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But that will only work for files that have either AC3 or DTS sound. I have some files that use AAC or WMA and my receiver doesn't handle those formats. With DDL everything is covered.

I want to hook up my laptop to my home theater and since it only outputs stereo I'd like to get a USB sound card that supports DDL or DTS encoding. So far I found this but it's a bit pricey: Asus Xonar U1 http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=3BrsEgFB19Fu0x7t There's also this, but it...

I want to hook up my laptop to my home theater and since it only outputs stereo I'd like to get a USB sound card that supports DDL or DTS encoding. So far I found this but it's a bit pricey: Asus Xonar U1 http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=3BrsEgFB19Fu0x7t There's also this, but it...

I can't really complain about fan noise today, as my older 8800 GT is fanless and the other one is actually pretty quiet. I hunted for some benchmarks but I actually find it pretty difficult to find benchmarks of new cards that stack them against old cards, most sites compare new cards only to...

I'm considering going from my 8800 GT SLI to a single 5850. Should I expect this to be a big speed increase? The main games I'm interested in are things like MW2, Crysis, the new NFS.

There's a $20 mail in rebate on the Forte right now bringing it to almost the same price as the Bravura. I was all set on the Forte until I saw the Bravura, slightly cheaper and full-height. I'm not too crazy about the half-height design + dongle on the Forte. How much difference in game...

I'm trying to decide between these cards, for home theater and gaming. Going from the Cinema to the Forte, it seems like what I'm getting is: - PCIe - Headphone amp - EAX 5 Is that basically it? Is EAX 5 useless these days and should not even be a factor? The price range between these...

Are you serious? I have an nForce 750i and two 8800 GT cards in SLI... What kind of problems are we talking about? What are some alternative cards comparable to the X-Fi Titanium (preferably PCIe, hopefully in the same price range)?

I use my PC for games and to play movies with Media Center. My setup is a bit weird, I use an Audigy 2 ZS with Windows 7 x64. For games I use the analog output in quad speaker mode (I have an old but still good 4+1-speaker setup), and for Media Center I use the digital out to my stereo to send...

Oh by the way, one drawback with the 2408WFP: the input lag. Didn't notice any with the G2410, but with the 2408WFP it's definitely noticeable. I have A01 version too.

Ok, so I bought this monitor yesterday. Overall it's a good monitor for the price and I even really liked the 16:9 aspect ratio, it's excellent for games. I loaded up TF2 and GRID and they both filled my entire field of vision. However... comparing to my old Gateway S-PVA display, I just...

Josh, You said the dot pitch is pretty good on this monitor, can you tell us whether you notice any screen door effect at all, let's say when your eyes are about a foot away? I don't notice that on my S-PVA monitor at home, but I definitely see it on my work TN screen. I don't notice it on some...

Does anyone here actually own or has seen a G2410? A local store has it on sale for CAN $259 and I'm seriously thinking about it... Currently I have a Gateway S-PVA display, and I want more surface area, I don't even mind that it's 1920x1080. I just want good color reproduction and no screen...

If I get a new external drive that comes formatted with FAT32 and I want to make it NTFS, can I do a quick format? Or do I need to do a regular format?

On nvidia.com they only seem to have older beta drivers. I'm looking for ones that have not been released yet, like the 185 that some people here mentioned.