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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'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.

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...

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...

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.

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

After I upgraded the heat sink on my 8800 GT I noticed that my GPU temperature is WAY lower. Before and after the heat sink change I looked at the "GPU" sensor in Everest, usually 34C. Well, I just installed nTune and it shows around 44C for my GPU temperature! What gives? That's about the...

ATITool worked just fine on my Vista system with a 7800 GT, but when I changed to a 8800 GT OC when I load ATITool it just shows "0.00" for my GPU core and memory clocks. I've searched for this problem and other people see it too on various systems, but there doesn't seem to be a fix other than...

I've been experimenting with what options to use on Crysis on my 8800 GT OC. I play at 1680x1050, everything on medium except shaders, objects and motion blur on high. When I go to the games browser and run in DX9 mode, I see no noticeable difference in framerate. It's just bordering on...

Before I installed the HR-03 GT passive heat sink on my BFG GeForce 8800 GT, it would heat up to 80 C after running a game. That was with two case fans. Now, it doesn't even crack 50 C! And that's without case fans on! I'm almost afraid that I did something to the heat sensor. Is it really...

I just replaced the stock heat sink on my Athlon X2 4800+ with a Thermalright ultra 90, and I'm assessing whether it's safe to run it without any fan on the heatsink. I have three 120mm case fans, including the PSU fan, and I basically want my PC as quiet as possible. With the stock heat...

I have a 7800GT (soon to be an 8800GT or better) and my motherboard has one 16x slot plus two 8x slots for SLI. If I get a dual-slot card it's inconvenient for me to put it in the 16x slot because there are some USB risers in the way and I have too many other cards. Basically my question is...

Which of these cards is noiser? Is the dual-slot GPU cooler typically noisier than single slot?

I'm considering getting this case, in black: http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Chassis/midtower/armorjr/vc3000bws.asp Does anyone here own it or has used it, and can offer some comments on it? I just want it for the looks basically, I know feature-wise it's not the greatest, but I was...