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Usually most TVs and soundbars have optical cable outputs / inputs now adays. Check the back of the soundbar for the specific type of connections, and match what your TV has. Your best bet is an optical cable, but without more information, we can't really help you.

Just so you're aware... If your plan is to get a 4K HDR TV (ANY of them), you're going to have to upgrade your receiver as well. Any receiver you get is going to need to natively support 4K Passthrough (And or Upscale conversion if you can afford a receiver that can do it). As far as 4K TV's...

Three sites come to mind. http://www.ibuypower.com/ http://www.xidax.com/ http://www.originpc.com/ All three sell laptops that you can configure to your needs. I personally went with Xidax for my laptop build, and it's freaking amazing. Plus I managed to get a 3yr warrantee upgrade for free.

Check this out and tell me if it's something you'd be interested in. It's on the higher end of your price range, however it comes with a SSD/HDD combo, and has a pretty good GFX card. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152403R&cm_re=msi-_-34-152-403R-_-Product) A link to...

Depending on the voltage you applied to the laptop, you could have possibly burned out the motherboard. More than likely this isn't going to be a problem that anyone on this fourm is going to be able to fix. You might want to get it checked out by a local computer repair store. Normally they can...

Hey man, Here's what I found for your price range... (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314566&cm_re=laptops-_-34-314-566-_-Product) This is a very good laptop for the price and should be able to do everything you wanted and then some. Granted the GFX card does leave me...

For this kinda set-up (Refering to the desktop computer) you could get a laptop that will dominate in 1080p gaming. Most laptops in this price range include a 880M, which is currently the most powerful mobile graphics available. Hell, you could probably SLI them, but you're not going to get as...

If you're looking for a HDTV that works well with games (Or more-often, Type of TV) Plasma is definately the way to go. Most HDTV's are stuggling to do what plasma has been doing or years since it's inception, and they've only gotten better over time. You can get a 55in Plasma for roughly 1.2k...

If you can, I would recommend going with two of those kingston SSD 120GB's in a Raid 0 format. It's going to boost the read/write speeds quite a bit, and if you put your OS on the raid array then your boot up times will be substatially better. I would use the 1TB HDD for storage purposes like...

It all has to do with the optimization of the code the developers worked with. There are several platforms out there that video game designers work with to ensure that their games work with *all* graphics cards and CPU set-ups. Namely Direct X (Microsoft) OpenGL and Mantle API (AMD Radeon). Some...

Hmm.. If you changed the settings to a lower resolution and still were not able to get FPS gains, then more than likely it could be a GPU or CPU limiting issue (More than likely a CPU limiting issue because the clock rate is kinda low for a modern computer CPU). Essentially what happens is...

Hey man, I know what it's like trying to maximize FPS on a mediocre laptop. First off let me say that your laptop isn't terrible. When playing CS (or any game for that matter) you can generally get more FPS by going to a lesser resolution. Change current graphics setting from their current...

It looks to me like you're hovering around the 1000-1300$ range, so I found a link that's better than all three, and available through newegg. Item is open box, however that doesn't mean detremental quality, and you can always send it back to newegg if it doesn't work properly. Best thing is...

Hey, I just wanted to make a recommendation of two companies that offer custom built laptops. (http://www.xidax.com/laptops) has a pretty impressive selection of laptops that can all be customized to your hearts content to in your price range. They also offer a 2 year standard warrantee on their...

I know of several retailers that offer REALLY good general purpose use laptops for that price. (http://www.ibuypower.com/) offers a few laptops that will meet your price range, and can be modified to exactly what you want as far as specs go. Another retailer that I recently saw was...