Building a 5.1 system from scratch - Tom's Guide Forum
WEBAug 8, 2014 — Messy and costly for a poor result IMO. You can get a lot of 5.1 all in one box home theatre systems from Onkyo, Yamaha and Pioneer for a similar price to the logitech setup and are better quality. There is nothing wrong with using a home theatre system rather than a "multimedia" system for your PC.
Connecting subwoofer to PC - Tom's Guide Forum
WEBJul 9, 2011 — if you ignore the windows audio architecture and build your own, then you can have multiple outputs as long as the drivers for the different soundcards allow it. video games sometimes have the option to choose whichever soundcard you want.. so it is inevitable that sometimes you would want to choose more …
How to make a eGPU - Tom's Guide Forum
WEBJun 7, 2016 — Buy or build a proper desktop PC. There are a few generic eGPU solutions around. But basically, what they do is turn a portable laptop into a badly performing, expensive, desktop.
How To Install Windows On A Laptop Without Operating System
WEBApr 27, 2018 — While powering up, depending on your laptop, you should tap either the ESC or F2 or F8 or F10 or Del key in order to get into BIOS. You can skip to step 8 if you know which key brings up the boot order for your laptop instead of having to sift through BIOS.
Dual monitor setup audio question - Tom's Guide Forum
WEBJun 9, 2017 — the output of sound is limited to single outputs at a time I.e. you could hear it on monitor or TV by switching output HDMI port sound in your volume mixer of windows. depending ion your sound card sometimes you can make it output to both, NVIDIA permits to do this with some GTX series video card by going into the NVidia Control Panel menu called "setup multiple displays" and clicking on ...
Solved! - Monitor as Digital Photo Frame | Tom's Guide Forum
WEBNov 30, 2019 — Museums and places like that use those types of motion sensors all the time. Just running a slideshow is very simple, a stick PC or some other small form factor connected to the monitor will do it, they are about $100-150 for a simple setup to $200+ for a mini PC with a faster CPU.
Where can I buy barebones laptop shells? Don't tell me that I can't ...
WEBAug 31, 2018 — Ie, add your own CPU (from a predefined list), RAM and storage. Very occassionally a GPU (again, with defined parameters). The don't exist for a pretty simple reason: By the time you account for all potential build variants, allow for adequate cooling of everything AND make it relatively affordable; what do …
How to get a true 5.1 surround sound from PC? - Tom's Guide …
WEBSep 10, 2013 — It depends what your looking for....A 5.1 sound card is a must plus you say you have a 5.1 surround system so your good to go for movies but when it comes to music don't expect to get true 5.1 till you play 5.1 music and MP3 is plain garbage....my I suggest dvd audio or sacd ebay has a good selection ..Even then you have to extract the music ...
Best resolution for vr? - Tom's Guide Forum
WEBAug 7, 2016 — Unless you have something revolutionary up your sleeve, there's pretty legitimate reasons why the entry level equipment to a good VR experience is still considered a bit high. The leading industry products are running 1080x1200 per eye, and they are controlling the market because a) not everyone is going build their own hmd, and b) there hasn't ...
Optimal Settings For PC To PLasma TV Setup Please?
WEBDec 28, 2012 — Hi, I have recently moved house and my new place is smaller and so I've decided to move my computer into the lounge and hook it up to my 37 inch plasma TV and use that as the primary monitor. I have a Panasonic TH-37PX80B TV and my PC is a self-build but here are the specs: Windows 7 HP 64 bit Nvidia GTX460 GPU 8GB DDR2 RAM