Recent content by Andrew Murdoch

You see on the left hand side, under Digital Input there is coaxial 1+2 and optical 1+2? Optical is what you want and is specifically known as Toslink, it is a fibre optic cable that does digital audio. The cables are readily available. You should have an output on your mobo for optical, check...

Can you use any other output other than a front panel one for your receiver? I would highly recommend either Toslink or HDMI.

In that case sir I need some more information please. Is your sound from a dedicated card or your motherboard? Do you plug the headphones into a different audio processor than your speakers use? Are you using HDMI or SPDIF? i.e. you could have one source coming from the mobo (headphones)...

In the spotify app, please go to Edit then to Preferences. Ensure high quality streaming and hardware acceleration are enabled on the app, this may be the cause.

Perfect! Those temps are much better! Well done on finding your own solution.

The cpu temp is at the upper limit of what could be considered safe. Cooler is better obviously but you will be ok. Try a can of compressed air to clean out all the laptop vents. Make sure you give it a good dusting as it can really get stuck in there and dust can raise temps quite quickly if...

1: 17fps means your laptop is struggling as it is so CPU intensive. 2: Hwmonitor is fine to use, 127c is probably a ghost reading. MSI Afterburner only tells you the GPU temp. 3: CPU temp is a bit high, but that could be down to the game thrashing it. 4: Cpu 0 and gpu thermal diode might have...

I have a lumia 1020 and there are things to like and things to dislike. Tbh the biggest downside for me is the lack of support of 3rd party stuff as WP has less than 10% of market share, afaik.

It might help if you told me exactly what you are trying to accomplish.

ARC only works on HDMI devices if both are ARC capable, usually a TV and an HDMI enabled A/V Reciever. What is the AV converter converting to? As AV is not an input standard.

Just an alternative. Has a gtx 870m too. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-gigabyte-p25w-core-i7-4810mq-8gb-ddr3-1tb-plus-128gb-ssd-nvidia-geforce-gtx-870m-3gb-win-81

Looks like there's 3 votes for an MSI gaming laptop without any discussion yet.

I like this msi: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-msi-gs60-2qd(ghost)-287uk-26ghz-core-i7-4720hq-16gb-128gb-ssd-1tb-hdd-2gb-nvidia-geforce-gtx-965 £1200, i7, 16ram, 128gb ssd, 1tb hdd, 15.6" screen and a gtx 965m.