The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V4
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[QUOTE=gerbile3;43289413]Hey guys
I recently acquired a 4 speaker surround sound system that I plan to use with my desktop and bring to school with my when the semester begins.
The problem is, with my laptop, is that I only have 2 ports, a mic and a headphone port, and the surround sound unit needs 2 headphone jacks to function properly.
how can I repurpose the mic jack to act as a headphone jack? I am currently trying to download the realtek drivers but in the meantime I would appreciate some ideas
thanks[/QUOTE]
It shouldn't need two headphone jacks.
[QUOTE=SataniX;43294086]It shouldn't need two headphone jacks.[/QUOTE]
It's from the late 90's and it uses 2 jacks. one for front speakers, left and right, and one for the rear speakers, left and right
[QUOTE=gerbile3;43294342]It's from the late 90's and it uses 2 jacks. one for front speakers, left and right, and one for the rear speakers, left and right[/QUOTE]
You'll need a stereo receiver to use them, most likely.
Your desktop won't be able to drive them properly, even if you splice the cables into a single 3.5mm jack.
[QUOTE=SataniX;43294372]You'll need a stereo receiver to use them, most likely.
Your desktop won't be able to drive them properly, even if you splice the cables into a single 3.5mm jack.[/QUOTE]
No, it has a subwoofer\reciever combo which connects to the speakers (sorry for not being clear enough). It literally has an input, from the computer, of one black and one green headphone jack (front and back) (so it goes speakers-reciever-computer)
I'm planning a mini lan party with a few friends (about 6-10 people are coming and it will only last a day) and I was wondering if there is any software that makes managing all that a bit easier. It would be very useful to have everyone's IP address without having to teach everyone how to read find that out, sending game installers to everyone and even better if it was possible to remotely execute them too.
Is there anything like that or should I just write a few scripts that would cover the most basic functionality?
My laptop's (Dell Precision M6500) boot drive is kaput and I was thinking about replacing it with a small 60-120gb SSD for the OS. Can anyone recommend any brands/what form factor I should be looking for to fit in the laptop properly. I'm not 100% sure if the laptop supports SATA3 or not there are conflicting views on google. Is that going to be a problem?
My old boot drive is this:
[url]http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_momentus_7200_4.pdf[/url]
Currently looking at this: [url]http://www.ebuyer.com/546391-mercury-electra-3g-ssd-2-5-owcssdex3g060[/url]
And this: [url]http://www.ebuyer.com/411692-kingston-120gb-ssdnow-v300-ssd-sv300s37a-120g[/url]
Thanks
I recently built a computer, and while installing windows 7 I did not have a key at the moment. I clicked skip.
... Now what? Will it ask me in a bit to enter a key? And are there any legitimate sites to purchase a key?
[QUOTE=iggy650;43297776]I recently built a computer, and while installing windows 7 I did not have a key at the moment. I clicked skip.
... Now what? Will it ask me in a bit to enter a key? And are there any legitimate sites to purchase a key?[/QUOTE]
You can activate here "Control Panel\System and Security\System"
Any idea where I can buy a key?
Internet.
So I had this shitty $50 7" MID tablet that I was gonna give to my little cousin, but the screen cracked in half when I tried to put the screen protector on it... So I got this other android tablet and I'm wondering how I could move all the movies and apps from the SD card that I had on the original tablet onto the new one? Is that possible? Most of the apps (games) and all the movies are on the sd card, I put it in the new tablet but I'm not sure how to install them? Or move them to the device or whatever, I'm not sure what I need to do. I tried restarting thinking that would magically add all the apps to the device, but no. The sd card shows up in storage settings btw.
Is it worth shelling out the money for the 15" MacbookPro or should I just spring for the 13" model?
[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;43300620]Is it worth shelling out the money for the 15" MacbookPro or should I just spring for the 13" model?[/QUOTE]
What do you want to do on it? I just got the 13" and it's doing great with coding and web browsing.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;43300736]What do you want to do on it? I just got the 13" and it's doing great with coding and web browsing.[/QUOTE]
Basically the same thing you're doing, along with watching movies and some very light gaming.
[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;43301181]Basically the same thing you're doing, along with watching movies and some very light gaming.[/QUOTE]
13" is flawless for that. I've been doing all of those things very well. I personally got the 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM option (I'd recommend 8GB of RAM, since it's unable to be upgraded).
One of the pin connectors of my MB has 4 slots: +5V, D+, D-, and Ground.
But I can't find in the manual anything about that specific connector.
Does anyone know where that connector should go?
The motherboard is a MSI Z87 G41.
My parents gave me a Raspberry Pi for christmas, i just got it booted up, installed Raspbian, got it on the internet and then played some Python games on it.
What should i use my Raspberry Pi for? What are cool things to do with it that doesnt involve modifying it or putting stuff on the GPIO? I thought of firing up Kerbal Space Program and using the thing as a telemetry monitor, or maybe getting Lambdacore working on it for a rad raspberry pi powered MOO, but it sure could be used for other things! Ideas?
