Recent content by GalaxyWide

I'm actually building it for my brother, and giving him my old board (I've since moved to m-ITX, this board is full ATX). I'm at school, about 12 hours away, so I can't really loan him my CPU to update the bios, and we don't have any other 1155 systems.

Thanks for the replies, I was sorta guessing that it wouldn't be much of an upgrade. I can however, think of one other reason to swap with my friend: they will be using an older board (z68) and I think those boards need a BIOS update to use IB, right? They will not have access to an SB processor...

I'm building a gaming rig for a friend, and they already have an nice 1155 board (sans CPU). I also have an 1155 board in my machine, and I'm wondering if I would see any speed increase (games, windows, CPU folding, etc.) if I buy myself an i5-3570k and sell them my 2500k (to save them some $$...

Because of the games? How many games that actually matter (eg., AAA titles that are commonly played by the general public) are PC only? Or maybe you meant the other way around? I cannot think of a better reason NOT to use consoles than their horrid input devices, it's why I only game on PC where...

I totally failed on the RAID level, meant to say 1 (mirroring). 2 backup drives in RAID 0...well that'd be quite the paradox. OP edited to reflect the proper level. Thanks for the reply, that's kind of the conclusion I came to...they seem to start at $250+. PM sent about the drives. Good find...

I found a great deal on some Seagate constellation 2TB hard drives, but only after the fact did I realize that they are SAS drives. After doing some research, I discovered that SAS drives are incompatible with SATA contollers, so I'll need something special for these. I got them with the...

While I am not sure as to other students experiences, I do have a laptop that has the same issues. I also have an Android phone, but it seemed to do alright. I really haven't tried other areas on campus, though I suppose I rather ought to. I have in fact done this, and pretty much got in...

Hi all, I am having a very odd issue and thought perhaps the community might have some ideas. I am currently living at school, and of course using their wireless. It's a relatively large school, so they have all the usual network hoops to jump though (eg, several networks, one only for initial...

Haven't tried doing anything like that yet, but I'm pretty sure what's happening with that setup is that windows media center is transcoding your .mkv on-the-fly to (most likely) .wmv. While something like that negates the need to convert videos in the first place, I am avoiding needing a...

The MediaEspresso Xbox format is .wmv (wmv 9) @ 1280x720 with wma audio. It defaults to around 8mbs (which produces a 3x bigger then original file :o), but by using a custom profile I can get it down to 3mbs, which is close to the original bitrate of 2200kbs. So while the Xbox can play 5.1 with...

Finally found a relatively decent solution. Went and got the free trial of Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.5, and converted the video with that, using the Xbox preset. Came out flawless, smooth, great quality, good audio. Not sure yet if it's only stereo or if it kept the 5.1 surround, but at this...

Thanks guys. It looks like I've already found all of the few possible ways to do this, and none are optimal. I did something similar to this, as laid out here. I ended up with horrendously out of sync audio, see my above posts. I may try again, but I don't know of anything I could've done...

Currently, AVS Video Converter. I also tried Xilisoft, but it created blank videos and all sorts of issues. I've heard good things about Handbrake, I may try that and see what I can get. And, of course, when I followed the guide I used whatever they specified. :)

The computer was actually where I noticed the delay (I tested it before uploading it the server and streaming it). I don't know if it would be any different streamed to the 360, but I wouldn't think so. On an unrelated note, anyone know how to add a subtitle file to a video? I have a .src file...

Interestingly enough, I actually found and followed that exact same guide. The video quality was top-notch, but the audio was horribly out of sync (5 seconds behind the video). I'm not sure if I did something wrong (I certainly followed the instructions correctly, but several of the tools used...