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Does anyone notice any difference between using your sound card to decode dolby vs an external decoder and then sending it to your pc speakers??? The only high end one I see that does this is the logitech z 5500 and most people prefer the promedia ultras and gigaworks which don't use digital...

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Can you send an analog signal through coax/optical cables or is it only for digital signals?? Would there be any sound quality improvement from sending the signals to a seperate decoder and then to the speakers vs having the sound card decode the signals and then send it to the speakers?

Why can't the sound card decode the signal and pass it along the digital wires? Is the signal analog once it is decoded?? It seems weird that the decoded signal can't be passed along the digital outputs.

Thanks for the info. Do you need a seperate decoder like the high end logitech to hear Dolby/DTS or is the sound card good enough if it decodes Dolby/DTS? (audigy 2 ZS) Or is the seperate decoder only needed for optical/coax wires? Would the speakers sound a lot better (on average) if I bought...

Do digital speakers sound that much better than analog ones or is the benefit just fewer cables? Seeing as the gigaworks all use analog connections I doubt they sound horrible.

For PC, can a sound card decode dts/dolby and then I can hook any speakers up to it or do I need to get a stand alone decoder? Is it possible to use dts when watching a dvd on my pc or is it only for tvs? Finally for tvs do I just need a home receiver that decodes and then I can hook any...

so even if you have the best oc ram possible it would be better to still use a mem divider (on a newer cpu like a A64) to get the highest possible fsb while not losing cpu speed as cpu speed is the most important? So system communication will still increase with a higher fsb even if the memory...

Do dead pixels happen anytime in the lifetime of a lcd or just before you buy one? So If there are none when I get it am I safe or can the pixels stick after a couple of years?

I was wondering if anyone has had ghosting or blurring problems (or anything like that) with laptop lcds.I have never heard or seen any issues when using laptop lcds and I was wondering why can't desktop lcds be like that. This also applies to lcd tvs. I have never heard I can't play this game...

Does a higher fsb speed up your system or give any benefits if the cpu end result is the same? Like 250 fsb x 8 multi vs 200 X 10 multi. Does it give any benefit besides possibly speeding up the ram seeing as the pci express, and everything else seems locked? Has anyone found a way to...

Why get real? It states 4 12V rails 16A,14A,16A, 14A. Where are you seeing a 420watt max for the 12V? I don't see it on their websites spec sheet. Are you looking at the right 550 model? I would be curious to see this vs the power and cooling 510 SLI with the same room temps and all that.

Look at this beast. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103447 :eek: Has anyone used one or heard anything about it? Even if it isn't as stable as the PC power and cooling 510 SLI it has to still dominate the power and cooling with amps on the 12V rails. It isn't rated for...

I know raid zero gives you performance and splits up your data into stripes but does it use twice the space? When you store like a game on a harddrive (say 2gb) does it use 2gb on each drive, 1 on each? The reviews I have seen show a good boost in performance with raid 0, but I don't want to...

It seemed in your sig eclipse, that you got a good bump on fps on cs source for 20-30 mhz higher so if you go like 50 or more mhz higher you should get some improvement over regular ram. Now if you max out the graphics the extra fps will decrease but I am interested in how much you can still get.

How do steppings help? You can't buy them online or at the store by their stepping number right? So you wait until you get home and take the time to see if your cpu overclocks well? Unless you are going to return it why wouldn't you just oc and see how it does not take all the time to find out...

I keep hearing about the processor steppings and then a huge serial number found on the cpu. How does it help? I know some of it is the week/month it was made and what are the max temps, but so what. Can't you get that info off of cpu z or some other software? Does it tell you how well it...

el rolio by a better oc I am assuming you mean a higher cpu speed. That is a little strange because isn't the point of the divider to switch the bottleneck to something else? you would think you would get the same end cpu speed if not greater with the divider seeing as the speed of the memory...

Will you not be able to overclock as well if you use memory dividers? Now the point of using a memory divider is so you can increase your cpu speed without your crappy memory bottlenecking your progress, but i have been seeing a lot of reviews on the internet talking acting like using a memory...

It appears pc3200 is better than pc2100 because it would bottleneck your system, but does anything over pc3200 even help at all? Yes you need to overclock inorder to try and have it boost your system, but has anyone seen any tangible results in the real world not synthetic software? Maybe...

