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The audio level of a sound card is "line". It is compatible to just every audio power amp on the market. All the "CD", "line", "tuner", "aux" inputs of a power amp are all of the same "line" level. But NOT the Mic input! So any working audio amp that you could find at ebay or in a garage...

If you do a lot of Photoshop, then you have to look carefully at the reviews. The displays that look good in games are usually not those that look good for photo realism. Tom's Hardware used to ponder their test results for different types of applications. I'm not sure if they still do so.

I was just trying to say that to a certain point the response time of a monitor ceases to be important. 2mS versus 5mS should not be a deciding factor in selecting one monitor over another, because both figures will handle very well any speed issue. Seeing a monitor in action is the ideal...

If a game refreshes its screen at 120Hz, it means 8mS. 120Hz is about the max for display monitors. And you will start to get a comfortable feel in a game at about 30Hz. All this to say that 8mS or less will not really make a difference. Actually, some quicker monitors will show a worse...

Hi Nima, it is almost a shame to use such a monitor to display Svideo, as it can display very high resolutions. What you need is a S-video to Component converter. If you google for this expression you will find some products that can do it. Here is one for example. It is quite expensive...

I agree with Simon, it looks like a marginal timing problem with the memory chips on the graphics card. It may be a known issue at the manufacturer. Sometimes it can be solved by reflashing the BIOS of the graphics card, as most of the memory timings are programmable. Sometimes not, so I...

The G15 uses specific drivers, and also loads its own parameter tables if it identifies a given game so that it can display the game stats on the little LCD and make the extra keys useful. I have a hunch that the program that fetches this data from the game is giving it a hard time. Do you...

Well, this is if you want the monitor to stretch the video from say 1024 x 768 to the screen native resolution. But if you want the game to play at the higher resolution, and take advantage of the better images, then the framerate will decrease a lot. Have a look at www.tomshardware.com to...

If you want to keep the tuner and have 2 monitors, you may want to get an AIW9600. It has the video in-out, and two VGA connectors. Analog VGAs though. If not, like Vacunita says, a more recent card with 2 DVI outs would do better than two separate video cards.

If you want to keep the tuner and have 2 monitors, you may want to get an AIW9600. It has the video in-out, and two VGA connectors. Analog VGAs though. If not, like Vacunita says, a more recent card with 2 DVI outs would do better than two separate video cards.

Is your Windows XP a counterfeit copy? If it's a real one, then you may have to reinsert your installation CD and do a repair.

Header cable... I guess you meant a hub. Yup the source has to be 2.0 if you want the hub to perform at 2.0. You may buy a USB 2.0 adapter card to get into one of your PCI slots.

Go with the pci express version if the mobo has such a connector. Is your sound system connected to the same power outlet as your computer? If not, the power-on/off creates peaks between the grounds that may travel through the audio cable and ruin the electronics at both sides. There must be...

I found that the folks at AVG are quick to respond to false positive alarms when you signal the problem. I stick to AVG as much as I can. Too bad I was not able to install it on my bro's Vista system.

In your monitor properties, perhaps you can set the parameters so that the system will not try to read your monitor settings (DDC channel) and automatically change the vertical and horizontal settings. I say perhaps because it may depend on your driver version. You can also tell the control...

In the past 15 years I've used keyboards from Keytronic. They're plain and have no sexy looks. But I like their tactile feedback. I'm pleased to see that they still make keyboards, now as USB, so I won't make typing mistakes on my next computer.

A rotary switch could probably do the trick of switching the keyboards between PCs, except maybe when they power up, as some commands can be sent to the keyboard (like self test). Some BIOSes may not like to boot without a keyboard. The KVM switch will respond "present" at each port. This is...

The interface from a PS/2 keyboard to the CPU is quite direct, requires almost no software, and is well documented. Its hardware implementation made it easy to fool, as it happens when a KVM switch is used. It was just perfect at the time it was designed. These were the MS-DOS days. Don't...

Since years and years Microsoft dreams of getting rid of the PS/2 connectors which force the motherboards to keep on having legacy controllers dating from the original PC/AT era (1984). If they ever do it, you are lucky. It would be because there's been a very strong pressure from their...

To run Vista, the PC has to be high-end per today's standards. Upgrades are tougher if not impossible in laptops. A laptop that comfortably runs XP may become very slow with Vista. But a high-end laptop is quite expensive, so a Vista-compatible laptop may not be an economical solution, given...