I dont have much idea about headsets mainly for music...
try Logitech premium stereo headset costs around rs.600 or ask your dealer whether he has any Sennheiser/Philips noise cancelling sets and get one for your budget...
if for gaming, Logitech precision gaming headset would do for your budget rs.1.4k
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have you ever debuged a hardware for s/w performance analysis.....
its kinda part of my job....so i do it..
and then said that 8600GT could only access upto 300 ~ 320 MB of ram..
so no point....in extra 256..and anyways its out of point no need in shelling the money as he is on a budget...increasing ur sys ram may help..but not the GPU ram...in this case..
sorry I dont do any of that stuff as a part of my job (I'm a Mechanical Engg

) but I do go through a lot of reviews and benchmarks... saying 8600GT could only access upto 300 ~ 320 MB is not a strong conclusion... you might be talking about the 512MB DDR2 card it is possible since the memory is slower... but if its the 512MB GDDR3 card you are talking about, IMO you have not worked the card enough thats it..
but I agree on this part in saying that he could get more sys ram than spending on this... perfectly logical...
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dunno about Altec lansing AHP512i
but Altec Lansing AHS515 is 1.3k and Altec Lansing CHP524 is 1.8k
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