Do you need to cool the North bridge when you OC? Doesn't the NB only control PCI and PCIe actions? The PCI and PCIe speeds are locked so they shouldn't be going any faster, which would mean no increase in temp right?? If it does need cooling are a couple case fans on the side panel, front and...

I am trying to decide between these two boards for a new system. I liked the ASUS board for quality but I am not sure if it will hold me back for overclocking. I am going to get a 4400+ X2 with 2 X 1 ballistix, XP90C. It seems like the DFI and the ASUS board hit the same max CPU speed but the...

I want to overclock a X2 4400+ to like 2.7-2.8 Ghz with air, with a DFI lan party or ASUS A8N SLI del. with 2 HD, 2 gb ballistix, possibly SLI or just single 7800gtx. I was thinking about a powerstream 520 or a antec 550 truepower 2.0. Which one should I get? The antec is cheaper and it seems...

I am looking for a s939 motherboard for gaming with a x2 4400+, 2 HD, SLI, 2gb ram I was thinking about the new DFI lan party or the ASUS A8N sli deluxe. Is the Lan party much better for overclocking?? I don't want to overclock a lot just with good air, but I think the asus voltage settings...

Someone want to explain this to me? http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1700&page=6 I was looking around on the internet for ballistix pc4000 reviews and it keeps saying it only overclocks to 507 mhz about. In this review it says that this is overclocked a lot yet the standard...

Does ocz make any 1 gb sticks that reach high speeds? I didnt see any 1 gb on their site last time I looked.

can someone test a bunch of movies on the 193p+? I really want to get a lcd for my next monitor but I want to be able to watch movies and play games. I don't want to sacrifice key options just so I can get a thinner monitor. Do LCD tvs and laptops have these issues?? I talked to samsung and they...

I would really like to see how the ballistix do, because a review I saw said the same results you got for the value for the ballistix. I want to try and reach DDR600.

If I wanted to get 3.1 volts for memory off the motherboard do I need that v mod? even though crucial doesn't seem to react that much to more voltage I think I would want to put it at 3.1 volts as an extra 6 mhz is better than nothing and pretty much free. Unless the temps shoot up really high...

How good are those patriot sticks at overclocking compared to the crucial ballistixs or ocz performance? Those are really cheap compared to ballistix and isn't the ballistixs the cheapeast high quality memory out there?

Eclipse you said only use as much as you need but how do you tell if it is enough?? Just bump it up .05 volts and see if it stabilizes? What if it needs .15 volts more and you think it isn't helping at .05 more so you stop then?

So for gaming I should use 2 X 1 gb sticks so that it will run at 200 mhz 1T instead of 4 x 512 mb? Would the higher timings on the 1 gb sticks at 1T be worse or better than 2T on the 512s with better timings? Seeing as 1T and 2T doesn't seem to matter much except for games occording to that...

Anyone used one of these or have seen reviews??? Is it any good at games and movies? I am looking for a good 19" that works perfectly for games and movies but it seems like no lcds can do this yet.

Anyone know what the max memory voltage you can get out of the Asus A8N SLI deluxe is? I don't see it on their site.

Is there software that will say the systems total power draw? or each component? Would asus probe do this? Is there any way to find each components power from their specs so I could add them up and tell how powerful a power supply I will need?

How do you tell if the voltage on your memory or cpu is too high and will damge them? Are all the settings in the bios safe so that they will not burn up? Is there a rule of thumb off the regular voltage setting? Finally does the system shut down if the temp on the memory gets too hot like with cpu?

You can't use all 4 dimms in dual channel?? It reverts you to single channel?

Does DDR2 at 553 mhz or 667 have the same bandwith and performance as a DDR at 533 mhz or 667 mhz setting aside the differences in brands? Or is DDR 667 way better than any DDR overclocked? The highest I have seen is DDR600 so I would think 667 would be much better. In general is memory at the...

Would using 2 x 1 gb crucial pc4000 ballistix be a lot better for overclocking with a 4400+ X2 than 2 x 1 gb performance ocz OCZ4002048PFDC-K http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146970 or crucial regular 2 x 1 gb? I don't want to do harcore clocking. No water or phase...

Do 1 GB sticks usually have lower memory timings than smaller amounts? Would 2 X 1GB regular sticks be faster or better than 2 X 512mb top of the line sticks? Does using all 4 dimm slots in dual channel give you a 256 bit interface or would it be the same bandwidth or speed as just using 2...