[QUOTE=Slarav;43303103]My parents gave me a Raspberry Pi for christmas, i just got it booted up, installed Raspbian, got it on the internet and then played some Python games on it.
What should i use my Raspberry Pi for? What are cool things to do with it that doesnt involve modifying it or putting stuff on the GPIO? I thought of firing up Kerbal Space Program and using the thing as a telemetry monitor, or maybe getting Lambdacore working on it for a rad raspberry pi powered MOO, but it sure could be used for other things! Ideas?[/QUOTE]
I'm running various light weight servers (and one heavy weight) on it. It barely uses any power so it's the perfect server for non-performance critical stuff.
[QUOTE=Robber;43303492]I'm running various light weight servers (and one heavy weight) on it. It barely uses any power so it's the perfect server for non-performance critical stuff.[/QUOTE]
What kind of servers, may i ask?
I posted this before but I am asking again out of worry.
Will my i5-2500k bottleneck this: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-130-945"]EVGA 770[/URL]?
Also this is even more idiotic: Can I SLI a 570 and a 770? It sounds like a stupid idea and I probably wont I just want to know if I [I]can[/I].
The processor is overclocked, here is a CPU-Z snapshot.
[t]http://puu.sh/5Ym11.png[/t]
EDIT: I take it those disagrees mean it wont bottleneck, correct? If so, thank you.
[QUOTE=Slarav;43303103]My parents gave me a Raspberry Pi for christmas, i just got it booted up, installed Raspbian, got it on the internet and then played some Python games on it.
What should i use my Raspberry Pi for? What are cool things to do with it that doesnt involve modifying it or putting stuff on the GPIO? I thought of firing up Kerbal Space Program and using the thing as a telemetry monitor, or maybe getting Lambdacore working on it for a rad raspberry pi powered MOO, but it sure could be used for other things! Ideas?[/QUOTE]
You could install lighttpd for a basic web server, then learn how to write HTML pages. There's a very lightweight mumble server called uMurmur that is so lightweight it will run on wireless routers. You could get the camera addon for it and turn it into a webcam.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;43300485]Internet.[/QUOTE]
Any website specifically to buy Windows 7 you guys can recommend?
Well, I solved my past problem, but now I have another >_<
The cable of the frontal fan doesn't reach any of the fan slots in the MB.
Are there some kind of cable expanders, or something?
need a very large external hard drive, preferably 2TB, any brand recommendations?
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[url]http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/data-storage/desktop-external-hard-drives/seagate-expansion-sgr39211-external-hard-drive-2tb-black-16787143-pdt.html[/url] any good?
If a monitor has both a HDMI port and internal speakers, how likely is it that the monitor will be able to output audio over just the HDMI port alone?
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;43308325]If a monitor has both a HDMI port and internal speakers, how likely is it that the monitor will be able to output audio over just the HDMI port alone?[/QUOTE]
If I understand correctly, it works. Mine does.
My friend got a 24" 1080p monitor a month or two ago. When connected with DVI, it works while booting and in safe mode but goes to sleep once in windows.
So far the answer was to use VGA + adapter, but now it goes to sleep on boot with that.
what the fuck is going on?
Does anyone know where I can buy a HDMI (Type C) to DVI-D (Male) cable/adapter from, looking for a price no more than £10, UK. I'd prefer a cable but an adapter would be a last resort.
[QUOTE=Charrax;43306291]I posted this before but I am asking again out of worry.
Will my i5-2500k bottleneck this: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-130-945"]EVGA 770[/URL]?
Also this is even more idiotic: Can I SLI a 570 and a 770? It sounds like a stupid idea and I probably wont I just want to know if I [I]can[/I].
The processor is overclocked, here is a CPU-Z snapshot.
[t]http://puu.sh/5Ym11.png[/t]
EDIT: I take it those disagrees mean it wont bottleneck, correct? If so, thank you.[/QUOTE]
1) The bottlenecking depends on the particular game and the resolution, but you should be fine running a 770 and 2500K. The bottleneck will most likely be from Sandy Bridge still using PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0, not from the CPU not being powerful enough. And going from a 570 is still worth it.
Remember, you will *always* have a bottleneck somewhere, it's just a matter of keeping it small. For a single-GPU build (even with a Titan), any i7 or i5 is sufficient. It's the i3, Pentium and Celeron chips that will bottleneck at that level. Getting PCIe 3.0 will net you about 5% more performance - if you want to upgrade just for that, you can, but I personally wouldn't bother.
2) You cannot SLI a 570 and 770. They aren't even the same architecture - the 570 is Fermi (GF110), and the 770 is Kepler (GK104).
[editline]25th December 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;43308325]If a monitor has both a HDMI port and internal speakers, how likely is it that the monitor will be able to output audio over just the HDMI port alone?[/QUOTE]
Extremely likely, but not 100%.