Recent content by dademurphy

I ended up taking off a couple of the doors above the tv (near the ceiling). Drilled some holes and ran the wires up there and used a piece of foam-like material to angle the speaker down. Sounds perfectly fine unless you are standing right in front of the tv and then you can tell the sound is...

I have a 70 inch tv in a recessed built-in entertainment center. The tv is sitting on its own stand. I have a 25 pound center channel speaker I would like to put either above or below the tv. The speaker itself is too tall to sit on the surface where the tv is (would obstruct the view of a few...

I guess I should also mention my company is a Microsoft partner and we have a bunch of copies of Windows 7 so I don't need that. We have a usb dvd drive at the office and I think I've used it maybe once so I don't need an optical drive. As far as storage goes - I'd love to have a SSD for OS and...

Are there any super small cases I could cram some powerful components into if I were to build it myself? What is the smallest I can get?

Something more along the lines of a slim line micro atx case would be preferable. There isn't really deskspace available for a mid-tower case and I'd prefer to keep out off the floor due to equally limited foot room. For instance, most people in the office use mac minis but most of those people...

I currently have a Lenovo ideapad Y560 with a core i7 720qm 8GB RAM 256GB Crucial M4 + 1TB hdd in optical bay. I need the ability to run multiple VMs as well as some large programs like photoshop. I also query large SQL databases which I pull down locally to my machine. I need a new laptop or...