i have the wireless and i don't have this problem. try a new one.

are you playing in a room with a lot of noise? or a loud tv? that can make it hard to hear you.

paullywog

No but my room is pretty big... i don't think that should matter though. I tried putting the mic up really close to my mouth and talking and its still quite. i will return it today most likely. Thanks for the help guys, and for posting thatlink to the other thread. just clarrified it must be faulty. thanks.

I just got the 360 wireless headset and im not happy with it. the sound is great coming from other players but my voice is extremely quite. i have to yell to get people to hear me, and even then they say im quite. I have checked the volume is up on the mic in settings. and i have tested it in recording voice msgs. there is alot of backround white noise aswell. I am back to the flimsy corded headset because my friends said im clearer when i use that.

any tips or should i just return it for a new one?
maybe my ears are to far away from my mouth. haha :P

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Hold off on deciding what your next processor is gonna be. The normally priced Penryns will hit the streets in January. You might want to check those out. Also, the E6750 is cheaper currently than the E6600, so that might be another way for you to go. Sentinel672002

Thanks for being so much help mate. appreciate it, most people on this forum just call you a noob for asking questions... you have actually been a big help. I think i was looking at the E6750 now you mention it, And obviously i will have another look for best value when i actually go to buy. which will be about mid-late Feb most likely

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Not to worry... i just realised i bought DDr2 when my motherboard only supports ddr400 :P shows how much of a pc noob i am. lol
But i returned it for a 1gig stick of kingston ddr400 which i can slot straight in with the 2x 512 sticks no problem.

So here are the specs (tell me if its reasonably up to date)

AMD 3800+
EVGA 8800GT superclocked edition
Gigabyte K8N-PRO SLI
2gig of DDR400 ram (2x512 corsair, 1x1gig Kingston)

Sentinel672002

K8N-PRO SLI

Well, it's a socket 939 board...AMD's last socket, prior to AM2. It's a platform on life-support, but not quite dead yet. You would have been better off exchanging the DDR2 for two sticks of 512MB, rather than getting a single 1GB stick. You can't run dual channel with the sticks you currently have. As a result, your CPU's HyperTransport speed is bottlenecked down to mere 400Mhz (PC3200 speed). Dual channel would effectively double that HyperTransport frequency.

In english please... lol, dont forget i am a noob with most of this

Thanks for the help mate. I have already put the 1 gig stick in :S it has helped a little thoughi think. lol

I heard if i was running dual channel it should not matter... as long as the channels have the same rams i can mix between channels if that makes sense.

I also ordered a dual core 4200+ from ebay, i really wanted a 600+ but couldn't find one in 939 for a reasonable price.

So what exactly do you recommend i do with the ram? how do i successfully run dual channel?

English...you can't run in dual channel, with a single 1GB stick and two 512MB sticks. You need to match the sticks in pairs, like running the two 512MB sticks in one channel (memory slot 1 and slot 3). You only have a single 1GB stick, so your board will revert to single channel RAM for the lot. It cuts the memory to/from CPU bandwidth (amount of data transfered) in half when you run it in single channel. Dual channel runs at the same frequency (400Mhz for DDR PC3200), but runs two pathways instead of just one. I hope that's simple enough.

Yep thats simple enough. Apparently running dual channel wont give me a massive advantage anyway, and also its pointless because ive decided to pretty much go from scratch and upgrade early next year. here are my current and after. tell me what you think

Current:
4200+ amd dual core
Gigabyte 939 outdated motherboard :p
3g of DDR400 ram
Evga 8800Gt SCC

Upgrade:
e6600 core 2 duo
New Gigabyte motherboard ($150 AU range)
2gig DDR2 800 ram
Evga 8800GT SCC