Recent content by danytancou

I actually found the answer to my previous question, and thought I'd post it here: for all SoundBlaster products, Center is output via the Tip of the [T]RS connector and Sub is output via the Ring of the T[R]S connector. Therefore, when using a standard/typical TRS to RCA adapter, Center will be...

Thanks! One last question. As I said, once the TRS to RCA adapters are delivered tomorrow, I'm planning to replace the optical connection with the (analog) 6-channel so I can get proper 5.1 sound.. would anyone happen to know how the SoundBlaster outputs the Centre and Sub signals... is Centre...

Hi all, I hope it's OK to post this here, as there is no sub-forum dedicated to sound cards. The motherboard has the ESS ES9023P High Definition DAC built in (as per the manual). I can't find any info on the X-Fi's DAC, but "everything I've read points to one of pretty good quality"; is this...

Got the Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 280 cooler... found it for CAD$150 and just couldn't resist. :)

Thanks again. I appreciate the testing advice, but I know my system and I know there are no bottlenecks anywhere.. I simply WANT (not NEED) to upgrade it -- but while money is not necessarily a concern, who in their right mind wouldn't be looking to spend less on anything, at any time, if they...

Thank you guys so, so much! I really appreciate it. All the CPUs you mentioned are on sale atm for very good discounts (I live in Canada) so I just have to pick one (after looking at specs and benchmarks a bit closer, and comparing them). I'm going to get it this weekend, so I don't miss out on...

Hello everyone, I use my system for some gaming (Witcher 3, ESO, Gloomhaven, Assassins' Creed Valhalla for now, but planning to get AC Mirage, Baldur's Gate 3, and MAYBE Starfield) but I don't really care to run them with "max settings" -- I'm OK with something between medium and high. I also...

Yea, so basically that. I don't even know what to check for, tbh. Some details, in case they help... I have two scheduled backups running every night, separate from each other: (1) full system drive backup (clone) via Macrium Reflect 8 to a local drive and (2) files backup (i.e. documents...

Thanks guys! WireShark (can't believe I didn't think of using it) showed no wake packets arriving from any devices -- except from the ASUS router itself of course. As a last resort, I did a factory reset and reconfigured the router ("manually", not by loading up the .cfg I had saved) but this...

Hi everyone, I got this router because my previous NETGEAR WDNR-3700 was getting a bit slow for streaming (still works as well as it always did). With the NETGEAR, used to be able to send a Magic Packet from any device on my network (laptops, desktops & tablets all running Win10 using the old...

Thank you again, @Colif! Wow, so ASUS has done nothing about this in such a long time. I love ASUS -- I've been building systems with ASUS m0b0s exclusively for the past 20 years or so -- but given this most recent experience, I am starting to question this sentiment. On my previous system...

Hi @Colif, thank you so much for getting back to me -- and sorry I haven't had a chance to write back until now. To answer your questions and provide some more information... Yes, I am attempting to use the AMD Ryzen power schemes that are installed by the AMD chipset driver. (Btw, I am using...

Thank you as well, @drea.drechsler! I described the power issues I'm having in the following post: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/power-plan-issues.3657153/. Essentially, even though I'm setting the power plan to Ryzen Balanced (and even when I set it to High Performance) and I tell it...

Thanks @bmockeg & @Nemesia! Sorry for taking so long to write back. Yup, Windows is fully up-to-date. I did install the driver from AMD and all was fine after. (I also updated my BIOS to the latest version -- was using the previous one.) Unfortunately, none of this resolved my power issues --...

Hello, I have two issues with a new machine, which I've never experienced on any of the dozens of Win 10 systems I've set up in the past few years. I searched for answers already, but none of the ones I found helped -- or not for the first problem; the second problem may be somehow unique to me...