Computer Building
May. 11th, 2020 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogDanae and I are working on speccing out a gaming computer for her and a couple of things have really surprised me.
First, people are still putting PS/2 ports on motherboards? That's awesome, because it's easy to connect my older keyboards that I love. But does anyone who hasn't been using computers for five or ten years need one?
Second, why is there multi-channel analog audio output on motherboards? A single port for 2 channel stereo makes a lot more sense to me. Who's going to be using their PC for multi-channel audio but *isn't* going to just do it with the digital S/PDIF connector? Or maybe it'd even be over HDMI now if you have a nice AVR with HDMI capability.
First, people are still putting PS/2 ports on motherboards? That's awesome, because it's easy to connect my older keyboards that I love. But does anyone who hasn't been using computers for five or ten years need one?
Second, why is there multi-channel analog audio output on motherboards? A single port for 2 channel stereo makes a lot more sense to me. Who's going to be using their PC for multi-channel audio but *isn't* going to just do it with the digital S/PDIF connector? Or maybe it'd even be over HDMI now if you have a nice AVR with HDMI capability.
