Posts by m94mni

Fenuxx is right, you can upgrade. I also agree with Fenuxx's recommendations.

I had a 2 month old Hitachi 7k 200Gb replaced recently. It behaved exactly as you described - it worked but certain sectors of the disk were *extremely* slow, probably due to repeated read failures. I managed to back up everything (I...

I have a Belkin 2-port eSATA expresscard. I easily reach reach 70Mb/s in benchmarks, compared to around 20Mb/s using pure USB2. Yeah, so what's the benefit? :-P

It's been debated a lot. Dell certainly were quite explicit about this in their marketing and online materials, but some say they've seen both next to each other with no discernible difference. My colleague has a 9400, and I do think...

clock-for-clock, the 7xxx series performs about 5-10 percent better than the 2xxx series. So you really have to be desperate to take the step....

Quote: Originally Posted by jmkiang Also, do I need to install any special drivers for the SB Audigy MB? In my device manager, it says "SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC (for 64-bit Windows)". The...

And, Sondigo does have a DDL-capable PCI card here: http://www.sondigo.com/inferno This one does provide Dolby headphone.

Quote: Originally Posted by savat Thanks guys for sharing the info with me. I must admit I'm quite amazed that a 49$ dongle has features that X-Fi soundcards don't. Is DDL or DTS connect offered in most games nowadays? ...

Yes, the same applies for desktops. To be fair, Creative *does* have one desktop solution, the "Home Theater Connect" monstrosity: http://soundblaster.com/products/pro...&product=14191 It takes 5.1 inputs and converts to...

Quote: Originally Posted by savat My assumption was that 5.1 DirectX encoding was DDL, therefore I assume I was wrong. It is getting very complicated. No, DirectX does not come with DDL.