Recent content by chenw

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Hey all, Let's say I want to connect my sound card to an external DAC/Amp and I connect it via optical fiber. I currently have 2 such sound 'cards', one is onboard ALC1152 and the other is a Xonar DG. Just wanted to check, if I connect the external DAC to Xonar DG, would the 'origin' sound be...

Thanks for the input, though I have checked the price on the Essence STX II 7.1 and it's actually going to eat up over half of that $500 budget LOL, it's closer to $300 over here on this side of the pacific. The normal STX II will save a few dollars, I am still not too sure if buying a sound...

Hey all, I am currently using a pair of Hyper X Cloud headphones with Xonar DG for my own uses, and while both still work, the Cloud physically have started to show its age (the leather-y skin peeling off, the plastic on the cups now feeling sticky, broken mic, etc. etc.) and I am currently...

Thank you both for your input, while I decide between i7 to i5 (I am leaning towards i7), I have a few more questions regarding the USB port on the Surface: 1. Can the USB on the pro itself supply enough power for an external 2.5" portable HDD, or am I limited to connecting low...

Hey all, Just out of curiosity, has anyone tried reinstalling a desktop Windows 10 onto their surface pro 4 and successfully have it working? I am wondering if it is possible to use a surface pro 4 as a multimedia tablet for very light gaming (emulation, indie games in general) and movie...

Pretty sure the way GPU works is a little different in a laptop than in a desktop. In a desktop, the integrated and discrete GPU are two completely different pieces of hardware, IE, you can connect your display direct to one, completely ignoring the other one, which meant that if you wanted to...

That laptop uses integrated graphics, rather than dedicated graphics, so the RAM and VRAM here is exactly the same. These days, however, the RAM/VRAM allocation is done dynamically, so I'd imagine the only way he'd be able to do it is via Drivers, but that may not even affect his performance as...

I use ALC1150 with my Cloud Pro whenever I was messing with my Xonar DG, I have had no technical issues from the combination.

If your GPU is consuming that much VRAM, there is no way (and most of the time, no benefit) to force it to consume more. How your game uses VRAM is entirely up to the GPU itself. Unfortunately, there may be a reason why GTA V is using your integrated instead of dedicated: according to...

Ah, so in essence, you are saying that on Retina displayes, on Retina optimised images, you would retain the sharpness of an 1440p image, even though the desktop were set to 720p for visibility? Now that makes more sense, thank you. On the conventional scaling, I do find it a huge pity that...

Ah right, But in a way that makes sense, but in another it does not... wouldn't say a 1440p screen rendering say 720p look exactly the same as a 720p screen with twice the pixel dimensions (IE comparing a 720p image on a 13" screen with a 720p physical screen vs a 1440p)? That's how I always...

That's totally fine, I am only looking for GPU powerful enough to play movies. If I were to game on a Mac, I would buy a PC laptop with much more powerful specs and slap Mac OS on it than to buy a Macbook. It is truly a shame as the retina displays look quite impressive, dulled only by the bad...

I am not disputing what is being written on the apple website, I can see the specs very clearly from here too. But what it does not say is what is actually the maximum rendered resolution. Normally that would be the same as screen, but I have heard somewhere (and it could very well have been...