Recent content by Jan_26

At $900+ I'd say receiver + speaker... At your price range I am really not sure.

All depends on how much you want to invest. But in general, speaker and receiver has much more potential.

Purely from the cpu performance point of view... 6700k has base freq. 4GHz, turbo 4.2 and 8MB cache... 6700hq has base freq. 2.6GHz, turbo to 3.5GHz and 6MB cache. I would expect performance drop about 30-40%. I am unsure you'll be able to reach high end framerate in all those titles with such a...

_If_ I remember well, remote desktop makes Windows render on virtual graphic card... basically emulated software renderer, that also forces your game to run on that limited device... It's not built to support accelerated 3D graphics and many games won't even consider such an unusual setup to...

Okay. In that case let me give you advice I was given long time ago by a pro audio reviewer when I was in your situation: you need to hear it. While everyone will be able to tell $5000 audio setup plays better than $500 one, in same category there are differences based on audio you listen to and...

Sorry to say so, but none... That platform is so outdated it won't be able to do any hardware supported encoding/decoding and lacks horsepower necessary for modern video formats. There is also a risk your machine has old AGP slot and misses PCI express. With PCIe modern graphic card you might be...

Okay, this time on a completely serious note: 1. Dolby is a company creating audio standard and compression technique Dolby Digital. Ie. it's possible to encode digital audio to DD on software side, but for decoding you need device supporting it (your DAC hopefully should) 2. Out of those I'd...

Well, I haven't heard about anyone gaming on Nautilus (http://www.bowers-wilkins.net/Speakers/Home_Audio/Nautilus), but it's completely doable ;-) I game on Xavian XN-250 (https://www.xavian.cz/product/xn-250-evoluzione/?lang=en) and hoping one day I save for XN Virtuosa. Basically you can aim...

Long story short, notebook equals overheating problems. Even those manufacturers mark as workstations or gaming notebooks, long time high/full load will drive the device in high temperatures. And with your budget, you won't even fit in workstation quality. I strongly suggest reconsidering...