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It really seems like that size is too big for a regular office desk but a lot of people here own displays of that size, so I'm curious about your setups... :p

I don't want to decode the signal though. The adapter I have already does that. I just want the pre-encoded DD 5.1 signal through SPDIF. Anyway, thanks for all the help guys.

I'm using Vista 64. There isn't a problem with the receiver, which is just a small adapter really. I just want to know if there's something I missed. Do I need to do anything else other than select DD 5.1 from the DVD menu and make SPIDF the default playback device? It's a pre-encoded track...

So I finally got some optical cables for my Dolby Headphone adapter, the JVC SU-DH1 and now I'm trying to watch movies through it. What I did was select SPIDF as the default playback device in the sound settings. Then of course I navigated the movie's menus and selected 5.1... First of all...

Does Dolby Headphone have a set bit rate or something like that? I mean if I give it a Dolby Digital signal and it down mixes that, it won't be better quality than DD. However, if the sound card does it directly but down mixing raw sound, the PCM signal, the sound would be uncompresses in...

Well it looks like I'm getting a prelude now. I'll have to get Dolby Headphone through my JVC adapter. I doubt it produces sound as good a something like a Xonar D2X though, which I was planning to get and has DH. The JVC unit only runs on batteries though, not really convenient.I might have to...

Wait, with the prelude I can get Dolby Digital 5.1 with EAX? Or is it just 5.1 with EAX? If it's the former than it wouldn't be a problem as I have a Dolby Headphone adapter that down mixes 5.1 signals to output Dolby Headphone. I'm back to considering the prelude now... if only the new Xonar...

So it seems that to get the best sound for a game, you'd need EAX... and if you're using Dolby Headphone or Doby Digital Live you're out of luck? Or can you use both? It sucks that all non-Creative cards only have EAX 1.0/2.0. At least all the ones I've seen. And maybe if Creative supported...

Just to balance things out... :p http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/auzen-prelude71_8.html By the way, which Turtle Beach card are you talking about?

So I guess I'll be missing out if I don't have a card that does both EAX and 5.1 surround? Can you really even enable EAX and Dolby Digital at the same time? I'm guessing it'd have to be through regular 5.1 through analog connections to speakers or however Creative speakers are setup for...

My understanding is, and someone please correct me here, is that EAX is for 3D positional sound effects on a stereo signal. So if the game is outputting a true surround signal, EAX would have no purpose. However I'm not sure if EAX is for sound effects in general or only simulating surround...

What receiver are you using? I've looked everywhere but it's as if Dolby Headphone only exists in a few adapters here and there. Dude, seriously? Creative vs. Dolby... o_o From what I know the CMSS-3D tech uses a stereo signal and extrapolates to a surround one but Dolby Headphone simply...

It only supports EAX 1.0/2.0 though... Does it matter with surround sound though? Dolby Headphone takes in a 5.1 signal and converts it for headphones. Now I keep hearing EAX is only for positional 3D sound and other times I hear it's also for general sound effects... When outputting a 5.1...

I wanted to buy the latest Auzen card but they dropped that feature. :( Must be because now with X-Fi they have Creative's own virtualization tech. I've got a JVC SU-DH1, which is a Dolby Headphone adapter. Guess I can get any sound card that outputs a Dolby Digital 5.1 signal but according to...

Sorry for the late reply, forgot about this thread. :p Kilo Bytes or Kilo Bits? I hope it's the latter...

For stuff like World of Warcraft and playing RTS games like Supreme Commander and such online. I'm guessing connection speed isn't as important as it is for shooters but I'd like to get an idea on what I need. Would any basic non-56K connection do for example? Thanks for any help. :)

ROFL!!! 3 Ultras and a 14 fps minimum!!! 1xFSAA AND 1xAFF too!!! hahahaha.

I have a Q6600 @3.25GHz, 4GB RAM, 8800GT, and I can tell you that Crysis performance SUCKS on my PC. Maybe your standards are different but I can't get a minimum frame rate of 30 on 720p. That's minimum, not average. I don't care if it averages at 30 because staring at a wall gives you 40 and...

When people are saying benchmark, are they talking about this one? http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1791 I think I heard about an in-game one, I didn't see it when I had the demo installed though. Would you guys say the one I linked to is accurate? I heard the snow areas later in...

