Recent content by boosted1g

Your budget and your wants unfortunatly have a $200-300 disparity. For your engineering/video editing/photo editing you need i7-8550U cpu and 16GB ram which is going to propel the costs to $1200. Insult to injury, even memory is not something you can upgrade in 2-in-1 chasis, let alone the...

Why not just put the receiver where the TV is at then? Is your directv setup a newer one with the second room/child receivers (the smaller one in the picture bellow):

You should never use a vacuum cleaner around computer equipment. Vacuums have lots of static electricity and can cause lots of damage to them (there are very special vacuums designed for PCs, but these are special purpose, not the ones they sell to clean your floors). Getting all the yogurt out...

Using the word quality and soundbar is almost an oxymoron. The way you have it hooked up is fine because unless your soundbar comes with rear speakers then it cant actually provide surround sound anyways The optical connection will provide better audio, but that is only assuming the soundbar...

So you are facing 2 hurdles here. 1) Most U series CPUs are soldered directly to the motherboard, no removable socket 2) To go from a 6th gen to a 7th gen cpu will require that your BIOS supports the 7th gen chips. Unless HP reused that same board for 7th gen chips then the odds of them paying...

So the issue is that different programs will want to use different sound devices (HDMI vs 5.1 audio) IF your TV will support both outputting to internal and external speakers then you can use the 3.5mm or RCA output of the TV, then go to low side input of the home theater sub (if it only has...

Asus uses newest CPU which has more cores so better performance. On top of that ASUS brand has a higher build quality than acer typically does.

According to Samsung webpage for KU6290 the only audio output it has is optical (toslink) output. If the JVC only has red/white (composite) then you will need to get an optical to analog adapter. Note that this will absolutely not provide surround sound. This will provide 2 channel stereo to...

On the one hand you did not specify system specs, on the other hand it is old enough to the point where it does not matter too much. If CPU is i3/i5 then I would say $70-100 If CPU is pentium, celeron or Core2Duo/Core2Quad then $50-80 If battery does not hold a charge (20 minutes or less)...

Yes he can steam from it just like any other computer. With that said a GTX-1050ti is a budget end graphcis card and is underpowered vs the rest of his specs. With a laptop almost nothing is upgradeable so I would not advise this combo. I woudl either get a laptop with a GTX 1060 in it. Or I...

Agreed, the 6300 will bottleneck a 1060 pretty good. I would just stay where you are at. 1050ti is not enough of an upgrade to justify the cost and 1060 is paying for performance you cant use. Best option is to save funds until you can get a coffee-lake or ryzen setup.

Your soundbar has zero way of sending audio OUT to anything. It only wants to take audio IN. Thus as audiophile there is no way to get data to external speakers from the soundbar. You can do as audiophile said and split the sound input and extract the sound, then put into rca/3.5mm format and...

Yes it would require an RCA cable ran between receivers. If you want wireless then you basically want a sonos setup because anything less will be unreliable/too much delay.

If PS4 audio is already coming out as a 3.5mm audio cable then simply plug that into the line-in (blue) on back of desktop pc, and plug speakers into normal speaker port (green) on back of computer. Now you have audio from both PC and PS4 over the external speakers.

Why not have a primary and secondary receiver, with primary receiver having dual zone? Get a networked primary receiver that has all the digital inputs you want and RCA output for zone 2, you can use use DLNA with windows media player or other "server". Use a short RCA to go from RCA out to an...