down as people suspected. With the $50 discount from bundle slightly better performance I figured why not go for the 3600XT. All the other budget B450 and B550 motherboards were sold out online pretty much so I'm happy with this. Excited to put the best of the build together once things arrive.

that is true but all the LAN iterations i saw them at raymon was playing (i58 onwards)

No I understand Fragile, I was more trying to ask if tf2 people actually going to be attending, cause personally it seems pretty irresponsible but maybe in September things will be better. Still pretty skeptical but it would be fun if possible, is there any way to get tickets and then potentially get a refund later if you decide not to risk it? Or would it be possible to purchase tickets later on closer to the event date itself? Maybe they sell out or become unavailable because planning/estimating how many people there will be, but would be a nice option to have.

I appreciate the advice and stuff but I think the bad FPS has probably got something to do with my PC overheating or the overclock being messed up somehow because in the past I got pretty decent FPS and things weren't bad at all. Maybe it's just with 240hz I can notice the frames dipping moreso, I wouldn't say it goes down to 120 constantly on mids or anything either it's just sometimes I'll check net graph when it feels super stuttery on a mid and I see numbers like that. I originally set up the overclock fairly long ago when I wasn't very confident messing around with things so I can definitely go in and test it some more. I'm a bit confused about what you're recommending though Setsul, you're trying to say that waiting and getting the 3600XT is worth it right? Or at the very least waiting till it's released and then getting a then discounted 3600? And with regards to overclocking I'm not inherently against it, I just don't want to have to spend a bunch more money on a better motherboard and better cooler and all that stuff. Maybe it's possible to overclock slightly with the stock AMD coolers?
Also, I spoke to a friend who was in a similar situation who got a 3600 and some 3200mhz ram that he overclocked to 3600mhz and said his build gets really good frames definitely over 240 constantly, so I'm not too worried that a new build will be good enough. Clearly my PC is just old and hasn't been cleaned out and is probably overheating so saying it needs like +200% frames from 120 isn't really a fair comparison.

At lower levels this is definitely true, having a medic who's in the right position and survives can singlehandedly win rounds even if the rest of the team is worse (e.g., I rang for a friend's main team and the other team forced me to medic and despite every player on our team being heavily outdamaged and having more deaths than their whole team we still managed to win two rounds because I micro'd everyone and survived: http://logs.tf/2607314#76561198059645150).

Not sure what 'baseline potential' means exactly but I will agree that in close matches medics' performances are some of the most important because it's so easy to drop players or drop uber or get caught out and lose rounds, but I would say that corresponds to the fact that medic is very easy to fuck up on. Not playing poorly does help your team but I wouldn't even say that's really carrying, if both medics are playing well it doesn't really make sense to say they are both carrying. And if one medic messes up and has a bad game and the other doesn't, it seems more fair to say the one who played poorly was holding their team back than the other medic particularly carrying.

That said, if your medic has crazy mechanics and simply doesn't die to bombers and has crazy surfs and stuff that would definitely count as carrying in my book. Strictly speaking, medic definitely has a huge skill ceiling and there is room to play optimally and never get caught out and have perfect games and arrow the enemy med and stuff like that, but I'm not sure how that compares to the carry abilities of other classes. It feels like on medic even if you are having your best game ever there simply isn't *that* much you can do so long as the other medic is playing decently, your teammates kind of have to step up and actually kill stuff even if you constantly give them uber ad pushes.