Recent content by moooog

OK, I didn't think of reselling, I purchased one for my son, he said it didn't work, so I ordered him a new one. I helped with the new one, and discovered he had made a simple mistake, so I figure the original is fine, but it's past it's return window. Thanks to everyone else who responded in...

I'll take your advice on the ram, there were some nice 1600 sticks w/o the spreaders that were better deals. I'm going with the new 1TB Crucial SS drive, as that should be enough for my storage needs on this computer. I built my HTPC in a Silverstone Case, and it looks great, but I kind of...

I think this might be the way to go, and I wouldn't have to have anything attached on the back of the case to boot - I want to have it sitting on the desk and look nice. It will be in our bedroom as well, so I ultimately decided against a led loaded case. I'm not planning to overclock, or...

I have an extra Gigabyte Z97X BK Gaming Motherboard, and thought I'd build a system from it as I would like a high end audio computer, and this motherboard looks like a good bet for that. I have pretty much decided on the Win 904, and it doesn't come with cooling fans. I'm getting a 4790k...

I believe my main problem was that the drivers were not uninstalling properly. I removed the X-Fi card and returned it, If I get a sound card in the future, it will be a Xonar or some sort of audiophile grade card - just the physical appearance of this card doesn't impress me enough to modify...

p.s. - thanks for the replies - it looks to me like the ATI drivers simply do not work properly, and I do not understand what this 8.69 Redwood driver is vs. the 10.3 driver - they both are "Catalyst", but the ATI 10.3 driver just will not work for me.

I might have to do that - as it looks to be the only way to get 5.1 sound for DVD files, but I need to keep the HDMI for the Dolby True HD and DTS-MA on blu-ray, how can I use both the HDMI and the SPDIF for sound at the same time? I guess I would have to select back and forth between the HD...

Well, I guess that was no fix - no High Definition sound on Blu-Ray - just hiss when the main movie starts. If I install 10.3 catalyst driver, only Stereo Speaker Configuration is available. If I install 8.69 Redwood xt driver, I can select 7.1 speaker configuration, and get High Definition...

I uninstalled the High Definition Audio Controller, and let windows 7 re-install it automatically. So far so good - my receiver is getting a unprocessed signal on my music files, no distortion so far either. I think I'll return the X-Fi card for the 90 bucks though, the sound quality seems to...

If I uninstall the High Definition Audio Device, which is part of the ATI - I get no sound of any sort, so I don't really think the X-Fi has anything to do with the sound processing going over the HDMI. I still worry that it may be causing conflicts and the sound corruption though. One time I...

I would have to look, I wondered about that. It's just that SPDIF can't transfer the DTS-MA and Dolby Tru-HD, and I am getting that over the HDMI, so I thought the graphics card had the processing. What I'm currently getting is a disaster - I am getting all kinds of static cropping up on...

It's the Xtreme Gamer version, it says it's a retail version too, but Cyberpower didn't include a single game, Creative always used to include games with their cards. I could use the SPDIF for music to the receiver, that's what I used to do with my desktop - I liked using windows media player...

That's right - I had to do some EDID modifications to my system, but now the ATI even sends bitstream for all the uncompressed high definition audio on blu-ray to the receiver, or it can do it and send pcm. The Creative manual mentions that you can hook a guitar up to the card, though all I see...

I just purchased a Media PC for my home theater. It has a Gigabte P55A-UD4PMB with I7, a ATI Radeon 5670 sound card, and a Creative Labx X-Fi extreme sound card. The salesman told me the sound card would provide better sound, so I added it. However, the ATI sends hi-definition sound through...