Since I use my computer as my home theatre, I've been trying to get the DVD player to output 5.1 discreet channels through my Dolby Digital 5.1-capable Soundblaster audio card, with a Sigma Designs REALmagic Hollywood+ MPEG decoder card. Very nice! I always believed the Klipsch to be top of the line in sound quality and Maximum PC touted them as the best speaker system for quite a while.Ī failed experiment caused a little frustration and some lost money. My brother's company went down, so as a minor compensation for my work there, he gave me the Klipsch Promedia 4.1 THX-certified speakers that were installed in the boardroom. My computer has been running without much change for the past year and a
How to patch the AC-3 audio (5.1 channels) from REALmagic DVD Station to the sound card:
Soyo SY-P4I865PE Plus DRAGON 2: Intel 865PE chipset, Serial ATA, USB 2.0, 10/100 Ethernet.I was amazed at the difference in sound quality while playing Neverwinter Nights after upgrading to the Audigy 2! It's like playing another game entirely! For the moment, I boot from a floppy disk.
I want to the Raptor to be the C: drive, with the other two configured for a striped volume as a logical D: drive. The EASYLOOK interface for the TV is fun to use, simple and is quite responsive! Sad thing is, my monitor is still a puny 17-inch.įor some reason, I cannot boot from the Serial ATA drive if the other two drives are connected to the IDE channels and both the IDE and SATA controllers are enabled in the BIOS. I love the new RF remote-control that comes with the All-in-Wonder Pro. It was designed for file server use in a RAID configuration, so the capacity is small (36 GB) but the speed is fast: it's the first ATA drive spinning at 10,000 RPM! Probably the fastest consumer desktop drive on the planet at this time. I wasn't looking for more space, but faster speeds so I got Western Digital's new Serial ATA Raptor 360GD drive.
I took the opportunity to upgrade my hard disk, video card and sound card. For this, I had to change my motherboard, RAM and power supply as well. I finally upgraded my desktop PC to a Pentium 4.