Recent content by DefBringer

Porter, thanks a lot for your response and link. I am really disappointed in KokChoy's response as I cannot justify buying a sound card that is going to require me to get on hands and knees to unplug my headphones each time I want to use my speakers. I'm quite shocked this actually made it...

With the X-Fi Titanium HD card from Creative, can I plug in my headphones into the *AMPLIFIED* rear jack as well as keep my Klipsch Promedia 2.1's plugged in at the same time? Will the sound come out of both? Or can I use Creative software to switch from one playback device to the other? If...

Lifetime warranties on items that lose 90%+ of their value within 3 years are completely pointless and that is exactly why they are offered so cheaply. I bought Diamond, saved a little money, and my benchmarks are just the same as all the other reference cards.

580's are too expensive. $500 is absolutely ridiculous money for a GPU. If you're going to spend that kind of coin you better have SSDs and a 27"+ monitor with higher resolutions or else your priorities are fucked. I love seeing people on this forum with ancient CPUs, shitty hard drives...

I'm gaming at about the same resolution you are. For higher resolutions, the 6970 makes even more sense due to the fact it has the 2GB of RAM. Still not as fast as the 580, but for the money difference....hell, I am going to buy the 6970. I switch AMD/Nvidia every generation, I have no...

On some monitors the anti-glare coating is excessively thick and blocks the transmission of light. It will make whites look like cream. There is also a "sparkle" that makes it very difficult to read smaller, finer fonts as it "chunks them up". Think of it as looking through a very fine...

Yes, I am "nitpicking" because heavy AG coating prevents colors to be rendered correctly, makes it difficult to read fine, small-sized fonts. AG is not always evil. But in some applications (Dell U2711 perfect example) it makes the monitor completely worthless.

Don't blow money on one of those stupid Atlona converters. You're much better off getting a AMD card that has a MiniDP adapter built into it.

I don't know what they are "meant" to be used for, but I use the ACD 27" for Black Ops and WoW and have absolutely zero ghosting or lag issues. FYI, I play FPS shooters competitively in a ranked clan.

Best Buy doesn't carry computer parts worth a shit anymore. It's all year-old+ stuff with outrageous prices. Of course, they'll tell you to buy it from them online where they have better prices/selection but if I wanted to wait to get stuff I'll just go to Newegg first anyway. When are big-box...

Then you haven't been looking at TV's in the last few years. I got rid of my Kuro to get a Sammy LED TV that absolutely blows my Kuro out of the water.

I know this is off topic for this thread but if you are looking to purchase a new(er) video card, I'd pick up an Radeon 6870 or the soon-to-be-released 6900 series from AMD if you are interested in investing in DisplayPort -capable devices.

Yikes...your PC is the main consumer of energy in your home? I'm guessing you do not have a washing machine, stereo, refrigerator, drying machine, microwave, toaster, etc? I'd love to know what kind of power supply you have and whether or not you let your PC sleep while you are away. I highly...

1 good monitor > 3 shitty monitors Get a 30" HP ZR30W or Apple Cinema Display 27" and call it a day. Multi-monitor setups are just a PITA.

hi Stuey, I think you will like this monitor a lot. I spent a fair amount of time testing out this monitor in my local store. The screen is very large and the resolution will be just fine for your needs. The text on this monitor will be very large, as it will be on any 27" monitor with a...