Recent content by TriBeard

I probably wouldn't even buy one so long as your computer has a digital audio out port of some kind that you can hook your speakers in to. Digital audio is digital audio. It doesn't matter if it's coming off the motherboard or a $500 sound card.

IMO, amd still has a place in the high end desktop market. It's a smaller use case than it used to be for sure, but something like the 8350 or 8320 can still power a pretty powerful gaming or a content creation rig. I get scores right between a 3770k and a 4770k with my 8350 in a lot of the...

I would just go to best buy or somewhere and buy an adapter there. I think they have HP ones specifically, and I'm sure they have a universal one that works. If it works, great, if not, take it back.

The tiger direct one is also 1080p, which makes it a lot more attractive to me. I would probably go with that, or try to find one that has haswell and 1080p.

I personally have had bad experience with both sager and alienware. That being said, I would be willing to give alienware another shot as the support I got from them was much better than what I got from sager, and I really think my issues were chronic problems related to the specific models I...

I would go with the Asus, no question. It's got the better GPU, and it still has a 1TB hard drive with a 256GB ssd, which I think is probably better than the two in raid (greater chance of failure with the 2 drives vs the one). Also, you can always upgrade storage later if you need to. Upgrading...