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I'm replacing my old Silverstone gd09b with a case that will be big enough for a 4090 without having to squeeze it in. I don't need any drive bays, but decent cooling and airflow are important. I want ATX a case big enough to fit just about any 4090 and power supply within reason, but not...

I think I hear you. You're just saying that none of the PC games you play use true surround sound. I certainly wish more games utilized full surround sound better, but there are plenty of games that will take advantage of an appropriately configured surround sound system.

Wait.... you're saying the only PC app that uses surround is.... Netflix? Games use surround on a PC as well as other apps, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

HDMI 3? You mean HDMI 2.1? The receiver is just hdmi 2.0 ARC, which appears to be the problem. Samsung in their infinitely poor interface design use a phrase when you try to select pass through that suggests the issue is the source rather than highlighting that the problem with the source...

What is the best way to achieve optimal surround sound and video performance when ARC isn't working? Do you send audio and video separately or do you go through the TV to the receiver or the receiver to the TV? I am trying to get surround sound to work with my new TV (Samsung S95B) connected...

I am trying to use my Samsung S95B TV with my PC for gaming and I'm not getting surround sound when I connect my PC directly to the TV and use ARC . Unfortunately Samsung support is not equipped to tell me why this isn't working since they are just working off scripts. When I connect directly...

cool, I was thinking of the similar 760 model so I could have the 7.2. Do you use yours for PC gaming by any chance? I'm curious how you connect it with your PC and TV.

I have had surround sound for home theater and PC gaming on my home theater system for the past 20+ years. I've seen that sound bars have taken over surround sound speakers as the mainstream option. Now that its time for me to update my receiver so I can utilize 120hz and eARC, I'm looking at...

Very helpful response! What motherboard are you using? I use a powerful GPU, and I think that a 4TB gen 4 NVME today will suffice for today and I'll plan to add an additional 2TB gen 5 NVME later on. Would that result with and bandwidth limitations?

Travis, you're so close to providing actual useful information here! All you have to do now is let me know what AM5 board you got. If you want to be really helpful, you can share why you picked it, other than it being reasonably priced.

I agree. While real life gaming performance of today has minimal if any benefit between the latest NVME SSD generations, however unlikely you may consider it to be, there is potential for bigger gains in the future. For example, without going into a debate about the 'console wars', Playstation...

I agree, which is why I specifically addressed this in my initial post so that people would understand that it is not a matter of immediate need for gen 5. While most games will not benefit today, Direct Storage, higher performing drives, and lower gen 5 prices may change the equation over the...

I'm looking at Tom's top motherboards, but unfortunately not all of them have a gen 5.0 NVME slot and the other features that contribute to high end gaming performance. I am am neutral between getting a i7-13700K and 7700X CPU, although AMD seems to be more cost-performance effective as well...

The biggest question that comes to my mind here is what is the value of the ASRock Extreme4 z97 3 way CFX/SLI? I see that the speeds for each slot reduce to 8/4/4 for 3 cards opposed to 8/8 when you only have 2. Assuming I could fit all 3 cards in the case comfortably, would the reduced PCIe...