Don't you have the use that? Otherwise your card wouldn't be getting all the power it needs and performance will suffer. I might be misunderstanding something though.

It's a complicated game, I don't want to go through the tutorial. A benchmark is always better because not only it's shorter and more convenient but it runs the game at the most intense moments so it's way more accurate than just playing the game for a bit. Anyway, thanks for the help guys, I...

I must be going blind because there's nothing in the menus or under options that says benchmark or performance test. This is the demo btw. I googled and apparently I have to change the shortcut file name or something, I tried that and it didn't work. I got an error saying problem with the...

In Steam the game page has a link to view the manual, but I don't see anything on Direct2Drive... Am I just blind here or Direct2Drive just doesn't have manuals? It'd be really lame if they don't, I don't want to google and track down a manual every time I buy a game from them. =\ Edit: Oh...

I hate Creative. I HATE THEM. My first experience with them was a long time ago when I got an MP3 player that didn't work right out of the box, but really that's not why I hate them.They bombard you with 985747 applications and drivers. What the ^%@^Y$@. Just get me the damn drivers. After...

I remember along time ago when the game first came out people were complaining all over the net about the loading. Is the game more optimized now? I'm guessing yeah, I mean it' s been such a long time... Also, does this even matter if you have a lot of RAM or is this mostly an issue with the...

Interesting, thanks for the replies. I'll first try to log in my US account and purchase games from my US credit card. Billing address can just continue being what it is now, it's not like anybody is going to check or steam/direct2dirve mail sensitive info. They don't mail anything actually, the...

Has there ever been an unstable factory overclock btw? I'm curious of EVGA for example has problems with their SSC cards.

OK and maybe EA link. ;) I'll be out of the US for a few years, and will be living.... in the middle east. =\ Do I have to buy retail copies? Please say no. :( I can't find anything about this in google. And 'steam' btw is a terrible now, no amount of searching results in the steam...

OK, sorry to bump this thread, but I had to comment on this after a 4/5 hour ATI Tool + Rthdribl simultaneously stressing my card resulted in some errors. 2 hours is not even close to enough apparently. :eek: I'm going to do a 12 hour run just like I did with Prime95 for my PC, and then...

If I remember correctly in a review I read (I think it was AnandTech) they said the difference between two fans and one was just 1 or 2 degrees so it wasn't worth it. As for the sensor, I think any decent fan has one of those motherboard connectors so you can attach it directly to your board...

I have a G0 chip. I expected better results than what I'm getting right now. *cries*

Wait you're running a 3.2 Q6600 with a 1.2 vcore? You've overclocked and undervolted? :confused: What? I hate my PC! How did you get such a high overclock for such low voltage? Mind sharing your other voltages and motherboard? You're talking about a Q6600 right...?

You can fit a fan in the middle of the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme? Either you're thinking of a different heat sink or Newegg didn't ship the correct one to me...

OK I just installed ATI Tool, it seems there's some kernel mode driver problem but I don't need it to overclock (will be using RivaTuner) so that's not a problem. I can launch the '3D' view and use the 'Scan for Artifacts' feature. When I need to test an overclock do I just launch the 3D view...

How long do you run ATI tool for? I mean if there are no artifacts after, say for example 5 minutes, do you stop or go on for 2 hours or even more?

Other than benchmarking stuff like 3DMark06 and game benchmarks. I know about ATI Tool (doesn't even work with Nvidia cards?) but I think you need to look for artifacts in that one, isn't there something like the CPU stress tests where you can just leave the on for hours and come back later...

I don't want to ruin my CPU here... so I start with 220 grit and go up, but when? Here's a quote from a guide: I don't know what they mean by 'variations'? When it's flat? Of course it'll get flatter the question is when it'll have too much metal taken off...

I'm looking for something like the Call of Juarez DX10 or Prey benchmarks, self-contained programs that runs by themselves w/o needing the actual game. The two I mentioned are the only ones I found. :p Edit: well it looks like it's only Call of Juarez, running that Prey benchmark asked me to...

edit: never mind.

I'm using a Gigabyte P35-DS4 Rev 2.0 and I have no idea if my temps are good or bad. :confused: I can't find anything in the manual and I don't think I can follow the same guidelines for CPU or GPU temps as those are pretty different themselves - 8800GT could operate at 85C while that's...