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Even you can benefit from a PCI based card. The main reason is most PCI based cards move the positional sound processing from the motherboard and CPU to a dedicated processor on the soundcard. This translates to a few FPS in games, and cleaner sound at low volumes. I go a step farther, my...

That's 15 feet, he's only got 9.5 feet of cable. Well under the spec, but that doesn't apply anyway. iPods are USB 2.0. I'm still leaning toward the JBL unit being bad.

I don't really think they'll go away anytime soon. Besides providing a machine that you don't have to maintain, and the games that you don't have to buy, a LAN center is great for a budget gamer. I mean, c'mon.......if you're either a high school kid or an adult with strict financial...

Unfortunately, no, that's not the case. The newest SATA enabled mobos will allow you to add SATA drivers after a Windows install..........actually, the newest mobos don't even NEED SATA drivers. It's native to the chip. Older mobos with the first and second-gen SATA controllers work off of...

I play one MMO only, SWG. Been playing for a bit over two years, and while I've taken a few months "off" here and there, it's been pretty constant gameplay. For me, it's really two things. One, the game itself. If it sucks, I won't keep up the subscription. SWG has taken some pretty hard...

Yup, 6100 graphics built in. It also only has support for 2 SATA drives, instead of four, 10/100 ethernet (no gigabit), RAID 0/1 (no JBOD). It's also built mainly into MicroATX boards.

Agreed there. I tend to run 6 months to a year behind the current tech, simply because I don't want to be a beta tester. To clarify on DFI's BIOS, it used to be that DFI was one of the few that had OC friendly adjustments. Nowadays, any "enthusiast" level board has the same options...

The read capability keeps changing. As it stands right now, if Sony wants to keep the cost down, they won't be backwards compatible, as that would require two lasers and two processing units per drive. Either way, Blu-Ray is going to be a deathblow for the Playstation. Either it will be...

Oh, I agree with you, you had a bad experience. I'm the same way with certian brands. You folks love to recommend DFI. Personally, I've had very bad experiences with them (the shop I used to work at tried DFI a couple years back, and had a 75% failure rate. I can't recommend a DFI board...

Sony will ride that Blu-Ray pony until they've got blisters the size of silver dollars on their butts. They're going to get an awful shock when they release the PS3 (at an estimated street price of close to $800 USD) that's not legacy compatible, and sales are abysmal. I just don't see the...

Well........that was three years ago..........the current Corsair RAM is some of the best on the market. Anyway, I'm not overly confident that they'll be able to produce those sticks in any reliable quantity (OCZ-DFI optimized RAM, anybody?) due to the high quality of the chips required. One...

Nobody's sure if Sony will be able to put it in the PS3 yet. The release date's been pushed back again, and they haven't actually released any solid specs on the standard. If LG were to put that player out before Sony finalizes the design, there's a very good chance that it won't play Blu-Ray...

DFI boards are OK for OC'ing, the main reason they got their reputation as "OC friendly" was because of the BIOS. Personally, almost every person I know that's bought a DFI lately has had to RMA it at least once. I would suggest the Asus A8N32 SLI. Essentially, it's the same board as Abit...

I would hold off buying anything Blu-Ray related. The format's still held up in patent offices, and it's likely that the standard will have to change, if Sony ever wants it to see the light of day.

I want one of those cases. That's my next biggish upgrade, really. I'm still using a $40 generic mid-tower "x-window" case with the cheese slicer edges. Actually, it's not half bad for airflow, I'm just too crowded in there now. It's low on the list of priorities, though........since my CD...

No headset, but I do like overkill. :p AudioTechnica ATH-D40fs headphones, a Studio Projects B3 condenser mic, both jacked through an M-Audio Firewire 1814, and running through Cubase for that "FM Easy Listening DJ" sound on Ventrilo. :D

The major part of the design is moving cabling from the middle of the board to the upper and lower edges, and aligning the hotter power capacitors with the proc. The BTX design standard calls for a "wind tunnel" across the proc and hottest mobo componenets, completely unobstructed by connecting...

You've got it backwards, Spif. PCI cards use less CPU, as long as they have onboard decoding for surround sound. Most add-in cards at least have regular audio processing built into them, whereas the onboard chips rely on the southbridge to process the stream, which in turn loads up the CPU...

Possible........USB cable length only really matters if the unit plugged into it is drawing power off of it as well, like a webcam or some such. The OnStage, from what I can see, uses a seperate power adapter, so that's not the issue. The speakers themselves shouldn't be the problem. As...

A simple way of looking at the difference between single and dual channel, and why one is better than the other is sortof like this. Single channel (1gb, in two 512mb sticks): CPU--------stick one--------stick two--------software...