Holy , i thought my mcdonagh and giordano were good <| sep |> The thing is , if it is a normal volume , by any reasonable definition , then it is not clipping . To clip the output to a significant degree you are by any reasonable definition at NOT normal volume . <| sep |> Baron , i ' ve come to bargain . <| sep |> I ' ve been pretty pleased with my Strix 980 , but this is pretty ridiculous . I think Asus has been sitting on their asses the last few years on their GPUs . The AMD cards have been using recycled Nvidia coolers , and the 1000 series coolers seem to be pretty bad on both sides . I don ' t blame you for being put out <| sep |> Honestly it will more than likely be at worst on part with whatever comes out of that thing . The nespresso ones aren ' t terrible . You can however get cafe comparable drip coffee relatively cheap with a hand grinder , kettle , and pourover cone of some sort .