mikedepreston Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I had to sell my CD player and amplifier recently for financial reasons, meaning I have no hifi in the living room, so I've moved my xbox360 onto my computer desk, routing the sound through the PC and using the VGA input on my 22" monitor. Not as comfortable as the sofa and I'll need to find some way of expanding the network as my PC has only one ethernet port... but it's cool for now :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrius2 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) @Mizer: OMG it's green! I love it. Quite an unusual colour. Got a plush toy in my blurry pic too haha... hanging over the right monitor... I got that exact same Seagate harddrive that's on top of your rig btw. Does the soundcard help a lot? I've been considering if it's worth buying one just for perfomance gain... @Illiad: Thanks, looks a lot better with a real camera though... the lights are way more discreet than they look like in my pic... My rig is pretty cool and quiet at the moment... very pleased with it. Edited October 26, 2011 by Adrius2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) That's onboard sound in his case. Realtek is pretty good for onboard. A sound card does make quite a difference though. I've had onboard all my computer life and my friend gave me the sound card I have right now. All I can say is...woah. The sound is a bit crisper and since it has more channels than onboard, it can play more sounds at the same time. Helps especially in FPS games...sounds don't cut out when another sound needs to be played. There's a bit of a performance increase as you are not using your RAM. Edited October 26, 2011 by Illiad86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrius2 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) Sounds cool... I do love sound... been a while since I gave my computer a treat too... *crawls down on floor and looks through window-hole in rig... looks for space for expansion* Yeaaah.... looks like I have room ^^ Edited October 26, 2011 by Adrius2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizerD Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 @Mizer: OMG it's green! I love it. Quite an unusual colour. Got a plush toy in my blurry pic too haha... hanging over the right monitor... I got that exact same Seagate harddrive that's on top of your rig btw. Does the soundcard help a lot? I've been considering if it's worth buying one just for perfomance gain... @Illiad: Thanks, looks a lot better with a real camera though... the lights are way more discreet than they look like in my pic... My rig is pretty cool and quiet at the moment... very pleased with it. Yeah i know :D love green! most of the options i was given when i was trying to source bits for my rig where either blue or red, but i wanted bloody green! so thats what i got..... (eventually) lol haha im not the only one with odd lucky charms then.... phew! ur's might be a bit better than mine, mine is a 1T external. i bet you got something bigger?!Yes sound cards do help a lot!!!and mine is standard nothing fancy.Illiad pretty much covered the sound card talk :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrius2 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Nope, 1 terrabyte on mine too. I use it to secure all my anime in case my computer decides to blow itself up :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizerD Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 haha safe bet as long as you dont keep it on top like i do. if it blows up it might take it out with the blast lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickFak Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) Sorry don't know how to spoiler on this forum, still getting used to it... That's a Intel Core i5 2500k 3.30GHzCorsair vengeance 8gb RAMAsRock Z68 Pro3, LGA1155 motherboardand ati radeon 5870... I think... I always forget :verymad: http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/854/50675122.jpg Edited October 26, 2011 by SickFak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrius2 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Pretty cool case, quite blue :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizerD Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) Sorry don't know how to spoiler on this forum, still getting used to it... That's a Intel Core i5 2500k 3.30GHzCorsair vengeance 8gb RAMAsRock Z68 Pro3, LGA1155 motherboardand ati radeon 5870... I think... I always forget :verymad: <snip> sounds like the blue version of my pc lol :thumbsup: Edited October 26, 2011 by MizerD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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