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    Raid6 on LSi 9260-8i -which 2TB drives?

    You should probably make a power price projection for the drives you consider if cost is an issue. My guesstimate would be a power price of about...10-15 bucks per watt over a drives lifetime, if it's powered on for 3 years before failing on average, depending on your PSU efficiency. You...
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    Dolby Digital Live vs 6 Channel Analog for Games

    If you're on windows vista or 7, audio can always be done in software, as far as I'm aware. As such, yes, the 5870 seems to be the solution to everything. If you _do_ go for a dedicated hdmi soundcard, then the way it works is that you use a dvi out port or an hdmi out port on the back of...
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    Dolby Digital Live vs 6 Channel Analog for Games

    Thanks for all the info on DTS ! And yes...music is massive in size by comparison to a lot of other content, if it's layered in high quality. It made for a good read...I'm definitely better informed on this stuff now =]
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    Dolby Digital Live vs 6 Channel Analog for Games

    First...I actually do have other uses for having hdmi for other reasons - some of them are clearly silly and, well...hopetimistic, at best. Some of them actually make sense (I enjoy hi-def movies with great audio, for example). Probably the nicest feature is that I don't have to switch between...
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    Dolby Digital Live vs 6 Channel Analog for Games

    Jimb0: Currently, the only solution that allows you to do hdmi would be getting an ASUS HDAV (either deluxe or slim), or the Auzentech HomeCinema card... It is technically possible to pass hdmi audio out through the hdmi of your graphics card, but it'll only be upsampled spdif, so that doesn't...
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    Good Receiver?

    you can easily use an external amp for the sub...I believe the term monoblock amp should yeild you something to power a mono channel, which is exactly what a sub channel is. So don't sweat it - no need to get something new unless you want something better =]
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    Good Receiver?

    LST: It also depends on where you live. Sometimes, locally produced speakers can be a _lot_ cheaper, and generally, a lot of smaller brands don't have worldwide distribution. I love and adore Dali speakers, for instance, but that's partly because they're produced practically next door by...
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    Dolby Digital Live vs 6 Channel Analog for Games

    Jimb0: You have some pretty specific questions that I'm not sure if I can answer them clearly. For instance, how much is lost using live encoding to DDL? Firstly...the source that gets encoded is PCM digital audio. The soundcard does _digital_ processing of the audio data available to...
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    An alternative to "pc speakers"

    While I don't agree with the choice of speakers, cables and amp that the op posted here, I still think I might have been able to use his advice if I'd been new to computer audio and, for some reason, started out by reading [H] to get a feel for it. I would've been very inclined to get speakers...
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    Need Suggestion for Sound Card with Internal SPDIF

    http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=SPZfqXDJvadmFPoh&templete=2 It looks like this fellow has an internal spdif out, according to posts on avs forums (I downloaded an archived a thread on this card from there)...might be a bit expensive and unnecessary for what you want, tho.
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    External soundcard with SPDIF 5.1 output?

    Thanks for your input =] And well...what concrete sound sources do you know of that I can't bitstream directly onto spdif and don't come on bluray discs? Because I honestly don't know of any other than gaming audio... :confused: Even DTS 24/96 can be bitstreamed onto spdif directly, and...
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    External soundcard with SPDIF 5.1 output?

    Actually, a lot of surround-sound is inhibited both by the "low-quality"-encoding and lossy transcoding as well as the bandwidth and quirks of the SPDIF digital interface. The only common digital audio formats that currently need more bandwidth than spdif provides are: >2Channel PCM DTS...
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    External soundcard with SPDIF 5.1 output?

    Thank you for your response! Quality? I want the highest consumer-grade quality - but I don't need silly unnecessary features. I'm not a professional, but the rest of my sound setup alone rings in at about 2000$ - if I had to re-acquire it at this level of wear, used, today. Brand new it was...
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    External soundcard with SPDIF 5.1 output?

    Does this even exist? And will it do games? What of SPDIF passthrough from .mkv files in AC3? Optical is my prefered means of output. Also, if it has an echo-killer and other voice stuff that would be a tremendous plus. I <3 skype and using my speakers as a speakerphone would be amazing...
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    Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater HD HDMI 1.3a Sound Card

    :( That's bad...the only reason for this card to exist is the hdmi port, and since it's been under development for yeeears, I really hope it's actually worthwhile!
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