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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.

What's everyone's experience with GRID on Windows 7 build 7000? I ran one race last night so it seemed to work fine, I fiddled with the system today, and now it crashes on the menus. I may have upgraded the drivers or changed on settings. I'm using 181.20 right now, with SLI enabled.

I was going to ask if SLI works in Windows 7. Does it work with the Microsoft-provided drivers, or do you need to download the Vista drivers to get the control panel? Do you get the nVidia control panel with the included drivers?

So I noticed that my Q6600 had been showing 2.24Ghz when booting up, even though it's set to 1066Hz bus speed. Now I changed the bus speed in the BIOS to 1333, and when it boots it shows 3.0Ghz, but when I go into CPU-Z it shows 2.4Ghz, and the Bus Speed in CPU-Z is 266Mhz (Rated FSB 1066)...

My q6600 shows 2.24GHz when it posts. At what point should it be showing 2.4? My bus is set to 1066. Even when playing 1080p movies I've never seen 2.4.

I'm thinking of upgrading from my Audigy 2 ZS to a PCIe X-Fi Titanium. I run Vista (64-bit) and I play games and also use my PC to watch movies on the stero/TV in another room. Currently I use a coax S/PDIF to connect my PC to my stereo in another room, and I use the front/back analog to connect...

I'm thinking of upgrading from my Audigy 2 ZS to a PCIe X-Fi Titanium. I run Vista (64-bit) and I play games and also use my PC to watch movies on the stero/TV in another room. Currently I use a coax S/PDIF to connect my PC to my stereo in another room, and I use the front/back analog to connect...

This is what I was talking about, how much does that affect power consumption?

So should I spend ~$500 on this upgrade to Q6600? How long will it take until I'll be able to upgrade to a Nehalem CPU+mobo for around that price (or a bit more)?

Is it true that if you overclock the Q6600 it disables the power management stuff? Like the chip can't switch to lower power at idle or something? Some guy at a store told me that's the case for the Dual Cores like the E8500. I just don't want the thing to be a power vacuum if I overclock it. :)

Oh that's the other thing I forgot to mention, I have two 8800GTs in SLI. And I run Vista 64-bit. So what about the longevity factor, is DDR2 on its way out? Should I be looking at a DDR3 board? Is Socket 775 going to stick around for a bit? If the performance difference is "huge" then...

I've had the same Socket 939 board for 2.5 years and currently I have an X2 4800+ with 3Gb or DDR-400 on it. I'm thinking of getting a Q6600 with 4Gb of DDR2-800, it's a fairly inexpensive, the mobo would cost me about CAN $150, the CPU $200 and the RAM about $90. I'm just wondering how...

Does anyone have a Dell XPS M1330 and tried to hook it up to an AV receiver? I want to use it to play back movies with 6-channel AC3 and I'd like to know if this is possible using the headphone jacks (into the coax input on my receiver). The Dell specs aren't specific about this but some sites...

Well, I am a bit picky when it comes to image quality, so I'm curious to hear what this microstuttering looks like? Also, do the 8800 GTs have to be the same clock speed? I have an 8800 GT OC and it'll be hard finding something exactly the same. I take it they don't have to be the same...

So I have an 8800GT, and it's on sale now for $100... In your opinion is it worth spending $100 for the upgrade and doing SLI? I guess the games where I would want more framerate are Crysis, GRID, Far Cry 2 and some of the other upcoming games. I play at 1680x1050, and I also use my rig as a...

No it's a PC. It's actually Cool N Quiet, I wasn't sure what it was called. I'll have to see if it actually does stop the fan or not, I didn't think it did.

After I reboot my PC, my CPU idle temp is about 40 deg C. But if I suspend and then resume after a while, my idle CPU temp becomes around 52 C. It's weird, sometimes it takes a few suspends, but eventually my idle temp becomes higher. I checked that there is no CPU activity, it is the actual...

Actually that seems to have helped. I loaded a save game that had lots of sounds happening in a certain area at a certain time and it seems like the CPU is getting hit a lot less hard. I still had some sound go echoy on me in a certain place but I do notice a difference. So it seems like it's...

How do you change PCI latency in Vista? I've seen an XP utility for it, but not Vista.

Don't you have to do that under Vista anyway? I thought all hardware acceleration is basically gone under Vista, so what's the point of getting an accelerated sound card?

So I've heard other people complaining about sound crackling issues in various games. I've heard this blamed on Creative, Vista, and the game vendors. Can anyone take a guess at what could help me? I tried various ways of fixing my Crysis issue, trying many in-game settings, but it's definitely...

I get frequent sound studdering and crackling in games, most recently Crysis, and I've tried all kinds of things but it keeps happening. I use an Audigy 2 ZS. So now I'm thinking of just throwing money at the problem and getting an X-Fi. The drivers seem to be a lot more recent than for the...

When I reboot my PC, Everest shows my CPU temperature at idle around 47 C. When I put it to sleep and then resume, the idle temperature becomes around 54 C. Why the difference? By the way I have an Athlon X2 4800+ with an EVGA nForce 4 motherboard.

Are these two reversed for everyone? Is it something with the 8800 GT? I swear they worked fine for me before but now I'm told that Aux is actually GPU!

Don't go cheap, get a Thermalright HR-03 GT! :D Plus you won't have to give up two adjacent slots.

So what does the Aux sensor (aka GPU in Everest) actually show? And can I trust the "GPU memory" sensor in Everest?